Situation

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Situation
Studio album by Buck 65
Released	2007
Genre	Hip hop
Label	Warner Music (Worldwide) / Strange Famous Records (US)
Professional reviews
Robert Christgau (A-) link The Guardian link Metacritic (67/100) link Pitchfork (6.3/10) link Tiny Mix Tapes link Yahoo! Music link
Buck 65 chronology
Strong Arm 2006 Situation 2007

Situation is an album by Buck 65 released on October 30th, 2007. On May 17, 2007, Buck 65's website posted a message saying that "Skratch Bastid and Roger Swan have begun mixing Buck 65's new record Situation at Hipposonic studios in Vancouver." [1]

On August 7th, Pitchfork media announced that Strange Famous Records would be releasing Situation in the US. [2] Skratch Bastid also confirmed that they had already finished a version of the album that was sample-heavy that they were afraid to release. This is the reason for the album's release date being pushed back. He also said information that would lead to believe that they would leak the original version of the album the day after the new version's official release date.

The song "1957" makes reference to various events in the year 1957, including the birth of punk rocker Sid Vicious, the relocation of the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles, the apprehension of serial killer Ed Gein, the obscenity trial surrounding the Allen Ginsberg poem "Howl", and the death of Humphrey Bogart. Some events mentioned in the song did not actually occur in 1957: the marriage of Arthur Miller to Marilyn Monroe and the release of the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers both happened in 1956. The song begins identically to the beginning of the poem "Howl": "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed", but differs lyrically from that point.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Intro" (1:40)
2. "1957" (3:57)
3. "Dang" (2:38)
4. "Lipstick" (3:08)
5. "Shutter Buggin'" (3:27)
6. "Spread 'Em" (2:50)
7. "Ho-Boys" (3:46)
8. "Way Back When" (3:32)
9. "Cop Shades" (4:07)
10. "The Beatific" (3:16)
11. "Mr. Nobody" (3:02)
12. "The Rebel" (3:15)
13. "Benz" feat. Cadence Weapon (2:32)
14. "Heatwave" (2:59)
15. "The Outskirts" (3:12)
16. "White Bread" (4:00)
17. "Way Back When" (k-os Remix) (3:36) — Bonus track on some versions