Bloody Kisses

Artist: Type O Negative
Label: Roadrunner Records
Category: Music

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Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 016861910020
EAN: 0016861910020
ASIN: B000000H6Y

Release Date: 1993-08-17

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Tracks:

Machine Screw
Christian Woman: Body Of Christ (Corpus Christi)/To Love God/J.C. Looks Like Me
Black No.1 (Little Miss Scare All)
Fay Wray Come Out And Play
Kill All The White People
Summer Breeze
Set Me On Fire
Dark Side Of The Womb
We Hate Everyone
Bloody Kisses (A Death In The Family)
3.0.I.F
Too Late: Frozen
Blood & Fire
Can't Lose You

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Customer Reviews:

Classic.......2007-03-13

This is the Cd that got me started on Type O negative...no matter how many times I've listened to it,I still love it.It is so different from anything else there is.Musical crack cocaine.

"like loving the dead".......2007-02-19

Type O Negative were an interesting band, and here they make a turning point album. Less of the thrash roots of Carnivore and more of a gothic sound are put in. Many of the songs are very long, and while some have talked about it being cheesy and campy, I actually find that's part of the record's charm. The sense of humor in some places is not politically correct in the least ("Kill All the White People," "We Hate Everyone") and even in other things, like trying to keep negative. The back of the CD has something inside that says "Don't mistake lack of talent for genious" and the like, and for some reason that stuff kinda cracks me up. But make no mistake: They play really well.

The greatest songs on here, by and large, are the first two full songs: "Christian Woman" and "Black No. 1," both TON classics. "CW" is kind of like four tracks in one, and the keyboards and melody are both really memorable. My personal favorite is "Black," with its crunchy riffs and harpsi-chord-sounding part before the coda. The title track is also great. Although not really an album I am always revisiting in full, I usually do get something out of listening to this. Unfortunately though, I find it more rewarding to listen in snippets than in full.

I think if you like goth and metal that this record will work well for you. Excellent release.

Awesome!.......2006-12-26

I saw this band open for Pantera in the mid 90's.... I am mostly a "news talk" listener now, but it is always fun to visit my roots! If you like the hard rock of the 90's then this is for you.

Where do I start?.......2006-11-06

The truth is that, it's next to impossible to do justice to the phenomenon that is Type O Negative and in particular to this album which was my introduction to them. As a lowly metal buyer in a record shop, my musical life changed the day a promo copy of Bloody Kisses came from the record company. This album simply knocked my socks off and started a love affair with this incredible bands music that has now lasted 13 years. I remember repeatedly breaking my shops policy by telling potential customers to "....buy it, listen to it and if you don't like it bring it back and I'll give you your money back" I never did get a single copy returned, but I do remember getting phone calls from them hours later saying how they haven't stopped listening to it and how much they love it. So if you like honest, epic and hauntingly beautiful music with a wonderful sense of dark humour. then you won't be disappointed. Be prepared to buy everything else they have released cos you will....

BLOODY KISSES = Bloody Fantastic.......2006-10-07

I have to agree with a vast majority of the other reviews here, when they sing the praises of this album. BLOODY KISSES was my first introduction to Type O Negative (courtesy of a friend - thanks Jim!), and of course became my first TON album added to my music library. The instant sellers on this album (for me, anyway) were (and still are) CHRISTIAN WOMAN, BLACK No 1, SUMMER BREEZE, and the title track BLOODY KISS (A DEATH IN THE FAMILY).

With the exception of SUMMER BREEZE, all these songs are epic classics running anywhere from just under 9 minutes to a little over 11 minutes each. What made these songs such instant gems (aside form the excellent musical arrangements), was the unique, unmatched vocal styling of Peter Steele. His deep, baritone vocals stand alone in a class all their own, and in effect, make the songs that much more unique as well. I have yet to meet a woman who was not "affected" by his voice. Aside from other, um, "attributes" that Peter Steele possess, his voice is something that many men would envy (I sure do, anyway).

An almost 180 contrast to their debut album (SLOW, DEEP, AND HARD) where the tracks were more typical metal, with the speed & thrash elements one would expect from such a genere, BLOODY KISSES slows things down, but not in a boring way, rather in a deeper, more emotionally connective sort of way. You can almost "feel" the despair, sadness, and melancholy in some of these songs, just from the music alone, before even a single lyric is uttered. It almost makes one wonder if these two albums could actually come from the same band. But they do.

