Home | Songs By Year | Songs from 2000
Bill Gates Must Die
Buy Bill Gates Must Die now from AmazonFirst, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the song. And once you've experienced the song, tell everyone what you thought about it.
Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Bill Gates Must Die
| cover =
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = John Vanderslice
| album = Mass Suicide Occult Figurines
| released = July 11, 2000
| format =
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Indie rock
| length =
| label = Barsuk Records
| writer = John Vanderslice
| producer =
| prev_title = Speed Lab
| prev_year = 2000
| next_title = Ambition
| next_year = 2000
| misc =
}}
"'Bill Gates Must Die'" is the third track on John Vanderslice's 'Mass Suicide Occult Figurines' album released in 2000 on Barsuk Records.
Release
edition of 'Mass Suicide Occult Figurines' was made to parody the Windows 95 installation disc.
On 9 February 2000, 'SF Weekly' reported that Vanderslice had trouble releasing a number of promotional compact discs of the album 'Mass Suicide Occult Figurines' featuring the track "Bill Gates Must Die". The Los Altos, California-based CD manufacturer Media Technology Services declined the release stating they took issue with the submitted cover art that spoofed the Microsoft logo. Sales associate of the company, Parvis Ghajar, said "By looking at [the CD], it implied that it was by Microsoft, and we didn't want to have Microsoft come after this." The song later appeared on the Fortune Records' local music compilation album 'Fortune Cookies'.
Reception
'Fortune Cookies' release
Reviewing the Fortune Records' compilation album 'Fortune Cookies', 'Allmusic's Denise Sullivan called "Bill Gates Must Die" an "adolescent rock rant." 'CMJ New Music Monthly' called the song "a soon-to-be hit." 'Ink 19's Jason Feifer called it one of the "a few sloppy mounds of music [...] that provides nothing particularly special or new."'Mass Suicide Occult Figurines' release
'Allmusic's Matt Fink reviewed "Bill Gates Must Die" with "the big bruising guitars [...] drive lyrics that are surprisingly free of attack on the multi-billionaire, instead telling the story of a man whose life is ruined by his obsessive internet use." In anticipation for Vanderslice's fourth album 'Cellar Door', 'CMJ New Music Monthly's Louis Miller described the song as "minor media sensation [...] complete with a made-up lawsuit and Vanderslice's claims of being pushed around by Microsoft goons." 'Pitchfork Media's Nick Mirov preferred the song "Speed Lab" over it stating that "allusions to paranoia about internet security loopholes and federal eavesdropping don't quite coalesce into the damning, righteous indictment of Microsoft that the title would suggest. For this particular computer geek, it's a bit of a letdown."References
Category:2000 songs
Buy Bill Gates Must Die now from Amazon
<-- Return to songs from 2000