But what Steele didn't realize was that he would need the songwriter and publisher's permission before he could release his tweaked version. "Peter changed some of the lyrics of 'Summer Breeze' because he felt he needed to add some humor and Type O references," explains Monte Conner, former VP of A&R at Roadrunner and current President of Nuclear Blast. "See her smile lead me to the bedroom/Fire burning and there's wine for two/Feel your legs spreading out to take me/Just can't wait to get inside of you" went Type O's version, which they dubbed "Summer Girl." Steele loved Sixties and Seventies pop songs, including Seal and Crofts' soft-rock hit "Summer Breeze." He brought it into rehearsal one day, and while popping pills, the band jammed on the tune and the singer played around with the lyrics, reworking them in a typically salacious new direction. Type O Negative originally recorded their cover of "Summer Breeze" with rewritten lyrics and a new title, " Summer Girl," but were barred from releasing it by the songwriters She used to sit on my chest while I was doing bench presses."ĥ. "I have a huge problem with abandonment and loss, so I took it very seriously. "No one wants to hear a guy who's six-foot-eight with long black hair and fangs crying about his fuckin' cat, so I had to make it extremely metaphorical," the singer-bassist said of the song. Named Venus, the feline had been Steele's beloved pet for 17 or 18 years before she passed away, whereupon he buried her in his backyard.
In true, irreverent Type O form, Bloody Kisses' majestic, mournful title track was about a cat. "Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)" is about Pete Steele's cat Video of Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (Live at Stockholm 1994)Ĥ.
So, I guess you could say I have a bit of a priest infection." She would ask me to dress up as a priest and, well, I guess you can just imagine what would happen after that. "But she would get off on breaking the rules a little bit. "She was a Roman Catholic, much as I am," Steele recalled of the Christian woman who inspired the song. Musically, it owed its infectious hooks to Eighties New Wave - "I always like to refer to Type O Negative as 'Flock of Assholes,'" Steele joked, "but we have somewhat better haircuts" - but its lyrics had anything but a radio-friendly origin. 1," "Christian Woman" - Bloody Kisses' first proper song - was one of the album's breakthrough hits, played nationwide on rock radio in a four-and-a-half-minute edited version. The real-life "Christian Woman" would ask Pete Steele to dress as a priest before he "incorporated" with herĪlong with "Black No. 'Nothing but love songs' - that's been our slogan forever. "Obviously Peter has had some troubled ones. "Type O has obviously spent a lot of time, regardless of what album it is, mourning relationships," he added. "And I mean that in every possible sense of the word." Type O set the dark, sexual tone for Bloody Kisses with an unnerving ambient introductory first track complete with the sounds of a woman in the throes of orgasm, titled "Machine Screw." "But I didn't actually screw her she screwed me," Silver recalled to Bennett of the woman, an ex of his, whose moans are heard. The girl moaning on "Machine Screw" was Josh Silver's ex-girlfriend I guess being sarcastic has its rewards."Ģ. "But the people who get the sarcasm also like it. "The brilliant part is that goth kids still take it totally seriously," Type O keyboardist Josh Silver enthused over the song's enduring popularity. 1" became a massive hit with many of those same goths. Of course, the ultimate irony of the song is that even though its lyrics lampoon the pretentious, narcissistic attitude of many goths, "Black No. I actually lost the original lyrics to that song, so I had to rewrite them." She was the ultimate goth girl, and I was poking fun at her because she was in love with herself. "And it's about the girl I fucking slashed my wrists over. Bennett in 2008, for the liner notes of the "Top Shelf Edition" reissue of Bloody Kisses.
I'm not kidding you," Steele told Revolver contributor J. "I was waiting in line for three hours to dump 40 cubic yards of human waste at the Hamilton Avenue Marine Transfer Station, and I wrote the song in my head. The fact that Pete Steele was employed by the NYC Parks Department before making it big is a well-known piece of heavy-metal lore that he wrote his most popular song while doing particularly dirty work at that day job is less celebrated.
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