The Gift of Game

Infobox Album
Name = The Gift of Game
Type = Studio album
Artist = Crazy Town


Released = November 9, 1999 (U.S.)
Recorded = 1999 at Westlake Audio, Los Angeles, California
Genre = Nu metal ,Rapcore
Length = 45:17
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = Josh Abraham
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:pe5j8qb9btm4 link]
*NME rating-10|3 [http://www.nme.com/reviews/crazy-town/4825 link]
Last album =
This album = "The Gift of Game" (1999)
Next album = "Darkhorse" (2002) |

"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 rapper KRS-One.

Track listing

(Tracks 15 to 31 are silence)
#"Intro" – 0:25
#"Toxic" – 2:48
#"Think Fast" – 3:52
#"Darkside" – 3:52
#"Black Cloud" (featuring Jay Gordon of Orgy) - 5:02
# "Butterfly" (sampled Red Hot Chili Peppers) - 3:36
#"Only When I'm Drunk" – 2:47
#"Hollywood Babylon" – 4:23
#"Face the Music" – 3:24
#"Lollipop Porn" – 3:54
#"Revolving Door" (sampled Siouxsie & the Banshees)– 3:40
#"Players (Only Love You When They're Playing)" – 4:13
#"B-Boy 2000" (featuring KRS-One) - 4:27
#"Outro (www.crazytown.com)" – 1:19

32. [The Gift of Game Hidden Track] – 0:55

Personnel

*Bret Mazur – vocals, keyboard
*Shifty – vocals
*DJ AM – turntables
*James Bradley Jr. – drums
*Rust Epique – guitar
*Anthony Valli – guitar
*Doug Miller – bass

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".Fact|date=January 2008

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.or|date=December 2007

"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).

ingles

*"Toxic" - 1999
*"Darkside" - 2000
*"Butterfly" - 2001
*"Revolving Door" - 2001

External links

*http://www.amazon.com/Gift-Game-Crazy-Town/dp/B0000296JD