Rob Halford & Pantera - Light Comes Out of Black
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Speaking of Vinnie Paul, Pantera collaborated with Judas Priest's Rob Halford on a song for the soundtrack of 1992's Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. Now, all I know about Buffy is that she fucks up Google searches for the band Slayer (solution: type in "-buffy"). I've watched but half an episode of the TV show, which is evidently hardly related to the movie. But seeing as how the cast includes a young Hilary Swank, a pre-Punisher Tom Jane, Rutger Hauer, and Paul Reubens aka Pee-wee Herman, I just might have to rent it sometime.
Rob Halford & Pantera - Light Comes Out of BlackHowever, it would not be for the soundtrack. Stay far, far away. Any album with Toad the Wet Sprocket is DOA. I could give a toss about Susanna Hoffs and The Divinyls (not playing their one song). The C+C Music Factory song is bad, even for C+C Music Factory. Mary's Danish turn in a downright insulting cover of "I Fought the Law." The Cult and Matthew Sweet phone it in, though cult Canadian rappers Dream Warriors make a respectable, if completely unexpected, appearance. If you're curious what Ozzy Osbourne would sound like with Van Halen for a backing band, look no further.
The one bright spot is appropriately titled "Light Comes Out of Black." My two favorite sounds in the world are a woman's orgasm and a cat's purr. (An ex pointed out that they have the same name.) #3 is probably Rob Halford's voice. This song really isn't that special; it's just Pantera doing straightforward metal. But when Halford's voice comes in, I know everything will be all right. The guy could sing about mowing the lawn, and it would still sound epic.
In fact, he probably is singing about mowing the lawn. The lyrics seemingly string together random fortune cookies: "Light comes out of black / Stand and face the fear / Give him eye to eye / Walk the walk right here." If Halford's lyrics made sense, I wouldn't like him half as much. No other singer has a higher awesomeness of voice to awfulness of lyrics ratio. Well, Phil Anselmo comes close - and he conveniently shows up here to sing backups. The Halford + Pantera concept would turn into an actual band called Fight, but in 1992, it was merely background music for Kristy Swanson.
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7 Comments:
Udo Dirkschneider comes I think close in terms of awful lyrics but awe voice. Now, he has the non-native speaker thing going for him, but still. The legend goes - I don't know how true this is - that their manager wrote their lyrics for them because they didn't know good english, and since he harboured a negative sentiment over not being paid enough or somesuch, he snuck in as much homosexual innuendo as he could. I mean, come on, balls to the wall? London Leatherboys? Now either Udo and Accept though 'well.. Judas Priest do it and it seems to work!' or the manager story is bullshit Udo really needs to come out of the closet!
"I can't wait to get you
Down on the dirty floor
I know it ain't a place
But come on and close the door"
HHHKLG- wahahahahahahaha
"It would be good to do it in the nice way
But sorry I ain't got no time
I know you would like some light
But sorry here is no lamp"
Seriously.
Also, being able to edit your own comments would be nice.
I remember the movie. I don't remember this song but it had me laughing out loud more than once.
don't forget you get a young ben affleck as one of the basketball players along with the dude from dazed and confused. a lot of fun moments in the movie to say the least. and of course stephen root as the principal....jimmy james
That Accept story is not true. Their manager (who did, indeed, write a lot of the lyrics) was a woman, the girlfriend of a bandmember.
Jesus, Dimebag Darrell was an amazing guitarist. I was going to comment something along the lines of "metal-by-numbers" until I heard the solo here. Dude probably recorded it while half-asleep on the studio couch, too.
I agree that a good chunk of Halford's appeal is the fact that the words he's singing are so undeniably awful. "Walk the walk right here"? What does that even mean?
"That Accept story is not true. Their manager (who did, indeed, write a lot of the lyrics) was a woman, the girlfriend of a bandmember."
Though I don're really have any evidence to stick up for the story more, I don't see how the gender or status of the manager changes the probability of the story. Do you think women are above insinuating men are gay for humour and insult?
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