Dr. Octagonecologyst

“a homicidal, extraterrestrial, time-traveling gynaecologist and surgeon” you say? That is the epitome of immature 90s bullshit right there. This is crap, don’t let anyone try to convince you otherwise. Absolute crap. This is the lowest 1 star of all the 1 stars I've rated so far. Toxic garbage that should be burned from our collective pop culture memory.

This contains some of the most remarkable hip hop I've ever heard. It's uneven for sure, and it's yet another rap album that seems to have a duration of two weeks, but these quibbles pale when held up against the sheer weirdness herein. Full of eccentric sci-fi and kooky non sequiturs, I found myself straining to hear what the next oddball lyric would be. Finally, 'Earth People' is a hell of a bop, that synth is fucking sick!

The best part about this album is that it ended

Just what the doctor ordered 👍🏾

Album literally opens by playing audio from a porn scene with a low-effort beat playing over it. Don't know how this is on the list. "Earth People, New York to California, Earth People, I was born on Jupiter" is a line that gets repeated over and over in a song, like it's just not good. I'll give it a point for the fact that he's trying to rap about science, so at least it's something a bit different, but still really juvenile stuff. I'm Destructive was actually pretty good.

This is horrible to listen to. Disturbing. But not in the good way.

I actually bought this album around the time it came out and I 100% guarantee it was mostly due to that Pushead art work. I’m trying to think now of where I would have even heard a song off of this thing at the time. They weren’t playing it on the radio and there was no internet. I must’ve read about it in Alternative Press or some shit. Who knows. But, man, my instincts were right! This is still a ton of fun and super listenable. Now excuse me, I have to go call 1-800-PEEPEE5-1-DOODOO.

I truly don’t know how to feel about this record. It is transgressive in a way that seems to veer into almost rape like fantasy that left a bad taste in my mouth. Yet there is something undeniable about the talent on this album. The alien like persona allows the artist to go places he normally wouldn’t be able to and there’s something to be said for that level of creativity.

The rap flow feels like Jurassic 5; the lyrics feel like Andre 3000; the scratching reminds me of Mixmaster Mike of the Beastie Boys. And then I did some reading on Kool Keith and found out that he had directly influenced all three of those hip hop heavyweights. And then I read that the lyric “Smack My Bitch Up” used by Prodigy was a sample of Kool Keith. Mind. A bit. Blown.

I'm not really sure how to feel... I feel violated...

Cool cover. The creepy Intro beat caught my attention, then the whole "F*ck my p*ssy, Doctor" part started and ruined it. His speaking voice sounds like Tracy Jordan. Cool background beats, but the lyrics and theme make it feel like a spoof from 30Rock.

Very very weird, and very very good. Almost like an afrocentric sci-fi concept album, about aliens and medical malpractice. At points it sounds like the afrofuturism of the previous decade, but with a tonne more swearing, at other times he is staking a claim to his place (Kool Keith, not the good Dr.) as a progenitor of early hip-hop. Absolutely fascinating and engaging, and possibly the most memorable album I have had so far. This is like nothing else out there - and I loved every strange minute of it!

A hip-hop acid trip, well I did have a smile on my face for the whole album so there is that. I liked the weird themes and off the wall humour and lyrics, I enjoyed the old school beats and scratching. Most of the album is going on a playlist to listen to again. Favourite tracks 3000, No Awareness, Technical difficulties.

If you asked me to listen to this 1001 more times or die... well, I've had a good life, no regrets. Can someone please feed the fish?

Deltron 3030 is the better Automator project, but this was a fun listen.

