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[00:00:55] Speaker A: 1098-765-431210 Happy Halloween.
[00:01:37] Speaker C: Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of Rock Roulette Podcast. That's right, the crazy ass podcast that took over 1500 albums, stuck them in a list, stuck them in a wheel and typically every other week we spin the wheel. She picks a record for us and we go through it track by track and we talk about the music, the lyrics, the production, the melody and the arrangement and we give it scores. The Journey, Discovery Rediscovery Just a bunch of friends who love music want to do a podcast. And as always we really want to thank everybody who is following us on this journey. We, for whatever reason past few weeks have been really high in listenership. Whoever you are, thank you so much and reach out to us. Tell us who you are, tell us what you like, what you don't like. Maybe something we can change or comments that your friends make.
Tell us that you told somebody to listen to us which is always really really great. I mean we really, really appreciate it. Thanks so much. Tonight we are threesome. We got Frank back.
My name is.
[00:02:36] Speaker A: And I'm Sexy.
[00:02:44] Speaker D: Great to be back.
[00:02:46] Speaker C: We've got Mark. Oh hi Mark.
[00:02:48] Speaker B: What's up guys?
[00:02:49] Speaker C: And I'm Sab.
Last week we wrapped up Megadeth's debut album and Mark and I agreed. Second side kick some pretty good square. Definitely better than the first side. The things that we complained about on the first side I don't think really were there on the second side in terms of arrangement and things kind of being smashed together. It felt more cohesive. You could definitely hear upcoming mega that sounds without you could hear it throughout but definitely on the second side and great musicianship and we really appreciate it. They gave us some pretty good scores. Right Mark, what'd you think?
[00:03:20] Speaker B: Like I said last week, I'm not a big thrash metal fan but that second side was pretty good. So I have to Say that they did start to get to their Megadeth sound. And it was interesting to hear the first side and have a little disjointed. It was. And the second side was much more cohesive. It was pretty good. I liked it.
[00:03:34] Speaker C: Frank, did you get a chance to listen to it on your own or not yet?
[00:03:36] Speaker D: No, not yet.
[00:03:37] Speaker C: I would definitely check it out. I think it's pretty good. Tonight is a special episode, a little bit of a Halloween dedication. This will be coming right around the time of Halloween, which is always cool. I'm a very big horror fan.
[00:03:51] Speaker B: Depends on what you call horror.
[00:03:52] Speaker C: Horror movies.
[00:03:53] Speaker B: Like what?
[00:03:54] Speaker C: You name it, man. So many genres. Slasher, Paranormal Elevated.
[00:04:00] Speaker B: I like slasher. I like zombie. I can do vampire, I guess. I do like horror movies.
[00:04:06] Speaker C: I guess you'd like some horror movies. Actually not a big zombie or vampire guy, but I can appreciate some. There's definitely movies in those genres that I've seen that I like. Frank, what about you?
[00:04:16] Speaker D: Yeah, I love it. I'm a big horror movie fan. I watch them all.
[00:04:18] Speaker C: We did it last year. We did a Halloween episode. We did Creatures of the Night. This year we're going to have a little bit of a mini wheel set up with some bands or albums that a little bit of a horror theme to them. Before we get to that, obviously we have our new bets in a world.
[00:04:35] Speaker A: Where new music is not easy to find.
Welcome to New Bets.
[00:04:52] Speaker B: All right, here is the new Bets wheel.
[00:05:07] Speaker C: BlackBerry Smoke, A Little Bit Crazy. They make a return to our podcast. We did one of their records a while ago. Not too bad. A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll, as the song goes. Frank, you know this one?
[00:05:17] Speaker D: I do not. First time listening.
[00:05:19] Speaker C: Cool.
[00:05:20] Speaker B: Alrighty, here it is. This is A Little Bit Crazy by BlackBerry Smoke.
Oh, yeah.
[00:05:32] Speaker A: Got to be a little bit crazy oh, yeah Got to be a little bit crazy.
[00:05:47] Speaker B: Got to be.
[00:05:48] Speaker A: A little bit crazy oh, yeah yeah, I've got to be a little bit crazy yeah, you would drive me out of my mind yeah, you always make it look so easy yeah, you keep me coming back Every time I think I know the kind of trouble I'm about to get into yeah, crazy kind of trouble Trouble that I can't undo I thought my ripping running days were through baby that's the trouble with you yeah, got to be a little bit crazy yeah now you would drive me out of my mind yeah, you always make it look so easy yeah, you keep me coming back Every time I got my shoulders right back and I'm hoping Everybody can see Strutting like a yard bird Barking off their own tree well, now this ain't no place I want to be yeah, honey, try you hypnotize me yeah, got to be a little bit crazy yeah, you would drive me out of my mind yeah, you are Always make it look so easy yeah, you keep me coming back every time oh, yeah, yeah, I got to be a little bit crazy yeah, you would drive me out of my mind yeah, you always make it look so easy yeah, you keep me coming back every time Every time Every time Every time Every time Every time.
[00:10:02] Speaker C: The very beginning reminded me of Prince some reason, and I kind of went into a Rolling Stone slash Black Rose thing with the country tinge.
[00:10:10] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:10:11] Speaker C: Not bad. Mark, what do you think?
[00:10:12] Speaker B: I thought it was really good. I was gonna say it's very Rolling Stones black Rose fusion. I thought it was really good. Did you like the drum sound?
