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Rob Zombie
Past, Present & Future

I presume it'd be worthless to write a preface on Rob Zombie, merely because any person must be sentient of his works (both in the film or in the music business). And even more useless would be to give it a try and pigeonhole his bleak, murky, spooky and theatrical micro-cosmos on both areas aforementioned.

This 2-disc compilation features not only musical, but also video contents (this last sector's wholly presented on DVD format) from all his earlier and current projects; in other words, songs and video-clips from his times as vocalist in White Zombie and in his self-titled solo assignment. As a particular extra, the first disc (with simply musical hits, as you might say) features 5 special appearances: one from Alice Cooper on Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn), Howard Stern on The Great American Nightmare, Iggy Pop on Black Sunshine and ultimately Lionel Ritchie and Trina on Brickhouse 2003 (a cover version from the original Brickhouse track integrated in Rob's House of 1000 Corpses film debut). And speaking on the subject of covers, this isn't the only one here, as he also did his own adaptation of KC & The Sunshine Band's I'm Your Boogie Man" (a particular choice of mine), and The Ramones' Blitzkrieg Pop. There's another goodie worth to be mentioned, in the huge Feed the Gods track, firstly written for the Airheads motion picture and its consequent soundtrack. Apart from this dosage of exciting freakiness, there are a couple of new songs as well under the name of Two-Lane Blacktop and Girl on Fire", presenting a supplementary electronic and peppy tonality that might stand for what Zombie's will do in his upcoming studio endeavour.
Now in relation to the second disc, or to say the DVD video toy chest, we're presented with 10 moments of humour, oddness and over-the-top awkwardness, being 3 of them formerly unreleased (yet, I'm quite upset for the omission of one other video, but I deduce that had to do with copyright motives only). Both the image and sound value are fantastic (mainly on the older ones) and you won't be capable of noticing any symptom of weariness or tedium all over the disc's display, since Rob laid all the cards on the table for this ride (even if he could have included a singular mini-interview, or rare recording of some sort).
Alice Cooper once described Rob's live rituals as "seeing every drop of ink coming to life in a tattoo parlour" (a linear note that comes within the disc's booklet) and with buddies like him and statements alike, it must be tough not having a gifted career at this moment and in a medium, long-term prospect. Nonetheless, I'm afraid his solo quest hasn't yet beaten a work of art as his second and final album for White Zombie (Astrocreep 2000: Songs of Love, Destruction and other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head... and no, it's not for the reason that Sean Yseult is there... just).

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