A Night at the Hip Hopera explained
A Night at the Hip Hopera |
Type: | Remix |
Artist: | The Kleptones |
Cover: | HipHopera.jpg |
Released: | 2004 |
Genre: | Bastard pop |
Length: | 78:18 |
Producer: | The Kleptones |
Prev Title: | Yoshimi Battles the Hip-Hop Robots |
Prev Year: | 2003 |
Next Title: | From Detroit to J.A. |
Next Year: | 2005 |
A Night at the Hip Hopera is the third album by The Kleptones. It fused Queen's rock music with rap vocals and many sound bites from movies (such as Ferris Bueller's Day Off) and other sources. Unlike 1992's cancelled BASIC Queen Bootlegs album and despite its title, it is considered a bastard pop album rather than a hip-hop album.
On 8 November 2004 Waxy, the main site that hosted A Night At The Hip Hopera, received a cease & desist notice from the Walt Disney Company (Hollywood Records) for illegal sampling of songs by Queen, similar to the banning of DJ Danger Mouse's The Grey Album.
Track listing
- "Precession" – 2:06
- "See" – 4:14
- "Live" – 3:10
- "Bite" – 4:02
- "Jazz" – 4:48
- Samples – Queen, "More of That Jazz"
- Samples – Queen, "We Will Rock You"
- Samples – Task Force, "Tears on My Pillowcase"
- Sound bites – 5 Headed Retard
- Sound bites – Jane's Addiction bootleg
- Sound bites – Timothy Leary
- "Rock" – 2:45
- Samples – Queen, "We Will Rock You"
- Samples – Peaches, "Rock Show"
- Samples – Killa Kela, "Heavy Artillery"
- Sound bites – Jane's Addiction bootleg
- "Love" – 0:31
- Samples – Queen, "Tenement Funster"
- Sound bites – Brian May interview
- "Fight" – 3:20
- Samples – Queen, "Fight from the Inside"
- Samples – Dilated Peoples, "Marathon"
- "Fuck" – 1:09
- "Play" – 3:41
- "Ride" – 3:10
- Samples – Queen, "Bicycle Race"
- Samples – Eminem, "My Name Is"
- Sound bites – 5 Headed Retard
- Sound bites – Black Chiney
- Sound bites – Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Sound bites – Britney Spears
- "Sniff" – 4:20
- "Ridicule" – 0:36
- Samples – Queen, "Queen Talks"
- "Plan" – 4:49
- "Break" – 3:11
- "Listen" – 3:59
- "Work" – 2:21
- Samples – Queen, "Machines (Back to Humans)"
- Samples – Missy Elliott, "She's a Bitch"
- Sound bites – Dilbert (episode: "The Gift")
- Sound bites – Flavor Flav
- Sound bites – Richard Hamming, IBM slogan "Machines should work, people should think" (From Raymond Scott's "IBM MT/ST: The Paperwork Explosion")
- Sound bites –
- "Come" – 4:26
- "Expose" – 3:15
- "Jerk" – 5:04
- "Save" – 4:13
- "Stop" – 3:28
- "Question" – 5:28
Related track
- "Bo Rhap" – 6:50
- Although not part of the A Night At The Hip Hopera album, this unique track mashes up multiple versions of Queen's legendary song, Bohemian Rhapsody. It was released as a Christmas 2004 single (after the album), and since Bohemian Rhapsody was not among the songs sampled by the Kleptones for the album, it's possible that "Bo Rhap" was meant to be part of it, or at the very least a bonus track.
- "Kill" & "Smash"
- While neither are on the album, they are included on the unreleased tracks compilation Shits & Giggles.
See also
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