[00:10:20] Speaker C: It was fine.
It was okay. I mean, the production was a little thin for me, but it wasn't bad. It was okay.
[00:10:25] Speaker B: I think it was better than some of the other stuff we heard. Production wise, I think it's much better.
[00:10:29] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, no, it wasn't bad.
[00:10:31] Speaker D: It found it a little thin. Yes. Rolling Stone and Black Crows Mosh going on there. I'll definitely listen to it again.
[00:10:38] Speaker B: Yeah. I think we like their other album when we listen to it. This, to me, is what I really thought that they sounded like. I think the album we listened to, it didn't always sound this way. I like the Leslie guitar solo. That was pretty cool. A lot of good stuff. I like it. I'd like to get another album by them again, maybe something newer and see how it changed since when we heard. Well, if you like it, let us know. If you don't like it, let us know. And let's rubber stamp it.
[00:10:58] Speaker A: In a world where new music is not. Not easy to find.
Welcome to new bets.
[00:11:17] Speaker C: Now we get to the spooky wheel.
[00:11:19] Speaker B: Yep. Got six or seven albums on here that are kind of in the Halloween scary genre. Let's do this. Here we go. Here is the Halloween Wheel.
[00:11:47] Speaker C: We get Rob Zombie Hillbilly Deluxe, which I believe is his solo debut.
[00:11:52] Speaker B: I know one song from this.
[00:11:54] Speaker C: I know one song as well that I know. I may know more. I saw a recent concert of his from Syracuse or Rochester. Sounds it pretty good.
[00:12:02] Speaker B: He's a big Kiss fan, too.
[00:12:03] Speaker C: He's a big horror fan, too, that's for sure.
[00:12:05] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, horror fan. Well, he redid the. He redid the Halloween. Halloween.
[00:12:10] Speaker C: He did he's done a few. He did the House of a Thousand Corpses, the Devil's Reject, Devil's Rejects. Just second.
[00:12:17] Speaker D: Lords of Salem, the Munsters. I don't know if you saw that one.
[00:12:20] Speaker C: I haven't. Everybody's like, stay Away. I mean, I was a fan of the show.
[00:12:23] Speaker D: He did Halloween. And Halloween, too.
[00:12:25] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:12:25] Speaker D: That was scary. Those movies were scary.
[00:12:28] Speaker C: I guess.
Not a fan of either. There's parts of the first one that I think aren't bad. And then the second one just completely lost me.
[00:12:35] Speaker B: This is 1998. It sold 3 million copies. And it is his debut studio album as a solo artist. I was never really big into White Zombie. I got, like, a couple songs, I guess. And I know Dragular from this.
[00:12:47] Speaker C: Yeah, that's a big song.
[00:12:49] Speaker B: That was everywhere. We'll see. Maybe I'll like it, maybe I won't. I don't know. I have no preconceived notion because I only know one song.
[00:12:55] Speaker C: The movie White Zombie was really good. If you ever get a chance to see that with Bela Lugosi. Very short, too. Just a little bit over an hour, I think.
[00:13:01] Speaker B: Let's get into this. The first song on this is Call of the zombie. 30 seconds. So I assume it's some kind of instrumental. Very fitting for our Halloween episode. Here it is. Call of the Zombie.
[00:13:18] Speaker A: And out of the darkness the zombie did call True pain and suffering he brought to them all Away ran the children to hide in their beds for fear that the devil would chop off their heads.
[00:13:40] Speaker C: I like it already.
[00:13:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Did a good job. If you're gonna look the way he looks and you're going to present this kind of stuff, it's the perfect opening. As opposed to Gene Simmons solo record from 1978, which starts with that very.
And it ends up into. What the is this? I don't think we're gonna get that here.
[00:13:57] Speaker C: That has a laughing too, right? That kind of sound. What you just used for the wheel.
[00:14:01] Speaker B: It's what I use for the wheel.
[00:14:02] Speaker C: It is. Okay. I wasn't sure. I thought it was, but I want to say it.
[00:14:06] Speaker B: Kiss fans know what I use for the wheel. They know the next song is Super Beast. This is the third single. It went to 26 on mainstream rock. I know nothing about this, so here we go. This is Super Beast by Rob Zombie.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: Ram.
[00:15:53] Speaker C: I feel that I know this song. Song. I don't know if it's a commonality in songs that he's done, which could be it, but I feel that I know this one. I think all the parts are very cool. I find that they're not blending perfectly together, though. There's almost a little bit of something going on. I'm like, wait, did that go into that well? And it's a little bit odd for me. Although overall, I am liking the song.
[00:16:17] Speaker B: He seems to use electronics in there, too. Maybe that's what you're hearing. The in between parts part. I didn't feel that it was jarring. The parts in between, I thought they fit. He definitely has a vocal style. The chorus in here definitely sounds like the chorus in Dragula. That's in my head, I'm thinking that's kind of what he sounds like.
[00:16:32] Speaker C: It's not jarring. I am liking the song. Somewhere in there, a couple of things orally didn't blend perfectly. I am digging it overall.
[00:16:39] Speaker D: Loving it. I know it's classic Rob Zombie and you are hearing a blend of White Zombie in there and some electronica somewhere along the lines. You're going to hear a little bit of Ministry sounds in there probably later on. Definitely loving it.
