| Product Summary | | UPC: 00045778673322 | | Release Date: 9/27/2005 | | Buy.com Sku: 64005723 | | Item#: M2K7D3 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Every Day Is Halloween - Ministry ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. Desire (Come And Get It) - Gene Loves Jezebel ~ Various Artists | | | 3. With A Hip - Echo & The Bunnymen ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Lucretia My Reflection - Alkaline Trio (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 5. She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult ~ Various Artists | | | 6. She's In Parties - Bauhaus ~ Various Artists | | | 7. One Hundred Years - The Cure ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Love Like Blood - Killing Joke ~ Various Artists | | | 9. VX Gas Attack - Skinny Puppy ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Cities In Dust - Siouxsie & The Banshees ~ Various Artists | | | 11. It Could Be Sunshine - Love & Rockets ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Wretched, The - Nine Inch Nails ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Murderous - Nitzer Ebb ~ Various Artists | | | 14. She's Lost Control - Joy Division ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Don't Know How Much - Atmosphere (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Photographer: Missy Suicide. | | It's not like the Suicide Girls started a band. The indie-minded porn site lends a few of its models to this collection -- overdone photos of goth tattoo enthusiasts posing in lingerie and caressing old Skinny Puppy and Echo & the Bunnymen LPs. And their brand name is out in front on the disc, as if they were a band. But no. Black Heart Retrospective is really just a collection of songs someone might listen to while contemplating becoming a suicide girl, or maybe a stand-in for the mix tape you're supposed to pretend Suicide Girls make in their spare time. You know, the dumbly obvious -- tired tracks from Ministry ("Every Day Is Halloween"), Siouxsie and the Bansees ("Cities in Dust"), and Bauhaus ("She's in Parties") -- along with the relatively more left-field, like Puppy's "VX Gas Attack" or a Killing Joke selection. There's also unreleased material from Alkaline Trio (covering Sisters of Mercy) and Atmosphere, whose "Don't Know How Much" is pretty cool but completely out of place as the only hip-hop anywhere on the set. Sure, Suicide Girls might listen to hip-hop. But if they do, there should be more than one track representing it here. Black Heart Retrospective is similar to the hundreds of industrial pop comps that have been issued over the years, most from Cleopatra. So it does the job in that respect, giving the listener a quick primer. But if you're a fan of the groups here, you have these songs already, and if you're a Suicide Girls supporter, your web subscription will reveal photography much saucier than the cheesecake inside Black Heart. ~ Johnny Loftus | | Compiled by Skinny Puppy's Dave Ogilvie under the banner of the Suicide Girls' goth/punk pin-up site, BLACK HEART RETROSPECTIVE features his band's chaotic, sample-heavy "VX Gas Attack," along with other vintage goth tunes. Aside from the rather inexplicable inclusion of a hip-hop track by Atmosphere, the set consists of potent, gloomy rock, with some selections geared towards the dance floor (Ministry's classic "Every Day Is Halloween," Killing Joke's surging "Love Like Blood," Nitzer Ebb's hyper-aggressive "Murderous") and others best suited for bedroom brooding (the Cure's "One Hundred Years," Bauhaus's "She's in Parties"). Those seeking a bit of post-1980s goth rock will find it in the form of Alkaline Trio's spot-on cover of Sisters of Mercy's "Lucretia My Reflection" and Nine Inch Nails' industrial-strength dose of darkness, "The Wretched." |
Producer: Dave Ogilvie; Alan Moulder; Siouxsie & The Banshees; Trent Reznor; Cevin Key; Dave Ogilvie (Compilation) |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 09/27/2005 | | Original Release Date : 2005 | | Catalog ID : 86733 | | Label : Epitaph Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00045778673322 |
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