The Gift of Game
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| The Gift of Game | ||
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| Studio album by Crazy Town | ||
| Released | November 9, 1999 (U.S.) | |
| Recorded | Spring 1999 - Summer 1999 at Westlake Audio, Los Angeles, California | |
| Label | Columbia Records | |
| Producer(s) | Josh Abraham | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Crazy Town chronology | ||
| The Gift of Game (1999) |
Darkhorse (2002) |
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The Gift of Game is the first album by Los Angeles band Crazy Town. It was released on November 9, 1999 in the U.S. by Columbia Records. The album yielded the band its biggest American hit yet in "Butterfly" reaching number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on March 24, 2001.
This album features guest appearances from Orgy members Jay Gordon and Amir Derakh and legendary rapper KRS-One.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
(Tracks 15 to 31 are silence)
- "Intro" – 0:25
- "Toxic" – 2:48
- "Think Fast" – 3:52
- "Darkside" – 3:52
- "Black Cloud" – 5:02
- "Butterfly" – 3:36
- "Only When I'm Drunk" – 2:47
- "Hollywood Babylon" – 4:23
- "Face the Music" – 3:24
- "Lollipop Porn" – 3:54
- "Revolving Door" – 3:40
- "Players (Only Love You When They're Playing)" – 4:13
- "B-Boy 2000" – 4:27
- "Outro (www.crazytown.com)" – 1:19
- "Bonus Track" – 0:55
[edit] Personnel
- Bret Mazur – vocals, production
- Shifty – vocals
- DJ AM – turntables
- James Bradley Jr. – drums
- Rust Epique – guitar
- Anthony Valli – guitar
- Doug Miller – bass
- Oliver Campbell - backing vocals.
[edit] Trivia
The girl licking the lollipop on the cover of the album is a fictional character made up by Crazy Town, and is known as "Little Lolita".
Both the album title and the picture of Little Lolita are based on lyrics from the song "Lollipop Porn". The album title emerges from a line in the second verse "I'm what you call a ladykiller with the gift of game", and the main bulk of the chorus, "I've got a lollipop porn bitch, dead on arrival. A hardcore sex bitch turned suicidal" implies an abstract vision of Little Lolita.
"Only When I'm Drunk" is a cover song, originally done by Tha Alkaholiks. The Crazy Town cover also appears on Loud Rocks, a hip hop-artists-meets-rock artist collaborative album for artists on the Loud Records record label (Tha Alkaholiks were on Loud Records before the label folded).
[edit] Singles
- "Toxic" - 1999
- "Darkside" - 2000
- "Butterfly" - 2001
- "Revolving Door" - 2001