[00:16:51] Speaker C: Yeah, I think some of that's already in there.
There's definitely industrial.
[00:16:54] Speaker D: Yeah. You're gonna hear some Ministry. You're gonna hear some life with the Thrill Kill Cult in there, probably.
[00:16:58] Speaker B: I didn't tell you who was playing on this album. So it's Rob Zombie on vocals, lyrics, production, music, production, art, additional photos, art direction, Riggs on guitars, Blasco on bass, Tempesta on drums. And Tommy Lee's playing drums on a couple of these tracks too, by the way. Yeah, so far it's interesting. This is what I expected it was going to be. I do like his vocals in the chorus, though. I think they're really good. Good. And he definitely is putting the horror aspect in the music, too. At the beginning.
[00:17:24] Speaker C: I always like his vocals.
[00:17:25] Speaker B: We couldn't ask for a better Halloween album, I don't think. Verse 1. Shriek the lips across Ragged tongue convulsing together Sing violently Move the jaw cry aloud Bound up the dead triumphantly Pre Chorus the ragged they come, the ragged they kill you pray so hard on bloody knees the ragged they come, the ragged they kill down in the cool air I can see and choruses. Hey yeah, I'm the one you wanted hey yeah, I'm your super beast hey yeah, I'm the one you wanted hey yeah, I'm your super beast I don't know what the super beast is, but I guess we might find out. All right, here we go.
[00:18:21] Speaker A: The ra they come and the racket kill down in the cool Air I can see I'm the one that you want it I'm the one that you want it Sa.
[00:20:00] Speaker C: I really like that end part. One thing I'm pretty sure we will not say about any of his songs is that they sound empty. He always has a lot going on, which is cool. Which I always appreciate the fact that he blends a lot of these noises and things together.
Good opener.
[00:20:15] Speaker B: Yeah. I particularly like his background vocals in the chorus. I like when he double triples up that. Hey, yeah. It's really deep and sounding. I like that. It's pretty cool. Obviously I'm not going to probably get a lot of the kind of guitar that I want. Probably. He did put the horror sounding keyboard stuff at the end too, like he did the beginning. I thought that was cool. He's staying on brand. He knows what his brand is and he doesn't fuck around too much. With chorus and pre chorus, he keeps them the same so you know what's going to come up. As opposed to, let's say Lemmy, who just changed every pre chorus and every verse and every chorus so it wasn't the same. He doesn't do that. He writes verses and he's not lazy. But he keeps the choruses and the pre choruses of the same, keeps it very consistent. So it's definitely a well written SO song. It's a good start.
[00:20:55] Speaker D: I love the high energy of the song. It just really takes off like a rocket from the opening part all the way down to the end. You hear all the instruments really good. I've always found that any zombie song, the drums are really featured, the guitars are there, everything is there. But you always feel the drumming in all his songs. Love it.
[00:21:11] Speaker C: I think when you have that much going on, if you dilly dally on the beat, it wouldn't elevate the stuff as much. If you don't have that nice thump behind it, I think it just elevates it even more. Yeah, I agree. He definitely does that well.
[00:21:25] Speaker B: Verse 2. Stir the limbs across the wrist Full possession of a memory Bury me as a dog oh, I see hands surrounding me Same pre chorus, same chorus. Then verse three is Shriek the lips across Ragged tongue Convulsing two together sing violently Move the jaw Cry aloud Bound up the dead Triumphantly back to pre chorus, chorus and then out. Very short and sweet. Most of the songs here are under four minutes. He's hitting you real hard, quick and getting you right out. Frank, why don't you go first?
[00:21:50] Speaker D: The lyrics and the.
I'm gonna give Those sevens. Everything else, I'm gonna give an eight. I just really do like the musicianship arrangement. The production is really good. Very well done. The lyrics, they're good and they match the song. It's just. They're not one of my favorite parts. Overall, great song.
[00:22:06] Speaker C: I'll make it easy. I'm gonna say sevens across.
[00:22:09] Speaker A: Yeah, it's Steve and it's Quintuple seven. Nikki Titty Baby Mark.
[00:22:14] Speaker C: What do you think?
[00:22:15] Speaker B: I wasn't a big fan of the verse melody. I thought the chorus melody was really good. Pre chorus is okay. Lyrics, I'm gonna say six. Melody. Six and seven on everything else produced well. Was ranged very well musically. Adding all the extra st. Everything's super tight. It's a good start. Next song is the big song on the album as far as I know, and that is Dragula. That went to on the mainstream rock. It went to 6 and alternative went to 27. It was a big song. I remember hearing this all the time. Was always on mtv. The video was pretty big too.
[00:22:47] Speaker C: Is in the Matrix.
[00:22:48] Speaker B: Was in the Matrix too.
[00:22:49] Speaker C: Club scene in the Matrix.
[00:22:50] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's right. All right, so here is Dragula.
Superstition.
[00:23:24] Speaker A: Yet I am the one Extend my name, son Flipping through the trees Strangling on the breeze Dead I am the sky Watching angels cry while they float a tank Conquering the worm through the teachers and butter through the witches and slam in the back of my drag you there.
[00:24:10] Speaker C: Good mix of, I would say metal and industrial. The arrangement is done really well. The way it builds, the way the chorus comes in strong. I think as a rock fan, you can't help but sit there and just kind of bob your head to this.
