The Gift of Game

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The Gift of Game

Studio album by Crazy Town

Released

November 9, 1999 (U.S.)

Recorded

1999 at Westlake Audio, Los Angeles, California

Genre

Alternative metal, Rap metal, Nu metal

Length

45:17

Professional reviews

Crazy Town chronology

The Gift of Game
(1999)

Darkhorse
(2002)

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 American hit yet in "Butterfly" reaching number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on March 24, 2001.

This album features guest appearances from Orgy members Jay Gordon and Amir Derakh and rapper KRS-One.

1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 Trivia
4 Singles
5 External links

[edit] Track listing

(Tracks 15 to 31 are silence)

"Intro" – 0:25
"Toxic" – 2:48
"Think Fast" – 3:52
"Darkside" – 3:52
"Black Cloud" (featuring Jay Gordon of Orgy) - 5:02
"Butterfly" (sampled Red Hot Chili Peppers) - 3:36
"Only When I'm Drunk" – 2:47
"Hollywood Babylon" – 4:23
"Face the Music" – 3:24
"Lollipop Porn" – 3:54
"Revolving Door" (sampled Siouxsie & the Banshees)– 3:40
"Players (Only Love You When They're Playing)" – 4:13
"B-Boy 2000" (featuring KRS-One) - 4:27
"Outro (www.crazytown.com)" – 1:19

[The Gift of Game Hidden Track] – 0:55

[edit] Personnel

Bret Mazur – vocals, keyboard
Shifty – vocals
DJ AM – turntables
James Bradley Jr. – drums
Rust Epique – guitar
Anthony Valli – guitar
Doug Miller – bass

[edit] Trivia

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The girl licking the lollipop on the cover of the album is a fictional character made up by Crazy Town, and is known as "Little Lolita".^{[citation needed]}

Both the album title and the picture of Little Lolita are based on lyrics from the song "Lollipop Porn". The album title emerges from a line in the second verse "I'm what you call a ladykiller with the gift of game", and the main bulk of the chorus, "I've got a lollipop porn bitch, dead on arrival. A hardcore sex bitch turned suicidal" implies an abstract vision of Little Lolita.^{[original research?]}

"Only When I'm Drunk" is a cover song, originally done by Tha Alkaholiks. The Crazy Town cover also appears on Loud Rocks, a hip hop-artists-meets-rock artist collaborative album for artists on the Loud Records record label (Tha Alkaholiks were on Loud Records before the label folded).