Mussolini Headkick – Themes For Violent Retribution
Label:
World Domination Recordings – WD 6661,
Antler-Subway – WD 6661
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Vinyl, LP, Album, 33 ⅓ RPM
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Tracklist Hide Credits
| A1 |
Your God Is Dead
Written-By – Butcher* |
3:53 | ||
| A2 |
Europe
Written-By – Butcher* |
4:20 | ||
| A3 |
Space To Breath
Written-By – Butcher* |
4:22 | ||
| A4 |
Forgotten
Written-By – Butcher* |
4:22 | ||
| B1 |
Jesus Collects
Written-By – Tyler*, Butcher* |
3:47 | ||
| B2 |
Plain Unhappy
Written-By – God (5) |
3:44 | ||
| B3 |
The Eagle Has Landed
Written-By – God (5), Butcher* |
4:29 | ||
| B4 |
Death Path
Written-By – God (5) |
3:05 |
Companies etc
- Published By – BE'S Songs
- Recorded At – ZAS Studios Belgium
Credits
- Bass, Backing Vocals – Ant Tyler
- Bass, Percussion, Sampler – Banzai (2)
- Guitar, Violin, Keyboards, Tape – God (5)
- Photography – John Heartfield
- Producer – Luc Van Acker
- Recorded By, Mixed By – J-P Everaerts*
- Vocals, Keyboards, Drum Programming – John Butcher (2)
Notes
This release includes an insert with the songs lyrics and an explanation of their anti-nazi political views.
Made in Belgium
(P) BE'S Songs 1989
Other Versions (Showing 5 of 6) View All
| Title, Format | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Themes For Violent Retribution (LP, TP) | Wax Trax! Records | WAX 7098 | US | 1989 | ||
| Themes For Violent Retribution (LP) | Wax Trax! Records | WAX 7098 | US | 1989 | ||
| Themes For Violent Retribution (LP, Album, TP) | Antler-Subway | WD 6661 | Belgium | 1989 | ||
| Themes For Violent Retribution (CD, Album) | World Domination Recordings | WD 6661-CD | Belgium | 1989 | ||
| Themes For Violent Retribution (CD, Album) | Wax Trax! Records | WAXCD 7098 | US | 1989 |
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[r75732]
"The Eagle Has Landed" refers to a certain eagle that is imposing its rule on the entire world (no, not that other eagle 60 years ago). "Hey Europe" is one of the few political songs talking directly to Europe as a whole that I know ("Hey Europe, are you ready for this?"). Probably the best track is "Forgotten", a freezing and desperate song about an old actress who lives her last, sad days in the poverty and cold of a motel in Berlin.
I also appreciate very much "Your God Is Dead", which in the chorus immediately calls to mind Nine Inch Nails' "Heresy" and "Wish", as there is more than one similarity between these songs... were it not that "Themes For Violent Retribution" was released in 1989...
The cover sports a painting by John Heartfield, famous anti-nazi artist who realized a lot of propaganda art pieces against Hitler and the III Reich. Of course, much like with Laibach's "Opus Dei" (that used another of his paintings), nobody understood a fuck about it and the record had to be released inside a white censorship bag with a sticker claiming that this was no fascist music...
Let me quote the chorus from "Your God Is Dead", and let words speak for themselves:
"You nailed him up now you tear him down
Your head held high your heart so proud
Too blind to see the evil in you
Once a week you flock like fools
YOUR GOD IS DEAD"