Too Much Blood

Arthur Baker saw out the last half of the 80s with remixes and productions. His 1984 reworking of the Rolling Stones' Too Much Blood' is widely regarded as a seminal pre-acid house prototype

[Chorus] I want to dance, I want to sing I want to bust up everything To make some love I want to dance, I want to sing I want to bust up everything And make some love I can feel it in the air Feel it up above Feel the tension everywhere There is too much blood Too much blood, well all right [Verse 1] Everything you see on the movie screen is tame Everything's going to be arranged A friend of mine was this Japanese He had a girlfriend in Paris He asked to date her in six months And eventually, she said yes You know? Took her to his apartment, cut off her head Put the rest of her body in the refrigerator, ate her piece by piece Put her in the refrigerator, put her in the freezer And when he ate her Took her bones to the Bois de Boulogne By chance, a taxi driver noticed him Burying the bones You don't believe me? Truth is stranger than fiction We drive through there every night! [Chorus] I want to dance, I want to sing I want to bust up everything Be number one, yeah I want to dance, I want to sing I want to bust up everything And have some fun I can feel it everywhere Feel it up above Feel the tension in the air There is too much blood! Too much blood Too much, yeah! Too much blood! All right [Verse 2] Did you ever see Texas Chain Saw Massacre? Horrible, wasn't It? You know people really ask me: is it really true You know, where you live in Texas Is it really true what they do around there, people? I say, "Hey man, every time I drive through the crossroads I get scared there's a bloke running around with a fucking chain saw!" Ooh! Ooh! "Oh oh no, he's gonna.. oh no! Don't saw off me leg! Don't saw off me arm!" When I get to the movies, you know I'd like to see something more romantic, you know Like An Officer and a Gentleman or something Something you can take the wife to You know what I mean? Yeah! [Chorus] I want to dance, I want to sing I want to bust up everything Be number one, yeah I want to dance, I want to sing I want to bust up everything And have some fun I can feel it everywhere Feel it up above Feel the tension in the air There is too much blood, too much blood Oh yeah Pretty ladies, don't be scared Pretty ladies, don't be scared Pretty ladies, don't be scared Pretty ladies, don't be scared Pretty ladies, don't despair There's still so much love Pretty ladies, don't despair [Outro] Too much, too much, yeah Too much blood, too much blood Too much too much blood, too much blood Too much blood, too much blood Too much, too much, yeah Too much blood, too much blood Too much too much blood, too much blood Too much blood, too much blood