Where I feel SLOW DEEP AND HARD was an experimental album for Pete & Co to get themselves on the music map (amidst the thrash & speed of SDAH, there is a balance of slower, heavy riffing which would become more evident and refined in following albums), BLOODY KISSES is the album where I feel the band finds their perfect niche that firmly places them among other great bands of the goth metal genre.

Additionally, while a lot of the music can invoke feelings of melacholy, some the very same tracks can also simultaneously invoke more positive feelings as well. Not a lot of music can do that.

As mentioned in many of the other reviews, this album had two "versions". An original 14-track version, released in a standard jewel case, and a remastered 9-track version, released in a digipak. There is so much contention as to which is the "better" version - I say they're both good in their own right, and any true TON fan will make sure to have both in their collection/library, even if it's for 1 song.

While the original version boasts more tracks, those etxra tracks (which were omitted from the remastered release) are really not all that great, as they are mostly made up of these bizarre interludes (not the last to be seen/heard from TON however!), which seem to only serve to segue from one musical track to the next, and hardly warrant the fuss over the original version of the album being "better". These "interlude" tracks would be 3.0.I.F. (which sounds like some auto accident scenario), DARK SIDE OF THE WOMB (the crying infant and macabre sounds suggest to me some sort of "Rosemary's Baby" thing going on), MACHINE SCREW (mechanical eroticism, I guess you could say), and FAY WRAY COME OUT AND PLAY (the overall sounds and ambience here suggest to me like it's a tribute to the classic 1933 movie King Kong, when the tribe make their female sacrifice to Kong).

I find these tracks do serve rather well as intros to specific main musical tracks, but they're not anything you'd really miss, especially if you never heard them. In other words, you wouldn't miss much. Among these omitted tracks, however, only 2 are actual musical compositions (KILL ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE and WE HATE EVERYONE), and while these are not bad and pretty good, respectively, I have to strongly disagree with any reviews that say these (or any of the omitted tracks, for that matter) are better than SUSPENDED IN DUSK, which was the "bonus track" included on the remastered digipak version, in these other tracks' absence.

In fact, if there was any track that made buying a second copy of BLOODY KISSES worth while, it would be the digipak for SUSPENDED IN DUSK. If you have an avid interest in vampires, you will agree, this song makes it worth a second investment in the "same" album. But even if you're not a vampire enthusiast, this is one of those great songs that rank alongside CHRISTIAN WOMAN, et al.

Speaking of CHRISTIAN WOMAN, the one thing that DOES suck about the digipak (aside form the fact that it IS a digipak! grrr), is that Pete's spoken intro for the song ("Forgive her... for she knows not what she does") was also omitted (at least it was on MY copy!). That makes no sense to me.

Maybe because I got the digipak first, and then the original later on, (not knowing I got them in "backwards" order), perhaps this may have influenced my acceptance of the digipak version as being "just as good", cos in essence, my second purchase was like getting stuffed added on, rather than left off. Still, had I gotten them in their proper sequence, I think I would have been ok with paying a full CD price for one song (and not just cos I'm the kind of music junkie who wants ANYthing and EVERYthing released from whatever band I am into), cos SUSPENDED IN DUSK is actually THAT good. In fact, I recall thinking the original wasn't that great after all, since the "extra" tracks weren't even "real" tracks, and the 2 that were, were mediocre at best.

If you value quantity over quality, then the original BLOODY KISSES will suit you fine. If you prefer quality over quantity, you may prefer the digipak (except for that clipped CHRISTIAN WOMAN intro!) instead. However, if you are a true Type O Negative fan, then not only will you not be sorry to have both versions, but you will also make a point of doing so - for collector's item reasons if nothing else.

In closing, I would have to say that while all the albums that followed were very good (even excellent!) in their own right, there is just something about BLOODY KISSES that makes it stand alone as an unmatched classic. A must!

I give 5+ stars, in the context of both versions combined as one release.
Seperately, I'd give the original version 4 stars, and the digipak 3 stars (the only reason it did not get an equal 4-star rating, is for the omitted intro to CHRISTIAN WOMAN, and for being in a digipak - I HATE those things! So in essence, the 3-star rate goes to the one song not on the original : SUSPENDED IN DUSK).

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