| Pre-Life Crisis | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Count Bass D |
| Cover: | Pre Life Crisis Cover.jpg |
| Released: | 1995 |
| Genre: | Hip hop |
| Length: | 54:40 |
| Label: | Work |
| Producer: | Count Bass D |
| Next Title: | Art for Sale |
| Next Year: | 1997 |
Pre-Life Crisis is the debut album by the American rapper and musician Count Bass D, released in 1995.[1] [2] Count Bass D played the majority of the instruments on the album.[3] The album's only single, "Sandwiches (I Got a Feeling)", received moderate radio and video airplay, in addition to being released on vinyl and CD, along with the B-side "T-Boz Tried to Talk to Me".
The International Herald Tribune noted that Count Bass D's "raps are hard-hitting but mellifluous, minimum-expletive and laugh-sprinkled."[4] In 2003, Rolling Stone wrote that the "hyperquirky debut ... imagined an esoteric, fully live hip-hop wonder world that transcended the generic boombap."[5]
| Title | Length | Songwriter(s) | Producer(s) | Performer(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Dozens | 3:38 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D | |
| 2 | Sandwiches (I Got a Feeling) | 4:39 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D, (Mark Nash (musician) on Lead Guitar) | |
| 3 | T-Boz (Part 1/2) | 0:35 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D, (Rod McGahaw on Flugelhorn) | |
| 4 | Shake | 4:08 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D, (Mark Nash on Lead Guitar), (Rod McGahaw on Trumpet), (Kismick Martin on Additional Background Vocals & Freestyle on Vamp), (Vincent Sims on Additional Background Throat) | |
| 5 | T-Boz Tried to Talk to Me! | 4:42 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D, (Rod McGahaw on Flugelhorn) | |
| 6 | Carmex | 5:17 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D | |
| 7 | I Got Needs | 4:24 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D, (Mark Nash on Lead Guitar), (Roger "Rock" Williams on Soprano Saxophone) | |
| 8 | Broke Thursday | 4:02 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D, Coolout (co-producer) | Count Bass D, Herbie Hancock, M. Ragin, P. Jackson | |
| 9 | Agriculture | 4:47 | Dwight Conroy Farrell & Vincent Sims | Count Bass D | Count Bass D, Vincent Sims (Roger "Rock" Williams on Alto Flute) | |
| 10 | Brown | 4:01 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D, (DJ Reggie (Reg) Mason & Vincent Sims on Background Throat) | |
| 11 | The Hate Game | 4:43 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D (Psalm 109 on inspiration) | |
| 12 | Pink Tornado | 3:15 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D, Jaco Pastorius | |
| 13 | Sunday School | 5:35 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D (Psalm 118:24 on inspiration) | |
| 14 | Baker's Dozen (Instrumental) | 1:01 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D |