All You Need Is Blood
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All You Need is Blood is the name of the first single released by mash-up
band Beatallica
, a group known for their combination of Beatles music and Metallica lyrics and riffs. The song is a parody of The Beatles' song "All You Need is Love
." In the same tradition of The Beatles, the cover features the members of Beatallica holding signs that read the song title in different languages.
The maxi single
contains fourteen tracks, each in a different language except for the last track, which is a radio edit of the American English version. Beatallibangers (fans) worldwide submitted the lyrics which were used and unedited by the band. It was released on May 20, 2008.
The Japanese CD import version, which includes a bonus track of the song in Japanese, was released by Sony/ATV on Oct. 8, 2008.
As of Oct. 2008, Beatallica has recorded and released 14 different language versions of this song and they have left the project as an on-going endeavor. Beatallibangers worldwide may submit new language versions directly to the band via their website.
The CD import includes all of the tracks from the All You Need is Blood May 2008 release plus a new Japanese version of the song, recorded specifically for this CD. A limited edition version was also released the same day that includes a bonus DVD (NTSC region 2) which has a 6:22 min. band interview, originally seen on the Japanese website www.werockcity.com.
Mashup (music)
A mashup or bootleg is a song or composition created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the instrumental track of another...
band Beatallica
Beatallica
Beatallica is a mash-up band that plays music made from combinations of songs of The Beatles and Metallica. A Beatallica song is typically a blend of a Beatles song and a Metallica song with a related title Beatallica is a mash-up band that plays music made from combinations of songs of The Beatles...
, a group known for their combination of Beatles music and Metallica lyrics and riffs. The song is a parody of The Beatles' song "All You Need is Love
All You Need Is Love
"All You Need Is Love" is a song written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was first performed by The Beatles on Our World, the first live global television link. Watched by 400 million in 26 countries, the programme was broadcast via satellite on 25 June 1967...
." In the same tradition of The Beatles, the cover features the members of Beatallica holding signs that read the song title in different languages.
The maxi single
Maxi single
A maxi single or maxi-single is a music single release with more than the usual two tracks of an a-side song and a b-side song.-The first maxi singles:...
contains fourteen tracks, each in a different language except for the last track, which is a radio edit of the American English version. Beatallibangers (fans) worldwide submitted the lyrics which were used and unedited by the band. It was released on May 20, 2008.
The Japanese CD import version, which includes a bonus track of the song in Japanese, was released by Sony/ATV on Oct. 8, 2008.
As of Oct. 2008, Beatallica has recorded and released 14 different language versions of this song and they have left the project as an on-going endeavor. Beatallibangers worldwide may submit new language versions directly to the band via their website.
Track listings
- "All You Need Is Blood" (American EnglishAmerican EnglishAmerican English is a set of dialects of the English language used mostly in the United States. Approximately two-thirds of the world's native speakers of English live in the United States....
) – 4:02 - "" (PortuguesePortuguese languagePortuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
) – 3:28 - "" (EstonianEstonian languageEstonian is the official language of Estonia, spoken by about 1.1 million people in Estonia and tens of thousands in various émigré communities...
) – 4:00 - "" (FrenchFrench languageFrench is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
) – 3:38 - "" (GermanGerman languageGerman is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
) – 3:51 - "" (HungarianHungarian languageHungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
) – 3:48 - "" (Kol Shetzarikh Ze Dam") (HebrewHebrew languageHebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
) – 3:44 - "" (ItalianItalian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
) – 3:40 - "" (Mexican SpanishMexican SpanishMexican Spanish is a version of the Spanish language, as spoken in Mexico and in various places of Canada and the United States of America, where there are communities of Mexican origin....
) – 3:51 - "" (DutchDutch languageDutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
) – 3:41 - "" (PolishPolish languagePolish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
) – 3:56 - "" (Vsya nuzhno krov') (RussianRussian languageRussian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
) – 4:12 - "" (Piga pilyohe) (KoreanKorean languageKorean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...
) – 3:58 - "All You Need Is Blood" (radio edit) – 3:02
- "" (Chi ko so subete) (JapaneseJapanese languageis a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
; bonus track on Japanese release) – 3:57
Production
- Recorded at: Bobby Peru's Blood Bank, Milwaukee, WI by FlemballFlemming RasmussenFlemming Rasmussen is a Danish engineer, producer, mixer and owner and founder of Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark.-Biography:...
RasmartinGeorge MartinSir George Henry Martin CBE is an English record producer, arranger, composer and musician. He is sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Beatle"— a title that he often describes as "nonsense," but the fact remains that he served as producer on all but one of The Beatles' original albums... - Mixed and produced by: Flemball and Beatallica
- Mastered at: West West Side, New Windsor, NY by Alan Douches
- Photography by: Stanley Hanley and assisted by VVeber and MurphDawg
- Bloody participation: Trixi Pi, VVeber, MurphDawg, JoJo, Betsy, Willard. Thanks for the Monkey Bar, Di Dog!
- Art design by: GRG and Jefjamdesign.com
- Art concept by: Beatallica and Flemball
- Thanks to the translators: Yookyung Sung and Chin-A Choi, Mi Jung Trepanier, Letici Olivera, Kristel Kruuleht, Robert Filipowski, Marco Colombo, Mark Smids, Louie Tisdale, Yoni Alkan, Vajda Gabor, Ed Gerber, Lost German Beatallibanger
Japanese Import
Released on Oct. 8, 2008 (Sony Music Japan International Inc.).The CD import includes all of the tracks from the All You Need is Blood May 2008 release plus a new Japanese version of the song, recorded specifically for this CD. A limited edition version was also released the same day that includes a bonus DVD (NTSC region 2) which has a 6:22 min. band interview, originally seen on the Japanese website www.werockcity.com.