Type O Negative - Love You To Death
Added 2025-01-31 16:00:15 +0000 UTCThis one got blocked on YouTube and lowered opactiy just sucks!
Here is the original, unedited!
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I didn’t even realize how long they had been around until I looked up their active dates. …I also felt somewhat of a poser talking to a friend who is not much younger than me who kindly judged me for not knowing who they were. To be fair…I was just a baby when this band was active, but I digress. Lol. …I’m just glad I have a band to listen to to fulfill the ears of the little goth girl hidden inside me. 🖤
NittPicc
2025-02-07 19:05:07 +0000 UTCI love it when you guys give me the history after a reaction. I had no idea that Peter had passed away until I saw comments roll in on YouTube. …my girly heart was fawning over him and the voice he had. 😅 I looked up his cause of death and it turned out he had passed of sepsis due to diverticulitis. I also saw the picture of the tree where people decorated it with memories. …when I read that the band ultimately dissolved because they felt that when Peter died, the band died with him…it just made sense. I wish I had discovered them earlier. But now I have more music to listen to as an adult who constantly dreams of being the goth girl I have hidden inside.
NittPicc
2025-02-07 19:02:47 +0000 UTCThis track was the first proper song off their 1996 3rd studio album October Rust, the release that lent most into the 'dark romantic' end of their output (the album actually opens with two joke/gag tracks before this that total less than a minute in length). The band was active under the Type O name from '91 to '10; I'd imagine the video was just uploaded to YT 15yrs ago, as lead vocalist/bassist Pete Steele unfortunately passed away suddenly in 2010, aged just 48. I got to see them live at Wacken in '07 for what was their last set of European shows before his death and he was a behemoth of a human being, making the bass look almost small in his hands. They always described their two biggest consistent influences for all four members as Black Sabbath & The Beatles (the band was nicknamed 'The Drab Four' as a pun on The Beatles 'Fab Four' moniker), taking dark serious lyrical themes sometimes being filtered through their sarcastic Brooklyn sense of humour with additional elements taken from many 80s goth & goth adjacent bands. Original British goth culture in the late 70s/early 80s was a more melodic offshoot of punk, stuff like The Cure, early The Cult, Cocteau Twins and Siouxsie and the Banshees. As a 'lapsed goth' myself, most adult European goths I've encountered over the years have actually been pretty upbeat and laid back personality-wise. The being depressed, moping & bleak thing (as opposed to just having those lyrical themes), I always found was more about teen kinder goths trying to play up to the perceived external image from pop culture, especially in the US. Keys player Josh Silver is now a full-time paramedic, whereas guitarist/secondary vocalist Kenny Hickey and drummer Johnny Kelly both now play in Silvertomb that's in a similar vein to Type O. Kelly has also been playing intermittently for a bunch of other groups including Danzig and Quiet Riot.
Andrew Hellebrand
2025-02-05 22:49:37 +0000 UTCYeah this song is actually from the mid to late 90s. Can't really remember exactly when but I know I was in high school, God I'm old lol. I actually got to see them back then at Ozzfest 97. Wasn't til I was older that I realized how funny they were with a lot of their songs. They were kinda picking fun at the scene but still making great music, their song Black No. 1 is a great example. Their songs are very beautiful but if you look at them closely they are kinda messed up and not what you think they are about. But Pete Steele was a big loss and still sad there's no more Type O.
Eloy Martinez
2025-01-31 22:06:55 +0000 UTC
