WTF?

Okay as bizarre as this is going to sound, imagine one night Mark E Smith (of The Fall) is out at the club. You know, he’s raising the roof and he bumps into none other than Lil’ John. They talk and decide they have a lot in common, and they hit it off. They go back to Lil’s studio, make mad passionate crunk love and Requiem for Rebirth is what pops out nine months later. 

This is original, and it is original in the same way Beck achieves originality by taking styles no one would ever think of combining and putting them together. Does it work here? For shear novelties sake I am going to say it does. It’s the kind of thing you link to your friends, specifically if they are fans of The Fall and say, “listen to this absurdity.”I will download this and keep it on my shuffle just so it will come up and make me smile. I am not sure if the aim here is to try and be funny or not but this song most definitely is funny. 

I would love to hear the actual thought process behind this song and find out exactly what Snow Ghost was trying to accomplish here. I cannot really understand what is being said, which kind of adds to the mouth droppedness of the whole thing.  What is a requiem for rebirth you may ask? Well it might be “a bloody thirsty musical holocaust satanic revival of the uptight”, which is cool I guess. I mean it’s probably about time for a bloody satanic musical holocaust. My weekend is wide-open Mr. The Snow Ghost. Hit me up.

---Jimmy O

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Snow Ghost - Requiem for Rebirth (mp3) 

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