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This Love (Pantera song)
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Wikipedia article
"'This Love'" is a power ballad by American heavy metal band Pantera. It was first released on the band's best-selling album, 'Vulgar Display of Power', and later on the band's compilation album, 'The Best of Pantera: Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits!' A live version was also included on 'Official Live: 101 Proof'.
Composition and lyrics
The song begins with a progressive chorus guitar riff played, and the song soon becomes heavier occasionally. Drummer Vinnie Paul has said that this song was about a relationship vocalist Phil Anselmo had been in previously. "'This Love' was pretty much the story of a relationship he had been in, and he was really mad about it!".
Reception
"This Love" is one of the band's most well-known songs.
'Metal Hammer' ranked the song number 10 on their list of the 50 best Pantera songs, writing that it "starts in pretty, elegant mode before erupting into a mad-eyed bar brawl of a chorus."
'Loudwire' ranked "This Love" number seven on their list of the 10 best Pantera songs.
'Guitar World' ranked the song number five on their ranking of the 25 best Pantera songs.
Music video
The music video for "This Love" was directed by Kevin Kerslake and shows the band playing on a rooftop while smoke drifts over them. The chorus shows the band inside, playing on a stage, cutting between this and the rooftop. Phil Anselmo can be seen wearing a Down T-shirt. In a subplot, prostitution is shown with several prostitutes are doing random activities (such as seducing a man and another taking off a wig). This culminates when a particular prostitute gets into a cab which is occupied by another man, who tries to rape her. From the last moments of the video, it appears that she kills him, because she is seen dragging him from the cab and leaving him by the roadside.
Track listing
Appearances in the media
*The 1994 computer game 'Doom II: Hell on Earth' rearranges a portion of this song, used on Maps 18 and 27.http://www.doomworld.com/linguica/doomcovers/
*The music video for this song appeared on MTV's 'Beavis and Butt-Head' and is available on 'The Mike Judge Collection, Volume 1'.
*In 1994, comedy punk band the Radioactive Chicken Heads (then known as Joe and the Chicken Heads) recorded a parody cover called "This Lunch".
*The song was released as downloadable content for 'Rock Revolution' and 'Rocksmith 2014'.
References
Category:1992 singles
Category:Pantera songs
Category:1990s ballads
Category:1992 songs
Category:East West Records singles
Category:Heavy metal ballads
Category:Song recordings produced by Terry Date
Category:Songs written by Dimebag Darrell
Category:Songs written by Vinnie Paul
Category:Songs written by Phil Anselmo
Category:Songs written by Rex Brown
Category:Music videos directed by Kevin Kerslake
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