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Rating: Talking about an album that includes among its ranks a super gelled man named Mike Patton is never an easy task, especially when dealing with his thousand vocal and sonic experiments that everyone is now well aware of. But what happens when he tries to produce something that seems to have an extremely normal and simple conception? Well, what happens is yet another masterpiece emerges. Yes, because this Mit Gas is the worthy successor of the self-titled released in 2001, it's the album that acts as a glue, that aligns the aim, thus giving a more complete vision of what the four want to make us hear, which in my opinion wasn't clear in the first work. And allow me to say, it wasn't clear, but it was undoubtedly something extraordinary, something that was already perfect even if it lacked that crumb that arrived with Mit Gas. So, you're left there, amazed, mouth open listening to the genius of voices (and similar little voices) sing over an extremely alternative musical base which, however, with his voice and effects, elevates itself to become perfection, the album you play as soon as you get out of bed and listen to until you go back in, because it doesn't tire you, it doesn't seem like something you've already heard, it doesn't throw at you continuous brilliant ideas that in the long run don't provide a common thread, it’s unmistakably Patton-like, that's clear, but a Patton who seems willing to sacrifice a bit of his creativity to make room for the other three members as well, that Kevin Rutmanis whom I love so much, with his style playing as if he were almost making love to his bass, not to mention Stanier and his infamous, bastard riffs that grab you and don't let go, and then the essential Duane Denison who always knows where to hit without falling into useless parts.
Shall we talk about the individual songs now? Well, I don't think it makes sense because I see Patton’s albums as works in their indecipherable entirety, those works that when they end you say: "When the hell will I hear an album like this again?" Only when Mike decides to release another from that crazy brain of his.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Rape This Day (03:12)
You're the only one
I've ever told
That I will rape this day
Got to walk and talk
A swarm to tell
And I will hate this day
Sporting the name brands
Clothes make the man
And I will rape this day
Kids won't have their break
They didn't cup the kool-aid
I've got a fighting chance
You know you promised me the last dance
I mic her not in time
This fat 24 inch someone
Nothing but moans and blood
From my blood gives my love
You cannot eat just one
Die from annihilation
So soon it cuts off the sheets
Until you stand behind your hammer of hair
I'm gonna rape this day
Rape this day
This is the real mouth
So wait up and fly south
And I will rape this day
I'll blow it all around
I'll eat it until my eyes turn brown
And I will pinch and tear
And pull and catch you right there
I plan on jerking straight
Until I'm pretty bruised and cat scratched
I'll rail, rake on your neck
But who will cry or complain
Compared to the brain
Are you following me?
I'm gonna rape this day
03 You Can't Win (04:49)
If you want to bleed, then come along with me
We're only half breeds, but we'll be home free
So mark your territory, cause it's on
Point your barrel, Joe
We're gonna mow them down, we've got a feeling
It's living and breathing
We know how cheap our freedom is
But I'm a piss washer
Walking down the street like a speed ball,
Probably like a cat, I don't know they prowl around
But I ain't taking no more
Cause it's on
And every power of you
Slow to react, just consume
Now it's on, cause it's on
I love to piss genetic
And we all can see clear
Cause it's on, and it's on
It's on
We are the police and now we're going to start a riot
It's on
Now you see just stop, we're going to start a riot
We are the police and now we're going to start a riot
Don't know where to begin, start all over again
And it's on, yeah it's on
And if you think you're free, then you'd better believe
That it's on, and it's on
And we're beginning to think every prize is strong
Cause it's on, and it's on
And the crap and the cream, and don't fuck with me
Cause it's on, and it's on
And we aint got a proper date for you
Cause it's on, and it's on
And we can't take you over cause you're taking care
Cause it's on, and it's on
It's on
We are the police and now we're going to start a riot
Subtlety or not, we're going to start a riot
We are the police and now we're going to start a riot
Subtlety or not, we're going to start a riot
05 Rotgut (02:51)
In the scrotum of your dreams
You turn your first trick for free
Cocktails, catnip and cocaine
I doubt you'll be in the hot rain
Make a thick squeal
When you cop a feel
It rots your gut but that's not enough for you
Induce the red morning sun
I spit on the cock of passion
My heart beating in your head
I leave coke in the front bed
Sweet honeycomb and lockjaw
Sting like a bee and say aah
Two cats that hung each of our lies
Build it cause soon we're more chaste
09 Harelip (03:30)
I am the harelip
Give me one more kiss
We'll have a mardi gras on deserted streets
Fingers and forceps
Raw meat and muzak
The bubbles in the wine keep the nerves dead
I was awake all through the surgery
The people dancing, laughing, all for me
You sewed me up but it will never heal
Will I forget then learn to smile some day?
Potbellied sick bed
All scars and sweet breads
A lonely vacation on your own Disney parade
It's all that he has
Clamped up by Walkmans
A midnight waiting room
Hear the distant screams
I was awake all through the surgery
The people dancing, laughing, all for me
You sewed me up but it will never heal
Will I forget then learn to smile some day
10 Harlem Clowns (03:40)
I don't know how to read notes... (repeat)
The Cars, Herbie Hancock, Bonnie Tyler, Stevie Nicks, Men At Work, ZZ Top,
Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, Weird Al Yankovic, Cyndi Lauper, Pink Floyd,
The Pretenders, Billy Joel, Billy Idol, Elton John, Neil Young, Sheena Easton,
Patty Smyth & Scandal, Fashion, Big Country, Morris Day & The Time, John Lennon,
Apollonia 6, REO Speedwagon, David Gilmour, The Rolling Stones, Pat Benatar,
Hall & Oates, WHAM, Rebbie Jackson, Adam Ant, Bananarama
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