Operation Doomsday

MF Doom | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 1, 2000)
• Original Release Date: March 7, 2000
• Label: Sub Verse
• ASIN: B00004S91G
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (73 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #743,126 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Time We Faced Doom (Skit)

2. Doomsday

3. Rhymes Like Dimes

4. The Finest

5. Back in the Days (Skit)

6. Go with the Flow

7. Tick, Tick...

8. Red and Gold

9. The Hands of Doom (Skit)

10. Who You Think I Am?

11. Doom, Are You Awake? (Skit)

12. Hey!

13. Operation: Greenbacks

14. The Mic

15. The Mystery of Doom (Skit)

16. Dead Bent

17. Gas Drawls

18. I Hear Voices, Pt. 1 [*]

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Underneath his mysterious metal mask, MF Doom hides the cachet underground legends are made of. After KMD's 1994 sophomore album Black Bastards was turfed by Elektra in 1994 and Subroc (one half of the sibling rhyme duo) passed away, surviving KMD member Zev Love X mutated into the MC Avenger known as MF Doom. The rap world is better for it. This 19-cut, deep LP is ridiculously dope, in a bizarro Ol' Dirty Bastard kind of way. Doom sounds either high or drunk on most of the tracks, his self-produced beats are gritty, and his rhyme styles are almost indecipherable. On arguably the best track, "Rhymes Like Dimes," Doom weaves some pointed lyrics through his abstract wordplay, spitting "only in America could you find a way to earn a healthy buck / And still keep your attitude on self-destruct." Doomsday features female vocalist Pebbles the Invisible accompanying the masked rhyme avenger on his journey to denounce wack MCs, while on "?" he trades hot verses with former Columbia artist Kurious. Doom's avant-garde ghetto-rhyme philosophies take even more intentionally weird twists on "Tick, Tick..." where he and guest MC MF Grimm's flows warble over a rhythm track whose tempo speeds up and slows down continually. The comic-book themed skits, many of which include snippets of dialogue from Marvel's Dr. Doom series, will help take you deep into the mind of an MC who is as otherworldly as they come. And in today's bland commercial rap universe, Operation Doomsday's left-of-center beats and rhymes are the perfect remedy. --Dalton Higgins

Product Description

Underneath his mysterious metal mask, MF Doom hides the cachet underground legends are made of. After KMD's 1994 sophomore album Bl_ck B_st_rds was turfed by Elektra in 1994 and Subroc (one half of the sibling rhyme duo) passed away, surviving KMD member Zev Love X mutated into the MC Avenger known as MF Doom. The Rap world is better for it. This 19-cut deep album is ridiculously dope, in a bizarro Ol' Dirty Bastard kind of way. Doom sounds either high or drunk on most of the tracks, his self-produced beats are gritty, and his rhyme styles are almost indecipherable. On arguably the best track, "Rhymes Like Dimes," Doom weaves some pointed lyrics through his abstract wordplay, spitting 'only in America could you find a way to earn a healthy buck / And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.' Doomsday features female vocalist Pebbles the Invisible accompanying the masked rhyme avenger on his journey to denounce wack MCs, while on "?" he trades hot verses with former Columbia artist Kurious Jorge. Doom's avant-garde ghetto-rhyme philosophies take even more intentionally weird twists on "Tick, Tick..." where he and guest MC MF Grimm's flows warble over a rhythm track whose tempo speeds up and slows down continually. The comic-book themed skits, many of which include snippets of dialogue from Marvel s Dr. Doom series, will help take you deep into the mind of an MC who is as otherworldly as they come. And in today's bland commercial Rap universe, Operation Doomsday's left-of-center beats and rhymes are the perfect remedy. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE ESSENCE OF HIP-HOP, August 3, 2005

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S. Robinson "juice jillion" (Savannah) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Operation Doomsday (Audio CD)

