Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Track Listings
1. Intro
2. 3000
3. I Got to Tell You
4. Earth People
5. No Awareness
6. Real Raw
7. General Hospital
8. Blue Flowers
9. Technical Difficulties
10. Visit to the Gynecologyst
11. Bear Witness
12. Dr. Octagon
13. Girl Let Me Touch You
14. I'm Destructive
15. Wild and Crazy
16. Elective Surgery
17. Halfsharkalligatorhalfman
18. Blue Flowers Revisited
19. Waiting List [DJ Shadow/Automator Mix] [DJ Shadow/Automaster Mix]
20. 1977

Editorial Reviews
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Maybe it was that downtime at Creedmoor Mental Hospital, but after he tuned out following the breakup of the hardheaded seminal hip-hop group the Ultramagnetic MCs, something must have flipped Kool Keith's wig like a mescaline pizza. I can think of no other way to explain the mutant birth of Dr. Octagonecologyst. Literally assuming another personality on this record, Dr. Octagon--Kool Keith on the mike, with Dan "The Automater" Nakamura producing--transmits unearthly rhymes like tractor beams to your cranium. Then he squirms around in there, grabs some Vaseline from your medicine cabinet, and does a little dance. The first time you listen to cuts like "Earth People" and "Blue Flowers," you might have to change the way you listen to hip-hop. The standards are the same--verse, chorus, verse, with plenty of nasty skits in the middle--and there are electro-beat shades of his predecessors, such as Afrika Baambaata, but the wordplay and beat compositions are truly light years from most hip-hop. Listening to this album is like trying to read the glyphs from Stargate. --Todd Levin

Dr. Octagonecologyst
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • asdf
  • Kool Keith pwns
  • What is there to say that hasn't already been said?
  • Some Earth People Will Feel Alienated...
  • One of the greatest
 Dr. Octagonecologyst
Dr. Octagon
Manufacturer: Dreamworks
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005AM7
Release Date: 1997-04-29

Tracks:

  1. Intro
  2. 3000
  3. I Got To Tell You
  4. Earth People
  5. No Awareness
  6. Real Raw
  7. General Hospital
  8. Blue Flowers
  9. Technical Difficulties
  10. A Visit To The Gynecologyst
  11. Bear Witness
  12. Dr. Octagon
  13. Girl Let Me Touch You
  14. I'm Destructive
  15. Wild And Crazy
  16. Elective Surgery
  17. Halfsharkalligatorhalfman
  18. Blue Flowers Revisited
  19. Waiting List (DJ Shadow/Automator Mix)
  20. 1977

Amazon.com

Maybe it was that downtime at Creedmoor Mental Hospital, but after he tuned out following the breakup of the hardheaded seminal hip-hop group the Ultramagnetic MCs, something must have flipped Kool Keith's wig like a mescaline pizza. I can think of no other way to explain the mutant birth of Dr. Octagonecologyst. Literally assuming another personality on this record, Dr. Octagon--Kool Keith on the mike, with Dan "The Automater" Nakamura producing--transmits unearthly rhymes like tractor beams to your cranium. Then he squirms around in there, grabs some Vaseline from your medicine cabinet, and does a little dance. The first time you listen to cuts like "Earth People" and "Blue Flowers," you might have to change the way you listen to hip-hop. The standards are the same--verse, chorus, verse, with plenty of nasty skits in the middle--and there are electro-beat shades of his predecessors, such as Afrika Baambaata, but the wordplay and beat compositions are truly light years from most hip-hop. Listening to this album is like trying to read the glyphs from Stargate. --Todd Levin

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars asdf.......2007-05-07

how can you possibly hate this truckers? kool keith at his most imaginative... don't even think about dissing... how could you possibly? for what he is trying to achieve here, koo keith and kid koala achieve in leaps and bounds...

5 out of 5 stars Kool Keith pwns.......2007-01-16

killer beats, and space style extreme. ground-breaking hip hop: expect nothing less from early kool keith. Try dr doom and sex style. avoid albums after that. he went downhill.

