Rock 'n' Roll / Holy Calamity

by Handsome Boy Modeling School

Rock 'n' Roll / Holy Calamity cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: 1999-01-01
  • Label: Tommy Boy
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 11:06
  • Community rating: 3.55/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Kid Koala, DJ Shadow, Nathaniel Merriweather

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This single pairs two tracks from Handsome Boy Modeling School's debut album 'So... How's Your Girl?', the sample-collage project of Dan the Automator and Prince Paul. The record framed hip hop production through the duo's fictional finishing-school concept.

Genres

Descriptors: sampling, rhythmic, lo-fi, skit, wordplay, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Rock 'n' Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This) (Radio Edit) (3:11)
  2. Rock 'n' Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This) (Album Version) (3:54)
  3. Holy Calamity (Bear Witness II) (4:01)

Credits

  • Keyboard $ Mark - keyboards, guitar
  • Gordon Shumway - vocals [additional]
  • Koto - vocals [additional]
  • Dan Nakamura - vocals [additional], written by, written-by
  • Scott Harding - voice [voiceovers]

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