Nope

I ate Domino’s pizza with Kool Keith at the Warped Tour in 2001. Back in the 90’s and early aughts, the Warped Tour made its yearly stop in Asbury Park, NJ in the abandoned lots near the famed Stone Pony. At that time, Asbury Park was bombed out, with abandoned and dilapidated multistory buildings all around the surrounding area, all the way up to the boardwalk. These were the ghosts of Asbury Park’s glory days; hotels that were ready to be torn down or hotels and apartments that had been started, but never completed and left to decay. When you were there it didn’t feel like America, it felt like being in a forgotten war zone. At the base of those ruins, in their shadows, the warped tour would set up. The sounds of punk, hardcore, ska, the ocasional hip-hop group would reverberate against the unsightly remains of a once-lively New Jersey shore town and dust from mosh pits in a dirty lot got kicked up at their feet. Once you were there, you were stuck for the day. There weren’t any other businesses nearby that you could go to for food or drink. In fact, you probably didn’t want venture out of the “venue” in to Asbury Park proper at all. Any food or drink you were going to consume was brought in by others explicitly to be sold at the festival. At our Warped Tour, that meant you ate Domino’s Pizza, drank cans of coke or bottled water, because that’s all they were selling. Warped tour in 2001 was no exception. Late in the afternoon, my friends and I, dehydrated, dusty and hungry from a day in the scorching New Jersey summer sun, decided to partake in a Domino’s pizza or two (which they sold by the full pie for five dollars, if I recall). We got our pizza and drinks found an empty metal trash can nearby to balance the pizza boxes on and started to dig in. As we ate I noticed that Kool Keith, still clad in his neon green “Black Elvis” latex hairpiece from his show an hour earlier and with a ladyfriend, was heading our way. “Hey, Keith”, I said as he approached. “Your show was awesome”. Noticing our hobo-style pizza party, he asked,“Where’d you get that pizza?” “Over there” I told him, pointing towards the concession stand a hundred or so feet away. “They have anything else to eat?”, he asked. “Nah…this is all they sell at that this entire place. You want a piece?” He considered, gave a sort of puzzled look, but grabbed a slice anyway. He bit in, appeared disgusted (he is a New Yorker, after all, and knows a good slice - Domino’s is not now, and never has been, “a good slice”) and said “that shit’s nasty…” We all laughed in agreement, and as he walked off, he said to the woman he was with, “See? What did I tell you… [TO HEAR THE EXCITING CONCLUSION TO THIS STORY, PLEASE CALL 1-800-PP5-1-DOO-DOO]

The beats were ok but the central conceit was basically sexual harassment. How many times do you need to say rectum, anal, buttcrack, etc. in a single album? 3/10

The beats are decent and the concept is amusing, but the flow is too sleepy and the lyrics seem shocking and gross just for the hell of it (count the number of times words like vomit, rectum and rape show up). Appealing to a very niche audience.

Nope

This is so stupid that I absolutely love it. It’s Bronx weirdness unbridled. Yeah, the characters in this audio porno comic book are juvenile. And yeah, the lyrics are graphic. But there is so much greatness on this record. Kool Keith’s heavy neighborhood accent is my favorite thing in the world right now. Nearly shed a tear when he rapped about getting his shirt “out the dry cleaners”. If you know, you know. The music though, is the star. Non-stop head boppin’ beats. And the scratching! This is genius level mixing. Fuck it all, I’m giving this a solid 5.

Funny and it's got that stream of consciousness lyric flow, what's going on with the sampling is very interesting. I might have an upper limit on butt jokes.

Now I want to be a Dr

I read the Wikipedia and went into it with an open mind expecting it to be weird and it happened. Some people need to be a little bit less serious about life and then they can enjoy something weird like this

Vraiment les docteurs arrêtez le rap svp.

This is one of the best concept albums ever concocted. Even the skits on this are worth listening to. It's one of the first underground hip hop albums and showcases the talents of Dan The Automator, DJ Q-Bert, Kool Keith and even DJ Shadow. Unfortunately, due to the lack of taste on this list, this is probably the last time we will see Kool Keith on it, which is a shame, because Black Elvis-Lost In Space is another great album from the twisted mind of Kool Keith, an old school hip hop legend who got his start in Ultramagnetic MCs.