5 out of 5 stars What is there to say that hasn't already been said?.......2006-10-18

To some, bugged-out is an insult. To Kool Keith, it's a lifestyle. While other emcees talk about how insane they are, and use it merely as a gimmick, Keith has time spent in an asylum as proof of his authenticity. Is spending time in a padded-room neccessarily something to take pride in? Absolutely not. But for Kool Keith, it's something that has greatly set him apart from his contemporaries.

There isn't a moment on this album that Keith, under his Dr. Octagon alias, is even close to being sane; the stuff he spits is so outrageous, and so absurd, that even if you lived your life as a continuous acid trip, this album would still fly over your head like the UFOs Keith's so obsessed with. When he does the chorus to "Earth's People," spitting "Earth's people, New York and California, earth's people, I was born on Jupiter," he'll literally leave you scratching your temple for days on end, pondering what the heck he just said.

Yet he's so dope on the microphone, it doesn't matter. Track after track, he comes correct with tight, albeit off-beat flows, with intricate rhymes about the most random of things. On No Awareness, he opens the song with "Your organic medical talk propels off my arms, the atom bomb final Lionel Richie not couth for this battle. I battle sing-sing-sing like bing-bing-bing," and understanding that is next to impossible. Sometimes Keith doesn't even bother to rhyme, yet his flow will have you thinking otherwise, as he never loses it throughout this release.

The production is absolutely phenomenal. Dan The Automator is clearly one of the best behind the boards, and doesn't get the proper credit he deserves in most hip-hop circles. The production is eery, and the science-fiction influences are heavy; much like Keith's rhymes themselves. There is not a single bad piece of music on this album, from either the emcee or his producer; creating a masterpiece which, unfortunately for Keith, greatly overshadows his enormous catalogue.

While Keith may've disowned the Dr. Octagon alias due to this album's success, and not attracting the audience he'd wanted, that doesn't change the fact that this as original an album as you'll find in any form of music. Recommended to any hip-hop head with an open mind.

5 out of 5 stars Some Earth People Will Feel Alienated..........2006-07-19

But that's because Keith is an alien himself. When a collective of hip hop enthusiasts from the Ego Trip staff ranked Kool Keith as the number 19th greatest emcee of all-time (one ahead of Tupac) in there book of lists, they were not taking it lightly. He wasn't your standard A-B rhymer. He was shattering rules of rhyme structure since his glory days with the Ultramagnetic Mcs. He always possessed an unorthodoxed off-beat flow, passionate vocal tone, and boasts so brazen they stunned his listener into silence. Who would have thought that the leader of that group would turn into a perverse alien who happened to have his record drop from another planet to turn from thermal nuclear residue to Earth in compact format (read the album cover notes to understand where i'm comin' from).

Dr. Octagon is a groundbreaking release that is best enjoyed after countless listens. The best records are the ones you have to go back over and decipher new meanings. Never one to waste a rhyme, Keith opens up with "3000" on some bugged out wordplay, "Channels and handles Automator's on the panels/ turnin knobs you slobs suckers like Baskin Robs/carvel don't tell your whole crew is ice cream fudge/rappers that budge makin moves step in grooves/and ride the pace like at thirty-three dark shades/ now you seein me/ rap moves on to the year three thousand". Just a few bars of his breathless liners doesn't do the space alien gynocologist much justice. You could spend your whole summer vacation trying to get a grasp on these otherworldly phrases.

Even with the off the wall lyricism, the album wouldn't be the nearly enjoyable experience if it wasn't for Dan Automators genius turntable techniques and sci-fi horror backdrops. Just peep "Halfsharkhalfalligatorman" (long winded title!) and the incredible "Blue Flowers" for proof! The album is just filled with surprises at every corner. However, no other song on Dr. Octagon captivated me more than "Girl, Let Me Touch You". To this day, it stands as one of my personal all-time favorite non-singles on any hip hop record. Automators production is effortlessly hypnotic, Keith's persona is as abstact as ever, and no matter what mood I was in...the song would just set things straight.

