The Parker Tapes is the debut album from UK group Cassetteboy

Cassetteboy

Cassetteboy is the stage name of Mark Bolton and Steve Warlin . It was only upon the confirmation of their third album's release date in 2008 that they came forward and made their identities known...

. The duo claim it took them 7 years to finish. It contains many short tracks and a long tracklisting.

Overview

Highlights include the song "Fly Me To New York", a satirical political swipe at the 9/11 bombing, which includes Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

's voice cut up to create the dialog. Joliver is a cut up of various Jamie Oliver

Jamie Oliver

James "Jamie" Trevor Oliver, MBE , sometimes known as The Naked Chef, is an English chef, restaurateur and media personality, known for his food-focused television shows, cookbooks and more recently his campaign against the use of processed foods in national schools...

 samples, proclaiming himself to be a 'tosser', whilst 'Nogged Out with Sharon Davies' transforms David Bowie

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

's 'Space Oddity' to hilarious effect. 'Pasta Rasta's Camo Visor Advisor (Revised)' is a cut up version of the song 'Camouflage' by Stan Ridgeway. 'Old Time Romantic Doves' chops up Lee Dorsey

Lee Dorsey

Lee Dorsey was an African American pop/R&B singer during the 1960s. Much of his work was produced by Allen Toussaint with instrumental backing provided by the Meters.-Career:...

's 'Get Out My Life, Woman', whilst 'Dancing with Manatees' uses elements of Aphex Twin

Aphex Twin

Richard David James , best known under the pseudonym Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born electronic musician and composer described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music"...

's 'Every Day'. Other sample sources include The Fall, Doctor Who

Doctor Who

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, The Professionals

The Professionals (band)

The Professionals were an English punk rock band in the late 1970s and early 1980s formed by ex-Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones and drummer and Paul Cook after that band's demise.-Career:...

, Madonna

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, many television advertisements, Coronation Street

Coronation Street

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, The Smiths

The Smiths

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, BBC News

BBC News

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, and St Winifred's School Choir

St Winifred's School Choir

St Winifred's School Choir, from St Winifred's Roman Catholic Primary School in Stockport, United Kingdom, was a choir of children whose single in 1980 became the British Christmas number one single of that year. The song was entitled "There's No-one Quite Like Grandma", and it spent two weeks at...

, although cataloguing every sample used on the album is a near-impossible task. In addition to this, the album contains several longer, hip-hop inspired loops as interludes. The album received a favourable review in the New Musical Express upon release .

Track listing

1. "Sabbaba"
2. "Pilly the Bigs"
3. "Fist Up Mother Brown"
4. "Young Friends"
5. "Nogged Out with Sharon Davies"
6. "Blood and Pus"
7. "An Old Hook"
8. "Billy Bonds Loop"
9. "Joliver"
10. "Bokey and the Smandits"
11. "Bring Back Cloaks"
12. "Old Time Romantic Doves"
13. "Dixy Shit"
14. "Dancing with Manatees"
15. "Job and Bosie"
16. "TR 389 SH L82 TR 380"
17. "Trout Leg Legg Street"
18. "CV Mosq and More Except for CV Mosq"
19. "The Crime Busters of the Sea"
20. "100 Degree Neck Cracking Pins"
21. "Chocolate Sushi"
22. "Expensive Shoes Born Cheap Worn Once"
23. "My Dad Knows Your Brother"
24. "Wind It Up Rob, We'll Dance"
25. "New Drun 2"
26. "Chicken Cake"
27. "Shit & Bird Muck"
28. "Well Now"
29. "You Always Seemed So Brave Before"
30. "What Happened to You Eh?"
31. "Herron?"
32. "Pigeon Nosebag"
33. "Hat Whistle the Shoe Whistle"
34. "Baronia Marine"
35. "Fred Horse"
36. "Cos We're Livin on Adam Clayton"
37. "Grunder"
38. "Bill Hate Figure"
39. "Ah, Tone, the Brownies!"
40. "2hrs Later Loop"
41. "Magic Watery Stickers"
42. "A Black Swan Bit My Red Shoe"
43. "Sick as a Dog"
44. "Hideous Krow"
45. "Thomas Chad"
46. "Darkside Farmers"
47. "Big Up All Our Mates"
48. "Smiggie Balls, Duff Paddy, Shoepack"
49. "2 Millennium Big Knee"
50. "Pasta Rasta's Camo Visor Advisor (Revised)"
51. "Large Father"
52. "Gold Small Cat"
53. "Krylon"
54. "Elint Castwood"
55. "A Chance to Turn it Off"
56. "Cybear"
57. "Got Myself A ______ Tied Up in the Basement"
58. "My Dad's Brother Knows Russell Crowe"
59. "Anyway, Right, So I Said to Her"
60. "If That's Yer Attitude"
61. "You Can Just About Forget It"
62. "Rwuul Mwroededded"
63. "Crocodile Tears"
64. "Jangly Watt.sits On the Prom"
65. "Pissed Up and Shitting"
66. "The Legend of the Swedish Galleon"
67. "The Meat Section"
68. "Gasoff Kettleggs"
69. "MF Doom
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70. "Pen Cock"
71. "Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Oh Yeah Dogs"
72. "Ferrularbis"
73. "Atta Michi Hoi"
74. "Foliage Nick Included"
75. "Your Love is Fading"
76. "Is It Hardcore?"
77. "Brian Cardboard and His Swaying Stance"
78. "We're Fucking Ragbags As It Is"
79. "Barn Master Farley"
80. "Scott says the Slum"
81. "Bich Ho Tran"
82. "The Sea Dogs"
83. "The Kickabout"
84. "Scrap Heap Services"
85. "The One Behind It"
86. "In Yer Eye"
87. "10 $ Sting"
88. "And a Complete Change of Blood"
89. "Phil Collins' Cock"
90. "Cool Fighter"
91. "Drums"
92. "6 it"
93. "Dirt Slug the Finest" (featuring JT)
94. "Fly Me to New York" (featuring DJ Rubbish)
95. "alecchristie.com"
96. "Your Love is Like Off Benelyn"
97. "(Thats Enough Meaningless Track Names-Ed.)"
98. "Big Ugly Fat-necked Wombat-headed Big-bellied Magpie-legged Narrow-hipped Splay-footed Sons of Irish Bailiffs"

External links

• Cassetteboy on MySpace
• Cassetteboy on youtube