Bucketheadland 2

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Bucketheadland 2
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 14, 2003
GenreIndustrial metal, avant garde metal, experimental music, spoken Word
Length58:24
LabelION
ProducerDan Monti
Buckethead chronology
Electric Tears
(2002)
Bucketheadland 2
(2003)
Island of Lost Minds
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Bucketheadland 2 is the tenth studio album by guitarist Buckethead. Released in 2003, it is a sequel to his debut album, Bucketheadland, a concept album about his fictional "abusement" park.

The album was nominated for the 2004 Shortlist Music Prize.[2]

Track listing[edit]

All tracks are written by Buckethead and Dan Monti

No.TitleLength
1."Welcome"0:13
2."Slaughter Zone Entrance"0:11
3."The Cobra's Hood"2:58
4."Transportation Options"0:51
5."Machete Mirage"3:01
6."Slaughter Buddies Outside the Revenge Wedge"0:21
7."We Cannot Guarantee Bodily Harm"0:17
8."John Merrick - Elephant Man Bones Explosion"4:53
9."Taxidermy Tots"0:23
10."Bloody Rainbow Spiraling Sherbert Scoop"2:55
11."Can You Get Past Albert?"0:27
12."Vladimir Pockets' Incredible Bloated Slunk Show"3:10
13."The Ballad of the Inside-Out Face"1:05
14."The Battery Cage Brawls (Cage Announcer: The Ghost of Abraham Lincoln; Winner Has to Eat His Way Out)"2:18
15."Ferris Wheel Apology"0:08
16."Can You Help Me?"1:02
17."Grimm's Sponsorship"0:14
18."Realistic Coop Replica"0:42
19."Frozen Brains Tell No Tales"5:33
20."Rooster Landing (1st Movement) / Lime Time (2nd Movement)"2:35
21."Two Pints"0:27
22."Health & Safety Advisory"2:14
23."Digger's Den"3:13
24."One-Way Ticket to Grab Bag Alley"0:46
25."Fun for You"1:03
26."Carpal Tunnel Tomb Torker"3:35
27."Today's Schedule"0:08
28."The Corpse Plower"3:20
29."Unemployment Blues"2:05
30."Slaughter Zone Exit"8:16
Total length:58:24

Notes[edit]

  • "Frozen Brains Tell No Tales" uses the same recording of Bootsy Collins singing "Buckethead's a psycho, he's a total psycho" that is used in "Want Some Slaw?"[citation needed], from Buckethead's second album, Giant Robot.
  • "Digger's Den" begins with Bootsy Collins exclaiming the phrase "Hit me"[citation needed], which would later be sampled for "Bird With a Hole in the Stomach" on Buckethead's 2006 album, The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock.
  • "Carpal Tunnel Tomb Torker" features Bootsy Collins shouting "I'm Cocoa for Cuckoo Puffs!"[citation needed], a reference to the Bucketheadland album in which he is similarly heard singing the jingle for Sugar Crisp cereal.
  • Elements of the tracks "Slaughter Zone Entrance" and "Slaughter Zone Exit" would later be used[citation needed] in "The Ravines of Falsehood" on Buckethead's 2004 album, The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell.
  • After an initial guitar riff, "Slaughter Zone Exit" consists primarily of silence, only permeated by a number of scattered samples, including many of the spoken word pieces heard throughout the album[citation needed]. A possible reason for this is that Buckethead wanted the longest track on the album to be exactly 8:16[citation needed], matching the length of the longest track on Bucketheadland (Computer Master). This would make the two longest tracks from his debut and its sequel the same length[citation needed].

Credits[edit]

Per album liner notes

  • Taxidermy, production, 6-string wedge & pieces by Buckethead
  • Co-produced, co-written, mixed, engineered and programmed by Dan Monti
  • Recorded at the Coop & the Del Rey Brewer Factory
  • Voices: Bootsy Collins, Li'l Littles, Keystone Brewer, Bill Monti [the Towel], P-Sticks, Albert
  • Additional drums: Brain
  • Mechanical morgue: Dead
  • Ferris Wheel [Page 1]: P-Sticks
  • Artwork, dialogue & research: Bryan Theiss for Frankenseuss Animatronics
  • Buckethead memorabilia courtesy of the Ronald L. Witherspoon Collection
  • Special thanks: Bootsy, Norm, Li'l Littles, Keystone Brewer, Bill the Towel, P-Sticks, Brain, Dan Monti, Frankenseuss
  • Executive producer: Norman Isaacs

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Buckethead 2". Allmusic. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
  2. ^ [1] Archived October 19, 2004, at the Wayback Machine