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The Slaughterhouse Question I just got The Slaughter house and the first track is called Silicon.
The LAST track is called Welcome To The Slaughter House and sounds almost identical to Silicon. Silicon is 4:17 and WTTSH is 4:47. Do I have a bum copy? What is the deal here? Wikipedia doesn't list WTTSH as being on the album. | |
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The Slaughterhouse tracks as downloaded from the NPG Music Club in 2004 are as follows:
01 Silicon 02 SM Groove 03 Y Should Eye Do That When Eye Can Do This 04 Golden Parachute 05 Hypnoparadise 06 Props n' Pounds 07 Northside 08 Peace 09 2045 Radical Man 10 The Daisy Chain  | |
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Prince's unsettling spoken words, "Welcome to the slaughterhouse," sets the somewhat eerie tone for "Silicon", which is a tense, jagged funk number, emphasizing a rhythmically intricate, pulsating drum machine pattern that owes something in style to "Big Tall Wall" and Sign 'O' The Times' "If I Was Your Girlfriend". In addition to the drums, the stark arrangement includes a low-frequency bass and some brisk, metallic-sounding synth fills. The dark, claustrophobic atmosphere brings to mind "Strange But True" on Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic. Prince sing-speaks the lyrics, which seem to echo "The War" to some extent, talking about the decadence of society. Some of the lyrics are rather ambiguous, but one reading of the song is that it is about how we have all been sucked into the "silly con" of eating meat and processed foods, which is ultimately bad for our health. A repeated phrase is "rope of silicon, just a rope of silicon". Since silicon is used in electronics, possibly Prince is saying that with all our technology we are hanging ourselves on a rope of silicon. The first verse of the song is the same as Prince's second rap in "The Greatest Romance Ever Sold (Adam & Eve Mix)", which possibly dates the song to 1999. The track was released as part of the March, 2001 "ahdio show" and later as a full MP3 in December 2001 on the NPGMC.
http://www.dtt-lyrics.com...A-Z.html#S Welcome 2 the slaughterhouse Silicon Rope of silicon Just a rope of silicon The rope of silicon One day U'll get outside the doo-rag When U really want 2 contemplate this, jacked up (Jacked up) Paranormal situation that your people got into Can I hip U? Long ago who considered the outcome? Now I'm thinking that a cat like U would be troublesome And sock U in the mind tangling curriculum Guaranteed 2 leave U in a state of delirium While all along teaching they kids in the valley 2 become unlike U: broke and dumb Just a rope of silicon Rope of silicon Just a rope of silicon Rope of silicon On a magical rope of silicon U can bet that they'll be chillin' in Babylon Thinking about a way that they can split the proton While U eating all the bloody chicken and dead prawn Mickey D. shake and a filet mignon Swearing up and down U the picture of health, now come on! Just a rope of silicon (Dance) Just a rope of silicon Rope of silicon U're just a rope of silicon (U) 2 the slaughterhouse Leave that blood alone Don't U know that dead blood kills interferons Making the immune system victim 2 whereupon Any known virus can boot up and log on ww.U.com CHORUS: Rope of silicon Just a rope of silicon Rope of silicon Just a rope of silicon Rope of silicon {x3} Just a rope of silicon Now U've found me, now that U're here Let's talk about the U in this con If U're getting bored don't front, just yawn This is the kind of stuff that requires patience Never mind the rhyme just relax and wax the song That on and on and on and on Ain't gonna stop 'till the early mornin' Break it down, later on come break down, y'all What? Dance {x5} (Dance on the funk) Just dance (Dance on the funk) Dance (Dance on the funk) Just dance (Dance on the funk) CHORUS Rope of silicon Just a rope of silicon Just a rope... This is why U was looking 4 me? Then check it Let's talk about the U in this con If U're getting bored don't front, just yawn Cuz this is the kind of stuff that requires patience Don't think, just wax on If U are the eye that is the pawn U beget the dead fruit of Armageddon Thick skin reigns in the realm of the pseudonym While the blows taken by the silly con The family does well with God 2 keep it strong Never a paradox, never a hexagon U plus he or she keep going on But with another one of U in the title of this song Goes on and on and on and on and on and on CHORUS Dance, dance on the funk {x10} Dance {x2} http://www.dtt-lyrics.com...ml#silicon | |
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What you have labelled as "Welcome 2 The Slaughterhouse" is the original 2001 version of "Silicon", which was edited for The Slaughterhouse in 2004.
Because the song was first released in an Ahdio Show and had no official title, it was incorrectly known as "Welcome 2 The Slaughterhouse" as that seemed the most likely name. [Edited 11/26/09 19:33pm] | |
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^^^^ very ugly cover artwork....  Prince 4Ever.  | |
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These are better... 
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thedance said: ^^^^ very ugly cover artwork....
yeah that cover suuuuuks  "Hyperactive when I was small, Hyperactive now I'm grown, Hyperactive 'till I'm dead and gone"
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ___ "Midnight is where the day begins" |
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berniejobs said: I just got The Slaughter house and the first track is called Silicon.
The LAST track is called Welcome To The Slaughter House and sounds almost identical to Silicon. Silicon is 4:17 and WTTSH is 4:47. Do I have a bum copy? What is the deal here? Wikipedia doesn't list WTTSH as being on the album. Bum copy? There were never officially pressed CDs of The Slaughterhouse or Chocolate Invasion. Any CD copy will be a bootleg of mostly lossy internet-only tracks. And we all know bootleggers are notorious for getting song titles wrong. If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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