Come to Daddy (EP)
| Come to Daddy | ||||||||||
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| EP by Aphex Twin | ||||||||||
| Released | 6 October 1997 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1996–97 | |||||||||
| Genre | Drum and bass | |||||||||
| Length | 32:54 | |||||||||
| Label | Warp | |||||||||
| Producer | Richard D. James | |||||||||
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Almost Cool | (8/10)[2] |
| Pitchfork | (7.2/10)[3] |
| Spin | (7/10)[4] |
Come to Daddy is the seventh extended play by British electronic music artist Richard D. James, released under his main pseudonym Aphex Twin. The EP's lead single, and the first track on the EP, "Come to Daddy [Pappy Mix]"—often simply called "Come to Daddy"—is one of Aphex Twin's best-known songs; it peaked at number 36 on the UK Singles Chart.[5]
Composition
Come to Daddy is a drum and bass extended play.[3] Not all the tracks featured on this EP are the industrial style of the first track. "IZ-US" features mellow synth tones with drum and bass style drums. Each mix of "Come to Daddy" is completely different, with the "Little Lord Faulteroy" and "Mummy" mixes bearing no noticeable resemblance whatsoever to the original "Pappy" mix. "To Cure A Weakling Child (Contour Regard)" is a remix of the song "To Cure a Weakling Child" from Richard D. James Album. The other tracks also have their own style, most notably "Flim", an upbeat song similar in mood to the track "Xtal" from Selected Ambient Works 85–92, possessing a cheerful melody and Aphex Twin's signature complex polyrhythms. The song "Funny Little Man" features, at the end, a PlainTalk voice stating "I would like to fuck you up the bunghole, and then I will sneak into your room and cut your cock off, and stuff it in my mouth, and chew them up with my little pearlies." The end of "Come to Daddy (Pappy Mix)" features samples from one of his earliest works, "Isoprophlex". Though Aphex Twin rarely uses vocals in his work, six of Come to Daddy's eight tracks feature vocals.
Packaging
Come to Daddy's packaging features stark black letters against a white background. All the information, track listings and lyrics are printed the same way, and only two images are present, both photographed by Stefan DeBatselier and digitally altered by Chris Cunningham, using James' face on children. James has used his likeness as the artwork on five of his releases: The ...I Care Because You Do and Richard D. James Album albums, the Donkey Rhubarb and Come to Daddy EPs and the "Windowlicker" single.
The cover of the out-of-print second CD, with its white lettering against an orange background, makes reference to the fact that "To Cure a Weakling Child" had been used in a television advertisement for Orange. However, the advertisement used an edit of the album version, whilst the version that appears on the EP is the radically different "Contour Regard" mix.
Use in media
"Come to Daddy" , is played twice in 8MM. The first time it is played as the theme song to a hardcore porn flick, and the second time it is actually played as the background music to 8MM, upon Nicolas Cage's entering of the "bad guy's" house. Also, the music video for "Come to Daddy" is being played on a small TV in Dino Velvet's office.[6]
"Come to Daddy" was used in the television series Master of None in a scene where Aziz Ansari's character Dev imagines himself as a parent to two bratty children.[7] The shows music supervisor Zach Cowie stated he and Ansari "were both very big Aphex Twin fans. And he shows up a couple times in the series. Growing up as a kid watching 120 Minutes, that video will always be the total personification of an absolute nightmare to me. It just popped into my head."[7]
Track listing
All tracks written, produced and engineered by Richard D. James.
- "Come to Daddy (Pappy mix)" – 4:22
- "Flim" – 2:57
- "Come to Daddy (Little Lord Faulteroy mix)" – 3:50
- "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball" – 5:46
- "To Cure a Weakling Child (Contour Regard)" – 5:09
- "Funny Little Man" – 4:22
- "Come to Daddy (Mummy mix)" – 3:54
- "IZ-US" – 2:57
The tracks were originally released on two separate CDs, WAP94CD and WAP94CDR, with the first four tracks on the former and the rest on the latter. These have since been deleted and replaced by one EP containing all eight tracks (WAP94CDX).
Cover/Remix versions
- Come to Daddy has been covered by The Dillinger Escape Plan on their EP Irony is a Dead Scene featuring Mike Patton.
- The song "Flim" was covered by jazz trio The Bad Plus on their second album These Are The Vistas.
- Belle Orchestre have covered Bucephalus Bouncing Ball live.
- A remix of "Come to Daddy [Pappy Mix]", two remixes of "Flim" and two remixes of "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball" were done as part of V/Vm's Helpaphextwin series.
- Razed In Black did a dark rave version of Come To Daddy in 2001 on the Cleopatra label.
Personnel
- Aphex Twin – vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, piano, drum machine, percussion
- Chris Cunningham – images
- Stefan de Batselier – photography
Charts and certifications
Weekly charts
| Chart (1997) | Peak Position |
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| US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[8] | 37 |
Certifications
| Region | Certification | Sales/shipments |
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| United Kingdom (BPI)[9] | Silver | 60,000^ |
| Summaries | ||
| ^ shipments based on certification alone | ||
References
- ↑ Come to Daddy at AllMusic
- ↑ Almost Cool review
- 1 2 Schreiber, Ryan (1999). "Aphex Twin: Come to Daddy: Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on 24 January 2001. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
- ↑ 1/98, p. 116
- ↑ George-Warren, Holly and Patricia Romanowski, ed. (2005). "Aphex Twin". The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. New York, New York: Fireside. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-7432-9201-6.
- ↑ Schumacher, Joel (26 February 1999). "8MM". Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- 1 2 Gordon, Jeremy (9 November 2015). "Aziz Ansari on the Music of "Master of None": Father John Misty, Aphex Twin, Arthur Russell, and More". Pitchfork. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
- ↑ "Aphex Twin Charts & Awards Billboard Albums". Allmusic. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
- ↑ "Certified Awards". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 6 February 2015. NB User must define search parameters. Enter "Aphex Twin" into Keywords, select "Artist" from Search by and click Go or enter "Come to Daddy" into Keywords, select "Title" from Search by and click Go. For more accurate results check Exact match.
External links
- Come To Daddy at the Warp Records website
- "Come To Daddy" at the unofficial Chris Cunningham website
- The "Come To Daddy" video