| "Mother" | ||
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| Song by Danzig
from the album Danzig |
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| Released | 1988 | |
| Genre | Hard rock, Heavy Metal | |
| Length | 3:24 | |
| Writer | Glenn Danzig | |
"Mother" is a song by Danzig that first appeared on their 1988 debut album, Danzig. Thematically, the song is a rhetorical challenge to parents who wish to shield their children from what is believed by Danzig to be the reality represented by heavy metal music. The song was primarily inspired by Tipper Gore[1] who, along with the Parents Music Resource Center, introduced the Parental Advisory warning placed on albums that contain explicit content.
The original 1988 music video was rejected by MTV for its ending sequence, which contains imagery of a chicken being sacrificed and an inverted cross being drawn in its blood (although Glenn noted that the chicken was not actually killed or harmed). A live recording of the song became a hit on radio and MTV in 1993–1994, after a music video with live footage was created to promote the band's new live EP, Thrall: Demonsweatlive. Both the original music video and the live footage version appeared on Beavis and Butt-head, in the episodes "Couch Fishing" and "Crisis Line".[2]
The song peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and 43 on the Hot 100.[3][4] In the UK, the song peaked at number 62 on the singles chart.[5]
The song appeared in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, on the station Radio X, as well as the game True Crime: New York City. A cover version also appeared in Guitar Hero 2 and in the game Guitar Hero: Smash Hits.[6] It is the entrance song for UFC fighter Gabriel Gonzaga.
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