Anniversary Review 2

Voodoo Void – Wumpscut

 

 

 

Hello wonderful people,

What do you get when you mix Middle Eastern styled music with the awesome that is Rudy Ratzinger? You get Voodoo void from his album Schädling sometimes spelled as Schaedling. 

Overall the album doesn’t stand out much from the rest of his stuff. There’s an awkward chunk of time where there was one decent or amazing song and the rest is just not that great or completely terrible, “You Are a Goth” I’m looking at you. Schädling has two songs that are listenable, Voodoo Void and Rifki which isn’t as great as Voodoo Void but it’s still pretty decent. This album came out in that awkward time I just described it started in 2001 with Wreath of Barbs and ended with Siamese, some albums get a free pass currently because I haven’t listened to them yet (Evoke and Fuckit are the only two exceptions.)

Voodoo Void isn’t that great of a song either, actually when I first listened to it I thought the first half of the song was boring as hell. Then I listened to it a million more times and grew to love it. Why was I listening to it a million more times if I just said the first half is boring? The second half of the song is amazing and that’s what the boring was attempting to build up to and once I listened to it a bunch of times, I realized the first half works perfectly because anything else would have overshadowed the chorus part of the song. The only part of the song that I dislike is the lyrics for the frist half of the song and the chorus doesn’t help because the curse of the repetitive lyrics returns but I honestly don’t mind it. The song is short enough to ignore it and just enjoy the awesome music unlike Loyal to my hate that song is entirely too long to ignore the repetitive lyrics if it didn’t have such long musical interludes and awesome music to provide some sort of change to the song.

“Hail.
Hail.
Welcome.
Welcome.
To our Tender.
You're the right one.
You're the tight one.”

I guess this counts as verse one and there’s not much to say about it except there’s a rather sexy drum beat that I absolutely adore. The song relies on the music and thankfully it works out in the end. Another aspect that “You Are a Goth” failed at. You know I get the feeling by those last two lines this song has nothing to do with actual voodoo… what else could ‘You’re the right one, you’re the tight one’ mean?

“You Have Practice.
We need your Help!
We need your Help!
We... We...
Have Someone.
Have Someone.
To Cast a spell on!
To Cast a spell on!”

This is the second verse and I have one question. Who are you casting a spell on? I’m serious you can’t just walk up to a person that does Voodoo and say “I have someone I want to cast a spell on,” and then just end the sentence there. They’re going to need details if he’s talking to a person who practices voodoo.

“This is Voodoo

This is Voodoo

This is Voodoo

This is Voodoo”

The bridge or an attempt at a bridge I think happens here and the music puts on the breaks adding to the creepy mysterious tone the previous verses help set up. The awesome happens at around 1:55 and it is indeed awesome.

“This is voodoo.
This is our voodoo void.
This is our voodoo void.
This is voodoo.
This is our voodoo void.
This is our voodoo void.”

Yes, that is the awesome that hooked me on the song. I want to learn how to play the violin so I can play this part of the song. If it’s not a violin then it is a string instrument that I must obtain and learn to play.

That’s kind of it for Voodoo void, there a brief break of the awesome music for another “This is Voodoo” repetition and then the chorus happens again. The song isn’t fantastic but it’s not horrible, it’s just a good song. I also have no idea what a voodoo void is but void has many definitions:

Adjective:

1. Containing no matter; empty.

2. Not occupied; unfilled.

3. Completely lacking; devoid: void of understanding

4. Ineffective; useless.

5. Having no legal force or validity; null: a contract rendered void.

Void is also a verb as well:

1.

a. An empty space.

b. A vacuum.

2. An open space or a break in continuity; a gap.

3. A feeling or state of emptiness, loneliness, or loss.

I’m not sure what this all means in the relation to the song but there’s multiple meanings implied, there’s a sexy undertone, there’s the obvious message of wanting to have someone do voodoo on another person, and then the title is called voodoo void…

That confusing thought ends part two of my anniversary review.

~Pugsly~