| Product Summary | | Label: Universal Music Group | | UPC: 00602527127538 | | Release Date: 9/15/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 211513109 | | Item#: M4Q5J9 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25332 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. In My Dreams (Cudder Anthem) ~ Kid Cudi |  | | 2. Soundtrack 2 My Life ~ Kid Cudi | | | 3. Simple As... ~ Kid Cudi | | | 4. Solo Dolo (nightmare) ~ Kid Cudi | | | 5. Heart of a Lion (KiD CuDi Theme Music) ~ Kid Cudi | | | 6. My World ~ Kid Cudi | | | 7. Day N Nite (nightmare) ~ Kid Cudi | | | 8. Sky Might Fall ~ Kid Cudi | | | 9. Enter Galactic (Love Connection Part 1) ~ Kid Cudi | | | 10. Alive (nightmare) - (featuring Ratatat) ~ Kid Cudi | | | 11. Cudi Zone ~ Kid Cudi | | | 12. Make Her Say - (featuring Kanye West) ~ Kid Cudi | | | 13. Pursuit of Happiness (nightmare) - (featuring Ratatat) ~ Kid Cudi | | | 14. Hyyear - (featuring Chip Tha Ripper) ~ Kid Cudi | | | 15. Up Up & Away ~ Kid Cudi | |
| Track Listing
1. In My Dreams [Cudder Anthem]
2. Soundtrack 2 My Life
3. Simple As...
4. Solo Dolo [Nightmare]
5. Heart of a Lion [KiD CuDi Theme Music]
6. My World
7. Day N Nite [Nightmare]
8. Sky Might Fall
9. Enter Galactic [Love Connection Part 1]
10. Alive [Nightmare] (Featuring Ratatat)
11. Cudi Zone
12. Make Her Say (Featuring Kanye West)
13. Pursuit of Happiness [Nightmare] (Featuring Ratatat)
14. Hyyear (Featuring Chip Tha Ripper)
15. Up Up & Away
"The music is engrossing and Cudi's angst genuine..." Jody Rosen, Rolling Stone Magazine
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Composers: S. Mescudi; S. Mescudi. | | Personnel: Andrew Van Wyngarden, Ben Goldwasser (vocals); Alain Whyte, Mike Stroud (guitar); Larry Gold (strings); Jeff Bhasker (keyboards, background vocals). | | Audio Mixers: Manny Marroquin; Ryan West. | | Recording information: Avex Studios, Honolulu, HI; Chung King Studios, New York, NY; Headbanga Studios, Brooklyn, NY; Jim Henson Studios, Hollywood, CA; Record Plant, Hollywood, CA; The Broski Room, New York, NY. | | Author: Kanye West. | | Illustrator: Bill Sienkiewicz. | | Kid Cudi is a fascinating rapper, claimed by the backpackers for his work with Kanye West on 808s & HEARTBREAK but equally loved by the mash-up club kids who went ape for his "Day N Nite" single, especially in its nu-disco remix from Crookers. His debut album was deep in the category of "much anticipated" as soon as it was announced, but when the promised game changer finally arrived, it became obvious that Cudi had already changed the game. With its narration from Common and a track list broken into five "acts," MAN ON THE MOON: THE END OF DAY is almost as conceptual as its name implies, kicking off with a spaced-out slow roller coated in strings while Cudi states "Welcome, you're in my dream now." What follows is Pink Floyd-styled story where the real world pain of "Soundtrack 2 My Life" mutates into sci-fi fantasies from the dark side of the moon. Along the way, brilliant samples--like a bit of OMD's esoteric album DAZZLE SHIPS--and innovative sounds from Cudi and special guests Emile, Ratatat, and MGMT slowly shuffle the listener through the man's spliff-fueled exploration of space. This first official release is a soul searcher and may require more patience than your everyday debut. Still, the chilly, complicated MAN ON THE MOON perfects the futuristic bleak-beat hip-hop Kanye purposed a year earlier, and rewards the listener with every tripped-out return. | | Kid Cudi is a fascinating rapper, claimed by the backpackers for his work with Kanye West on 808s & Heartbreak but equally loved by the mash-up club kids who went ape for his "Day N Nite" single, especially in its nu-disco remix from Crookers. His debut album was deep in the category of "much anticipated" as soon as it was announced, but when the promised game changer finally arrived, it became obvious that Cudi had already changed the game, and maybe debut albums aren't what they used to be. With its narration from Common and a track list broken into five "acts," Man on the Moon: The End of Day is almost as conceptual as its name implies, kicking off with a spaced-out slow roller coated in strings while Cudi states "Welcome, you're in my dream now." You most certainly are. What follows is Pink Floyd-styled story where the real world pain of "Soundtrack 2 My Life" mutates into sci-fi fantasies from the dark side of the moon. Along the way, brilliant samples -- like a bit of OMD's esoteric album Dazzle Ships -- and innovative sounds from Cudi and special guests Emile, Ratatat, and MGMT slowly shuffle the listener through the man's spliff-fueled exploration of space, a place where the artsy escape ridicule but fall prey to crushing isolation. With its bleeps, the hooky "Day N Nite" belongs, but the follow-up single, "Make Her Say," is a glorious mix of glitz and vulgarity with Kanye and Cudi twisting a Lady GaGa sample from "Poker Face" into "Poke Her Face." While it lightens the mood just before things turn ponderous, it barely fits. If it wasn't for the song, it would be as if Cudi launched his career with his own 808s, and therefore anyone looking for a more gripping kickoff should seek out either of his widely available mixtapes (A Kid Named Cudi or Dat Kid from Cleveland). This first official release is a soul searcher and may require more patience than your everyday debut. Still, the chilly, complicated Man on the Moon perfects the futuristic bleak-beat hip-hop Kanye purposed a year earlier, and rewards the listener with every tripped-out return. [A clean version of the CD, with all profanities removed, was also released.] ~ David Jeffries |
