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Track Listings
| 1. The Munsters (Cue) |
| 2. I Don't Wanna Be Me |
| 3. Less Than Zero |
| 4. Todd's Ship Gods (Above All Things) |
| 5. I Like Goils |
| 6. ...A Dish Best Served Coldly |
| 7. How Could She? |
| 8. Life Is Killing Me |
| 9. Nettie |
| 10. (We Were) Electrocute |
| 11. IYDKMIGTHTKY (Gimme That) |
| 12. Angry Inch |
| 13. Anesthesia |
| 14. Drunk In Paris |
| 15. The Dream Is Dead |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Still putting the lie to the presumption that gothic metal is mordant and humourless, New York's Type O Negative return with Life Is Killing Me, their sixth album of misanthropy, high drama and perversion with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Towering frontman Pete Steele is still, unquestionably, the band's focal point, and here his lyrics are more grotesquely hilarious than ever: "My sex-change operation got botched / My guardian angel fell asleep on the watch / Now all I've got is a Barbie-doll crotch" he growls on the furious "Angry Inch", a Frankenstein's monster with miserably low-self esteem.
Musically, this is pretty accessible stuff, with little of the brutal, thrashy heaviness of Type O's early material: "(We Were) Electrocute" is an explicit homage to 1980s new romanticism, Josh Silver's funeral synthlines channelled into a sleek electro-pop number. The adrenaline-fuelled soft-rock rush of "I Like Goils" comes on like Andrew WK in goth's panstick and vampire cape. And "Less than Zero" finds Type O Negative revisit one of their more surprising reference points, the Beatles, with Revolver-style sitar melodies cutting through the eerie gloom. As ever, with Type O Negative, learn to expect the unexpected. --Louis Pattison
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
after 'world coming down' i was slightly skeptical about type o negative`s work and slightly worried about buying this album. oh how wrong i was and i never regretted taking the risk as this album is insanely good. quite possibly the best mixture of songs ive ever heard on a type o record from the bizarrely upbeat music of 'i dont wanna be me' mixed with the unsurprisingly downbeat lyrical content that plays throughout the album particularly at its keenest on '...a dish best served cold' with the fantastic retort of 'how many times must i say im not sorry?'. if you cant work out where the rest of the album is coming from by now then you never will. but buy the damm thing its song writing of the highest quality to please most discerning metal and goth fans as the gloom and the riff mingle exceptionally well and the result is a fantastic album that never gets boring and gets better on repeated listenings.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Peter and the boys are back with their 6th studio album. Unlike 'World Coming Down' the bands last effort, 'Life Is Killing Me' has more of a mixture of songs, some punky, a few old slow classics and the up beat mid tempo ones. You can expect the songs to reach over the 5 minute mark and for Peter to chant and sing about love and death like on most TON albums and with 15 songs without any joke tracks you defiantly get your moneys worth. You may notice on a few tracks that a sitar is used, like on the last track of 'Bloody Kisses'which adds some variety to the mix. Tracks to look out for Anesthesia, Todd's Ship Gods, I like Goils, Nettie and IYDKMIGTHTKY.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
every track on this album is complete gem, they've returned to the days of Bloody Kisses and October Rust. this is a worthy addition for the true Type O Negative fan. a must have albums for fans everywhere.
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