This was mindblowing the first time I ever heard this! It had so many elements in it I dug, Kool Keith's straight up weirdness on the mic, DJ Q-Bert on the cuts and Dan the Automator on the beats? It was a recipe for one hell of a fucked up stew! It delivers on all levels and it might seem a little problematic lyrically these days I can't deny how much it hit me when it came out!

What a wild ride. 90s rap with sensibilities of West Coast, a dash of Portishead, and more synth than I've ever heard on a radio album.

Kool Keith mid / post mental breakdown. This is height of 90s cool for me: Mo Wax, Slam City / Rough Trade, tiny wheels / Tom Penny 411VM

Damn, this was an amazing album! First thing that I must talk about is the production, since its probably the best part about it. Shit like the violin and the small peddling beats on "Blue Flower" is just amazing to hear. The vinyl scratches are also a great touch, and I'm noticing that most rap albums from the 90s had them. The theme of this album is also cool, since you can hear Dr. Octagon talks about operating people in the tracks and skits. Shit like him saying that they should grab the wires under the water sounds like something a crazy scientist would say, and "halfalligatorsharkhalfman" sounds like the name of a cheesy B-Movie. The cover art of this album is also great. It looks like something that you'd see from a Marvel comic in the 90s and the fact that he is holding a skull, clipper (I forgot the name) and microphone is a great touch. It makes you really get what the entire album is about. Dr. Octagon does also have an amazing design. With the sunglasses, gloves and face mask on, you can't really tell that he is a skeleton. The black doctor outfit is also amazing, since it shows that he isn’t a regular doctor. Favourite track would have to be "Blue Flower". Not only does it have the best production on the entire album, but it's also just fun to listen to. Worst track would have to be "Intro". I just hate when rappers feel the need to put a sound clip of them having sex or something, but thankfully it's really short. 10/10

Actually quite enjoyed this - didn’t expect to at all

Wasn't massively keen despite the fact that Kool Keith's flow on this is flawless.

I'm a big fan of MF DOOM so this was right up my alley. A cool and unique projects, really fun skits and transitions between songs.

Surprisingly, I sort of enjoyed this. 3 stars.

I’ve never heard of this before. Very surprised

This is a cool cover, hoping it's not just rap lol. It has to be though. Or something like gorillaz. Ok it's rap. Surprisingly badly produced given the awesome cover art. Songs are pretty good though, it's catchy enough in its amateur way. 3/5.

Beats = p. good Lyrics = h-hellooo, Human Resources?!

That first minute really set the tone for the rest. This is really not good - it's a hip hop concept album, based on the concept of a pervy space doctor, and it's just as good as that description makes it sound. The lyrics are either crude, crap, or both - his delivery is pretty good, but there's very little interesting being said. I quite like the idea of a trippy hip hop album like this (and maybe it inspired better ones), but the execution of this is just not great. Some of the sampling, the flow, and the music behind almost lifts this to a 2, but the lyrics just destroy it for me. 1/5.

Just couldn’t tried but couldn’t. I really can’t understand why this tripe is in the top 1001 albums nevermind the top 100001

Dr. Octagonecologyst - Dr Octagon ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐⭐⭐ (if you are not into butt stuff) DR Octagon is about a homicidal time traveling gynecologist that writes little weird raps about his misadventures on earth. He sounds like he takes LSD 24/7 and has anal & oral sex on his mind almost nonstop. He even dreams about it & is obsessed with girls with nice butts for obvious reasons. It's one of the interesting albums from the 1990s. The music is psychedelic trip hoppy rap. Very surreal. The scratching is fantastic in all ways, the lyrics are inventive & very sexual and strongly focus on mostly unconventional anal sex acts that might be popular on his planet but are all but unheard of on planet earth. I had a great time listening to it again as it's been close to a year since I last played my triple vinyl copy of this deranged out of this world (literally!) masterpiece!

