The drums keep the song sharp, and it’s great track to bob you head along with. The lyric "hello hello hello goodbye" will make a reappearance in Bastard EYES as a song title in memory of the confusion over hide's death. An excellent song and one of the best pieces on the album. It’s the same music, melody, and rhythm as DRAIN written by hide when he was with X Japan only with completely different English lyrics. Raw, sexy and dangerous, it kind of makes you want to roll around on the floor while listening to it. Originally sung by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, this song got zilched, so to speak. Here is where the second cover song shows up, Swampsnake. This song is ended by a strange spoken track of an American thanking everyone for "coming out here tonight." Fun, fun song, it reminds one of hide’s older tunes. This is probably a reference to the fact that hide was the only Japanese member of the band, and Zilch was hell-bent on beaming their "radio waves" into your home. The next track is Sold Some Attitude, followed by the fourth track which possibly has the best name on the album, Space Money Punks from Japan. Full of what fans call "engrish", the song is hardly less perverted than the last, describing how the character in the song is turned on by the perverted acts of a female he admires. Pervert Mound, the oddly titled second track on this album, bursts open with a powerful electric guitar/bass combo that you can feel down in your bones. The guitar holds the song together well, helping to portray the pairing of sex and rock 'n' roll. The lyrics are full of BDSM references, telling of leather and euphemisms for vibrators while the background music is filled with lustful voices of women in the throes of their play. The first song is perhaps the most famous of the album: Electric Cucumber (originally written by Frank Zappa), is one of two cover songs on the album. 3.2.1.’s main focus is in the genre of heavy metal, churning out heavy bass rhythms and lines upon lines of creative and perverted lyrics, most of which are in English. Originally intended for hard rock markets and touring with artists like Marilyn Manson, this album took a less 'fun rock' or ballad style like hide fans were used to hearing. It was followed up by the album Bastard EYES, a "bastardized" version of 3.2.1. Due to hide's passing, the album was never released overseas as intended. 3.2.1 Zilch (or 3.2.1 as it's often called) was the first album released by the band Zilch, a group hide created with American artists to break into the Western market.
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