Satyricon (Meat Beat Manifesto album)

Satyricon is the fourth studio album by British electronic music group Meat Beat Manifesto.

Satyricon
Studio album by Meat Beat Manifesto
Released	1992 (1992)
Recorded	1992
Genre	Electro-industrial, breakbeat, IDM, techno, electronica
Length	64:23
Label	Elektra
Producer	Meat Beat Manifesto
Meat Beat Manifesto chronology
99% (1990) Satyricon (1992) Subliminal Sandwich (1996)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Q	[2]
Select	5/5[3]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	8/10[4]

Track listing

1. "Pot Sounds" – 2:06
2. "Mindstream" – 4:52
3. "Drop" – 4:07
4. "Original Control (Version 1)" – 5:02
5. "Your Mind Belongs to the State" – 5:02
6. "Circles" – 4:15
7. "The Sphere" – 0:39
8. "Brainwashed This Way/Zombie/That Shirt" – 5:31
9. "Original Control (Version 2)" – 5:22
10. "Euthanasia" – 4:33
11. "Edge of No Control, Pt. 1" – 5:59
12. "Edge of No Control, Pt. 2" – 3:15
13. "Untold Stories" – 1:52
14. "Son of Sam" – 4:49
15. "Track 15" – 1:27
16. "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, 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 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, in "Original Control (Version 2)".

References

1. Swan, Glenn. "Satyricon – Meat Beat Manifesto". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
2. "Meat Beat Manifesto: Satyricon". Q (74): 117. November 1992.
3. Kessler, Ted (November 1992). "Meat Beat Manifesto: Satyricon". Select (29): 82.
4. Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig, eds. (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.