Death and Destiny Inside the Dream Factory

Album: Hellbilly Deluxe 2 (2010)
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  • Zombie told MSN Music about this two minute punk rock number, in which he describes Hollywood as a place and idea to "crush your idols, they can afford it baby / Permanently vile and fascinating." Said Zombie: "I don't know what inspired that. That was one of those ones that we had this vague idea for something and by the end of the day it was completely done. We kind of recorded it in the same fashion that we did 'What?,' leaving it sounding pretty trashy and then we just walked away from it. Truthfully, I would probably rather make the whole record sound like that. Those are my favorite tracks. They're not the most commercial tracks, I don't even know if they're fan-friendly tracks, but they're my favorites, 'cause it's the closest to when you first start a band and you just get four people in a basement jamming and everything sounds like that. That was one of the things when I was putting together the White Zombie boxed set and I found all these old cassettes of us jamming. Everything sounded like that, it's just how you sound when you start out, so it's kinda fun doing it on purpose."

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