In conclusion, Dr. Octagon is a stone cold classic. I don't care how many non-believers this record sparked. So what if he's different. His individuality separates Keith from the rest. How many emcees have the ability to go as far to credit "Kelly Wootang" on drums and "Curt Kobane" on vocals (you should be buggin' out with those references). Besides, too many hip hop records take themselves way too seriously with yet far too many more gimmicks. Kool Keith doesn't care. He wouldn't take sides, regarding the Tupac Biggie beef. He would rather diss both of them and be done with it (Pluckin' Cards ring a bell)? Keith would put out some good material after this, but after "Sex Styles", there was far too much B.S. Hell, even DJ Shadow got in on one cut and this was the same year he put out the timeless, "Endtroducin'". Grab this record anyway you can before it criminally goes out of print.

5 out of 5 stars One of the greatest.......2006-05-19

This is one of the great hip-hop albums of all time. "Deltron 3030" is another one. Buy this or live a deprived existence.
Dr. Octagonecologyst
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • melon pragmatist trampoline
  • One of the all-time classics
  • What are you all talking about?
  • Classic Material
  • yes indeed....very interesting
 Dr. Octagonecologyst
Dr. Octagon
Manufacturer: DreamWorks
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001LQ8
Release Date: 1996-09-06

Tracks:

  1. Intro
  2. 3000
  3. I Got to Tell You
  4. Earth People
  5. No Awareness
  6. Real Raw
  7. General Hospital
  8. Blue Flowers
  9. Technical Difficulties
  10. Visit to the Gynecologyst
  11. Bear Witness
  12. Dr. Octagon
  13. Girl Let Me Touch You
  14. I'm Destructive
  15. Wild and Crazy
  16. Elective Surgery
  17. Halfsharkalligatorhalfman
  18. Blue Flowers Revisited
  19. Waiting List [DJ Shadow/Automator Mix]
  20. 1977

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars melon pragmatist trampoline.......2005-08-20

Undeniably the best album to listen to while defecating in your sister's hair. With Q-bert on the decks and Automator producing--even Gargamel and Azriel purring and rapping over the beats would've been dope. In fact, I read a recipe and the ingredients for Frosted Flakes over the beats and I couldn't believe how fabulous it sounded.

If you like underground hip hop classics, dope album cover art, sick turntablism, and awesome beats, this album is a must have. I still listen to it regularly and I think I've had this album for about 8 years. Keith's lyrics are ingenious but they will not make sense to someone with a limited understanding of polyfunkoptemetricology. I would buy this just for the cover art. And the plastic CD case is sturdy.

5 out of 5 stars One of the all-time classics.......2004-07-25

One of raps all time classics. nothing tops this. keith is so innovative and his lyrics are more creative than 99% of all rappers. this Mandingo reviewer f*%kwit obviously aint a rap fan, becasue if they were they would know what they were talking about. i bet they would call 50 cent ja rule eminem jay z d12 "RAP". dont listen to this f*6kstick because he has no idea what he talking about. this is one of the alltime best rap albums ever. if u dont have it and call yourself a rap fan then your opinion is garbage, fah real.

2 out of 5 stars What are you all talking about?.......2004-04-28

I'll give this 2 stars just for the beats.

As far as being "cutting edge" and "radically new" and whatever other great sounding description these reviewers want to leave, this album is not.

Elementary school kids could make an album more intelligible than this. If you want to listen to this CD, you're DEFINITELY gonna need to be on something. I can't imagine how one could stand it otherwise.

5 out of 5 stars Classic Material.......2002-09-02

One of the most innovate recordings in hip hop history. Dr. Octagons' outer space funk infused hip hop is something so unique I guarantee you'll never hear anything like it again. The Automater's beats are trippy, funky, dark and surreal. Doc Oc's (Kool Keith) lyrics are abstract, funky, and spontaneous. Standout tracks include Technical Difficulties, Blue Flowers(original and remix), Dr. Octagon and No Awareness. The whole disc is tight and flows effortlessly throughout. Word to the wise, approach this disc with an open mind, definately one of my top 10 hip hop cds ever, maybe even top 5.

5 out of 5 stars yes indeed....very interesting.......2002-04-16

hey whats up...this album is on 13 year old school girl tip...you cant touch it....very good album...one of my favorite records of all time...halfsharkalligator is an instant classic...his flows make sense in a drug induced psycho scientist kind of way....overall two very big thumbs up for this doc oc masterpiece....

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