Play With Toys

Basehead | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 23, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Imago Records
• ASIN: B0000040PB
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #74,534 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #15 in Music > Indie Music > Rap & Hip-Hop > Experimental

Track Listings

1. Intro

2. 2000 B.C.

3. Brand New Day

4. Not Over You

5. Better Days

6. Ode to My Favorite Beer

7. Hair

8. Evening News

9. I Try

10. Play with Toys

11. Outro

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars basehead review, February 28, 2004

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Dokter Pogo (New Orleans) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Play With Toys (Audio CD)

One reviewer was right on in pointing out that this album came out years before Beck blew up. For those of you that haven't heard this yet, this album is filled with relaxed breakbeats, jangly guitars and singing about breaking up, drinking, bad hair, and the hope of a brand new day. The intro and outro tracks are funny as hell, and the samples are as much a part of the music as the vocals. They aren't thrown in just to spice up the music, they tell part of the story. This is a very easy album to get into, and I do believe that fans of any genre can listen to this and appreciate it. It's a shame that this album is relatively obscure, almost NEVER getting any radio play other than on the occasional college station. Help this talented man out and buy this album. I heard that he's a religious man now, but who knows...maybe with enough interest, he'll convert back to the dark side of Basehead.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Let's get drunk till we turn blue, January 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Play With Toys (Audio CD)

Fabulous album worthy of being played over and over and over again. It epitomized the waning days of my college career. However, you do you have to listen closely to pick up on the wry sense of humor. I have never heard a rap albums possess this sense of introspection about beer (ie Ode to My Favorite Beer) and women who shun you.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A lazy, laid back classic, December 24, 2002

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"deltafront" (Silverdale, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Play With Toys (Audio CD)

Take with maximum pharms, folks. This understated masterpiece is like the first "Friday;" massively blissed out, unassuming, and takes the world by storm. There has not been a CD like it since. Off-Kilter vocals, gently strummed guitars, and hillarious sample all drift in and out of consciousness. Thing is, this CD is a decade old, and every time I hear it, I am left thinking that it is still fresher than most of the music being released today. Dieu merci for the small labels.