The Gift of Game
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| Studio album by Crazy Town | ||||
| Released | November 9, 1999 (U.S.) | |||
| Recorded | 1999 at Westlake Audio, Los Angeles | |||
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| Length | 45:17 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Josh Abraham | |||
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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 hit to date with "Butterfly" which reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on March 24, 2001.
Worldwide the album sold more than 2.5 million units, with more than 1.5 million in the US alone.
The girl licking the lollipop on the cover of the album is a fictional character created by Crazy Town, known as "Little Lolita". Both the album title and the picture of Little Lolita are based on lyrics from the song "Lollipop Porn". The album cover was designed by co-lead singer Shifty Shellshock's father and uncle. A song titled "Lolita" later appeared on Shellshock's solo album Happy Love Sick and her image reappears on Crazytown's third album The Brimstone Sluggers.
Steve Huey at AllMusic described the album as "similar to many other rap-inflected alternative metal albums in that it concentrates on sound over structure, creating macho, aggressive grooves with grinding, noisily textured guitars and the underlying feel of squared-off hip-hop beats. While Huey argued that the shows signs of Limp Bizkit's "juvenile humor", it shows "promise". April Long of NME criticized the album for its generic guitar riffs, and containing "some of the most Neanderthal lyrics ever written"
(Tracks 15 to 31 are silence)
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