- "The
whole thing, I think, is sick"
comes from a Charles Manson documentary. Those of
you that think that # 8 sounds like a woman need
to clean out your ears.
- To
end this once and for all: It's "Here
comes the pain", and it's from the
Al Pacino movie, Carlito's Way (We really
DID know it was Al Pacino. We did).
- The
title for the song (sic) has
nothing to do with Edgar Allen Poe. It's not an acronym either,
people.
(sic) is a literary term (the Latin word for
"thus"), used after a line of text to
explain that the original author really did make
the mistake as shown.
Since the song (sic) evolved
from the song called "Slipknot" (the
first track off their first album, Mate. Feed.
Kill. Repeat.). It's basically the same song;
but not. They were just going to keep
calling it "Slipknot".
- In Eyeless,
the lyric "you can't see California without
Marlon Brando's eyes" comes from Slipknot's
first visit to New York to close the Roadrunner
deal. Six and Eight passed a homeless man on the
street and he was saying "you can't see
California without Marlon Brando's eyes"
over and over again.
- Submitted
by pitt55@webtv.net:
"at the beginning of the song EYEL
ESS there is a sample from an older
tecno\trance song that i have on a tape i am not
sure of the artist but the sample says 'Ease
your subconscious'."
- Submitted
by Nigel:
"I found this in a interview with paul,
it puts a little meaning to "Surfacing"
so u can stick it in meaning if u want
NYROCK:
The inner sleeve of your CD jacket reads, "Fuck
it all. Fuck this world. Fuck everything that you
stand for. Don't belong. Don't exist. Don't give
a shit. Don't ever judge me." Can you
elaborate?
PAUL:
That's the lyrics to our song "Surfacing."
That's the chorus to the song. Basically, we
dedicate it to the kids as their new national
anthem. It's our way of saying don't worry about
everybody else. Just worry about yourself. Don't
worry about the people judging and the people
coming down on you and all the fake crap. Stick
to what you believe in. You'd have to get Corey
to get his full meaning since he writes all the
lyrics.... A lot of the stuff we like to leave it
for people to decide anyway. "
- "Spit It Out" was
written in retaliation to childish mud-slinging
by a handful of individuals who worked at a local
radio station in Des Moines, Iowa. These
individuals worked hard to keep Slipknot off the
air.
The song was broadcast in fragments on Mancow's
Morning Madhouse after the station threatened to
pull Mancow's show from their station. It was
also right after Slipknot were pulled from a slot
on a live concert in Chicago hosted by Mancow;
thanks to same said individuals at aforementioned
radio station.
A year later, "Spit It Out" is now in
the rotation of the radio station's playlist.
- Taken
from Hookidup
Zine:
What is the song "Prosthetics" about?
Corey: The song's
based loosely on a 1960's movie called the
collector- it is about a guy who kidnaps this
girl and basically adds her to his collection and
keeps her there -it's a weird kind of
psychological thing, and prosthetics takes it a
little bit further -where he is put into a deep
sick psychosis and he goes through the whole
collecting thing, at the end of the song he ends
up killing her and having sex with her.
- Submitted
by NiHiL:
In "Diluted",
right before the "gimme one reason..."
part, there is a sample of man talking played
twice, very quickly. He's saying "I don't
have time for the living". This sample is
from the movie Cemetary Man (great
movie,BTW).
- Taken
from Hookidup
Zine:
What is going on in the songs, "Scissors"/"Eeyore"?
Shawn: Joey
wrote the lyrics to the song "Scissors". [Eeyore
is] the hidden track- Slipknot was based on the
theory that we would never give up any style of
music that we loved to play -for anyone- that we
would gel things together under the name slipknot-
it goes from all styles from beginning to end
Corey: "Eeyore" is
just about this one fucking guy from Des Moines,
Iowa - he has long blonde fucking hair and he is
a prick to people in the fucking pit he's a Thor
looking jerkoff- he loves our band but he's a
dick to everyone in the pit -he likes to hit
fucking chicks-the song is about me losing my
mind and just tearing the shit out of him
- Taken
from Hookidup
Zine:
What is up with "Purity"?
Shawn: It's like
this- whether it's real or not, it affected Corey
very much, the thought of it- so it was able to
influence him- the song is not directly one
hundred percent about it
Corey: I still
think its real -see the thing whether it's true
or not, it's a real story- that we read about -that
fucked our whole world up -can you imagine a girl
being buried in a box and having all this
lecherous bullshit drip down on her from this guy?
and thinking that there is hope, because this kid
is taking some bizarre note to this guy he doesn't
even know- thinking that you are holding on to
the shirt of hope -and you wake up and you're
dead you're buried in mud -they find the note
about a week later shoved in a library book for
gods sakes -it just hurts your head- it's a case
of what is good and bad in people- the box alone
is reason enough to be like, 'I cant stand to be
fucking human'- how can someone fucking do this
to somebody? What is inside of us that is so
fucking wrong? he had written quotes from Edgar
Allen Poe and lots of fucked up things on the box
- The
"extra" lyrics at the end of Scissors are improv!
Not even # 8 himself could tell you what they are
without listening to the song again.
- The
song "Snap" was
recorded at Junior's Motel in Otho, Iowa.
It was never meant to be released, but yes, you
can find it. The band does not support people
distributing the song, they are not happy, but
they know there is not a lot they can do about it.
The song will more than likely get a major rehaul
and show up on Slipknot's next album. Please click here for an
audio file of Slipknot's view on unauthorised
distribution of their art. (MP3
in a zipped file, 837K)
If there are any of you out there that think that
the song was legimitately released on a "five-song
sampler" somewhere, you are dead fucking wrong.
THAT CD WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE RELEASED. Someone
at Junior's had burned off an extra master
of it, and ended up getting it STOLEN. If
you see ANYONE with what appears to be an
original copy of this "sampler"; MUG
THEM for it and send it postal mail to Slipknot.
- The
"Latin" at the end of "Me
Inside" is just plain ol' everyday
Spanish... blatantly misspelled. It is a shout
out to a friend of the band, who speaks Spanish.
Some of the regulars to this site may have
noticed that we have had it posted with the corrected
lyrics from the very beginning.
The spelling on the inside
cover reads: "Somos
feos y pestamos y pero renomas hoto muthafucka".
The lyric should actually read: "Somos
feos y apestamos pero reinamos joto muthafucka"
Loosely translated, it means: "We're
ugly and we stink, but we rule, faggot muthafucka!"
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