Song Saturday: Type O Negative's Summer Girl {Banned Version Of Seals & Crofts' Summer Breeze}

 


How's it going my gumdrops? In case you missed the blog I published on Thursday, I explained about my 4-month disappearance from blogging. In case you missed Thursday's blog, here it is once again at the following:

 

OMG, Anna! Where Have You Been?!

Aside from the previous blog, it has been a while, since I last published a Song Saturday blog featuring Type O Negative. Normally, there is an image of the late Peter Steele in them. 

The fact that this Goth/Doom Metal band was forced to disband, after their frontman died in April 2010 remains to be a tragedy. You could say their disbanding was for the best. Years later, Peter was and still is irreplaceable. 

Rather than always trying to replace lead singers (especially when they are dead), I generally feel that disbanding is for the best. There are still other bands, that continuously release new albums with replacement vocalists. 

What's the point? Why ruin the legacies of their vocalists by replacing them with other vocalists, that have those proverbial big shoes to fill? 

It is pointless, especially when it is not a veteran co-vocalist. Those bands already had their reign in music, years ago. This includes Type O Negative.

Even though Type O Negative tends to be a Goth/Doom Metal band, that somewhat became mainstream, their cult following still remains. 

Speaking of co-vocalists, above is a picture of  Type O Negative's former guitarist/co-lead vocalist, Kenny Hickey. He always seemed to be the least mentioned in Metal news, or at least it always seemed that way to me. (Although, I could be wrong). 

When it came to this Goth/Doom Metal band, I always felt that Johnny Kelly and without a doubt, Peter Steele overshadowed Hickey. However, Steele did mention him in Type O Negative's cover of Seals and Crofts' "Summer Breeze." 

There are 2 different versions of "Summer Breeze, that "Type O Negative released for their 1993 album, Bloody Kisses. There is "Summer Breeze." Then, there is "Summer Girl." 

On "Summer Girl," Peter mentioned his co-vocalist, Kenny Hickey in the lyrics. Originally, "Summer Girl' was going to be featured as Type O Negative's cover. Because Seals & Crofts found Steele's lyrical changes of the cover to be "distasteful," a normal version was released on Bloody Kisses. After hearing the following verse:

"Kenny Hickey lying on the sidewalk
Devil music from the house next door
So I step on over his vomit
Through the screen and across the floor"

I can understand why Seals & Crofts found Type O Negative's original version of their cover to be distasteful. In today's era, people in cyber space would view the above verse from "Summer Girl" as "trolling." 

If you are interested in the previous Song Saturday blogs I published featuring Type O Negative, you are more than welcome to click on the following links from my website, It's Not All Gumdrops & Unicorns.

 

Song Saturday: Type O Negative Block

Song Saturday: Type O Negative On Halloween

Early Song Saturday: Type O Negative Tribute

 
In the meantime, here is Type O Negative's banned cover of Seals & Crofts' "Summer Breeze" a.k.a. "Summer Girl" for today's Song Saturday.

Type O Negative "Summer Girl" {Banned Cover Of Seals & Crofts' "Summer Breeze"} Bloody Kisses (1993)

 

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Song Saturday: The Cranberries Tribute

How's it going my gumdrops? How are you liking the latest background? At the moment, we are green for Saint Patrick's Day and the spring. With my extremely hectic schedule this year both on and offline, I have not been publishing and sharing as many Song Saturday and Cartoon Sunday blogs. 

On It's Not All Gumdrops & Unicorns ~ 2 months ago, I already mentioned, that I would be blogging less. 

Lately, funerals, doctor, and dental appointments keep throwing monkey wrenches into my plans. Also, technology keeps working against me every time I want to edit and revise my stories. 2018 is a year that I would love to see my goals and accomplishments come to fruition.  

Hopefully this month, I will be able to start revising at least some of my short stories; I want to start revising some of my short stories, which have been backburned for the last 5 years or so. 

Speaking of Song Saturday blogs and funerals, today's Song Saturday blog is somewhat overdue. Whether it is a celebrity, family member, or friend, it always sucks to start the year with a demise. Judging from what I can see, 2018 hasn't been as terrible as 2016 and 2017 in that regard. 

On January 15, 2018, I was shocked by the sudden death of Dolores O'Riordan. Dolores O'Riordan was originally the lead singer of the Irish Alternative/Celtic Rock band, The Cranberries. 

After learning about her death on the local news 2 months ago, I could not help feeling sadness. I guess you could say The Cranberries were another band, that was a part of my youth during the 1990's. 

Over the last several days, I noticed that MTV Classic has been airing The Cranberries' music video, "Linger." When it comes to their song, "Linger," it brings back childhood memories. (Or should I be saying, "pre-teen nostalgia"?)

The Cranberries debuted with "Linger," in 1993. At the time, I was only 11 years old and instantly took a liking to the song. I liked "Linger" so much, that I recorded it on tape. 

Gen Xers will know what I'm talking about. Younger Millennials and Generation Z have no idea what it's like to buy vinyl records, CD's, and audio cassettes (also known as tapes). At the time, I did not always have enough money in my allowance to buy albums. This led to me recording songs from radio stations to blank tapes. 

Before going on a family road trip to Michigan in 1993, The Cranberries' "Linger" was 1 of the many songs I just HAD to record before our trip. 

Growing up, it was a necessity to have my own music for road trips playing in a Sony Walkman. I didn't always want to listen to the music, that was on every radio station, while we traveled. 

Sometimes while traveling and if "Linger" happened to be playing on a radio station, I got excited and yelled at my mother to turn up the radio. "Linger" was such a soothing song. Now that Dolores O'Riordan is dead, I cannot help feeling a little depressed. 

A major disadvantage to getting older is hearing about some of your favorite icons dying. Throughout late 2015 to 2017, learning about so many music icons dropping dead ALMOST everyday was upsetting. Their deaths became a constant reminder of the end of certain music eras, genres, sub-genres, and most importantly, those icons' lives. 

We as fans can only hold onto our nostalgia. Even that can be depressing. For the last 1 1/2 -2 years, you have no idea the many times I have watched MTV Classic and have felt a little pain watching so many DEAD music icons' videos back to back in blocks. It's a constant reminder of how much time has gone passed and, that I am getting older. 

The autopsy report for Dolores O'Riordan will not be released, until sometime next month. 

Since this blog is mostly in tribute to the late Dolores O'Riordan, here are 3 of my favorite songs by The Cranberries for today's Song Saturday.


1) The Cranberries "Linger" Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1993) 

2) The Cranberries "Ode To My Family" No Need To Argue (1994)

 3) The Cranberries "When You're Gone" To The Faithful Departed (1996)

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