- 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 byLos Angeles bandCrazy Town . It was released onNovember 9 ,1999 in the U.S. byColumbia Records . The album yielded the band its biggest American hit yet in "Butterfly" reaching number 1 on theBillboard Hot 100 onMarch 24 2001 .This album features guest appearances from Orgy members
Jay Gordon andAmir Derakh and rapperKRS-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 ofOrgy ) - 5:02
# "Butterfly" (sampledRed 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" (sampledSiouxsie & the Banshees )– 3:40
#"Players (Only Love You When They're Playing)" – 4:13
#"B-Boy 2000" (featuringKRS-One ) - 4:27
#"Outro (www.crazytown.com)" – 1:19- [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 – bassTrivia
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 " - 2001External links
*http://www.amazon.com/Gift-Game-Crazy-Town/dp/B0000296JD
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