- Play with Toys
Infobox Album | Name = Play With Toys
Type =Album
Artist =Basehead
Released = 1992
Recorded = 1992
Genre =Alternative hip hop
Length = 40:59
Label = Imago
Producer = Michael Ivey
Engineer = Bob Dewald
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://wm04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hbftxq95ldte~T1 link]
*"Fast Folk " (favorable) Allen, Jim, [http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/fast_folk/FFFF609.pdf "The Ten Best Albums of 1992"] , "Fast Folk Musical Magazine ", 6:9-10, (February 1993) p.12-13]
Last album = —
This album = "Play With Toys" (1992)
Next album = "Not In Kansas Anymore" (1993)"Play with Toys" is the debut album of
Basehead . Voted one of the top 50 albums of 1992 in Q magazine, [ [http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qlists.html#1992 Q - End of Year Lists ] ] Voted #43 in NME’s top albums of 1992. [ [http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/1992.html 1992 NME Lists ] ] the album was originally released in limited quantities on the Emigre label [ECD 005] and was subsequently rereleased on a larger label, Imago, with some of the tracks altered to remove samples that had not been cleared prior to its initial release.Track listing
#"Intro" (Ivey) – 1:02
#"2000 BC" (Ivey) – 4:15
#"Brand New Day" (Ivey) – 4:52
#"Not Over You" (Ivey) – 4:38
#"Better Days" (Ivey) – 3:09
#"Ode to my Favourite Beer" (Ivey) – 3:42
#"Hair" (Ivey) – 3:48
#"Evening News" (Ivey) – 4:37
#"I Try" (Ivey) – 3:53
#"Play With Toys" (Ivey) - 4:03
#"Outro" (Ivey) - 2:56Music Videos
#"2000 BC", directed by Douglas Gayeton (Satellite Films)
#"Not Over You", directed by Douglas Gayeton (Satellite Films)Personnel
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Michael Ivey – Guitar, Vocals and other stuff
*Brian Hendrix – Live drums
*Bruce 'Kool Aid' Gardner - Live drums on "2000 BC"
*Paul 'DJ Unique' Howard - scratches
*Bob Dewald - Bass on "Play With Toys"
*Marco Delmar - feedback solo on "Play With Toys"References
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