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

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 2)" 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" and "Mindstream".
  • "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)".
  • "Brainwashed This Way/Zombie/That Shirt" contains dialog from David Cronenberg's 1983 movie Videodrome.

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