
Like, just beer as an intoxicant because that one time he caught us drinking in the laundry room and he made us pour out our whole six-pack of Bartles and Jaymes. But still maybe just don’t mention this to him at all.Īnyway, next week we’re gonna review beer.

He can never know that he was sorta right about this. And dad had no problem with those records because of the “funny nerd drawing” on the cover.Īnd yeah it’s been kind of a bummer about the record but don’t tell our dad that. Type O Negative were an American gothic metal band formed in Brooklyn, New York City in 1989 4 5 by Peter Steele (bass, lead vocals), Kenny Hickey (guitar, co-lead vocals), Josh Silver (keyboards, backing vocals), and Sal Abruscato (drums, percussion), who was later replaced by Johnny Kelly. A handful of songs with moderate distortion about shitty ex-girlfriends and wanting to kill yourself – subject wise they’re basically eight-minute-long versions of Descendents songs. I mean, if we’re being honest, this record isn’t even that heavy. Open your mind, pops! You don’t understand the young people. He’d just look at the sleeve at tracks like “I Know You’re Fucking Someone Else” or “Kill You Tonight” and just dismiss the whole fucking thing outta hand. We had the same argument with the old buzzkill about “Frankenchrist” as well – so look forward to that review later on as well. He never let us listen to anything cool, especially if the record had a picture of a butthole on the front of it, so that meant “Origin of Feces” was not an option. 2003's Life Is Killing Me was polarizing for many fans, with its poppier songs and less dark sound, but its seventh track, 'Anesthesia,' has all the touchstones of Type O's classic, doomy sound and morbid vision as Steele's rhapsodizes an emotionally numb existence in that immortal croon. But hey, our old man sure was a huge lamewad.

This week we decided to review Type O Negative’s “The Origin of Feces” because our dad wouldn’t let us listen to it when we were growing up.

Each week The Hard Times reflects on a classic album from rock history.
