Rob Zombie Completes Work on Long-Awaited White Zombie Box Set

Rob Zombie has finally finished work on the long-delayed White Zombie box set. The set will house five discs: four dedicated to over four and half hours of music, while the fifth disc will house "tons of never before seen videos," Zombie said in a MySpace post. As for the music, Zombie said "All I can say is boy the early shit is whacked. I haven't heard some of these songs in over twenty years. I don't know what the hell we were thinking." No release date has been announced yet, but Zombie said "it shouldn't be much longer. I'm pretty you'll be getting [it] under your Christmas tree." When we talked to Zombie last December about the box set, he told us not to hold our breath, saying "I'm not real big on going back and repackaging the past." At least we can exhale now.

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Song Stories

“1999”

Prince | 1982

“I don’t consider myself a great poet,” Prince told Rolling Stone. “I just know I’m here to say what’s on my mind.” In the case of the apocalyptic party anthem “1999,” he was worried about then-president Ronald Reagan’s foreign policies. The song’s melody is based on a riff borrowed from the Mamas and Papas’ “Monday, Monday,” and Prince originally envisioned the first verse with three-part harmony but later split the vocals between himself and members of the Revolution. Because Warner Bros., with whom Prince was locked in a contractual battle, owned the original’s masters, Prince rerecorded the song and appropriately released that version in 1999.

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