I’d say Patton has done better vocal performances and this is def not the best metal vocal performance. That would be Stargazer (Dio) Where Eagles Dare (Bruce Dickinson) and Blood Red Skies (Rob Halford)
I would love to agree, but Devin Townsend can easily compare with this lovely feller in my opinion! Listen to some of his Strapping Young Lad work, especially Alien.
Holy Shit! This is one of most unique songs I've ever heard. The Dillinger's mastery in musical craft and Mr. Patton vocals are perfect combo. "Here Kitty" part is fucking crazy. It's like one hundred persons talking in one time or army of ants moving all the time. Plus second part of song is really beautiful. Great Track.
A long time ago when this album was brand new I was listening to it in my Cavalier Z24 with a girl I was dating at the time when she looks over to me and says to me "your CD is skipping"... It was a cassette😂
This whole record is really incredible but for me I keep coming back to this one. I love the spidery muted line that Ben plays at 3:23 to bring in the second half of the song. It’s super creepy and just so perfect.
I remember being 16 and super stoked when this came out. Nearly 20 years later and I am still just as stoked on it, if not more so. This EP was such an amazing moment in music, so influential and pushed the boundaries of hardcore. The Under the Running Board EP set the stage and effectively established a new genre, Calculating Infinity firmly established TDEP as musical pioneers, and the Irony is a Dead Scene EP pushed the envelope even further. To see the impact of what was at one time an obscure Jersey band, playing noisy hardcore in banquet halls to a crowd of maybe 60 people, have such a lasting impact on the music world decades later, it's awesome.
I think Greg had big shoes to fill stepping after this EP and he fucking nailed it!! This was the first DEP I was introduced to and fucking jaw dropped, brilliantly orchestrated chaos
@@graveyardrumblers the Dimitri era was where it was at.. Calculating Infinity, insane! I heard Dimitri and Ben had released something earlier this year??
Had I known Mike Patton was attached to this, I might have given it a chance earlier. The drums...this guy's drumming is amazing. Unbelievable. And as for the rest.. Frentic pace with trippy parts par for the course and I like what I've heard.
I'm the best you'll ever have You're the best I'll never have Pain Gone. Rain Stop. Sun Shine. You're Mine. Here kitty kitty kitty Mommy mommy mommy mommy mommy Here kitty kitty kitty Listen: Listen through the walls The sound of quick footsteps sneaking down the hall Whispers The pages turning The leaky roof The toilet flushing Numbers on the license plate I'm nothing more than The best you'll never have A speck on your bedroom wall A blood red waterfall The best you will ever have(x3) Your dead things are locked up inside Blow smoke rings straight back in time Roses floating out with the tide Dance and sing under gunfire Open wings slowly take flight Around these parts a fly can live A fly can live a thousand years But a man cannot die soon enough, true enough A smiling drunk nursing a glass of milk A girl with a face like prison bread Over the kitchen noise I hear them howl at me A scabby ketchup bottle and a two-dollar bill I guess its time to pay the bill, but you know I never will I'm hungry still Run away run away run away run away Mercy killing on the way Never thought I'd hear you say Falling to your knees and pray now(x2) In this crowded place I could swing a cat And not even hit a soul It's just the lonely vacuum of human black holes And I'm as dry as these thirsty trees With big city thou Promising to set me free "waiter, check please" I'm the best you will ever have
Patton aside? His performance was groundbreaking on this album and it’s all the members performances that made this album great. Probably the best DEP album as it was so good that DEP started to change there style to try and copy what they did with this album which they couldn’t accomplish due to Patton not being apart of it anymore.
Hands down. This was such a shock to the system the first time i heard it. I have a few things on my list of shit I'd pay to reexperiece for the first time. Brad Pitts accent in Snatch is one of them.
Best song and album ever created! Why did it have to be only four songs? 😭 I mean, I'll take it. Everything Mike and Pennie touches is pure gold. I'll keep coming back until I die.
@@CCDaDon15 Since when has an EP "technically" been a full album? I get that the lines can get blurred when things get mislabeled (see rappers calling a record of all original material a "mixtape"), but EP's are generally a collection of a couple/few songs to promote a full album. Sometimes you get stand alone EP's, but they're still usually only a few songs and under the 30 min mark.
