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:''Cold Slither is a song from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''<br />
If you turn on a radio while you're with the [[Autobot]]s, it's ''extremely'' likely that you'll hear a particular piece of synthesized guitar rock playing. This composition is the eponymous song of the band [[Cold Slither (band)|Cold Slither]].<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
===Generation 1 cartoon===<br />
[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] was first to display a fondness for "Cold Slither", bringing up the tune on his radio in the midst of the "Autobot Run" charity race to serve as driving music and playing it throughout the race. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}}<br />
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"Cold Slither" was a big hit with the [[Dancitron]] crowd, so much so that it was almost all that the club played. {{storylink|Auto-Bop}}<br />
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[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]], [[Carly]] and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] attended a rock concert, where the band played "Cold Slither" (and another song at the same time) amid a seizure-inducing light show. Blaster transmitted the tune to the other Autobots. [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] found it exciting, and Jazz enjoyed it as well, but the rest found it to be a bunch of noise. {{storylink|Blaster Blues}}<br />
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The song by itself proved to be repellent to the mechanical [[Morphobot]] plants, which pulled away from the sound of it. Blaster was able to use this to the Autobots' advantage; by blasting the song through his speakers, he cleared a path through the alien plants to rescue a stranded Cosmos. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}}<br />
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===Shattered Glass===<br />
Cold Slither was included on the album [[Thunder Hammer]]. It was written by Blinken-Smythe, Wilken, & McCullan. {{storylink|Blitzwing Bop}}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
* "Cold Slither" originated on the ''G.I. Joe'' cartoon, where it was both the name of a rock group put together by [[Cobra]] in one of their most insidious (and topical, for the mid-80s) schemes, and their eponymous breakout hit. The [[Dreadnoks]] portrayed the band members and lip-synced a song (penned by the multi-talented [[Destro]]) containing subliminal messages. Upon hearing it, the listeners, including [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] team members [[Breaker]], [[Shipwreck]], and Footloose, were under Cobra's power.<br />
* Like much of ''G.I. Joe'''s [[Robert J. Walsh|stock background music]], it was recycled for ''The Transformers'', minus the lyrics, serving as one of two generic source music tracks during the cartoon's run (although the second, more frequently-played tune, a big-band number of synthesized guitars and trumpets, dates back another year or two to ''Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends'', at least).<br />
* Though the song as played in ''The Transformers'' was always instrumental, "Cold Slither" does have lyrics... and they're awesome:<br />
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====Generation One====<br />
:We're cold slither <br />
:You'll be joining us soon<br />
:A band of vipers<br />
:playing our tune<br />
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:With an iron fist<br />
:and a reptitle hiss<br />
:we shall rule!<br />
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:We're tired of words<br />
:We've heard it before<br />
:We're not gonna play the game no more<br />
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:Don't tell us what's right<br />
:Don't tell us what's wrong<br />
:Too late to resist<br />
:Cause Cobra is strong<br />
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:We're cold slither<br />
:Heavy metal machine<br />
:Through the eyes of a lizard<br />
:In you will dream<br />
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:When the venom stings<br />
:A new order brings<br />
:Our control<br />
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