Burning My Soul (Original '96 w/ Hell's Kitchen) vs. New Millennium

[wasteland]

A quick question. I found myself listening to both songs after a long time, and perhaps not too surprisingly, as I am not the biggest fan of NM, found myself enjoying the original BMS/H'sK mashup way more than New Millennium.

I also think, as much as I love H'sK (my 2nd favourite DT instrumental), I believe Burning My Kitchen, as I usually jokingly refer to the original composition, is a great song that wouldn't have been by any mean out of place, quality wise, in the eventual album.

So, what does the vox populi have to say about this strikingly immaterial issue? 

FOR REFERENCE: BTS~H'sK '97 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG7R-tVIw9Q

[Prog Snob]

I was never a big Burning My Soul fan, though I do like Hell's Kitchen on it's own. It's not my favorite DT instrumental though. I'm going with NM.

[BlobVanDam]

Like most changes from the demos, I think the changes made to BMS were for the better. I really like BMS and HK, but they didn't flow together as a whole, so I prefer them individually. And I love NM as is, so that gets my vote.

[CharlesPL]

BMK

[hefdaddy42]

I was never a big Burning My Soul fan, though I do like Hell's Kitchen on it's own. It's not my favorite DT instrumental though. I'm going with NM.

This

Like most changes from the demos, I think the changes made to BMS were for the better. I really like BMS and HK, but they didn't flow together as a whole, so I prefer them individually. And I love NM as is, so that gets my vote.

And most of this

[YtseJamittaja]

Like most changes from the demos, I think the changes made to BMS were for the better. I really like BMS and HK, but they didn't flow together as a whole, so I prefer them individually. And I love NM as is, so that gets my vote.

This exactly.

And the intro of BMS is maybe the badassest intro ever.

[?]

Burning My Kitchen (what an awesome title! )

Hell's Kitchen is one of DT's greatest instrumentals, and BMS is alright. While they don't flow together that well, the combo still beats the crap out of New Millennium, which I've never really liked apart from the intro.

[wasteland]

Burning My Kitchen (what an awesome title! )

Hell's Kitchen is one of DT's greatest instrumentals, and BMS is alright. While they don't flow together that well, the combo still beats the crap out of New Millennium, which I've never really liked apart from the intro.

Exactly! The intro is all kind of awesome, what comes after that... Not so much. :/

[Setlist Scotty]

Burning My Soul/Hell's Kitchen

New Millennium is an OK song, but nothing special, IMO. Same is true of BMS on FII, but the instrumental break (that later became HK) elevates it. I might be biased since this was the original version of BMS that I became familiar with, listening to boots from the Fix for 96 shows long before FII was ever released. But then again, perhaps it's everyone else who heard BMS first on FII that is biased against it!   

[Prog Snob]

Burning My Soul/Hell's Kitchen

New Millennium is an OK song, but nothing special, IMO. Same is true of BMS on FII, but the instrumental break (that later became HK) elevates it. I might be biased since this was the original version of BMS that I became familiar with, listening to boots from the Fix for 96 shows long before FII was ever released. But then again, perhaps it's everyone else who heard BMS first on FII that is biased against it!   

That's exactly the same with me. I became familiar with the demo songs first and really took to those versions first. ESPECIALLY Take Away My Pain!  However I love the groove of New Millennium plus the Chapman stick is awesome.

[TheCountOfNYC]

I don't like Burning My Soul, Hell's Kitchen, or New Millennium all that much but I have said a few times on these forums that BMS and HK work much better together than apart so my vote goes to Burning My Kitchen.

[Rodni Demental]

Hmm.. Tricky. The choice didn't come instantly for me because the original arrangement of BMS is far superior to the butchered cut and paste job they did on the album. I think a lot of people can agree that BMS while not that bad, is one of the relatively weak 'rockers' (especially on it's own) and I just think it takes it up a notch with these added sections and the interlude between the first 2 verses as opposed to an extra unnecessary chorus. It flows better and feels more complete.

That beings said, New Millennium is one of my favourite songs so... I could hardly dismiss it just because BMSw/HK is a tiny bit better than the original. So NM it is.

[Kotowboy]

How about . . .





New Kitchen     



I like New Millennium a lot. It sounds like it could fit quite easily on Octavarium.  But I also love Hell's Kitchen. One of DT's better instrumentals.

[Zook]

Burning My Soul '96 is DT's opposite day song, as in a heavy song with a mellow instrumental section. I prefer Hell's Kitchen on its own, but I recently listened to BMS '96 and it wasn't that bad.

New Millennium took a while to click, but I like it. The groovy instrumental section is my favorite part of the song.

[wasteland]

To be honest, I was expecting the poll to be quite a bit more lopsided than how it's turning out to be!

[Calvin6s]

Big fan of Hell's Kitchen.  Not so hot on Burning My Soul.  So putting Hell's Kitchen back into BMS just ruins a perfectly good song.  New Millennium isn't one of my faves either.  Lines, Tears, Hell and Peruvian is what that album is about for me.

[Calvin6s]

Add Caught in Alice's Nine Inch Tool Garden as an option

[DreamerTV]

I really like New Millennium.
Never liked BMS, while Hell's Kitchen is my favourite DT instrumental but definitely out of its original allocation.

[Prog Snob]

Add Caught in Alice's Nine Inch Tool Garden as an option

I was thinking about that song earlier. 

[Dellers]

Burning My Soul is one of my least favorite songs of all time, not limited to DT. I really like New Millennium, so it's a really easy choice.

[Dublagent66]

BMS and HK are both fine separately as album tracks.  NM is better than the combined demo version.

[The Stray Seed]

New Millennium!!!! It's just awesome, and it has my favorite DT headbanging moment!!!!!!!

LIES TEN FEET TALL
HAVE BROKEN MY FALL
WELCOME TO A NEW MILLENNIUM!!!!!!!!!

[Ben_Jamin]

BMS, I love the intro, and how they reprise it as the instrumental. I enjoy when james sings "Burning my..." then it shifts.

Although I do prefer Hells Kitchens outro, it's better on L@B. They should bust this out next tour.

[aprilethereal]

BMS is pretty good and HK is a great instrumental, and I enjoy the combination of both, but I've actually come to really enjoy NM. So it gets my vote.

[Cable]

Hell's Kitchen is so great by itself. Also, what was added to it actually makes the song. The unison before the ending is incredible, and the ending is the best ending of all their instrumentals IMO. The HK part that is in the 96 version is not only out of place, but it is short relatively compared to their later career, and not super melodic. More akin to Trial of Tears instrumental, but that has a cool riff at least. I think if they started with the JP shred part, then switch to the atmospheric part it could have been better. But still knowing what HK turned into, I would not save it.

However, the parts and order of the final BMS work better on the demo.

New Millennium is the song that got me into the band, so I'm biased with it.

[LCArenas]

I choose Burning My Kitchen but just because I'm not really fond of New Millennium. I actually prefer Bahrningmahsawl apart from the greatness that is Hell's Kitchen.

[hefdaddy42]

Hell's Kitchen is so great by itself. Also, what was added to it actually makes the song. The unison before the ending is incredible, and the ending is the best ending of all their instrumentals IMO.

Exactly