Q: I noticed that "All I Want for Christmas" is different than "Want" on the Liquid album.
Nicole: That's because there are two different "Want" pieces. I had written "Want" as its own piece--which was pretty dark--and Ray over at Zero Hour had heard that one. I decided to do sort of a funny version of that [for his record]. Originally there was "Want"--"All I Want for Christmas (And Other Holidays Where We Speak of Dead Men)"--and the Christmas piece, which didn't end up in the book because we had to cut some things out. It works better live than it does on the page so I didn't mind losing that one. The track on the Recoil record was the only one that was adapted from existing text. It was sort of rolling around in my head when Alan [Wilder] gave me the track. It had never been recorded before so I didn't mind using it. It became a very different piece.
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Nicole Blackman explained this in an interview.
Q: I noticed that "All I Want for Christmas" is different than "Want" on the Liquid album.
Nicole: That's because there are two different "Want" pieces. I had written "Want" as its own piece--which was pretty dark--and Ray over at Zero Hour had heard that one. I decided to do sort of a funny version of that [for his record]. Originally there was "Want"--"All I Want for Christmas (And Other Holidays Where We Speak of Dead Men)"--and the Christmas piece, which didn't end up in the book because we had to cut some things out. It works better live than it does on the page so I didn't mind losing that one. The track on the Recoil record was the only one that was adapted from existing text. It was sort of rolling around in my head when Alan [Wilder] gave me the track. It had never been recorded before so I didn't mind using it. It became a very different piece.