[00:24:24] Speaker B: Yeah, this is one of my favorite songs from him. I always like the chorus. I always like the way it built up very low key and then came really big in the chorus. Does great doubling himself. He probably double triples those vocals because they're so thick. And I didn't realize that Dragula is the car from the monsters. Yeah.
Interesting to write a song about the car from the monsters, but it works really well.
[00:24:46] Speaker D: Yeah, I mean, come on. Fantastic. It's just full. It's in your face. Overall, just great. You expect nothing short from Rob Zombie of greatness.
[00:24:54] Speaker B: Verse one is dead I am the one Exterminating sun Slipping through the trees Strangling the breeze Verse 2 dead I am the sky Watching angels cry While they slowly turn Conquering the worm and of course is dig to the ditches and burn through the witches I slam in the back of my dragula dig to the ditches and burn through the witches I slam in the back of my dragula I mean, you got to say, he stays on brand, man. He doesn't fuck around with that. This is what we're going to do and this is what we're going to sound like. Like, gotta give him credit. And I like the fact that he did two verses in a row and then a chorus. He didn't do a chorus in the middle. I always like that. As long as it's not overused. I like it good arrangement. Arrangement wise, he does a good job. He knows what he's doing. All right, here we go.
[00:25:51] Speaker A: Ted. I am the rat piece of bomb the cat tender is the fur dying as you bird clear through the teachers and birds through the witches and slam in the back of my take you there dig through the teachers and burn through the witches and slam in the back of my take you there did I am the life digging to the skin knuckle crack the boat 21 to win dead I am the dark hound of hell you cry devil on your back I can never die Clear through the teachers and butter through the witches and slam in the back of my drag you there through the ditches and better witches lamb in the back of my drag you there dig through the ditches and bath through the witches and slam in the back of my take you laugh.
Dig through the ditches and burn through the witches and slam in the back of my jaguar.
[00:28:01] Speaker C: Good ending. That do it baby thing, I could kind of do without, but it doesn't ruin the song for me. Powerful gets you going.
[00:28:08] Speaker B: I actually like that post chorus that. Oh, do a baby, do a baby. And the burn like an animal part. That vocal sounds more like what I heard when he was in White Zombie. The pitch of the vocal is a little higher than maybe the stuff he does here, which is a little, little lower. What I can remember, the mixing of the industrial and the metal together. It's great.
[00:28:26] Speaker D: Oh, I love it. You know, I would love to see this song. The station wagon commercial. That would be great for our generation. No, but it's good.
[00:28:33] Speaker B: Love it.
[00:28:33] Speaker D: Absolutely amazing. I did not know that it was dedicated to the car from the monsters. I did not know that that car.
[00:28:40] Speaker B: Was actually made out of a coffin, a real coffin. It's pretty funny. Verse 3 Dead I am the pool spreading from the fool we can want you need nowhere as you bleed Verse 4 dead I am the rat feast upon the cat tender is the fur d you purr Chorus and the post chorus is. Oh, do it baby. Do it baby twice. And then burn like an animal. Verse 5. Dead I am the life Dig into the skin knuckle, crack the bone. 21 to win. And last verse is Dead I am the dog Hound of hell you cry Devil on your back I can never die. Lyrics are pretty good. He doesn't slack on the lyrics and the chorus and the verse. Melodies here are much better. They're good. I'll go first this time because I'm the less of the Rob Zombie White Zombie fan, man.
I mean, I could give it sevens across, but I think I have to give it eights across just because it's such a strong song. I don't think I would even know who he is if it wasn't for this song. I'm gonna go eights across.
[00:29:34] Speaker D: Frank, play it again. Triple eights across the board for me. Just love this song. High energy sound is there. The mixing is great. The lyrics are great. Everything about it is just a great song. So Triple H.
[00:29:45] Speaker C: Gonna say four? No, I'm just kidding.
Six. Nah, it. We'll just give it eights across. I wasn't sure I was gonna do sevens and eights, but I don't want to rock the boat. It. Eight's across.
[00:29:59] Speaker B: All right, that's a good start. The next one is Living Dead Girl, which is the second single from this. It went to 7 on the mainstream rock, so that's pretty good too. I don't know if I remember this or not. It went so high. I would think we would have to remember that. This Supposedly it was in the TV show Angel, which was a spin off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, supposedly in one scene. So I don't remember. Maybe when I hear it, I'll remember what it is. Oh, and it was also included in Bride of Chucky and 1998 Psycho.
[00:30:27] Speaker C: Oh, was it?
[00:30:28] Speaker B: Yeah, somewhere. Some remix. The Crow Salvation soundtrack. Been around this thing.
[00:30:32] Speaker C: I guess this was one thing that it wasn't the same in the Psycho remake or whatever you want to call it. At least that was different than the original.
[00:30:38] Speaker B: All right, here we go. This is Living Dead Girl.
[00:30:43] Speaker A: Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead.
What are you thinking about?
The same as in Europe.
I'll rage in the cage and pierce upon the stage is only one Go away To bring the giant down deep Strange cemetery With a one fat foot on the devil's wings.
[00:32:05] Speaker C: There are parts that I like. Overall, it's not grabbing me the way the first two Did. I think the chorus is my favorite part. And again, those little things that he does in between, those are always cool.
[00:32:15] Speaker B: I think I feel the same way. I like the little sound stuff. I think he does a good job with that. I think the melody is pretty good. I don't think it's bad. The chorus is the strong part of the song though.
