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The Origin of the Feces is the second studio album by the American gothic metal band Type O Negative, released in 1992.

The Origin of the Feces
Studio album by
Type O Negative
ReleasedMay 12, 1992
RecordedOctober 31, 1991
StudioSystems Two, Brooklyn, New York
Length43:28
LabelRoadrunner
ProducerP. T. Barnum, Peter Steele, Josh Silver
Type O Negative chronology
Slow, Deep and Hard
(1991)
The Origin of the Feces
(1992)
Bloody Kisses
(1993)
Reissue cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Q[2]

Recording and production


The album was recorded in a studio but produced to sound "live" by adding crowd noises, banter with the fictitious audience, and even a song stopping because the venue supposedly had received a bomb threat. This was done to simulate the controversy the band faced during the European leg of their Slow, Deep and Hard tour. The band is known among fans for weaving this type of humour into their often gloomy music.


Album content


The album is composed primarily of slightly altered, re-recorded versions of tracks that had appeared already on Slow, Deep and Hard. Four of the song's titles have been deliberately renamed:

- "Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity" = "I Know You're Fucking Someone Else"
- "Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 x 10-8 cm-3 gm-1 sec-2" = "Gravity"
- "Prelude to Agony" = "Pain"
- "Xero Tolerance" = "Kill You Tonight"

One song, "Are You Afraid?", is an original composition that the band played live as an introduction to "Gravity" but never included on an official studio album. It foreshadows the gothic sound the band would adopt on their next album, Bloody Kisses.

This album also started the tradition of Type O Negative including cover songs performed in their distinct gothic metal sound. The album includes covers of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" (which halfway through contains the main riff of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man"), and Billy Roberts' "Hey Joe", which has been re-titled "Hey Pete" for frontman Peter Steele. The reprise of "Kill You Tonight" has a sample of the closing piano strike from The Beatles' "A Day in the Life".

In another instance of the band's sense of humor, circus impresario P. T. Barnum is credited as a producer for the record, despite the fact that he had been dead for over 100 years at the time the album was released.


Packaging


The original cover of the album has a close-up of Steele's anal sphincter.[3] This was changed for the re-issue two years later, to a green and black version of the 1493 painting by Michael Wolgemut, The Dance of Death. The album's title is an obvious pun and a reference to Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

In addition to the re-issue's cover, other artwork included in the album's sleeve/liner notes is the famous 1498 woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.


Track listing


All lyrics and music by Peter Steele, except where noted.

No.TitleLength
1."I Know You're Fucking Someone Else"
  • I. "Anorganic Transmutogenesis (Synthetic Division)"
  • II. "Coitus Interruptus"
  • III. "I Know You're Fucking Someone Else"
15:02
  • 5:46
  • 2:20
  • 6:56
2."Are You Afraid?"2:13
3."Gravity"
  • I. "Unjustifiable Existence"
  • II. "Gravitational Acceleration (Due to Gravity)"
  • III. "Antimatter: Electromechanical Psychedelicosis"
7:13
  • 2:05
  • 3:19
  • 1:49
4."Pain"
  • I. "Jackhammerape"
  • II. "Pain (Is Irrelevant)"
4:41
  • 3:00
  • 1:41
5."Kill You Tonight"2:17
6."Hey Pete" (Billy Roberts, new lyrics by Peter Steele)5:10
7."Kill You Tonight (Reprise)"
  • I. "Kill You Tonight"
  • II. "Love You to Death"
7:08
  • 5:14
  • 1:54
Total length:43:28
Bonus track (album repressing)
No.TitleLength
8."Paranoid" (Black Sabbath cover)7:20
Total length:50:48

Credits



References


  1. Huey, Steve. "Type O Negative - The Origin of the Feces". AllMusic. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
  2. "Type O Negative - The Origin of the Feces". Q: 128. April 2001.
  3. "The Greatest Album Covers in Roadrunner History. #1 - Type O Negative Bloody Kisses". Roadrunner Records. YouTube. March 25, 2010. Archived from the original on July 30, 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2016.

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The Origin of the Feces (с англ. — «Происхождение фекалий») — второй студийный альбом американской готик-дум-метал-группы Type O Negative, выпущенный в 1992 году на лейбле Roadrunner Records.



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