Continuing a serial on parts of the body, “Skin” is the theme of Contrast Podcast #164. I picked this kind of gruesome old Blind Melon song from my favorite of their albums, but here are two other songs I strongly considered.
Blind Melon: Skinned from Soup (1995)
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Bell X1: Bad Skin Day from Flock (2008)
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Goldroom: Paper Skin (unreleased)
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Photo: John’s Study For Skin by Jasper Johns from MoMA
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Posted this in the comments section on ContrastPodcast.com but didn’t know if you’d see it.
Linda - I interviewed Shannon Hoon a year before the first Blind Melon CD came out. We got on the topic of serial killers and I mentioned that I had just read a book called “The Deviant” about Ed Gein who used to skin his victims and wear their skin. I met Shannon in person shortly thereafter and gave him my copy of the book. Did I help inspire that song? Unfortunately, Shannon died before I got to ask him. Here’s the audio clip from that interview which may or may not have helped inspire him to write “Skinned”.
http://www.atomicned.com/mp3/shannon_skinned.mp3
May 27th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Hey, Chip–Thanks for this comment and also for the link to your interview. I do miss Shannon Hoon.
May 28th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Skin by Oxbow isn’t up here…
Tragedy.
June 17th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Hey, Jed — I don’t have that one. Thanks for the tip; I will have to look for it.
June 18th, 2009 at 5:55 pm