[00:32:24] Speaker D: They slowed it down a little bit. But it's not down too slow while you're falling asleep on it. I think it's just really great. We're going to lounge in this club and have a couple of drinks lit. Rocking out the zombie kind of song.
[00:32:34] Speaker C: Yeah, I can see that.
[00:32:36] Speaker B: Intro. Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead Living dead girl I like how they use the old 50s style. I don't know if that's real or that's something they made made. But I think they did a really good job of putting that in there. And then the interludes, which I'm not going to read multiple times, but the interlude parts are. What are you thinking about? What are you thinking about? The same thing you are. Verse 1. Awe, rage in the cage and piss upon the stage there's only one sure way to bring the giant down Defunct the strings of cemetery things with one flat foot on the devil's wing Chorus Crawl on me, sink into me Die for me living dead girl Crawl on me, Sink into me Die for me A living dead girl Supposedly it's maybe about a vampire fire ish kind of thing. One thing says here, I think Morticia Adams meets Elvira meets Dracula's bride mushed together. I can see that. And then post chorus is the same thing as the interlude. So I'm not going to read that. I don't think it's bad. I think he slowed it down a little bit. There's some interesting things going on. There's definitely a little more industrial. And he had. Listen, he has a sound and that's great because of all the times you hear oh my God, this sounds just like this. Oh my God, it sounds like that he sounds like him. I think the opposite would happen is people would say, oh, you sound like Rod Zombie be. Between his vocal style and just the way he puts things together. I don't think he sounds like anybody.
[00:33:48] Speaker C: I think he's a combo of things. And then he adds his own thing to make it his.
[00:33:53] Speaker B: That's great. That's what you want to do a lot of stuff now since it's all produced with the same stuff, everyone kind of Sounds really similar. Even the heavy stuff sounds really similar to the other heavy stuff. Where in 98 when you heard this, there was very little that sounded just like this. He made his own thing into the old man voice.
[00:34:09] Speaker C: More like, hey, back in my day.
[00:34:12] Speaker B: Get off my lawn.
[00:34:14] Speaker D: That's a good call out. Mark, you're right. During this time he had a very unique sound.
[00:34:18] Speaker B: When this came out, 100%, it's still unique. You hear a little bit more of this now just because he did it. But you don't really hear as much the way he does it. I mean, he builds the horror into the music. He's doing a really good job. Again, I'm not a super big fan of his. Anytime I've seen him play or sing or doing whatever, he's always been good.
[00:34:33] Speaker C: I don't know what the base of it is unique. I think the elements he brings in, that's what distinguishes him from the other things that would sound. Sound like this.
[00:34:42] Speaker B: What do you mean? Like the industrial sound? Yeah, I mean, I can hear that. Parts of it. I think he brings a little more metal into it though. I think he's channeling his Gene Simmons somehow. Since he's such a big Kiss fan. I'm sure he's kind of channeling that and trying to use that. And the movies. I'm sure that he likes horror movies. So he brings all that in. So every song so far has sounded like parts of it could have been in a B rated horror movie from like the 50s. There's pieces of everything in there.
[00:35:04] Speaker C: I mean, that's the stuff that I love.
[00:35:06] Speaker B: Yeah, he's doing a good job with that. Let's see if it continues. Continues. Here we go.
[00:35:34] Speaker A: Ra.
[00:36:13] Speaker C: That was cool. I like that part. I wish the drums were a bit louder, personally. That would help elevate the song. Drums are kind of a little bit more pounding like they were in the first two. And I understand what he's going for. Not everything has to be like that.
[00:36:24] Speaker B: I like the Indian thing that he did. I thought that was interesting. Wow, Where'd that come from? In the middle of this thing, his sounds sometimes overwhelm the drum parts. Whatever loops he's using. And loops are a little bit louder than the actual drums are. It's a big part of his sound. I think he wants to incorporate that into what he's doing.
[00:36:39] Speaker D: I like the breakdown. I like song. It's funny. You said that premise was a meet who versus Who. Again, like the whole song.
[00:36:46] Speaker B: Elvira meets Morticia Adams meets whatever.
[00:36:50] Speaker D: I didn't know that. So it sounds great. This is the kind of song if it was in a movie, Wednesday Addams will come out too. And that's when you meet here for the first time. But this song is playing in the back background.
[00:36:58] Speaker B: I can see that. Okay. Verse 2. Awe raping the geep and hustling the freak Like a hunchback juice on a sentimental noose Operation Filth they love the wealth of an SS Making scary sounds Chorus, post choruses, that interlude again. And then the oh, oh oh oh oh oh what are you thinking about? And now we're back here. And let's run it out. Here we go.
[00:37:24] Speaker A: Police. Layton Hat thinks a dollar.
It's dollar bills. Goldfix Machine creates another theme so beautiful they make you.
[00:38:18] Speaker C: Boom. I had a feeling may have ended it like that. It's okay. I definitely like the other ones better. I think it's interesting though. For sure. I'm pretty sure we'll say that about everything. That his production and the elements he does and the things that he adds are interesting. The melody and the verses is where he lost me. And I like the melody in the chorus. But to me, if it was a little bit more elevated like what he did in the other songs where it just became slightly louder with everything. So.
