Music / Bloody Kisses

"I went looking for trouble, and boy, I found her..."

Bloody Kisses is the second album of original material by Type O Negative, released on August 17, 1993, by Roadrunner Records. This album solidified recurring motifs in the band's music, such as the use of soundscape interludes, dark humor, cover songs recorded in the band's Darker and Edgier style, and a more gothic feel compared to the Early-Installment Weirdness of debut album Slow, Deep and Hard.

This is the last Type O Negative album to feature original drummer Sal Abruscato, who was replaced by Johnny Kelly for the rest of the band's tenure. It is also the first Roadrunner album to go gold, though Slipknot beat it to platinum with the longform video Welcome to Our Neighborhood and their self-titled debut album.

Tracklist:

1. "Machine Screw" (0:41)
2. "Christian Woman" (8:58)
3. "Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)" (11:15)
4. "Fay Wray Come Out and Play" (1:03)
5. "Kill All the White People" (3:24)
6. "Summer Breeze" (Seals and Crofts cover) (4:49)
7. "Set Me On Fire" (3:24)
8. "Dark Side of the Womb" (0:28)
9. "We Hate Everyone" (6:51)
10. "Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)" (10:56)
11. "3.0.I.F." (2:06)
12. "Too Late: Frozen" (7:50)
13. "Blood and Fire" (5:32)
14. "Can't Lose You" (6:06)

Principal members:

• Peter Steele - Lead vocals, bass
• Kenny Hickey - Guitar, backing and lead vocals
• Josh Silver - Keyboards, backing vocals
• Sal Abruscato - Drums

Troping you was like troping the dead:

• Album Intro Track: "Machine Screw" is sometimes referred to as "Machine Screw (Intro)"
• Alternate Album Cover: The digipak version has the two women on the standard cover kissing.
• Anti-Love Song: "Black No. 1" is a Black Comedy song about a man getting into a relationship with a beautiful Goth girl who turns out to be a Narcissist concerned with her looks as much as she "likes the dark". The man (Steele) compares loving that girl to "loving the dead", showing how exhausting it is to be with her.
• Biting-the-Hand Humor: Combined with a The Beatles Shout-Out in "Can't Lose You" - The ending of the song includes a deliberately hard-to-understand chant that sounds similar to one heard near the end of "I Am The Walrus", which turns out to be "Everybody smokes pot / Monte Conner sucks cock". "Everybody smokes pot" is a common mondegreen for that section of "I Am The Walrus" (it's officially "everybody, up, up"), while Monte Conner was the vice president of Roadrunner Records while Type O Negative were on the label.
• Black Comedy:
  • "Christian Woman" is a blasphemous piece about a woman is sexually attracted to the image of Jesus and wants to engage in BDSM with Him.
  • "Kill All the White People" and "We Hate Everyone" are satirical responses to accusations of the band being misogynists and Nazi sympathizers as a result of Peter's dark sense of humor being present throughout their debut album.
• Bowdlerise: The "But-Kissing Sellout" version of "Christian Woman", which was used in the video, changes some lyrics, most notably from "and between her thighs" to "she knows she must hide".
• Cerebus Rollercoaster: There is both dark humor ("Christian Woman", "Black No. 1") and grim seriousness (the title track, "Too Late: Frozen") throughout the album.
• Commie Nazis: Mocked in "We Hate Everyone" in response to accusations made against the band.
  "Right-wing commies
  Leftist Nazis"
• Cover Version: "Summer Breeze" was originally by Seals and Crofts.
• Epic Rocking: Nearly half the tracks are longer the six minutes, most notably "Black No. 1" (11:15) and the title track (10:56).
• Franchise Codifier: This album solidifies Type O Negative's Goth/Doom style, following the thrash-influenced Early-Installment Weirdness of Slow, Deep and Hard and the fake live album The Origin of the Feces, and establishes or codifies many tropes appearing on subsequent albums, such as the use of the Album Intro Track, soundscape interludes, Darker and Edgier cover songs, Peter Steele's dark sense of humor, occasional vocals from guitarist Kenny Hickey, and many songs having No Ending.
• God-Is-Love Songs: Parodied by "Christian Woman", by bringing out the mentioned-on-the-trope-page problematic aspects into the open: The song is about a woman harbouring Perverse Sexual Lust for Jesus.
• Goth: "Black No. 1" makes fun of an ex-girlfriend of Peter's who was a goth.
  "Ya wanna go out cuz it's rainin' and blowin'
  Ya can't go out cuz your roots are showing
  So dye 'em black! So dye 'em black!
  Black, black, black, black number one!"
• Grief Song: "Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)", inspired by the death of Peter's cat.
• Halloween Songs: "Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)"
  "Happy Halloween, baby!"
• Malcolm Xerox: "Kill All the White People", which invokes "By any means necessary" at the end.
• Narcissist: The girlfriend in "Black No. 1" is "in love with herself".
• Limited Lyrics Song: Quite a few:
  • The second and third sections of "Christian Woman" are repetitions of "She wants to know God, to love God, feel her God inside of her, deep inside of her" and "Jesus Christ looks like me, Jesus Christ", respectively.
  • The printed lyrics of "Kill All The White People" are just "Kill all the white people, then we be free".
  • "Set Me On Fire" is basically just repetitions of "Summer girl / set me on fire".
  • "Can't Lose You" is pretty much "I can't lose you" repeated multiple times.
• Longest Song Goes Last: Not on the standard version, but the digipak version, which rearranges the track list and moves "Black No. 1" to the end.
• Looks Like Jesus: A more blasphemous variant appears in "Christian Woman"
  "Jesus Christ looks like me, Jesus Christ."
• Lyrical Dissonance: The cover of "Summer Breeze" by Seals and Crofts is a happy song made gloomy without changing the lyrics. The band originally recorded a parody called "Summer Girl", but the duo wouldn't let them use it on the album.
• Miniscule Rocking: The intro/interludes, naturally, though "3.0.I.F." goes a little bit past the two-minute mark.
• Obligatory Bondage Song: The titular "Christian Woman" wants to engage in BDSM with Christ Himself.
  "No forgiveness for her sins. Prefers punishment."
• Self-Deprecation: The message on the back cover.
  "Don't mistake lack of talent for genius."
• Siamese Twin Songs: The end of "Summer Breeze" bleeds into the beginning of "Set Me On Fire".
• Step Up to the Microphone: Kenny Hickey has a co-lead vocal on "Black No. 1" and "We Hate Everyone".
• Title Track "Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)"

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