MF DOOM fans, are you going to get this?

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Special Herbs Vol. 00 - 09, Limited Edition Box set.
$22.99

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CCZQNC/qid=1136657584/sr=8-4/ref=pd_bbs_4/102-7593741-8716158?n=507846&s=music&v=glance

I've never heard them. They're just collections of instrumentals, no?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 7 January 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

(that isn't the cover. i just wanted a cool graphic for my thread.)

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 7 January 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

i'd buy it if that was the cover.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 7 January 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

22.99 is awfully cheap for 10 albums of instrumentals.

― lf, Saturday, 7 January 2006 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Wait, that's ALL the Special Herbs discs? Damn. Yeah, they're all instrumentals and some of them sound pretty pointless without any rapping over them but it's like $23 for, what, 70-80 tracks? I guess if you need radio bumper music you are totally set.

― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 7 January 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

undergroundhiphop.com says:

Box set chronicles the entire series (0-9) of Special Herbs instrumentals, seemlessly blended together into two 75 minute mixes by DOOM himself. This critically acclaimed collection includes classic beats from various M.F. DOOM, KMD & King Geedorah projects accompanied by unheard tracks to be used on future albums. There is also a third bonus disc of beats that have never before been heard on any previous releases, totaling over 80 beats in all!

― gear (gear), Saturday, 7 January 2006 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Holy shit, that's even better.

― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 7 January 2006 19:12 (twenty years ago)

shockingly it's not nearly as good without the rapping

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 7 January 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

I actually really enjoy those rap-less albums, not more than the rap but sometimes I just want to hear beats. Off the top of my head my favourite (not that anyone is asking this) is the Dr Octagon one of a few years back, The Instrumentalyst. Lovely stuff. So er...anyway yeah, I'll be getting this.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:02 (twenty years ago)

Me, no, not even at that price. His beats can be nice, but they're also incredible hit 'n miss. IMHO, his best MCing hasn't been over his own beats...

(and yeah, the instrumental Dr. Octagon is a classic).

― paulhw (paulhw), Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:54 (twenty years ago)

I guess I'm the first to say that I like nearly all of them an awful lot, esp. without the rapping, which I can only take in guest verse doses.

― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Sunday, 8 January 2006 02:22 (twenty years ago)

i just might buy this.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Sunday, 8 January 2006 02:52 (twenty years ago)

strictly for you gay fanboys

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 8 January 2006 04:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm a corny indie rap fuxor and I ain't fuckin' with it.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 8 January 2006 04:19 (twenty years ago)

i'm not really a "fanboy".....i don't even own anything by mf doom. but this sounds pretty good, plus it's cheap. so i'm thinking about buying it.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:06 (twenty years ago)

The "megamix" aspect makes it way more listenable than any of the actual special herbs albums. plus it allows for 80 minutes of continuous freestyling! My grandma can be hot for 3 minutes!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 8 January 2006 07:27 (twenty years ago)

i would pay $22.99 for a copy of "special blends 1+2", his 2cd set of "special herbs" instrumentals w/ various unauthorized vocals over the top (mop, lil vicious, mobb deep, lox w/ dmx, stephanie mills are some of my favorites)

anyone know where you can still get a copy?

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 8 January 2006 07:29 (twenty years ago)

try here: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=15703

― yuengling participle (rotten03), Sunday, 8 January 2006 22:51 (twenty years ago)

Roffle @ Doom making more money off of the same songs again.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 9 January 2006 02:52 (twenty years ago)

Um.... helllllll-ooooooo?

ALL instrumental hip-hop sucks. Pitchfork says so.

― c.r.o.t.c.h., Monday, 9 January 2006 13:21 (twenty years ago)

vahid - you can find copies 2nd hand via amazon.co.uk pretty easily

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:25 (twenty years ago)

has mf doom made a new beat since mid 2002?

― $#@!$!, Monday, 9 January 2006 15:40 (twenty years ago)

I think he made all 950 of them in 1999 in one weekend-long bender and stockpiles them for future use; I still haven't heard him use that one that pretty much is an instrumental version of Boz Scaggs' "Lowdown"

― disco violence (disco violence), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:50 (twenty years ago)

there's a "what a fool believes" beat on one of those, too

― b'angelo, Monday, 9 January 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

strictly for you gay fanboys

or people who like to freestyle while doing the dishes/driving drunk/etc.

― on the shoulder, Monday, 9 January 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)

has mf doom made a new beat since mid 2002?

yes, but only for ghostface

― doom r fag ha ha, Monday, 9 January 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

lol @ mf doom outselling lady sov

― HAKKEBOFFER (eman), Monday, 9 January 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

hey, that means BRAK outsold Lady Sov

― disco violence (disco violence), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 01:59 (twenty years ago)

if Brak = MF Doom then Kenny McCormick = Quasimoto ?

― blunt (blunt), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 03:15 (twenty years ago)

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