Showing posts with label covered with ants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label covered with ants. Show all posts

Saturday, 11 January 2014

My iPod #217: Guttermouth - Cram It Up Your Ass

Um.... Okay, I know this looks bad.... let me explain.

"Cram It Up Your Ass....... really? What the fuck." That may be one of the thoughts that may have come to mind when you first saw the title. If you have come to this from my Twitter page, you may be even more confused and surprised. I couldn't put a song title like that on my feed; people wouldn't even want to click on the link otherwise.

Enough about that. "Cram It Up Your Ass" is the closer to Guttermouth's first major release "Covered with Ants" and is one of the funniest songs I have ever listened to. And one of the creepiest.

The only reason I know of this song is because all I wanted to do, when I was ten and playing Tony Hawk on the PS2, was find and listen to "I'm Destroying the World" on the computer for minutes on end. However I could never do that; I always had to listen to thirty second samples instead on random music sites. Whenever it said 'download', the link would take me to a place where I had to pay... I'm not about that life.

"Cram It Up Your Ass" is on the same album as "Destroying the World", and the title looked interesting so I decided to hear it's sample. Nothing much happened, as you can tell. Just the lead singer singing the title over a bass that was playing the vocal melody. No big deal.

That was until, years later, I found out that it turns into a proper headbanger where all the guitars play the vocal melody in unison with frenetic drums rolling around all over the place. The dynamics are a very key part of this song. The last lines "Do you still like me?" are sung when the instruments come to a sudden stop, leaving the singer all alone. That part freaks me out a bit.

It doesn't end there. After a few seconds of silence, a bloody grand piano comes in and plays the vocal melody over and over again for five minutes or so! I don't know. I cut that bit out though, that part is unnecessary.

How could I even write so much about this track.

Wednesday, 31 July 2013

My iPod #101: Guttermouth - Black Enforcers

Hi everybody.

I'm not a huge fan of Guttermouth, but it was their song in "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3" - which I'll dedicate a post to later on - that got me interested in them. Particularly the album "Covered with Ants", the album that song is on. I had good times with THPS3, burying the bully in Canada, being really excited when I managed to grind the molten bucket in Foundry, and the soundtrack is one of the best in any game ever. It's a must buy - even if it's for the PS2.

I was nine years old around the time and I really wanted to listen to that the track on my computer so I tried to search fo it in the Guide section on an old version of Windows Media Player. It wasn't there. This song was though. I liked it, it rocked. Even though it was only a minute and ten seconds long. But it just wasn't the same as "Destroying the World". The chorus didn't compare and it was probably too short for me to really get into it.

Do you know how hard it was to find songs to listen to on demand all those years ago? I didn't know what Napster or Limewire was, there was no YouTube or Spotify to go to. I had to deal with 30 second clips on random music sites, that was the closest I could listen to "Destroying the World". It was also the way I heard "Cram It Up Your Ass" for the first time, which is the funniest yet disturbingly creepiest song on the album.

Thanks to Spotify I was able to listen to "Covered with Ants" last year, and "Black Enforcers" stood out for me. It's the penultimate track on the album, and another song with a really angry sounding riff. Makes me want to punch a wall. And shout at something. You know that episode of The Simpsons when Homer joins that secret society "The Stonecutters" and he starts singing the theme song with Lenny and Carl and everyone else. Well, this is the theme song for the "Black Enforcers" where if you don't know the rules.... then you don't know the rules and the original members have 'got no pity on you'. The song absolutely rocks, the only problem I have with it is the bass. Where is the bass? It's like they completely mixed it down, you're not The White Stripes for goodness sake. I'm just saying the presence of a bass might have added an extra something.

Until tomorrow.

Jamie.