Simply because EP and lp are album formats. They're just different kinds of albums. But they're still "full" albums. Also, mixtapes originally stood for unofficial releases, normally by rappers to get around not having samples cleared. They're wholly unrelated to album formats.
listened to this ep for the first time today bc im a huge mike patton fan, and wow this song in particular is just amazing. patton's vocals are top notch as always, but the band does a fantastic job w the instrumental. this is the first time i've heard the dillemger escape plan, but if some of their other stuff sounds like this, then i'll definitely need to give it a listen
Thanks to wireless head phones I can now more easily flop around on the ground like a chicken with its head cut off while listening to this fine piece of music
@@CCDaDon15 Bu live it looks like turns some offect on while doing that and he's not shaking his head. I wonder what that effect is, I just wanted to replicate that in my band
@@electrizer I don't know on that end! Mike used a plethora of effects live during this time and I don't think he ever went into what he did on that keyboard he used to control them. I'd say it's a megaphone effect with a light touch of flange. But he definitely didn't do it live the way he did it in the studio. In studio, there is some effects but he's also doing a bunch of weird shit outside of that.
@@electrizer I wanna say that's what he started using when he stopped using the setup he originally used for Bungle/Tomahawk/Fantomas/Dillinger. If you ever find out what that equipment was, I'd love to know! I've always wondered.
"Girl with a face like prison bread..." is prime lyricism. I feel like the very best songwriters of the 20th century mention prison bread ("confinement loaf" from Zappa lol) at some point ✌️💚🎶
This is the problem I have with The Dillinger Escape Plan, some parts of their songs are so good but the rest I just don't understand, the second half of this song is straight masterpiece but the first half ruins it for me.
The first half goes so hard bruv lol. But I feel ya, I used to not understand them at all and it just sounded like absolute shitty noise to my ears, but one day I decided to give the record “One of us is the killer” another listen and something clicked. I instantly realized I was sleeping on these dudes for far too long, went back and listened to their discography and was hooked for so long. Just upsetting because the time I finally got into them they had just disbanded. But I definitely see what ur saying, the real chaotic stuff just isn’t pleasing to some people, I just find it really exciting and the drums (and all of the musicianship honestly) are always out of this world IMO.
@@AllCopsAreBigchungus That's exactly how I feel, I got into the band because of songs like Unretrofied, Widower, Symptoms of Terminal Illness, Setting fire to Sleeping Giants and such but when I talk to the fans of the band they never recommend these songs, instead they recommend songs that are pure chaos, not saying they're bad just hard to get into for me.
The caustic nature of the first third and outro that frame the song makes you appreciate the melodic beauty of the middle two thirds even though it's peppered with dissonance as well. It's pure brilliance
@@giorgigogokhia2954the first album I got was Miss Machine, I loved Unretrofied at first and pretty much only listened to that, then a few weeks later I started to appreciate the rest of the album. I saw them live for their Miss Machine tour and they blew me away. I've loved them ever since.
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This is the best vocal performance of a metal song in existence imo and a great demonstration of Patton's diversity.
I’d say Patton has done better vocal performances and this is def not the best metal vocal performance. That would be Stargazer (Dio) Where Eagles Dare (Bruce Dickinson) and Blood Red Skies (Rob Halford)
@@maskedmovieman4303derp
@@maskedmovieman4303you say “definitely” not like it’s a fact. You know music is subjective right?
It's called VERSATILIY, not that filthy buzzword, thank you.
This song could’ve dropped today, 16 years later, and it would still be groundbreaking.
Listening again in Nov 2021.... It's still fresh!
Yes C#nt. .!!
That could be said for any song pre 2004 pretty much
2023 and totally agree. Nothing else like it out there before it.
2024 and still crazy Krisp.
No one including Mike knows he has made the best music on this planet so far.
I'll concur with this.
I would love to agree, but Devin Townsend can easily compare with this lovely feller in my opinion! Listen to some of his Strapping Young Lad work, especially Alien.
he is one
Holy Shit! This is one of most unique songs I've ever heard. The Dillinger's mastery in musical craft and Mr. Patton vocals are perfect combo. "Here Kitty" part is fucking crazy. It's like one hundred persons talking in one time or army of ants moving all the time. Plus second part of song is really beautiful. Great Track.
This song never gets old. Thank you Mike Patton, you beautiful bastard.
