The Best of Type O Negative

by Type O Negative

Overview

Well-chosen with just enough missing that you'll have to travel further, Roadrunner's 2006 compilation The Best of Type O Negative represents the tongue-in-cheek (or are they??) sleaze goth metal juggernaut quite well. There's a healthy dose of their mammoth sludge side (the naughty "My Girlfriend's Girlfriend," the absolutely epic "Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity"), a taste of their biting nihilistic side (the very Sisters of Mercy "Black No. 1," the surging "Everyone I Love Is Dead"), plus a couple of the absurd covers the band is famous for. Here it's their drugged-out take on Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl" and their over the top thrash through Deep Purple's "Highway Star," but you really haven't lived until you've heard them turn Seals & Crofts' "Summer Breeze" into a crushing dirge, and since that ain't here, this ain't your one stop shop. Lead singer/Svengali Pete Steele had been in the news as this was released because he made the "what the?" announcement that he was going to join the cast of the reality program The Surreal Life, and the release is also part of a Roadrunner "best-of" series, but this isn't a hastily tossed-off compilation. The tracks are sequenced well and with the band's only other comp -- 2001's The Least Worst of Type O Negative -- heavy with remixes and alternate versions, this is the easiest entry point into their sinister and strange world. ~ David Jeffries

Product Details

Release Date:	09/26/2006
Label:	Roadrunner Records
UPC:	0016861803629
Rank:	22608

Tracks

1. Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity
2. Christian Woman
3. Black No. 1
4. Too Late: Frozen
5. Love You to Death
6. My Girlfriend's Girlfriend
7. Cinnamon Girl
8. Everyone I Love Is Dead
9. Everything Dies
10. Highway Star
11. I Don't Wanna Be Me
12. Life Is Killing Me

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Type O Negative   Primary Artist
Sal Abruscato   Drums

Technical Credits

Pete Steele   Audio Engineer,Composer
Mike Marciano   Audio Production
Josh Silver   Audio Production
Jon Lord   Composer
Ritchie Blackmore   Composer
Roger Glover   Composer
Ian Gillan   Composer
Ian Paice   Composer
Neil Young   Composer