The Graduate (MC Lars album)

The Graduate is the first studio album of MC Lars released on iTunes on February 14, 2006 and in stores on March 21, 2006.

For other uses, see The Graduate (disambiguation).
The Graduate
Studio album by
MC Lars
ReleasedMarch 21, 2006
GenreAlternative hip hop Nerdcore
Length38:11
LabelHorris Records, Nettwerk
Producer
MC Lars chronology
The Laptop EP
(2004)		 The Graduate
(2006)		 The Digital Gangster LP
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Lost At Sea7/10[2]
Spin7/10[3]

Track listing
  1. "Download This Song" – 3:44
  2. "The Roommate from Hell" – 3:18
  3. "21 Concepts" – 2:49
  4. "Hot Topic Is Not Punk Rock" – 2:15
  5. "Rapgirl" – 3:03
  6. "Generic Crunk Rap" – 3:02
  7. "Ahab" – 3:21
  8. "iGeneration" – 2:53
  9. "If I Had a Time Machine, That Would Be Fresh" – 1:03
  10. "Internet Relationships (Are Not Real Relationships)" – 3:24
    • featuring A Scholar and a Physician and Piney Gir
  11. "Space Game" – 4:05
  12. "The Dialogue" – 2:53
  13. "Six Degrees of Kurt Cobain" – 1:44
  14. "Signing Emo" – 3:37
Bonus tracks
Bonus track on the Japanese edition
No.TitleLength
15."The Bonus Track for Japan" (featuring Ashley Jade)3:07

Samples
  • "Download This Song" samples "The Passenger" by Iggy Pop.
  • The song "21 Concepts" samples music from Tetris. When performed live, the background video includes clips of Mega64's popular Tetris video. Additionally, the lyrics parody the song '99 Problems' by Ice-T.
  • The chorus to "Ahab" samples the British band Supergrass performing "Moving" off their self-titled album.
  • The song "iGeneration" samples "American Hearts" by Piebald.
  • The song "Singing Emo" samples "Cry Tonight" by Hearts That Hate.
gollark: (which does mean that the current high inequality is somewhat problematic, but I'm not sure what the fix for that is unless you *can* somehow split economic/political power a lot)
gollark: (unless you can somehow strongly decouple them? it would be interesting if that could be done somehow)
gollark: You can, I'm sure, just complain that all examples of that aren't REAL communism. But really, centralized economic power leads to centralized political power.
gollark: But *persecuting* individuals instead of just being broken and failing them... well, there are probably examples, I just don't know how exactly to find them.
gollark: Well, "it starves people" is obvious and well-documented.

References
  1. Love, Bret. "The Graduate - MC Lars". AllMusic. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
  2. David, Natalie B. (April 4, 2006). "MC Lars - The Graduate (Nettwerk)". Lost At Sea. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
  3. Rashbaum, Alyssa (March 31, 2006). "MC Lars The Graduate (Nettwerk)". Spin. SpinMedia. Archived from the original on August 13, 2006. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.