We all joined in and I remember him going in, trying to write a simple song, because I remember getting frustrated with him. I remember we were just jamming in the rehearsal studio for hours, playing a lot of dirgey stuff, and then Peter just started playing this punk riff. “We very rarely, or never, created music around lyrics – it was always the music first. READ THIS: The 10 sexiest Type O Negative songs That’s what the lyrics are talking about, 'I don’t wanna be, I don’t wanna be me' he doesn’t wanna be Pete. I think he was getting tired of what had been going on for a decade to us. I think, also, he was getting sick over being a rockstar – going on the road, doing interviews, having to write music. He was getting sick of addictions and sick of life, hence the title, I Don’t Wanna Be Me. “At the time, Peter (Steele, vocals, bass) wasn’t really doing too well, health-wise.
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Plus the rather sad meaning behind the song title. Here, guitarist Kenny Hickey takes us through the whole journey of the song – from its lyrical content to the recording process. Four years removed from their previous full-length World Coming Down, I Don't Wanna Be Me garnered a new audience for Type O in the new millennium, and is still amongst their most-played tracks on streaming services.
It is quite a different track to the rest of the album, being a much lighter sounding song whereas the rest of the album generally dark in nature.In 2003, goth metal icons Type O Negative released I Don’t Wanna Be Me from their penultimate album, Life Is Killing Me. It apparently written at Josh Silver’s house in a short time. It was the first single to be taken from the album and is about a relationship where a female partner is shared between a man and another woman. Kicking off our top ten Type O Negative songs list is this track taken from October Rust released in 1996. When Steele died of heart failure in 2010, the band decided to split up. It ended up being their highest charting album, reaching number twenty-seven on the Billboard. They released what would end up being their final album Dead Again in 2007. After this, they left Roadrunner and signed with SPV. Their sixth album Life Is Killing Me was released in 2003. A year after this they issued a best of titled The Least Worst of Type O Negative. The next album came along two years later and was titled World Coming Down and got to thirty-nine on the Billboard. It was certified Gold and got to number forty-two on the Billboard 200. Their next album was released three years later and was titled October Rust. It was Roadrunner’s first album to be certified platinum. Their first major success came in the form of their third album Bloody Kisses released in 1993. It was titled The Origin of the Faeces and came with a sticker saying that it was “Not Live At Brighton Beach.” It contained fake live recordings of songs from the first album as well as original songs and covers of Jimi Hendrix and Black Sabbath.
After this they began making an album that was supposed to be live. Two years after their formation, they signed with Roadrunner Records and released their debut album Slow, Deep and Hard. Steele formed the band along with guitarist Kenny Hickey, keyboardist Josh Silver, drummer Sal Abruscato who was later replaced by Johnny Kelly. Over the course of their career, they recorded and released seven albums. They were formed in New York after the demise of Steele’s previous band Carnivore.
Their style was a mix of metal and gothic rock. With our top ten Type O Negative songs we are looking at the career of one of the longest running gothic metal bands who were active from 1989 until 2010 when their frontman Pete Steele died. Photo: melle, slight crop by User:Wickethewok, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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