To mark the 27th anniversary of Bloody Kisses' release, we look back at the 10 sexiest songs Type O Negative ever wrote. The record undoubtedly changed the course of their entire career and cemented their legacy as the band we now think of as Type O Negative they continued on that path for the most part until Peter’s death in 2010.
As a result, Peter became an instant mainstream sex symbol, posing nude for Playgirl and going on the Jerry Springer Show to talk about groupies. The concept of a dangerous-looking Dracula type singing about love and vulnerability proved to be extremely effective, if maybe accidental: Bloody Kisses was the first Type O Negative album - and first-ever album on Roadrunner Records in general – to go platinum, and women began coming to their shows in droves. The songs were also tinged with blatant vulnerability about love, longing, and loneliness – all written and sung by frontman/bassist Peter Steele, a brutish, 6’8” man with sharpened, vampiric canines and flowing black hair. The album saw them softening up on the musical side, too, slowing down the tempo and trading in punked-up riffs for organ interludes and acoustic guitars. It wasn’t until 1993, when they released their now-iconic album Bloody Kisses, featuring two women about to kiss on the cover, when they decided to go all in with lyrics directly about sex and lust. Their first two records, Origin Of The Feces and Slow, Deep, And Hard were mostly just abrasive and heavy, with fairly angry and violent (if tongue-in-cheek) lyrics. The man that walks into he house looks like he works in an office and it shows that Type O Negative being a commercially successful band for the company is just a pathetic fantasy and that it's not going to happen, which explains the last scene where the man acts as though he can't believe what's happening and he becomes trapped.Brooklyn gothic metal band Type O Negative might be infamous for their overt themes of sex and sensuality, but that wasn’t always the case. The music video is about how the music company wants them to be something that they're not, a money making sellout. Hell, like his idol (and mine) Kurt Cobain of Nirvana who felt the need to isolate the band from the masses of fans, he feels that if fewer people listen to him then he's not out anything. He's saying that he's not doing it for the popularity. He's speaking out against the stereotype of rock bands struggling to maintain popularity and then only being heard of every now and again.
He also mentioned that they don't have true fans that stick with them over time (between albums, sounds, after one hit, etc.) and they forget about the band, and once you lose a following it's hard to get them back, which is why they've lost popularity over the years. He recieved pressure from the label to create more songs with a mainstream style after the commercial success of this song and album. On top of that, when he was interviewed by one of the members of Anthrax he mentioned how his music was being exploited by the recording label (Roadrunner?) to make money. He doesn't enjoy live shows because he's self conscious about himself when infront of people.
When you mix yellow and blue you get green, the color of the onstage attire that is attributed to them, as you can see in the music video.Įvery step forward in their Peter's career is also a step back because he hates publicity at times. The other, the side that is most often commericalized, put on the radio, and sold to the masses for profit, the side with the big record labels, airplay, touring and often "selling out" side of music.īecause they are always (ever) caught between the two a step towards one is a step away from the other, hence the throwing the stones at his home. One, you have the people who like the (realitively speaking) unpopular style of music that they do, the slow, dragging, dark music that Type O Negative is most often associated with. There are two sides (each represented by a glass house) to what's going on with the band when it comes to audiences. General Comment"I don't wanna be me anymore"
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