Amazing. This album embodies everything that hip-hop is all about, and basically that is having fun. Oh sure, he's got some social commentary thrown in as on "Rhymes Like Dimes" where part of the hook goes "Only in America could you find a way to make a healthy buck and still keep your attitude on self-destruct..." but mostly he's just kicking extraordinary rhymes with a seemingly effortless flow. There is an unpolished gritty feel to the whole project as MF DOOM proclaims on "Dead Bent" that he "comes through raw like the elements..." Perhaps one of the most intriguing elements of MF DOOM's music is his ability to combine the scientific with the street. His sampled skits of Stan Lee's Dr. Doom, full of scientific malarkey, beakers boiling and maniacal threats of world domination blend in seemlessly with the sounds of sub-way trains, and urban soundscapes. Despite the oft times silliness of this album there is an eerie quality to it that is more than likely owing to the fact that MF DOOM's brother SubRoc was killed a few years before the making of this album and the shout out he gives to his deceased brother on "Kurious?" where he exclaims "...everything is going exactly according to plan, man." is spine chilling. Strangley there was little indication within his previous work with K.M.D. to suggest that MF DOOM would someday become arguably the worlds greatest emcee. His days of relative recluse after his brothers death were obviously spent honing his writing, producing, and dee-jaying skills but all seemed to have grown exponentially in a relatively short amount of time. Thus the comic book skits of Dr. Doom's strange disappearance after a life altering accident only to return as a Super Villain seem less like a contrived gimmick and more like a chilling parallel to MF DOOM's life and work further enhancing the mysterious atmosphere of this album. All the beats on this album are sampled but probably none of the samples were cleared thus the album was pulled from circulation. He grabs everything from Scooby-Doo to Sade to Quincy Jones to SteelyDan and he doesn't care if you know it even crooning a bit of Atlantic Starr's "Always" on "Rhymes Like Dimes". The heavily sampled, surreal yet cerebral kaleidiscope of sound on this album puts me in the mind frame of The Beatles "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite", yet this is true hip-hop.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WACK TRAFFIC RE-ISSUE, October 12, 2008

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Djordje Stojadinovic (Belgrade,SERBIA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Operation Doomsday (Audio CD)

I'm not gonna review the album,because we all know it's a classic,probably top 10 of all time,but this re-issue is so wack that I don't know where to start describing it.It look's like cheap bootleg.The "booklet" is just one page and it's white on inside,the cd is also cheap looking.This is not the original cd this is official bootleg.I am willing to invest money in my cd collection,what i've been doing for 18 years,but if this is what I get for my money,maybe I should start downloading.I know that original press was also low budget,but they can put little more effort in this.As far as I hear voices track goes that was bonus cut on 2001 version of this album on sub verse records.This track listing is from original pressing on fondle 'em, records from 1999.PEACE

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Greatest of the Independent Hip-Hop Albums, April 27, 2006

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OverTheMoon ([e-mail]) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Operation: Doomsday (Audio CD)

This is the Independent equivalent of NAS - Illmatic as MF Doom literally grabs a microphone and a tape deck and creates an album that has all the evidence that it was done in his bedroom. It has clips from everything from a `Speak and Spell' to the Fantastic 4 cartoon (a nod to Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele use of Ironman) before the hip-hop kicks in with some great beats and background vocals, there is something about MF Doom's voice and lyrics that catches you when he matches the beats almost perfectly and can hold for break-beats right on cue and then spins his rap around the tunes in ways that really haven't been done before elsewhere. 'Tick Tick' is one of the strangest hip-hop tunes ever conceived but when you hear the way he can rap with those kind of beat changes every second or so is just amazing. MF Doom really is a very ill indie hip-hop talent that will surprise any mainstream listener. MF Doom is very popular with seasoned hip-hop enjoyers and it is not hard to see why. The pulsation that is Operation Doom is one of the best albums you can have in any album collection let alone a 'best of' Hip-Hop collection. It also remains highly arty in its overall form. This is important and hip-hop subgenre defining stuff stuff. Truly musical and with tons of heart and a mind to do something original and new. Wow.