MF Doom - tell me ten songs to download

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Just got the aspra on jagjawar and the mf doom production blew me away. very cool HOWEVER i know nothing about mf doom. please enlighten me with your wisdom.

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Greenbacks" is a good appetizer.

― scott m (mcd), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Just got the Doomsday album thee other day (30% out of business sale!) so I'm not too familiar with individual tracks, but the title track is definitely download worthy.
Also, if someone could tell you which is the one that samples 'super-ho' and has strings in it, then get that as well.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Can I say the Prefuse track?

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Actually the other 12" on Fondle 'em is worth the download and more, too: "Dead Bent" and "Gas Drawls," and next you'll have to go all the way back to KMD for the full crush.

That Prefuse track is really good. Doomsday for the most part left me super cold, I just never go into it.

― scott m (mcd), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

go=got

― scott m (mcd), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

1)fuck
2)mf
3)doom
4)and
5)his
6)snide
7)undie
8)beat
9)revisionism
10) sorry minna!!

― st, Friday, 11 April 2003 17:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

...the aspra on jagjawar...

I don't actually know what this means. Can you enlighten me?

― scott m (mcd), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Red & Gold and Rhymes Like Dimes both feature ultra cheesy public-television-from-the-70's muzak beats, which I happen to love. Who You Think I Am sounds like Wu-Tang Clan if they were backpackers, there's a guest MC who even sounds kinda like GZA on it. Dead Bent, Operation Greenbacks, Doomsday.. all good tracks. Honestly, if you're going to download ten songs just grab the whole album (Operation Doomsday) because as far as I remember (the record isn't in front of me) there are only about ten or so cuts on the album that aren't instrumentals/interludes spiked with samples from cartoons. Not that those are bad, especially if you're more into the production than the rapping. There's also a collection of instrumentals by Doom called Special Herbs vol. 1&2, but I can't suggest any specific cuts to download because I can't recall their names.

― Bobby D Gray (bedhead), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

this is the original email response to a friend ... it's jagjaguwar (secretly canadians) new signings - mf doom did the production on it and reinvented the band into his own perverse vision.

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man i just got this one jagjaguwar album in the post - it's really fucking good - hold on --- aspera - have you heard of it - aspera? it's got mad mf doom production on it - sounds like someone has established the first regimental american church of psychedelic hip hop and flaming lips rehabilition unit..... really persuasive .... smoked some pot when i got home and got fucked up with it not at it - ifyouknowwhatimean???

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

That Prefuse track (Blacklist) is the sheeznit. Didn't recommend it initially cuz you said you liked Doom's production.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is that Aspera ad Astra from philly? So it's their album remixed by MF Doom? It's a little hard to imagine but interesting.

― scott m (mcd), Friday, 11 April 2003 18:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah, they have changed their name to astra - it's UNIMAGINABLE but it's really fucking good. like a drug cloud or summthing.

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Friday, 11 April 2003 18:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

well fuckkk...there you go kids, youve made there be goddamn flaming lips of hiphop (besides smug aquemini era outkast hee hee what is it that j blount always says oh yeah *DUCKS*)

― st, Friday, 11 April 2003 18:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Listening to "Mountains Will Give" right now. There's nothing hip hop about it.

It appears that S Process and King Honey actually produced the record from the one-sheet.

― scott m (mcd), Friday, 11 April 2003 18:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oops. I got the press sheets mixed up! *embarrassed look*

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Friday, 11 April 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hold, it says INSPIRED by MF Doom productions on the press sheets. Oh well, still, it got me into MF Doom and what I can look out for - so *shrugs shoulders* still a good thing and from what I downloaded it is very similar!

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Friday, 11 April 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Doom produced the KMD albums which are both excellent

― oops (Oops), Friday, 11 April 2003 18:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

it says INSPIRED by MF Doom

Yeah, no problem -- I can see the confusion, I was just listening to that Aspera track and thinking, "wow MF Doom has really branched out!" It's still cool... and MF Doom is still worth hearing.

― scott m (mcd), Friday, 11 April 2003 18:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Rhymes Like Dimes" is a hip hop classic, complete with Bobbito Garcia screaming at the end...

― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 11 April 2003 18:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

yes conversely maybe he can get dre and havoc and m.o.p. to 'improve' his joyless beats OH WAIT NOBODY GIVES A FUCK ABOUT MF DOOM

― st, Friday, 11 April 2003 18:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

... m.o.p. to 'improve' his joyless beats

You mean Premier? I'm not sure if it's fair to compare MF Doom to Premier. In fact, I'm not sure it's fair to compare anyone to Premier. And Havoc's beats are joyful?

― scott m (mcd), Friday, 11 April 2003 19:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

a lot of his solo production needs a mixdown, but it's kinda interesting. he has a great back story: dropped from label, bandmate/ brother killed, homeless, ressurected by bobbito...i think that's how it goes.

obvious answers:

1) KMD - What a Nigga Know
2) Rhymes Like Dimes
3) MF Doom and Madlib - america's most blunted
4) MF Doom and Madlib - Break of Dawn
5) Greenbacks
6) w/ MF Grimm - Tick, Tick...
7) kmd - Fuck With Ya Head!!
8) kmd - Peachfuzz
8) 3rd base - the gas face
9) Madlib and Mf Doom - be be be

― s>c>, Friday, 11 April 2003 19:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

ante up was produced by dr period not premo

― st, Friday, 11 April 2003 19:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I Hear Voices"
"No Snakes Alive" w/ MF Grimm
"True Thug MC" w/ this guy of the Monster Island Czars
"Monday Night At Fluid" w/ Kurious
"Put Your Quarter Up" w/ Slug & Aesop Rock

The collaboration with Madlib is really really dope. And King Honey has produced an entire album for him. It should be out before summer i hope.

― Etienne Menu (Etienne), Friday, 11 April 2003 19:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

And King Honey, he's the guy from aspra?

― MF SONNY, Friday, 11 April 2003 19:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

wtf st imagining doom as snide and joyless is the fuckin' pinnacle of undie-paranoid revisionism!

― zemko (bob), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

ha ha yes ironically ive only ever heard mr hood and totally loved it back in the day

― st, Friday, 11 April 2003 20:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Where the fuck can I find that Madlib collabo? I MUST HAVE IT!!!

― oops (Oops), Friday, 11 April 2003 22:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh rack off st! 'irnoically' the ten doom trax that are going on trife's tape:
1)the m.i.c.
2)i.b.'s (mf grimm)
3)doomsday
4)fast lane (kurious)
5)arrow root (instrumental)
6)green stacks
7)rhymes like dimes
8)i hear voices pt.0
9)the finest
10)backpedalling (e.p.)

― minna (minna), Saturday, 12 April 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

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