Population Override

Studio album by Buckethead

Released

March 30, 2004 (CD)
January, 2015 (Vinyl)

Genre

Jazz fusion, progressive rock, experimental rock, blues rock

Length

55:22

Label

ION

Buckethead chronology

Island of Lost Minds
(2004)

Population Override
(2004)

The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell
(2004)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Population Override is the twelfth studio album by Buckethead, but it could be seen as his first full collaboration with keyboardist Travis Dickerson. The album is a tribute to the "great vinyl records of the '60s and '70s",^[2] with songs more often than not drifting off into long jams.

“	Almost all the music is just us communicating as we play. The songs started as a riff that either I or Bucket would start playing and then we would all go from there. On some of the tracks we worked out some cord [sic] changes but a lot of them were just made up as we went. We worked out a lot of stuff as overdubs and that helped give it structure. (...) We recorded the little guitar snippets just for what they were used for, track segues.	”
—Travis Dickerson, ^[3]

The album was written after the sessions for the album "Brain Circus", by Cornbugs, which features Buckethead, Bill "Choptop" Moseley, Pinchface and Travis Dickerson. This album was the start of other albums like Gorgone, Chicken Noodles, and Left Hanging.

The cover shows several buildings from downtown Toronto, including the Royal York Hotel and the Canada Trust Tower.^[4]^[5]

On January 2015, the label re-issued the album on vinyl format on a limited pressing of 1000 copies. The vinyl version was originally intended to feature the album by itself, but due to the length of the album, it would not be able to fit in a single LP and would be too little for 2LPs. Instead, the label tried to find outtakes coming from these sessions in order to fill the gap resulting from pressing the album on 2LPs, but Dickerson explained that there were no outtakes left from these sessions. Instead, the label decided to go ahead with the re-issue by filling the gap with 6 bonus songs, 3 from the album Cobra Strike and the other 3 from Funnel Weaver.^[6]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Unrestrained Growth"	7:47
2.	"Too Many Humans"	8:28
3.	"Population Override"	8:37
4.	"Humans Vanish"	0:33
5.	"Cruel Reality of Nature"	3:49
6.	"A Day Will Come"	8:34
7.	"Earth Heals Herself"	6:38
8.	"Clones"	4:33
9.	"Super Human"	4:49
10.	"..."	1:34
Total length:		55:22

Credits

References

↑ Population Override at AllMusic
↑ "population_override". Tdrsmusic.com. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
↑ TDRS message boards, May 2004
↑ "Royal York Hotel Toronto - Royal York Hotel Toronto information and pictures". Gothereguide.com. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
↑ "BCE Place - BCE Place information and pictures". Gothereguide.com. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
↑ Travis Dickerson speaking about repressing albums on vinyl

Buckethead

Solo discography

Studio albums

Bucketheadland (1992)
Giant Robot (1994)
The Day of the Robot (1996)
Colma (1998)
Monsters and Robots (1999)
Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse (2001)
Funnel Weaver (2002)
Bermuda Triangle (2002)
Electric Tears (2002)
Bucketheadland 2 (2003)
Island of Lost Minds (2004)
Population Override (2004)
The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell (2004)
Enter the Chicken (2005)
Kaleidoscalp (2005)
Inbred Mountain (2005)
The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock (2006)
Crime Slunk Scene (2006)
Pepper's Ghost (2007)
Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot (2007)
Cyborg Slunks (2007)
Albino Slug (2008)
Slaughterhouse on the Prairie (2009)
A Real Diamond in the Rough (2009)
Forensic Follies (2009)
Needle in a Slunk Stack (2009)
Shadows Between the Sky (2010)
Spinal Clock (2010)
Captain EO's Voyage (2010)
Electric Sea (2012)