always a pleasure to encounter something with this much creativity in both its high-level and moment-to-moment decisions. kool keith's bizarre character provides a fun context for the absurd and inscrutable lyricism, lots of great combinations of syllables and just Barely graspable ideas. its also a fun dovetail with his often deadpan delivery, especially in the strangely understated hooks...the understatement is rly the secret weapon in general actually, as the production and sound palate is theoretically very colorful and druggy but its treated in such a beige and soft-edged way,,,its hard to fully articulate, but it is extremely cool to listen to. the non-absurdist and non-musical jokes tend to be not my thing, predictably, but on the other hand there are some gutbusting deployments of scratching on here. rly just a lot of standout scratching in general, some of those breakdowns are so sick. all in all id prob rather listen to mf doom in this general sphere/palate but i was surprised how much of this i remembered from first hearing it years ago, cant say its not memorable!

Some great, off-the-beaten-track, nineties hip-hop. Though not as stratospheric in possibilities as expected, there is plenty to be enchanted by.

I like this album - Earth People was a spooky fun track. I like the start of Blue Flowers too - it's a vibe. Overall reminds me of OG Outkast

I feel embarrassed for this guy.

Musically interesting in parts but the gimmicky rap is just as dull and soulless as virtually every other rap album.

Disgusting that someone could think gynecology would be sexy.

No

Its just so dumb

Wouw.. why do I need this?

I did not like this at all. I almost turned it off midway through. To be fair, I don't really enjoy this style of music in general, so it was always going to be an uphill battle to enjoy this.

Couldn't find much of anything enjoyable on this album.

Too explicit for me and don’t like the style

No me gusta

When I first heard this record a while ago, I thought that maybe there was something I was missing. Now I am sure. I am not missing anything, it's too long and just not that good.

It’s fair to say that these doctor’s orders weren’t meant for me. Neither is the humor - if you can actually call it that. The production is solid and there’s some interesting scratching. Not that impressed by most of the rap in itself… And the record itself is just way, way too long! This would’ve gotten an extra star if not for the non-stop jokes and skits.

Interesting, not something I would listen too often.

I tend to normally vibe with this weird type of rap. But man, I won't lie it feels like there is supposed to be a certain shock factor to it, But it's just corny as fuck. The corny ass beats with some decent flows honestly. The artwork was real cool. However, I think I hated this one.

Bizarre l'ambiance ici

une pochette horrible, un thème écoeurant, un album interminable : tout y est, bravo docteur❤️

alls ekki fyrir mig

Not a fan.

Welcome to the first album I did not finish. I liked some of the music at first, but the lyrics and content quickly sent this listening experience in to the trash heap. No thanks.

It's certainly of a time. My overriding view is it's no Gran Central records production.

I have no idea what this is doing here. Some beats are all right but I don't think it's particularly interesting or groundbreaking. Very low effort, just a lame excuse to use curse words.

just really weird

Very simple beat, not for me.

One of my all-time fav hip hop albums. 5 stars.

What a wild about this is. Let's just start with the slightly cringey idea of a rapper pretending to be a gynecologist. You kind of know where this is going, right? Sure, there is a skit about Dr Octagon posing as a women in order to seduce a patient. It's in poor taste but also so ridiculous that it's hard to really be offended by it. There's also a porn sample with a similar theme. To be expected. Those two tracks aside, "Dr. Octagonecologyst" becomes genuinely weird. The lyrics are on the border between juvenile humor and dark, surrealist dreams. The title character travels through space and time, curing/spreading bizarre diseases and murdering (accidentally?) his patients. It's kind of medical horror meets b-movie sci fi, and the result is dizzingly psychedelic. Love it or hate it, there's nothing else really like it and it stood in stark contrast to the hip hop of the day, which moves from the underground and obtain as much wealth as possible. But we really need to talk about producer Dan the Automator who seems to have been so inspired by the surreal lyrics that he sort of reinvented hip hop. Automator pulled on the inspiration of classic hip hop, but in a darker and more bizarre way, to emulate the feelings of space and medical settings (sometimes both). This was the album that established Automator was a force of nature who would one day launch the success of Damon Albarn's Gorillaz, among other amazing projects. Layered on top of that is the supernatural scratching skills of DJ Q-Bert. Together, Q-Bert, Automator and Kool Keith formed an amazing group for this project. Kool Keith himself hated this project, feeling that it took attention away from his other work and brought in only white audiences. Admittedly, this album is going to really turn people off for being too strange, juvenile, and (at times) sexist. But beneath it all is a really incredible hip hop album.