Crazy how no mathcore or experimental hardcore/metal has ever come close to touching this EP, despite inspiring so many.
Car Bomb just entered the chat.........
@@itsbryantarias With Frontierer
You should listen to "The Musical Dimensions of Sleastak" by O.LD.
@@woobiehastelly frontierer can leave
@@heckicusdoomicuswizardus1382 Why?
A long time ago when this album was brand new I was listening to it in my Cavalier Z24 with a girl I was dating at the time when she looks over to me and says to me "your CD is skipping"... It was a cassette😂
This made me chuckle
I don't believe you.
@@cgo7395 k
This whole record is really incredible but for me I keep coming back to this one. I love the spidery muted line that Ben plays at 3:23 to bring in the second half of the song. It’s super creepy and just so perfect.
This part reminds me of a TOOL song, does anyone know which one?
I remember being 16 and super stoked when this came out. Nearly 20 years later and I am still just as stoked on it, if not more so. This EP was such an amazing moment in music, so influential and pushed the boundaries of hardcore. The Under the Running Board EP set the stage and effectively established a new genre, Calculating Infinity firmly established TDEP as musical pioneers, and the Irony is a Dead Scene EP pushed the envelope even further. To see the impact of what was at one time an obscure Jersey band, playing noisy hardcore in banquet halls to a crowd of maybe 60 people, have such a lasting impact on the music world decades later, it's awesome.
Mike's vocals went so well with this band, same with Greg. They sound so similar
Anyway it has no comparison. Mike Patton's voice is much more versatile and surreal compared to Greg's.
Never the same for me after Dimitri... Although DEP with Patton was dope.
I think Greg had big shoes to fill stepping after this EP and he fucking nailed it!! This was the first DEP I was introduced to and fucking jaw dropped, brilliantly orchestrated chaos
@@graveyardrumblers the Dimitri era was where it was at.. Calculating Infinity, insane! I heard Dimitri and Ben had released something earlier this year??
Yessir
The way they mixed the vocals is fucking amazing!!!!
Had I known Mike Patton was attached to this, I might have given it a chance earlier.
The drums...this guy's drumming is amazing. Unbelievable.
And as for the rest.. Frentic pace with trippy parts par for the course and I like what I've heard.
The drummer is a freaking animal!!! For sure
Chris Pennie my beloved
Best EP of all time! Also one of the best EPs to listen to while you're traveling, on repeat.
nice contortionist pfp
I'm the best you'll ever have
You're the best I'll never have
Pain
Gone.
Rain
Stop.
Sun
Shine.
You're
Mine.
Here kitty kitty kitty
Mommy mommy mommy mommy mommy
Here kitty kitty kitty
Listen:
Listen through the walls
The sound of quick footsteps sneaking down the hall
Whispers
The pages turning
The leaky roof
The toilet flushing
Numbers on the license plate
I'm nothing more than
The best you'll never have
A speck on your bedroom wall
A blood red waterfall
The best you will ever have(x3)
Your dead things are locked up inside
Blow smoke rings straight back in time
Roses floating out with the tide
Dance and sing under gunfire
Open wings slowly take flight
Around these parts a fly can live
A fly can live a thousand years
But a man cannot die soon enough, true enough
A smiling drunk nursing a glass of milk
A girl with a face like prison bread
Over the kitchen noise I hear them howl at me
A scabby ketchup bottle and a two-dollar bill
I guess its time to pay the bill, but you know I never will
I'm hungry still
Run away run away run away run away
Mercy killing on the way
Never thought I'd hear you say
Falling to your knees and pray now(x2)
In this crowded place I could swing a cat
And not even hit a soul
It's just the lonely vacuum of human black holes
And I'm as dry as these thirsty trees
With big city thou
Promising to set me free
"waiter, check please"
I'm the best you will ever have
Patton aside, the drums and instruments are perfectly done here
Patton aside? His performance was groundbreaking on this album and it’s all the members performances that made this album great. Probably the best DEP album as it was so good that DEP started to change there style to try and copy what they did with this album which they couldn’t accomplish due to Patton not being apart of it anymore.
Oh, the money I'd pay to hear this for the first time again
Dude I know samesies
Oh hell yes. A goddamn masterpiece
I would give up my life savings to hear Patton scream "Run away" for the first time again.