Pikes series

2010	3 Foot Clearance

2011	It's Alive Empty Space Underground Chamber Look Up There

2012	Balloon Cement The Shores of Molokai Racks March of the Slunks The Silent Picture Book

2013	Forgotten Library Propellar Pike 13 The Mark of Davis Pike 15 The Boiling Pond The Spirit Winds Pike 18 Teeter Slaughter Thaw Spiral Trackway Sphere Facade Telescape Slug Cartilage Pancake Heater Worms for the Garden Halls of Dimension Feathers Splatters Mannequin Cemetery Pearson's Square Rise of the Blue Lotus Pumpkin Thank you Ohlinger's The Pit Hollowed Out It Smells Like Frogs Twisterlend Pikes Coat of Charms Wishes

2014	Backwards Chimney Pike 43 You Can't Triple Stamp a Double Stamp The Coats of Claude Rainy Days Roller Coaster Track Repair Hide in the Pickling Jar Monument Valley Pitch Dark Claymation Courtyard Factory City of Ferris Wheels The Frankensteins Monsters Blinds The Miskatonic Scale Cycle Night Gallery Outpost Ydrapoej Footsteps Citacis Outlined for Citacis Grand Gallery Aquarium Hold Me Forever (In memory of my mom Nancy York Carroll) Leave the Light On Abandoned Slaughterhouse Assignment 033-03 Pike 69 Snow Slug Celery Closed Attractions Final Bend of the Labyrinth Infinity Hill Twilight Constrictor Pike 76 Bumbyride Dreamlands Pike 78 Geppetos Trunk Cutout Animatronic Carnival of Cartilage Calamity Cabin Dreamless Slumber Whirlpool Walk in Loset Our Selves Interstellar Slunk Red Pepper Restaurant The Time Travelers Dream Listen for the Whisper Pike 91 The Splatterhorn Coaster Coat Magic Lantern Northern Lights Yarn Passageways Pilot Polar Trench The Mighty Microscope In The Hollow Hills

2015	Sideway Streets Squid Ink Lodge Project Little Man The Moltrail Forest of Bamboo Weird Glows Gleam Collect Itself The Left Panel Wall To Wall Cobwebs Night of the Snow Mole Creaky Doors and Creaky Floors Herbie Theatre Glow in the Dark Marble Monsters Infinity of the Spheres Vacuum Elevator Pike 119 Louzenger Shaded Ray The Other Side of the Dark Scroll of Vegetable Rotten Candy Cane Along the River Bank Tourist Paint to the Tile Tucked Into Dreams Forever Lake Down in the Bayou Part Two

Extended plays

KFC Skin Piles (2001)

Special releases

In Search of The (2007)
Acoustic Shards (2007)
Bucketheadland Blueprints (re-release) (2007)
From the Coop (2008)

Videos

Demos

Giant Robot (1991)
Bucketheadland Blueprints (1991)
Grab Bag #1 (1995)
Grab Bag #2 (1996)
Grab Bag #3 (1998)

As Death Cube K

Dreamatorium (1994)
Disembodied (1997)
Tunnel (1999)
DCK (2007)
Monolith (2007)
Torn from Black Space (2009)

Notable songs

"Welcome to Bucketheadland" (1994)
"Binge and Grab (instrumental version)" (1994)
"Big Sur Moon" (1998)
"The Ballad of Buckethead" (1999)
"Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse" (2001)
"Spokes for the Wheel of Torment" (2004)
"We Are One" (2005) "Botnus" (2005)
"Three Fingers" (2005)
Nottingham Lace" (2005) "Jordan" (2006)
"The Landing Beacon" (2009)

Bands and projects

Artists	Alix Lambert & Travis Dickerson Bryan "Brain" Mantia Brain and Melissa Reese Brain and Travis Dickerson Jonas Hellborg & Michael Shrieve Travis Dickerson Viggo Mortensen

Bands	Cobra Strike Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains Cornbugs Deli Creeps El Stew Frankenstein Brothers Giant Robot Gorgone Guns N' Roses Praxis Science Faxtion Shin Terai Thanatopsis Buckethead & Brain (Pieces)

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