[00:38:43] Speaker B: Okay. I think that he does all these things on purpose just to throw you off the chorus here. He's using his higher vocal range as opposed to the other two songs. Was really the lower range. And he kind of swapped it. We did the lower stuff in the verses and the higher stuff on the choruses. I like his voice in the higher thing. I think even better than I like it in the lower thing. That was good. And it's another reference to another B movie from the 50s in the verse. Is it as good as Dragula? No, but it's not bad. I liked it.
[00:39:08] Speaker D: What he made here was a song that you just lounge to. You're gonna listen to it while it plays in the background. Shooting some pool. Knocking a couple of bruise perhaps. Could be in a movie. Wednesday Adam comes out to this song kind of a thing. I'm digging it. I think it's great. And his vocals really does fit the tempo of this song. So. Love it.
[00:39:22] Speaker B: Next verse is or Cyclone Jack Hallucinating hack thinks that Donna Reed eats dollar bills. Goldfoot's machine creates another fiend so beautiful to make you kill. So Goldfoot is a classic B film this time. Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine.
She's really obsessed with the 50s.
[00:39:40] Speaker C: Well, Vincent Price was In it?
[00:39:41] Speaker B: Yeah, when I make. Makes sense in the time frame. All right, Sav, why don't you go first?
[00:39:44] Speaker C: I like the lyrics. The lyrics are probably my favorite part of that. I'm going to say it's seven on the lyrics. I'll say a six on the music. I do find it interesting. Five in the melody, five on the production, and six on the arrangement. Just. I don't know. It could grow on me if I listen to it more. But as of right now, I'm like.
[00:40:03] Speaker D: Frank, I'm gonna give the lyrics of the melody on this one a seven. The music, I'll give seven too. But the production, I really do like that. I'm going to give it 8. Rangeman. I'm going to give that a 7 as well. I think he's just very well produced. The song is just really down tempo, relaxed. Let's just lounge kind of listening. Rob Zombie kind of song. I like it. Mark.
[00:40:20] Speaker B: I'm going to give it six on the lyrics, six on the melody, seven on the music, seven on the arrangement, and seven on production. I thought the production was good. I think it's not as strong as the last two songs, but it's not a bad song by any stretch of the imagination. Okay, the Next one is perversion 99.
[00:41:30] Speaker A: It.
[00:42:18] Speaker B: That's okay.
[00:42:19] Speaker C: Interesting little interlude. It stops so it doesn't sound like a fan. Flows completely into the next song.
[00:42:24] Speaker B: Cool. Way to break up the songs. It's not bad. We're not going to vote on that. Obviously.
[00:42:28] Speaker D: It's very Jamestown Massacre sounding.
[00:42:31] Speaker B: Yeah. He does keep up his Persona through this whole thing. Okay, the next one is Demonoid Phenomena.
[00:42:37] Speaker A: Don't lie to yourself it gave you pleasure Sam.
I'll head on up.
Turn around and meet the hater Fire Turn around, get it out.
[00:44:15] Speaker C: I like the music more than the melody in this one. It's pretty driving. The arrangement is pretty interesting. And that formula is back again where it does heavy, then it quite a bit. And then it builds up in the chorus again, which I like. It's just the melody has to grow on me for me to like this one more.
[00:44:29] Speaker B: Chorus is very similar to Dragula.
[00:44:31] Speaker C: He has a style, without a doubt when it comes to delivering melodies.
[00:44:35] Speaker B: The verses, I like that the guitar at the beginning was really driving. Then the verse came and it kind of just fell out. I'm not too sure if I like that too much. I'm on the fence. I'm not really sure where this is going or what I'd like or don't like. Yet. So I have to give it a little bit more time to see.
[00:44:48] Speaker C: Great. I'm on the fence as well.
[00:44:50] Speaker D: I'm with you on the fence. Not quite sure if I'm digging it yet. Not quite sure where the song is going.
Sounds like there's something big coming. I just want to see what happens.
[00:44:59] Speaker B: Next Intro don't lie to yourself it gave you pleasure hold the Door Woman Verse 1 Hell on Earth for what it's worth Dead on dream you started screaming the wizard of how the king of now cry like a banshee and die like you want me Pre Chorus Violator hey, desecrator hey, Turn around and meet the hater Violator hey, desecrator hey, Turn around and Chorus Demon Phenomenon get it out, get it on Demon Phenomenon get it out, get it on lyrics. He's not a slacker I'm not too sure what the fuck it all means.
[00:45:30] Speaker C: I know Demonoid is a movie. Whether or not it's in direct relation to that, I'm not sure. But that is a movie.
[00:45:35] Speaker B: Wow. Maybe with all the stuff he does, it probably is related. I'm sure. All right, let's continue. Here we go.
[00:46:04] Speaker A: Turn around and be the hater Violator Desecrator Turn around Enjoy that dead girl's body Be my noise but now Made it now get it out, get it out Deep noise but now I'm in it Now I get it get out, get it out.
[00:47:03] Speaker C: Mark, you got a quick little solo there. What'd you think?
[00:47:06] Speaker B: What the. I didn't think I was gonna hear any guitar like that at all. I'll take what I can get. It's fine. The songs don't lend themselves to guitar solos. I don't think. To driving. There's too much other shit going on. I'm still up in the air on this. I don't really know where I want to go. Trying to figure out whether I like this or don't. I don't like this. I like the chorus. That's about the best I can say right now. I'm not super into industrial.
