Educated Horses

Educated Horses
Studio album by Rob Zombie
Released	March 28, 2006 (2006-03-28)
Recorded	2006 at The Chop Shop in Hollywood, CA
Genre	Heavy metal, industrial metal, alternative metal, groove metal
Length	38:25
Label	Geffen
Producer	Scott Humphrey, Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie chronology
The Sinister Urge (2001) Educated Horses (2006) Hellbilly Deluxe 2: Noble Jackals, Penny Dreadfuls and the Systematic Dehumanization of Cool (2010)
Singles from Educated Horses
"Foxy Foxy" Released: February 14, 2006

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	(C+)[2]
Rolling Stone	[3]

Educated Horses is the third album by Rob Zombie, released on March 28, 2006. A streaming "listening party" was held on MP3.com starting March 22, 2006, which caused advance copies to spread throughout P2P software programs.

In response to questions about what the album's title means, Rob Zombie said:

"It was a weird kind of phrase, like, that I remembered as something as a kid. You know, my parents, my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, the whole family, were involved in carnival business and, like, circus business, so as a kid, we would get dragged to these things, and we'd have to spend all this time there. And that was just one of the attractions I remember, what they would call the trained animals, you know, educated horses."

It is long-time Rob Zombie bassist, Rob Blasko's final album with the band.

Production

Educated Horses can be described as Zombie's most experimental album to date. Writing for Rob Zombie for the first time, John 5 experimented with a number of acoustics, which can be heard on tracks such as "Sawdust in the Blood" and "Death of It All". "Foxy Foxy" is the most mainstream and "party-going" song that he has written yet, and its music video shows many attractive girls, including his wife Sheri Moon, dancing to the song.^{[citation needed]} Yet the album still contains his signature horror tastes. "17 Year Locust" and "The Scorpion Sleeps" were both written about creepy-crawlies.

Rob Zombie has stated that the album had influences from Glam Rock artists like Slade, T. Rex, and Gary Glitter.^[4]

Reception

The album debuted at number five on the U.S. Billboard 200, Zombie's highest chart position since Hellbilly Deluxe, selling about 120,000 copies in its first week. It also debuted at number one on Billboard's Top Rock Albums chart.^[5] In its second week it dropped to number fourteen, selling a further 46,720 copies.^[6]

The song "The Lords of Salem" was nominated for the Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance of 2008.^[7]

Christian Hoard of Rolling Stone magazine had this to say:

Music videos

Zombie directed music videos for "Foxy Foxy" and "American Witch". Artist and animator David Hartman created two animated music videos, for "American Witch" and "The Lords of Salem".

Track listing

All songs written by Rob Zombie, John 5 and Scott Humphrey unless otherwise noted.

Personnel

Music

• Rob Zombie – vocals, lyrics
• John 5 – guitars, additional bass, background vocals
• Blasko – bass, background vocals
• Tommy Clufetos – drums, background vocals
• Scott Humphrey – additional guitars, additional bass, background vocals
• Tommy Lee – additional drums
• Josh Freese – additional drums
• Audrey Wiechman – background vocals

Recording & Other

• Scott Humphrey – producer, mixing
• Rob Zombie – producer
• Tom Baker – mastering
• Chris Baseford – engineer
• Todd Harapiak – assistant engineer
• Will Thompson – assistant engineer

Art & Design

• Rob Zombie – art direction, package design, additional photos
• Kristin Burns – photos
• Drew Fitgerald – art direction

Chart positions

Album

Singles

Miscellanea

• "Let It All Bleed Out" was used on the game Scarface: The World is Yours by Radical Entertainment.
• "Foxy Foxy" was featured on the April 13, 2006, episode of The O.C., "The Dawn Patrol".
• "Foxy Foxy" was also used for Candice Michelle's Playboy cover Unveiling on an episode of WWE Monday Night RAW.
• The introductory track "Sawdust In The Blood" is a recreation (and modification) of Brad Fiedel's instrumental piece "'Trust Me'", featured in the film Terminator 2: Judgment Day.^[9]

References