''Satyricon'' is the fourth
studio album
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by British
electronic music
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group
Meat Beat Manifesto.
Track listing
#"Pot Sounds" – 2:06
#"Mindstream" – 4:52
#"Drop" – 4:07
#"Original Control (Version 1)" – 5:02
#"Your Mind Belongs to the State" – 5:02
#"Circles" – 4:15
#"The Sphere" – 0:39
#"Brainwashed This Way/Zombie/That Shirt" – 5:31
#"Original Control (Version 2)" – 5:22
#"Euthanasia" – 4:33
#"Edge of No Control, Pt. 1" – 5:59
#"Edge of No Control, Pt. 2" – 3:15
#"Untold Stories" – 1:52
#"Son of Sam" – 4:49
#"Track 15" – 1:27
#"Placebo" – 5:04
Samples
Several of the dialogue samples used on ''Satyricon'' come from the 1974
John Carpenter film ''
Dark Star'', specifically:
* "Drop" samples the scene in which Bomb #20 refuses to detach from the bomb bay doors.
* "Track 15" includes a clip from the end of the film when Talby enters the Phoenix asteroid cluster, saying, "I'm beginning to glow."
* "Original Control (Version 1)" has a sample from the dinner discussion between Pinback and Doolittle: "Do you think we'll ever find any intelligent life out there?" ... "Who cares?"
Other samples found on the album include:
* "We have come to visit you in peace and with goodwill", from the film ''
The Day the Earth Stood Still
''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' (a.k.a. ''Farewell to the Master'' and ''Journey to the World'') is a 1951 American science fiction film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Julian Blaustein and directed by Robert Wise. It stars Michael Renn ...
'', in"Pot Sounds".
*"He must answers questions that cannot yet be...", from the film ''
The Illustrated Man'', in "Placebo".
*Interview samples from
the Monkees' film ''
Head
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'' and the
James Toback documentary ''
The Big Bang'', in ''"''Your Mind Belongs to the State".
*"I am Elektro", a sample from
Elektro the robot, first seen at the
1939 New York World's Fair
The 1939–40 New York World's Fair was a world's fair held at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York, United States. It was the second-most expensive American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchas ...
, in "Original Control (Version 2)".
*"Brainwashed This Way/Zombie/That Shirt" contains dialog from
David Cronenberg's 1983 movie ''
Videodrome''.
References
Meat Beat Manifesto albums
1992 albums
Elektra Records albums
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