I don't understand why people hate this album here. It has very dark and crude subject matter, which I understand why reviewers might find it disturbing. But "Dr. Octogonecologyst" is better than most of today's rap albums. Who can forget the fantastic beats brought to us by Dan the Automator? The skits are a bit lame, as is the case with almost all rap albums. 5 stars for "Dr. Octogonecologyst".

Loved this album for years.

Kultni hip hop album iz devedesetih. Produkcija je zaradila dan the automatoru gog na prvim gorillazima

Wasnt sure what to expect but this was great

classic

Oh shit there’s a horse in the hospital

Objectively, this is not at all a 5 star album, but in my personal music-taste-journey, this is the album that broke hip-hop wide open for me, so it's getting a 5! In my first year of uni, just emerging from several years of listening to nothing but metal, a new friend - met through the most unhinged campus literary magazine - was convinced I could start liking hip-hop once I grasped the poetry and wordplay of it all. This was the late nineties, a year or two before Eminem appeared on the scene, so the only hip-hop I'd generally encounter would be either indistinguishable from pop music, or full on gangsta rap, and both those genres left me absolutely cold. After a couple of failed attempts using other albums, my new friend tried "Dr. Octagonecologyst" and hit pay dirt! It was so out there! Yes, it's juvenile and scatological - quite edge-lordy - but that worked in its favor. I was too busy exclaiming "what the fuck did he just say!?" to just dismiss it, and by the time "Blue Flowers" landed I was hooked. A freeform mess of science fiction, medical horror, and non-sequiturs was exactly what was needed to disarm my prejudices and catch my interest. And DJ Q-Bert's scratching is siiiiiiiick, too. The porn movie samples are still super cringe, though. Fave tracks - "Blue Flowers", obviously, and "I'm Destructive", and then probably chunks of many of the other tracks...

I guess there’s a bunch of prudes and pearl-clutchers on this album project, huh? Before listening I scrolled the reviews and they gave me a different expectation than what I actually listened to. This album features amazing beats and a really kick-ass, unique rap delivery. The lyrics are up and down, but who cares, really? They’re not basic or stupid, if anything they’re bursting with creativity. I was gonna give this a 4, but as I write this, I think it might be a 5, if nothing else than to even the scales haha. ML #91.

The Dr. Octogan album is on another planet on a different day. The music, DJ Qbert and Dan the Automator, with Kool Keith over top of it. So good. Unique hip-hop, with elements of horror, and psychedelia. The album most certainly deserves it's place on the list. To get a better understanding on where this album sits one needs to listen to DJ Qbert - Wave Twisters, Episode 7 Million: Sonic Wars Within the Protons; as well as Peeping Tom.

There are a lot of albums I love, but there are few albums that I am dead sure I love more than anyone I've ever met. Dr. Octagonecologyst is one of those albums, and to such an extent that I've drafted a 33 1/3 book pitch for it multiple times. Some albums sound of their time, some sound ahead of their time. Dr. Octagonecologyst somehow does both at the same time. If the time it was ahead of ever comes, I'll be shocked and delighted in equal measure, just as I am every time I listen to this album.

