Monsters and Robots

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Monsters and Robots
Monsters and Robots cover
Studio album by Buckethead
Released April 20, 1999
Recorded 1998-1999
Genre Experimental rock, funk metal
Length 50:54
Label Higher Octave
Producer Pete Scaturro, Les Claypool, Extrakd, Bill Laswell
Professional reviews
Buckethead chronology
Colma
(1998)
Monsters and Robots
(1999)
KFC Skin Piles
(2001)

Monsters and Robots is Buckethead's 5th studio album, released April 20, 1999, by Higher Octave records. A large part of the album was co-written with Les Claypool, who also plays bass on several tracks and lends his vocals to the track "The Ballad of Buckethead". The song Night of the Slunk was used in the TV show My Name Is Earl at the end of the episode "Bounty Hunter".

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Jump Man" – 4:21
  2. "Stick Pit" – 3:40
  3. "The Ballad of Buckethead" – 3:59
  4. "Sow Thistle" – 4:30
  5. "Revenge of the Double-Man" – 3:34
  6. "Night of the Slunk" – 5:43
  7. "Who Me?" – 2:08
  8. "Jowls" – 4:26
  9. "The Shape Vs. Buckethead" – 5:40
  10. "Stun Operator" – 4:17
  11. "Scapula" – 4:04
  12. "Nun Chuka Kata" – 4:30
  13. "Remote Viewer #13" – 4:18
    • Only on Japanese version.

[edit] Credits


  • Tracks 1, 8, 11 recorded at Horn of Zeus.
    • Produced & mixed by Pete Scaturro & Rob Beaton.
    • [Jowls originally recorded by Howard Johnson @ Different Fur Recording]
    • Recording assistance on 8 by Mark Weber, on 11 by Mark Weber & Eric Ware.
  • Tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 13 recorded at Rancho Relaxo studios.
  • Tracks 4 & 9 recorded at the Embalming Plant.
    • Produced by Extrakd.
  • Track 6 recorded at Orange Music.
  • Additional production on tracks 1, 4 & 9 by Bootsy Collins at Bootzilla Re-hab P-form School.
  • Mastered by Don E. Tyler at Precision Mastering.


  • A&R direction: Warren Schummer.
  • Design, illustration & photography: Dave McKean @ Hourglass.
  • Cover illustration for Buckethead No. 2: Bryan Frankenseuss Theiss.
  • Photographs on pgs. 3, 6, 7 & back inlay: Warren Schummer.
  • 3-d programming: Max MacMuffin.
  • Production manager: Gina Grimes.
  • Product marketing manager: Kenny Nemes.
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