Crazy Town - The Gift Of Game (25th Anniversary) [LP - Red Devil Velvet]

“Come my lady/Come-Come my lady/You’re my butterfly, sugar baby”…If there was a song-track to the turn of the millennium, Crazy Town’s “Butterfly” was it, starting with its appearance on the 1999 album Gift of Game and winding up with its reign at #1 in the charts in February 2001. Anchored by a sample of Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Pretty Little Ditty,” it forever defined the term “nu-metal power ballad,” and was a rare-for-the-genre love song to boot! But the album from whence it came didn’t fly as high as it did, with over 2.5 million copies sold, just because of “Butterfly.” The Gift of Game brings the noise with an all-out alternative metal assault, and the band’s rappers—bolstered by guest appearances from KRS-One and Mad Lion—are markedly better than their rap/metal contemporaries. And then there’s the album art, created by member Shifty Shellshock’s father and uncle, which lends a vivid rendering to the fantasies of every teenage boy listening to “Lollipop Porn.” In short, this was a freakin’ HUGE record that somehow…somehow!...has NEVER been on vinyl.

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Tracklist

1. Intro
2. Toxic
3. Think Fast
4. Darkside
5. Black Cloud
6. Butterfly
7. Only When I'm Drunk
8. Hollywood Babylon
9. Face The Music
10. Lollipop Porn
11. Revolving Door
12. Players (Only Love You When They're Playing)
13. B-Boy 2000
14. Outro www.crazytown.com