Hands down. This was such a shock to the system the first
time i heard it. I have a few things on my list of shit I'd pay to reexperiece for the first time. Brad Pitts accent in Snatch is one of them.
Best song and album ever created! Why did it have to be only four songs? 😭 I mean, I'll take it. Everything Mike and Pennie touches is pure gold. I'll keep coming back until I die.
Timeless song
Do you need a pennie with coheed to make you smile?
To be fair, it leaves you wanting more...rather than being worn out and predictable, so I look at it in a positive way.
I'm here with You
Truly, a cinematic horror masterpiece of an opus.
I was high the first time I heard this and it scared the shit out of me
i wish they did a full album with Mike
Yeap, they did. It's short EP, all with Mike.
@@krosenmann reading is hard
@@BrianHalePhoto an EP is technically a "full album". But, yeah he obviously means an LP
@@CCDaDon15 Since when has an EP "technically" been a full album? I get that the lines can get blurred when things get mislabeled (see rappers calling a record of all original material a "mixtape"), but EP's are generally a collection of a couple/few songs to promote a full album. Sometimes you get stand alone EP's, but they're still usually only a few songs and under the 30 min mark.
Simply because EP and lp are album formats. They're just different kinds of albums. But they're still "full" albums. Also, mixtapes originally stood for unofficial releases, normally by rappers to get around not having samples cleared. They're wholly unrelated to album formats.
Patton sounding absolutely possessed on this
Masterpiece
Those screams!
listened to this ep for the first time today bc im a huge mike patton fan, and wow this song in particular is just amazing. patton's vocals are top notch as always, but the band does a fantastic job w the instrumental. this is the first time i've heard the dillemger escape plan, but if some of their other stuff sounds like this, then i'll definitely need to give it a listen
This song is too good to be true, Mike is completely insane yet smooth
This is the most hypnotic horrifically beautiful song ever made.
There's a lot of great shit going on in this song.
I couldn't understand this song first time I hear it but now i can really appreciate how hard this goes. This came out in 03... Insane for that time.
This is what insanity sounds like and I'll all for it
I wish the middle section continued forever.
Yeah, Patton's voice is so good, amazing how it was evolving from Faith No More's The Real Thing to this and further
3:31 one of the best things ever created in music history
4:07 holy mother of god
Fucking love this part sm
If there was a song that would define my life, it would be this song. I would like it to be played at my funeral.
Fucking great album.. they put a lot of work into this. Just the timing involved is Fucking unreal...
Thanks to wireless head phones I can now more easily flop around on the ground like a chicken with its head cut off while listening to this fine piece of music
That ending is the most badass thing I’ve EVER heard from Mike and DEP combined.
Lonely vacuum of
human black holes.
Great song all round but the second section of this song is just TRUE. TRUE to the bone.
I mean fuck! Mike Patton. There is no equal or substitute and that's just the front man the bands he works with are obviously on another level.
“Around these parts, a fly could live..a fly could live a thousand years, but a man cannot die soon enough…true enough.”
This song makes me want to break my face. But lovingly. With a claw hammer. Mike Patton rules
Absolute brickhouse of a tune.
best dillinger song
I can't believe I'm only just now hearing this, this is fucking awesome
Mike Patton continues to impress. 😍😍😍
Is that weird noise around 0:36 a really distorted guitar or Mike shaking his head violently and making whining noises
Is him quickly saying "here kitty kitty kitty" over and over again. Yeah, probably while shaking his head lol
@@CCDaDon15 Bu live it looks like turns some offect on while doing that and he's not shaking his head. I wonder what that effect is, I just wanted to replicate that in my band
@@electrizer I don't know on that end! Mike used a plethora of effects live during this time and I don't think he ever went into what he did on that keyboard he used to control them. I'd say it's a megaphone effect with a light touch of flange. But he definitely didn't do it live the way he did it in the studio. In studio, there is some effects but he's also doing a bunch of weird shit outside of that.
@@CCDaDon15 He did a promo vid for TC Helicon. Maybe he used / uses VoiceLive?
@@electrizer I wanna say that's what he started using when he stopped using the setup he originally used for Bungle/Tomahawk/Fantomas/Dillinger. If you ever find out what that equipment was, I'd love to know! I've always wondered.
