1000 Homo DJs is a side-project band of industrial musician Al Jourgensen. It is best known for its cover of Black Sabbath's "Supernaut." The band recorded on famous industrial label Wax Trax! Records. In popular music, a side-project is a project undertaken by one (or several) person already known for their involvement in another band. ... Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of electronic and experimental music. ... Al Jourgensen (born October 8, 1958 in Havana, Cuba), is an American musician best known as the hard drinking, chain-smoking founder and frontman of the industrial band Ministry. ... In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ... For other uses, see Black Sabbath (disambiguation). ... Supernaut is a song by Black Sabbath. ... Wax Trax! Records was a record label in the United States. ...

1000 Homo DJs began as a side-project to release outtakes from Ministry's The Land of Rape and Honey [1]. Ministry is an American industrial metal band of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. ... The Land of Rape and Honey is an album by industrial band Ministry. ...

Members

The members of 1000 Homo DJs are identified by pseudonyms in the CD liner notes. However, the identities of most members are fairly certain. A pseudonym or allonym is a name (sometimes legally adopted, sometimes purely fictitious) used by an individual as an alternative to their birth name. ... CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s... Liner notes are the booklets which come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or any sound recording container. ...

• Buck Satan: Al Jourgensen
• Officer Agro: speculated to be Jeff Ward [2], but possibly Paul Barker or Martin Atkins [3]
• Ike Krull: Trent Reznor
• Wee Willie Reefer: William Rieflin
• Viva Nova: likely Pamela Manning (stage name Viva Nova) [4], but often claimed as Patty Jourgensen [5]
• Count Ringworm: Jello Biafra

Trent Reznor's possible contribution to "Supernaut" (see below) is uncredited. However, many speculate that the Temple of Drool Choir credited on Supernaut's b-side, "Hey Asshole", refers to Reznor because of the parenthetical qualifier, "You Know Who You Are" (cf. track 5 on Head Like a Hole). Jeff Ward (November 18 or 28, 1962 – March 19, 1993) was a drummer for bands including Hammeron, Nine Inch Nails, Revolting Cocks, Ministry, Lard, and Low Pop Suicide. ... Paul Barker (born February 8, 1958 in Palo Alto, California), was bassist, producer and engineer with the industrial rock band Ministry. ... The industrial drummer Martin Atkins was born in Coventry, England on August 3, 1959. ... William (Bill) Rieflin is a contemporary musician and is currently drumming for R.E.M.. In the past he has worked with Ministry, the Revolting Cocks, KMFDM, Pigface, Swans, Chris Connelly and many others. ... Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958), better known by the stage name Jello Biafra, is an American punk rock musician and political activist best known as the former lead singer and song writer of the Dead Kennedys. ... Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American musician, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. ... In recorded music, the terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which singles have been released since the 1950s. ... Look up Cf. ... This article is about the Nine Inch Nails Single. ...

Origin of name

In a 2004 interview (text on pollstar.com), Jorgensen explained that when he played demos (presumably those which became Apathy) for Wax Trax! co-owner Jim Nash, Nash replied, "No one's gonna play this, it's gonna take a thousand homo DJs to play this for anyone to buy it."

Trent Reznor's involvement

The nature of Trent Reznor's contribution to 1000 Homo DJs' records has been debated. What is certain is that Reznor recorded the original vocals for "Supernaut." This performance was not officially used because Reznor's label TVT Records refused to allow his appearance on the release [6]. Reznor's version would ultimately be officially released by TVT Records on the Black Box retrospective of Wax Trax! Records, released in 1994 after TVT's purchase of Wax Trax!. TvT Records is an independent record label in the United States. ... Retrospective (from Latin retrospectare, look back) generally means to take a look back at events that already have taken place. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...

Jourgensen's immediate response to TVT's ultimatum is uncertain. An oft-quoted story is that instead of recording new vocals, Jourgensen merely ran Reznor's performance through a distortion effect to mask its identity (Ministry FAQ, yahoo.com NIN bio). According to this version, every recording of the song contains Reznor's vocals. However, a dissenting group claims this is an urban legend. A distortion is the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic) of an object, image, sound, waveform or other form of information or representation. ... Urban legends are a kind of modern folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them (see rumor). ...

Although the vocal on the released version is very similar to Reznor's vocal style, the dissenters claim that the inflection and accent of the voice is that of Al Jourgensen. Jourgensen seems to confirm this view in a 2003 interview. When asked whose vocals appear on "Supernaut," Jourgensen replied, "That would be me on the original, on WaxTrax! The later version released on TVT was Trent Reznor... then the (12") remixed version had my vocals on it." This corroborates that Reznor's vocals only appear on the Black Box set (i.e. "[t]he later version released on TVT") and Jourgensen in fact sings on most versions of the song. The TVT released track with Reznor's vocal has a similar vocal quality but a slightly different approach to the melody than Jourgensen's version. It is possible he intentionally mimicked aspects of Reznor's performance.

Discography

Releases

• Apathy (1988, 12" single)
• Supernaut (1990, 12" single, CD EP). CDEP includes the Apathy single

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Compilation appearances

• V/A - Black Box - Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years (1994).
  • Contains "Supernaut (Trent Reznor Vocal Version)."
• V/A - Nativity in Black: Tribute to Black Sabbath (1994)."
• Ministry - Side Trax (2004).

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See also

Revolting Cocks, Lard, Acid Horse, PTP, Pailhead Revolting Cocks (often abbreviated Revco) were a musical side-project for Alain Jourgensen (Ministry) and Luc Van Acker. ... Lard is a hardcore punk/Industrial band. ... Acid Horse was a one-off collaborative side project between two industrial music pioneers, Ministry and Cabaret Voltaire. ... The industrial band PTP was a short-lived side project of Ministrys Alain Jourgensen. ... Pailhead was a short-lived side-project of the industrial music metal band Ministry, which featured the vocals of Ian MacKaye, formerly of The Teen Idles and Minor Threat, and currently of Fugazi and The Evens. ...