dubnobasswithmyheadman
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| Studio album by Underworld | |||||
| Released | December 1, 1993 | ||||
| Genre | Techno Trance Electronic Music |
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| Length | 72:53 | ||||
| Label | Junior Boys Own | ||||
| Producer | Underworld | ||||
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dubnobasswithmyheadman is a 1993 album by Underworld.
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[edit] Track listing
All songs by Karl Hyde and Rick Smith unless noted.
- "Dark & Long" – 7:35
- "Mmm... Skyscraper I Love You" (Darren Emerson/Hyde/Smith) – 13:08
- "Surfboy" (Emerson/Hyde/Smith) – 7:33
- "Spoonman" – 7:41
- "Tongue" – 4:50
- "Dirty Epic" – 9:55
- "Cowgirl" – 8:29
- "River of Bass" – 6:26
- "M.E." – 7:08
[edit] Artwork
Tomato, the art design collective that includes Underworld's Rick Smith and Karl Hyde, designed the artwork for dubnobasswithmyheadman. It features black and white type that has been "multiplied, smeared, and overlaid" so much that it is nearly unreadable, alongside a "bold symbol consisting of a fractured handprint inside a broken circle".[1] The artwork was originally intended for Tomato's book Mmm…Skyscraper I Love You: A Typographic Journal of New York, published in 1994.[2]
According to the authors of The Greatest Album Covers of All Time, the cover "set a new standard of presentation for subsequent Dance albums".[3] In Graphic Design: A New History, Stephen Eskilson cites the cover as a notable example of the "expressive, chaotic graphics" that developed in the 1990s, a design style he calls "grunge".[4] Paul Zelevansky of the journal Substance says that "the packaging … replays the visual poetry of the 1960s and '70s and fast forwards to the alchemical transformations of computer graphics packages."[5]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Zelevansky 136; Eskilson 375.
- ^ Miles et al. 214.
- ^ Miles et al. 214.
- ^ Eskilson 374.
- ^ Zelevansky 136.
[edit] References
- Eskilson, Stephen J. Graphic Design: A New History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
- Miles, Barry, Grant Scott, and Johnny Morgan. The Greatest Album Covers of All Time. London: Collins & Brown, 2005.
- Zelevansky, Paul. "Attention SPAM®." Substance, 26: 135–159, 1997.
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