Both as a standalone and as part of the DSOTS album, you can take this lyric as read. As a matter of public record, Jourgensen's drug intake was legendary even in the 1980s. By the late 90s, in his own words, he was grappling with massive addiction issues and had lost almost everything: friends, spouse, money and had nearly died more than once. "Dark Side of the Spoon" is a both funny & sad title for an album made by a musical genius who was losing the plot; and this song is a message to his fans & friends saying he knows it. It's painful to listen to so I'm glad the "Keith Richards of industrial metals" wised up and cleaned up. Well done sir.
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a very good track with beats and sounds i can feel inside ...
Mr. Hahn is awesome, he does it again. This song is also on "The Matrix: Reloaded" soundtrack as well
Amazing mix. Easily one of my favorite tracks on the album. Also a nice lead-in to Numb.
For all that Mr. Hahn does for this band, I don't he gets anywhere near the credit he deserves. He is unbelievably gifted, to say the least.
Even after listenng to this song a number of times I am still blown away at the talent of Joe Hahn. His skills are truly amazing. Once again, I would like to comment on the piano. It's not too overpowering, but if you don't listen carefully you can't hear it, and that's what makes it sound so good. It's just there. Tough call between Session and Cure for the Itch. But Hahn cleary struts his stuff in Session.
The distorted fading Voice at the end reminds me strinkingly of the Voice of Shodan at the end of the (very athmospheric) Computer Game System Shock from 1992. And, yes, the song is truly great.
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look at "skeetstan"'s time of messages---he's been doing that for ten minutes! get a life.... p.s linkin park rocks
Props to the dude who spammed the LP page :D
Isn't that harmonics, not pianoing? Anyways I just love this song, it so fits my style.
wild song... it fits in a lot of places. i've always imagined it playing to a scene on some sort of alien planet... super cool vibes. go mr. Hahn!