Producer: Matthew Friedman; Emile Haynie; Patrick "Plain Pat" Reynolds; Kanye West; Jeff Bhasker |
Engineer: Anthony Kilhoffer; Ryan West; Andrew Dawson; Emile Haynie; Evan Mast |
Musical Guests | | Ratatat | | Kanye West | | Chip Tha Ripper |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 09/15/2009 | | Original Release Date : 2009 | | Catalog ID : 13196 | | Label : Universal Motown | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00602527127538 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.96)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "The music is engrossing and Cudi's angst genuine..."Spin (p.88)
- "Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi is a quirky, singing rapper with a nice, effortless stoner drawl....He's more concerned with melody and emotion than lyrical terror." Entertainment Weekly (p.129)
- "Cudi turns out to be that rarest of rap phenomena: a hyped upstart who really does represent a promising new phase in the genre's evolution." -- Grade: A- Billboard (p.52)
- "The rapper's delivery is confident in a poetic and artful way, channeled through a theatrical set of songs..." Slant Magazine 8 of 10
Kid Cudi doesn't want you to take him seriously. On his debut album, Man on the Moon: The End of Day, he says, "I got 99 problems, and they all bitches/Wish I was Jigga, man, carefree living/But I'm not Sean or Martin Louie/I'm the Cleveland n***a rolling with them Brooklyn boys." The rest of the album, like the rapper's year-old mixtape, A Kid Named Cudi, is full of those kinds of flippant one-liners ("It's all said and done, and my c**k's been sucked"), but like his Midwestern brethren the Cool Kids, who share a juvenile moniker as well as a taste for retro hip-hop, Cudi genuinely seems to just be having fun...It wasn't very ambitious, but Kid Named Cudi announced one of the most promising, likeable new sounds in hip-hop. He can switch from rap to soul as easily as he can crack a joke: In his memorable tribute to marijuana, "Maui Wowie," he says he's "on a mission to get lifted like John Legend and shit." But from its bombastic title to Common's annoying narration, Man on the Moon vies for both a bigger pop platform and indie credibility. Unfortunately, the much-ballyhooed collaboration with MGMT and Ratatat, "Pursuit of Happiness," is exactly the kind of overproduced rock-rap ballad that will no doubt invite the disdain of the Pitchfork tastemakers that Cudi has been courting. The drippy lyrics describe a stoner's inner torment, but it's hard to believe Cudi is very tormented, especially when he's toking up...Tellingly, the best song on the album is actually an extended joke: the Kanye-produced "Make Her Say," in which both rappers and Common riff on the coded sexual messages of Lady Gaga's "Poker Face." "I make her say 'oh' when I poke her face," might be the most audaciously crude chorus of the year, but the sparse production and Cudi's dexterous rhyming are too good to ignore. As long as you don't take them too seriously. - Paul Schrodt
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| | Bio | | | Kid Cudi Kid Cudi is a Brooklyn-based rapper from Cleveland whose debut single, "Day 'n' Nite," became an online favorite in 2008. Born Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi in suburban Cleveland, his career took off after he moved to Brooklyn and became affiliated with Fool's Gold, the label of DJs A-Trak and Nick Catchdubs. The label released the Day 'n' Nite EP in February 2008 and circulated a Crookers remix around the blogosphere, drumming up a good deal of buzz in the process. It didn't hurt that Kid Cudi began to receive increasing press attention, including a nod from Rolling Stone (which touted him among the magazine's Top Five best indie hip-hop artists of 2008). Not long after the release of "Day 'n' Nite," Kid Cudi began touring with the Fool's Gold collective, which performed at a South by Southwest showcase and subsequently joined forces with Steve Aoki and his Dim Mak collective for a North American tour. As the remixed version of "Day 'n' Nite" climbed the U.K. singles charts, Kid Cudi readied the release of his full-length album debut for summer 2009.
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