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Children of Bodom - You're Better Off Dead!

Hateful little thing.. - 93%

Stormhelm, May 10th, 2003

This single is quite a short, but good representation of the Hate Crew Deathroll album. The title song is typically Bodom. It starts off with some frenetical drumming and Alexi screaming "War Eyes". The keyboards are playing along masterfully with the brilliant riffs. The song calms down at 1:44, but speeds up again at 2:30. The lyrics are burning with hatred as always, and the refrain is quite catchy. "You're better off dead than fucking with me!" says it all.

Next we have the Ramones cover, Somebody Put Something In My Drink. A very cathy song (my favorite Ramones song), which is quite suitable to listen to, during binge-drinking :) An excellent cover version. If you've heard the original, you might notice that CoB has changed the lyrics. The original goes as follows: "Daiqury and Tonic's my favorite drink", while CoB goes "Vodka and Tonic's...". Vodka & Tonic is infact Alexi's favorite drink :) A little CoB trivia..

The only thing that pulls the score down a bit, is the fact that this release could contained aome more material, i.e a video or a live song. Anyways, it's well worth buying because of the cover song.