Fucking Patton. Just hits it everytime.
Love everything Patton has done but this album with DEP is my favorite. Freaking masterpiece of madness and originality.
this is half Jazz music, listen
steve If the style adjusted, as well as the intensity, this could be a jazz song.
The best band still to date. Never practice lolol
lyrics at 1:54 sound like "your mom is my mom is your mom is my mom"
Mike Patton rules.
I know these cats. Timeless. Transcendent. Total Dimethyl
Masterpiece *2
I listened to this song scuba diving on 4mg of alprazolam right after this album dropped, no joke.
I made a similar sound, last time I stood on an upturned plug, barefoot...5.53
Sound of madness
Greg puciato reminds me of new aged Mike Patton.
mommy
i love this and if you do too listen to "mammal sauce" from crotchduster
Nayr Tnartsipac Thank you Coverkillernation for turning me onto that gem.
I can't listen to this when I'm at the gym because i keep falling off the elliptical headbanging, it throws off your balance.
I wish there were bass tabs for this song
It's not that hard. You can do it
@@percipleflavius8171 i mean, are u a bassist?
Just look up a bunch of ECG readouts, mix them up and away you go
I don't know what this album cover is supposed to be, honestly.
Edit: I think it's a kid with a switchblade but how is he holding it?
For better or worse,DEP wasnt the same after this. Not that the later stuff isnt good cuz its killer but it wasnt the same. imo.
"Girl with a face like prison bread..." is prime lyricism. I feel like the very best songwriters of the 20th century mention prison bread ("confinement loaf" from Zappa lol) at some point ✌️💚🎶
There's no band like them, and won't be ever. I know TDEP are back, but I will miss Greg... it's not the same without him.
one of the most amazing songs i've heard.
one of the worst album covers.
Who here sings ‘Freedom’ after hearing a truck reversing?
Mommy
MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY
For whatever reason, it's region locked on iTunes and I can't listen to it unless I change country and renew my plan :(
like the part at 3:36
Waiter, cheque please.
brilll
grrrr
Grrrrrrrrr
cxzas
!
!
!
shoo
@@PatrickBateman1987 😀
Fucking perfect!!!
these lyrics really cover hedonism/narcissism spot on
Mr Bungle and DEP combined...
Dillinger / Mike Patton = shaker / nitroglycerin
IWANNAHEARTHISOVERANDOVERAGAINANDAGAINANDAGAINANDAGAINANDAGAINANDAGAINANDAGAINAND.........
MOMMY! MOMMY! MOMMY! MOMMY! MOMMY!
Redrum
Mike Patton should have just stayed in the band.
I agree, he seemed to bring the best out of DEP, and vice versa
Alternate title: Misplaced loyalty
Music for babies 🍼
2 dolla 2 dolla bill
Here Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty
This is the problem I have with The Dillinger Escape Plan, some parts of their songs are so good but the rest I just don't understand, the second half of this song is straight masterpiece but the first half ruins it for me.
The first half goes so hard bruv lol. But I feel ya, I used to not understand them at all and it just sounded like absolute shitty noise to my ears, but one day I decided to give the record “One of us is the killer” another listen and something clicked. I instantly realized I was sleeping on these dudes for far too long, went back and listened to their discography and was hooked for so long. Just upsetting because the time I finally got into them they had just disbanded. But I definitely see what ur saying, the real chaotic stuff just isn’t pleasing to some people, I just find it really exciting and the drums (and all of the musicianship honestly) are always out of this world IMO.
@@AllCopsAreBigchungus That's exactly how I feel, I got into the band because of songs like Unretrofied, Widower, Symptoms of Terminal Illness, Setting fire to Sleeping Giants and such but when I talk to the fans of the band they never recommend these songs, instead they recommend songs that are pure chaos, not saying they're bad just hard to get into for me.
The caustic nature of the first third and outro that frame the song makes you appreciate the melodic beauty of the middle two thirds even though it's peppered with dissonance as well. It's pure brilliance
@@giorgigogokhia2954the first album I got was Miss Machine, I loved Unretrofied at first and pretty much only listened to that, then a few weeks later I started to appreciate the rest of the album. I saw them live for their Miss Machine tour and they blew me away. I've loved them ever since.
the first half of this song is rlly good, but the second half is fantastic