SPEAK ENGLISH OR DIE
1. March Of The S.O.D.: Just a short intro-instrumental, but with one of the heaviest riffs ever written. Leads into the next track very well.
2. Sargent "D" & The S.O.D.: The first "real" song on this album. Lyrics are about how much ass Sargent D kicks. He'll do everything from driving the car over Grandma to pissing on peoples' heads. Riffs flow real well into eachother, and it has a good mosh part.
3. Kill Yourself: I notice that I often see this song title with the words (an anti-suicide song) next to it. I think the band might've done that to keep from getting sued (like the other songs wouldn't, heh). Anyways, it has lyrics encouraging someone to commit suicide, and a good singalong chorus. Riffs are just as good as the song before.
4. Milano Mosh: Is it just me, or did Fear Factory rip off the beginning of this song for the beginning of their song "Flashpoint"? Because the beginnings of both sound very similar. When listening to Flashpoint, I almost expect Burt to ask "Can you do the Milano Mosh?" at the beginning. Anyways, this is a bit shorter than the last two, but it's one of the best songs on this album. Lyrics are obviously about moshing. The riffs are very moshable.
5. Speak English Or Die: Here it is, folks. The title track. Lyrics are heavily against American immigrants. Riffs, like always, are good, but sound a little similar to all the other songs on the album (one of the album's few faults).
6. United Forces: Great lyrics about punks, metalheads, and skinheads joining forces instead of fighting against eachother. Good riffs, a good chorus, and the album's only guitar solo(s).
7. Chromatic Death: An okay song, with an almost-constant blast beat. This would be an instrumental, except "Chro-Ma-Tic!" is said a couple times.
8. Pi Alpha Nu: Lyrics are about college students partying. One of the shortest normal songs. Riffs are okay.
9. Anti-Procrastination Song: Anti-Procrastination Song!! *dududududududududUUUUH*
10. What's That Noise: Billy Milano (the singer) gets pissed at the other members of the band and the producer for not fixing the noise. Pretty funny the first couple listens, and still worth a chuckle afterwards.
11. Freddy Krueger: A tribute to the horror guy. I haven't seen the movie that Freddy is a character in, so I can't comment much more on the lyrics without sounding like a dumbass. The riffs bring you to your impending doom.
12. Milk: One of the best songs on here. It's so good, that it's on the soundtrack for Tony Hawk's Underground (not that all THPS songs are good *cough*California Babylon*cough*). The lyrics are about a kid's mom not getting him milk for his cereal, so he has to resort to beer. Really a lot better than it sounds from my description. The riffs are great, and the bass intro is one of the best I've heard.
13. Pre-Menstrual Princess Blues: A short song with a weird riff. The lyrics are told from the point of view of a wife PMSing all over her husband Irving.
14. Pussy-Whipped: The lyrics are of a guy who's obviously his woman's bitch, never being away from her and never hanging out with his friends. The riffs are normal SOD fare, but still kinda catchy.
15. Fist-Banging Mania: A song against "fist-bangers". I have yet to find out what fist-banging is, but from the lyrics, it's something that Motley Crue fans do. I'll have to look it up in Urban Dictionary sometime. Anyways, the song starts out with a nice intro that builds up into the song. The riffs are okay, but the mosh part kicks ass.
16. No Turning Back: One of the few songs on here I don't really enjoy. The lyrics are about the ozone layer breaking up and all humans dieing, and that they deserve it. The riffs are pretty fast. This song just isn't all that memorable to me.
17. Fuck The Middle East: Even though these lyrics were written back in the '80s, they're suprisingly accurate in this day and age, what with the recent terrorist attack and all. :D The lyrics are short and to the point. The riffing is very simple, but good riffing isn't important in a song like this.
18. Douche Crew: Against poser hardcore kids. Ironically, if you ignore the hardcore and fast references, it can be made into a good anti-Linkin Park or Nickleback song. The riffs are really great. This is also the last normal song on the album.
19. Hey Gordy!: Bleargh.
20. The Ballad Of Jimi Hendrix: A 5 second song that starts out with the beginning of Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix (I think it's called that), then it ends abruptly with "YOU'RE DEAD!" The ballad that started the legend of the SOD ballads.
21. Diamonds And Rust (Extended Version): The last song on the original album. It's basically SOD's very short cover of Diamonds And Rust (I know Judas Priest has done the full song, but I'm not sure if they actually wrote the song).
22. Identity: An okay song. This is the first bonus track. I don't know what the lyrics are about. The riffs aren't anything special.
23. Go: From what I can understand about the lyrics, they're telling someone to go fuck themself. This song also isn't that special. I think I'd be able to enjoy this and Identity more if they included the lyrics in the booklet so I could understand Billy easier.
From this point on, the songs are live.
24. March Of The S.O.D./Sargent "D" And The S.O.D.: The start of Live In Tokyo 1999. The beginning of the lyrics for Sargent D... flow kind of weird, and are shouted differently from the studio version. I prefer the studio version's style of saying the beginning verse. Other than that, not really different from the studio versions.
25. Kill Yourself: Billy introduces the song by saying he's bigger than various monsters, including Godzilla. The song is for the most part unchanged from the studio version.
26. Milano Mosh: Pretty much the same as the studio version.
27. Speak English Or Die: Now this is a good song live. After the mosh part, the instruments fade out, and eventually you realize that they're playing the intro part of Slayer's Raining Blood! Kickass! Just before the lyrics for Raining Blood start, the band goes back into the last part of Speak English Or Die and the chorus is shouted one last time.
28. Fuck The Middle East/Douche Crew: Not all that different from the studio versions.
29. Not/Momo/Taint/The Camel Boy/Diamonds And Rust/Anti-Procrastination Song: An SOD "medley" of some of SOD's shortest songs. Fortunately, they include a couple songs from the Crab Society North demo. They try to play the songs in under 8 seconds, and they end up with 7 seconds, or so they say. If you look at the time counter thingy for the song just as they play, you'll notice they actually play it the first time for 11 seconds, then 9 the second time. Those bastards. :p
30. Milk: This song's bass intro is played MUCH slower and doomier than the studio version. A couple of words in the lyrics are replaced with other words. This song is great.
31. United Forces (Part 1): As the last song of the live concert, the band plays United Forces. For some reason, right after the second part of the song, they end, and tell everyone thanks, and good night, and stuff. THEN-
32. United Forces (Part 2): They launch into the rest of United Forces. Unfortunately, Scott doesn't play the guitar solo. Instead, he just does some lame-ass VREEEEEEIOUW thing with his guitar. Then after the guitar is made to sound like a dead duck, the band goes into that all-too-familiar epic ending to a song, that's done by all bands in all genres. You'll know it when you hear it. Still good though. Then, the song is finally over, and the band thanks everyone one last time as the show ends.
33. Ram It Up: This is the last bonus track, and it's another studio song. Again, I'd enjoy it more if I could read the lyrics.
Well, there's my review. Despite what I said about most songs (especially the live songs), I actually enjoyed this album a lot, though the songs tend to follow a formula. Still, pick this up, as it has some classic songs, and it's easily a piece of music history. Go get it! NOW!
