Metal band Type O Negative recorded their version of Neil Young's 1970 hit song "Cinnamon Girl" for their 1996 record, "October Rust," an album I played so often that all I had to do was think about it and the CD jumped up and landed in the disc holder and played itself. Type O Negative was the 90's salvation of around-the-way NY goth girls. They projected both a tough, Brooklyn-bred, muscle-bound hardcore image, but also a blackly dramatic romanticism that lent itself to visions of vampires and bloodstained hankerchiefs dancing in our heads. Like Ministry once said, everyday was Halloween to these guys, and we sopped it up with butter and jelly.
Their cover of "Cinnamon Girl" was part of what had kind of become Type O's formula up until that point...their "out-of-left-field," unusually vulnerable cover song on each of their records is what kept the girls reaching for frontman Peter Steele's 1995 issue of Playgirl (click here if you want to know what I mean-NSFW!!). Though I believe that their cover of Seals and Crofts's "Summer Breeze" from their 1993 classic record "Bloody Kisses" is superior to this particular cover, "Cinnamon Girl" is a fun song that is almost impossible to eff up. Enjoy!!
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