[00:47:27] Speaker C: I'd like industrial and then the whole. Get it out, get it out. I don't know if it were Ministry, if it's one quick fix where he says that. If that's what I'm thinking of. Like, get it out, get it out, get it out. I think it's that the one thing.
[00:47:41] Speaker D: That we heard so far. You knew you liked the song within the first two minutes. This one. The fact that we're still debating tells us that we're really not that crazy about it. At least I'm not. It's okay. But I think so far this is the weakest song what we've listened to so far.
[00:47:54] Speaker B: I would have to agree. There are parts of it that are good. The chorus is good and everything else is kind of. It's okay. Pre chorus is fine, I guess. It's interesting. Let me read verses. The conquering worm, the slittering germ Lost in the black sleep I see how the gods weep the horror of madness the terminal sadness the cool air of morning gave me the warning. Then pre chorus and chorus again. And there's that little interlude. And I guess we're gonna run this out right now. Let's see if he does anything to throw us off. Here we go.
[00:48:44] Speaker A: I get it. It out, get it out, get it out, get it out.
[00:49:28] Speaker C: Interesting parts. I feel that I should like this song more. Maybe on repeat listening it'll stick better. It's okay. To me, these last two songs are.
Can't put my finger on it. I like this one better than the last one. Overall, I think maybe because it's just driving.
[00:49:43] Speaker B: Yeah. I have to agree. I'm not too sure about this yet. I'm still not sure. And I'm at the end of the song already. Basically, it's just the same stuff. The end, pre chorus, chorus, then outro. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Which I kind of liked.
[00:49:54] Speaker C: I like those guitar parts too.
[00:49:55] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Little unison Ben things. Yeah, those are pretty cool. I think for me, I'm gonna say five on the lyrics, six on the melody, six on the music. The arrangement is fine. I don't think you can vault that. Six on the arrangement and production's fine. I'm gonna say six. So pretty much six is across. Except for the lyrics, which is five. Frank.
[00:50:13] Speaker D: I'm with you, Mark. The lyrics are five, the melody is five. The rest of the way I'm gonna give it six. There's some interesting parts, but again, it doesn't capture you. It doesn't draw you in. It doesn't make you want to listen more of it. The ending was cool. I like the ending overall. This one is a little bit on the flat side.
[00:50:27] Speaker C: I will also say five lyrics, five melody, get six orange arrangement, six production and six music.
[00:50:35] Speaker B: Pretty much meh for everybody. We're just like meh.
[00:50:38] Speaker C: I do like it better than the one before, though. I know you guys gave that one better scores than I did. But I would probably go back to this one before I went back to that one.
[00:50:45] Speaker B: For me, I Think Living Dead Girl is definitely a better song for me. Demonoid phenomenon. The chorus is too much like Dragula. That's the only thing. It's not that that's a bad thing because I like Dragula. It's just. This doesn't really catch me. It just feels like it's meanders around a bit. Little it for me.
[00:50:59] Speaker C: You could tell. It just didn't really hit.
[00:51:01] Speaker B: Okay, the next song and the ending of the side is going to be Spook show Baby.
[00:51:32] Speaker A: Hanging all over you yeah Devil man Yes, I can cut a little piece of you yeah Hunger destroy you Hunger Swift that's all right for you yeah Vuju man Yes, I can tear it all down for you Jesus.
Same.
[00:52:46] Speaker C: I find the individual parts interesting. There's interesting stuff going on. The song itself as a whole is not grabbing me. I do appreciate dynamics. I've always appreciated dynamics in songs. He definitely does that where the chords kind of builds up and it gets heavier and louder. Just. I don't know. This one isn't grabbing me either.
[00:53:03] Speaker B: I was gonna say the same thing. I don't get it. I do like the individual visual parts, but as a song, I don't know. Chorus is maybe the best part of the song. I mean, that's fine too.
[00:53:11] Speaker C: The chorus, it builds and it hits you. It comes in and you like that heaviness. You like that build up. It leads somewhere. Which is cool. I think as a musician. Kind of like that payoff, right? Dracula to me is a big payoff. These last two, even though they have that kind of similar formula, the payoff isn't as good. And maybe because the formula is slightly replaced. Repetitive.
[00:53:33] Speaker D: I'm digging this song. It has a very 70s vibe to it with that bass playing and his style of singing. I like it a lot. Is there going to be a payoff like the other songs that we heard? I don't know.
[00:53:43] Speaker B: Maybe.
[00:53:43] Speaker D: So far. I really do like that whole 70s sound that it has going on. It's like a funk sound. And the bass is great.
[00:53:49] Speaker C: I gotta check it out.
[00:53:50] Speaker B: I think musician wise, they're doing a great job. I don't think you can complain about the music. It's just when you have the first couple of songs that kind of hit you a little harder and that you're getting these. All I can say is the first two songs hit me really good and the last three are just been a little. It's not as good of a song. There's probably a reason why Dragular went so high because it's much Better a song. And I like the little Middle Eastern thing at the beginning of this. That was pretty cool. Interesting change of pace.
[00:54:13] Speaker C: No, it's great little parts. That's why it's a little bit harder to feel that it's not grabbing me. Okay, this part's cool. This part's cool. You know, the peanut butter and the chocolate. Why isn't it tasting like Reese pieces to me? Yeah, that's what it is. That other thing was exorcism by killing Joke, by the way. It's not ministering. Sorry. It was eating at me and I had to look it up, but that was the get it out that I was referring to.
