A.O.S.

From a blog post by MQHanlon:

"All these years later, the only clue to the origins of the track lies in the song credits for Wilbrandt, Buhlert, and Lovsky. Are those the members of A.O.S.? Fay Lovsky shed some light for me.

“Klaus Buhlert and I made this song together for a project,” she described over email. "He sent me the instrumental … I thought of a melody to sing and I wrote the words.“ Buhlert built the instrumental side partly by using loops of a recording session he produced for the 1991 album "Alone, For a Second,” a collection of Erik Satie compositions arranged by Thomas Wilbrandt. Buhlert gave a copy of “History (Repeats Itself)” to Wilbrandt as a thank you for use of his arrangements in the loops. A few years later, Wilbrandt found himself in a position to submit an audition tape to Oliver Stone and Budd Carr for use in Natural Born Killers, and "History (Repeats Itself)” found its way onto that tape. Stone and Carr rejected the rest of Wilbrandt’s submissions, but loved the song. Despite having precious little to do with the song’s creation, Wilbrandt took ownership of the song and got it onto the soundtrack.

Buhlert wasreally the brain behind A.O.S., and had recorded a full album. Lovsky contributed vocals to a few other songs, but Wilbrandt had no other connection to it. Unfortunately for A.O.S., Lovsky explains, “Klaus’ project, involving cooperation with other artists besides me, didn’t seem to catch on with any record company.""