Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)

"Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)"
Single by Type O Negative
from the album Bloody Kisses
Released1993
Recorded1993
StudioSystems Two, Brooklyn
Genre
Length11:14
LabelRoadrunner
Songwriter(s)Peter Steele
Producer(s)
Type O Negative singles chronology
"Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)"
(1993) 		"Christian Woman"
(1993)

"Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)" is a single by American gothic metal band Type O Negative from their 1993 album Bloody Kisses. The song was written by lead singer Peter Steele while driving a garbage truck. During an interview with Revolver, he stated "I was waiting in line for three hours to dump 40 cubic yards of human waste at the Hamilton Avenue Marine Transfer Station, and I wrote the song in my head. I'm not kidding you."[3] The lyrics sarcastically detail a relationship with a woman involved with the Goth subculture, loosely based around a relationship Steele was once in, and throws many tongue-in-cheek references to Halloween, Nosferatu, and Lily Munster, as well as quick musical references to Vic Mizzy's The Addams Family Theme as well as Jack Marshall's The Munsters' Theme. It is arguably their signature song; although it never cracked the Billboard Hot 100, it was their best-selling single and was a mainstay on MTV's Headbangers Ball.[4] In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked the song No. 64 on their list of the 100 greatest heavy metal songs of all time.[5]

  1. ^ Ramirez, AJ (August 3, 2011). "The Ten Best Alternative Metal Singles Of The 1990s". PopMatters. Archived from the original on January 14, 2016.
  2. ^ Wiederhorn, Jon (August 17, 2018). "Why Type O Negative's 'Bloody Kisses' "Sounds Like Nothing Before and Nothing After"". Revolver. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
  3. ^ Revolver Staff (August 16, 2018). "'BLOODY KISSES': 10 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW TYPE O NEGATIVE'S MASTERPIECE". Revolver. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
  4. ^ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. February 11, 1995. p. 96. ISSN 0006-2510.
  5. ^ "The 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time". rollingstone.com. March 13, 2023. Retrieved July 21, 2023.