[00:54:33] Speaker B: There you go. Verse 1. High Noon Dead moon hanging all over you yeah Devil man yes, I can cut a little piece of you yeah Then it's I guess a refrain Is hunger inside you Hunger, hunger destroy you hunger verse 2. Swift might dead knight that's all right for you, yeah Voodoo man yes, I can tear it all down for you, yeah Chorus She's a killer she's a A thriller spook show baby She's a killer she's a thriller spook show baby Chorus is good. Very Dragula like. Like you said, the payoff is not exactly as good as Dragula is. Maybe that's what it is. And maybe the formula is too much now and I'm just getting used to the formula. I'm like, well, it doesn't sound as good as the other one, so I don't really like it as much. I do not know.
[00:55:12] Speaker C: Could grow on us.
[00:55:13] Speaker B: It's possible. All right, let's.
[00:55:21] Speaker A: Pain falling down over you yeah wicked man Yes I can Walking all over you yeah, inside you It's.
It's.
[00:57:15] Speaker C: That rhythm that reminds me of something. And I almost had it just now and I lost it. But think about that. Is it Helmet, but faster?
I think that's what it is. Could be the chords grew on me. I like the chords better this time. Time around. I can't really say much more. It's not bad. I mean, it could be my favorite of the last three. Overall.
[00:57:38] Speaker B: I like the chorus. I think that's the best part. Verses are okay. Refrain's okay. It's all right. The chorus is better than I think the prior one, but they're very similar. He does have a pattern he's going into now that maybe on the second side won't be as much as right now. He's using this formula. Boy to the end.
[00:57:54] Speaker D: I do like it. The last set that we've listened to this is my favorite so far. I do like that sound that you were just describing in there.
[00:58:01] Speaker B: Sav. Let me finish off the words. Red rain, no pain Falling down over you. Yeah. Wicked, man. Yes, I can. Walking all over you, yeah. The refrain again, the chorus and the last verse is Bright glove Mad love moving all over you. Yeah. Psycho man. Yes, I can do it all over for you, yeah. And back to the chorus at the end. Since Frank likes this so much, we're going to let him go first.
[00:58:23] Speaker D: Frank, I believe what I said was I like it the last three the most, the best.
[00:58:28] Speaker C: You said you love, loved it.
[00:58:30] Speaker D: This one, I'm gonna say. I'm gonna give this.
[00:58:32] Speaker B: Yeah, you love it all right.
[00:58:35] Speaker D: Don't try your Jedi mind tricks on me. Oh, the two of you. I. I'm. I will say for me, I'm gonna give this sixes across of the last set of songs. This is. I like it better. I definitely love the bass line in this one. So. Yeah, so for me, sixes all the way across. Seth.
[00:58:48] Speaker C: I will say a five on the lyrics. I'll say a six on the melody. Because the chorus is my favorite chorus, for what it's worth. Out of the last three. Get them that. I'll say six on the music. I'll say six on arrangement. E. I like the dynamics in it. Production. I'll say a six as well. Out of the last three, this is my favorite one. Mark.
[00:59:08] Speaker B: I think I'm doing the same thing. 5 on lyrics, 6 on melody, 6 on musicianship, 6 on arrangement, 6 on production. Chorus is really good. I think the chorus is the best part. It's very Dragula like. So maybe that's why I like the chorus so much. I don't know. This hasn't been hitting me after the first two songs. First two songs I thought were good. I like the intro. That was pretty cool. Once Living Dead Girl was over, which I kind of sort of liked. It's been saying the same a little bit for me, so I'm hoping side two does what side to a Megadeth did. It's definitely a cool album to get for Halloween because it fits the mood exactly. He's not hiding his horror, love. That's exactly what we need for Halloween.
[00:59:41] Speaker C: What I was going to say is this song reminds me of being in a bar in the 90s. Not so much. I know. If I could mention the other one kind of lounging. But this one walking in, and it's a rock club, and this is what they played before the bands go on and in that vibe I was, I would probably really dig this song. This one just stuck out in my head as. Yeah, I just picture strobes going on here and there, maybe some bull, whatever and beer in hand. This song kind of brought that to me. I did like that element of it.
[01:00:08] Speaker B: It's a good album from what we're trying to do. I'm glad we got it. Awesome. Sav, why don't you do your thing?
[01:00:12] Speaker C: We are part of the Deep Dive Podcast network. Like I always say, great bunch of guys took us in right away. If you like individual podcasts about Banch, check them out. You got Rush, Judas Priest, Tom Petty, Uriah Heap, Megadeth. Just to clarify by that again, Queen, you name it, it's probably on there. So check them out. And mark, where can they find us on the interwebs?
[01:00:31] Speaker B: Rocklitpod on all the social media? Rockwelladpodcast.com Buy some merch. Do the polls leave us a new bets? You know what to do. Put us five stars wherever you rate your podcast and put us on auto download because that way we get into your podcast app with all our new episodes as they come out. And next week we will finish up our Halloween episode with part two of Hell Billy Deluxe by Rob Zombie. And we will see you next week.
[01:00:56] Speaker C: Ciao ciao.
[01:00:57] Speaker D: Take care.
[01:00:58] Speaker A: Later.
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