Didn't know this existed. Glad I do now

Not the thing i would listen to on a regular basis, stoll so solid, so diverse and so groovy, cannot give this less than 5

Fantastic, subtle, delightful sophisticated. The humour was multifaceted and timeless, like Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Great concept album taking psychadelic rap to new hights. Although the beastie boys had done it in their album pauls corner and a tribe called quest after them. The definitive psych rap album has to be black sunday by Cypress Hill. That is the album that keeps on giving and was followed by temple of boom which is also in the top 3 ever. B-Real followed with his side project psycho relam from the soul assasins and killed it there as well. That being said this album is absolutely fabulous and deserves to be a top rated psych rap album. Maybe a bit to close of sound to Cypress but if you gonna do something great, make sure to borrow your influence from the best to ever do it

It's definately a vibe, not my vibe, but a Vibe for sure. I see where people would enjoy it, very "Trip-hop". This came out in 1996 and you can hear it. It would be interesting to see how Kool Keith evolved over the years. We will see if my curiosity get the better of me.

I believe it is safe to say that, if it weren't for the emergence of Dr. Octagonecologyst, underground hip-hop in the late 90s/early 2000s would wound up not having such a stronghold on those that grew jaded with the materialistic braggadocio prevalent within the genre. Having established himself as hip-hop's journeyman, Kool Keith crafted a persona that was as depraved, disturbed and outright dexterous in his lyricism and supposed handling of his patients. With equally out there instrumentation and sampling from fellow collaborator Dan the Automator, Dr. Octogon swirls, sneers, staggers and oozes with sleaze for a little over an hour, an hour that would end up galvanizing like-minded artists to buck the trend and forge their own path.

I first heard this album in a house on a steep hill nestled among the Ponderosa pines of Flagstaff probably around the time it dropped in '96 with a dude named Kurt who was a niche mountain biker (he practiced bike hopping in the boulders near there). The album is revolutionary using completely disassociated words. This is the Pooty Tang of hiphop where only the feelings lend much to the incredible lyrics. Kool Keith, the badass vocalist who has been in so many incredible projects (Princess Superstar anyone) is at the top of his game here. Earth People, Halfsharkalligatorhalfman, and the most mainstream (if you can call it that) Earth People are all personal favorites. Controlled by gamma light. Ugh. The samples, the lyrics, just next level. Probably one of my favorite ever albums, only made better when later combined in a mashup with Wesley Willis for 'Northwest Airlines' (god damn). This album is so unique that it can be disorienting the first time you hear it. Welcome to the fifth dimension, newcomers.

This guy was sent by God Our Lord to redeem us from our sins. I was very aware of “First Come, First Served” - another masterpiece - so huge was my surprise when I found out that they both were the same person. The unexpected sampling, careful arranging, and mad lyricism creates a unique never-boring always-mind-blowing experience. Honestly, wtf. Peace.

Sprinkle of DOOM, sprinkle of Westside Gunn, Sprinkle of Pharcyde, Michelin star meal 🔥🔥🔥

this was fire. will defo relisten

This was a lot of fun and also fucking great music. Literally loved it

Phenomenal and amazing. This record is an absolute staple to anyone’s collection.

Ceaseless and complex Scratched and spun maze of wordplay Odd, head bobbing rap

Unhinged greatness

Such an influential album with so many great tracks. Earth People, 3000, Blue Flowers, and my fav halfsharkalligatorhalfman.

Genuinely odd and spooky hio hop album. Kool Keith has some crazy lines, sometimes seeming like he is reading straight from a chemistry book. And Dan the Automator's production and DJ Qbert's scratches take this to a completely different level.

Nothing like this album. Legendary

Awesome. Definitely on my list of listen again

Knew Dan the Automator from the Booksmart soundtrack but no idea his background was this cooooooll. Jumpscare gynaecology exam halfway through

Discovered this in high school, still remember most of the lyrics. Great beats and delightfully bizarre.

Such a great album. I love Dan the Automator's production and Kool Keith's weird off-kilter lyrics. It gets a bit juvenile at points though I will say. I've always felt like this was a sister album to Deltron 3030.

the porny songs!!! but i like the hip hop