Supernaut

Supernaut Artist: 1000 Homo DJ's
Label: Tvt
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: EP
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 016581813328
EAN: 0016581813328
ASIN: B000003RHT


Release Date: 1993-04-08

Supernaut


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Tracks:

  1. Supernaut
  2. Hey Asshole
  3. Apathy
  4. Better Ways

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This is a four-song release by Ministry leader Al Jourgensen and sundry like-minded co-conspirators. The title track is a nitrogen-fueled cover of the Black Sabbath song, notable for Jourgensen's harsh vocals and trademark crushing drum and guitar production. Track two is an amusingly scathing social statement of sorts, a repetitive rhythm and noise construction over which a "bad cop" caricature yells one profanity after another at hypothetical teen-age victims (probably Ministry fans). "Apathy" and "Better Ways" are gravelly electro-post-punk ventures that oddly anticipate the overall sound of Ministry albums created years later. --Mark McCleerey

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars it is both singing.......2004-09-27

Decent songs. The Nativity in Black and Apathy release are definitely Als vocals, except for wordless screams which belong to the orginal reznor version. You know in the end where he's screaming ow or oh or doh over and over. The blackbox version features the original Reznor version on vocals. So there

3 out of 5 stars Get Nativity in Black.......2003-10-04

I actually bought this CD after getting the Nativity in Black tribute and being blown away by the sheer intensity of Supernaut. What makes the song really heavy is not so much the guitar as the drums. They're so fast and so layered it sounds almost like there's more than one drummer going it it at the same time. The second track, a long sketch featuring a disgruntled cop, is amusing the first few times one hears it, but quickly loses its interest after that. The other two tracks, Apathy and Better Days, are complete throw-aways. They're not TERRIBLE songs, but there's not much to be desired. They're flat, boring, monotone (dare I say "melancholy") ventures in industrial experimentation. My advice: If you're into Black Sabbath, just get Nativity in Black. It's got this track along with lot of really great metal bands covering classic Sabbath songs. If you're into Ministry, just get one of their albums. This little album is only necessary if you really like the Supernaut cover, but don't want the other Sabbath stuff.

By the way, contrary to popular belief, it is not Al Jourgensen on vocals, but Trent Reznor. Trent originally recorded the vocals for the song. There was some kind of problem with his record company, however, and he wasn't allowed to appear on the record. They agreed that Al would redo the vocals for the track, but in reality, they just distorted Trent's vocals so it would sound more like Al. I actually have the original, undistorted recording of the song, which I found online, to prove it. Besides, I've personally never heard Al Jourgensen sing that well. Have you?

4 out of 5 stars Supernaut.......2003-09-11

Great cd. And actually, Supernaut IS sung by Trent Reznor. When they were about to release the cd, TVT didn't allow the track to be released with Reznor on it, so Jorgensen went back into the studio and fiddled with the audio a little bit and lied to the record companies, saying he re-sang it.

4 out of 5 stars Supernaut is NOT a Nine Inch Nails Track!.......2003-05-25

Most people think that Supernaut is a Nine Inch Nails track. It is not, but it may as well be, because it sure sounds like it. Here is the lowdown: 1000 Homo DJ's is basically Trent Reznor + Ministry one night in the studio. (Ministry has redone the track since, and it sounds exactly the same except it has Al Jorgensen's vocals-- on a Black Sabbath Tribute, Ministry is also known for doing the track live.... interesting to note it is originally a Black Sabbath Track, but I'm not even sure if the original can stand up to this cover). The other song/s (I have the CD somewhere, I don't remember if there were 1 or 2 other songs) really are a throwaway, just bad industrial on a bad day, obviously it was one of Al Jorgensen's bad days of PCP in the studio he has talked about in interviews.... Anyone who is into industrial knows there are thre kinds of industrial music: dance, noisy, and god-awful. Supernaut is great. It is to bad the other material is god-awful. Like some of the worser stuff by Pigface (if you are a Pigface fan, you know what I am talking about). Anyway, it is worth picking up if you are a hard-core Nine Inch Nails Fan, Ministry Fan, or just industrial-in-general fan, but don't expect more than one good song. But oh, the song is good. Why do you think I've kept the CD all these years?

5 out of 5 stars The essential industrial-party-rock-type-thing track.......2003-04-08

Back in the 80s, the Wax Trax label was less about bands and more about the loose array of talent that sluiced through the doors. Built mainly around Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Martin Atkins of Killing Joke, Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker of Ministry, and Chris Connelly of Finitribe, they and a few dozen others sort of coalesced under different moniquers to relase either whole albums or single singles. One Thousand Homo DJ's was just such an example.

Originally, it was regarded as unreleasable (according to legend the band got the name after a plugger heard the lead track and proclaimed 'I have a thousand homo DJs on my lists, and I won't be able to get any of them to play this'). It rapidly became one of the real breakthrough indutrial rock tracks: a supergroup, working under pseudonyms for contractual reasons, releasing a Black Sabbath track, back before the Ozzfest rehabilitated them.

The result is a wild, groovy, deafening, acid-tinged dance-floor filler, with everything turned up to 11. It was the first track to show the general public that the scene wasn't all about death, gloom and misery: instead, this was bouncy nonsense. The whole EP originally ended up sounding like a comedy record, with original vinyl b-side Hey [...]setting a Deliverance-style back-roads encounter with a redneck cop to a relentless, hammer-down chant.

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