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The song was composed near the beginning of the band's career and prototype versions were performed onstage as early as December 1975. [12] When it was finally completed and released as a single in December 1977, "Psycho Killer" became instantly associated in popular culture with the contemporaneous Son of Sam serial killings (July 1976 – July 1977).
By 1976, Girard and Bartlett teamed up with Stacey Pedrick (guitar), Doug Forman (bass), and Chris Pedrick (drums), becoming The Fools. In 1979, the band released "Psycho Chicken", a parody of Talking Heads ' " Psycho Killer ", and it was an immediate hit on Boston radio stations. [ 1 ]
Kaufman brought the trio to K&K Studios in Great Neck, Long Island, to record a three-song, 16-track demo tape containing "Artists Only", "Psycho Killer" and "First Week, Last Week". Kaufman was pleased with the results, but the band felt that they would need to improve drastically before re-entering a recording studio.
The song interpolates the bassline from Talking Heads' 1977 single "Psycho Killer", written by David Byrne, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth. A vertical music video accompanied the release, becoming the first music video to premiere on Spotify, where it was made available exclusively.
Ice-T, who wrote the song's lyrics, referred to "Cop Killer" as a "protest record", [7] stating that the song is "[sung] in the first person as a character who is fed up with police brutality". [8] Ice-T has also credited the Talking Heads song " Psycho Killer " with partially inspiring the song. [ 5 ] "
The band spent the early part of 2014 writing songs for a new album, and went with Juno Award winning producer Eric Ratz as producer and engineer. [16] The first single from the album, 'Satellite Hotel', was released in July 2014 and became the fastest charting single of the band's career, and second top 5 single in Canada. [ 13 ]
Fred Thomas is an American bassist best known for his work with James Brown for over thirty years. [1] He performed on many of Brown's funk and R&B hits of the 1970s. His most recent works include releasing three singles in 2024 as a solo artist, and his recordings with The J.B.'s in 2018.
Painkiller (stylized as PainKiller, previously known as Pain Killer) is an avant-garde jazz and grindcore band that formed in 1991. [1] Later albums incorporated elements of ambient and dub. [2] The three primary members of Painkiller were John Zorn on saxophone, Bill Laswell on bass guitar and Mick Harris on drums.