Deadringer (album)

For the Meat Loaf album, see Dead Ringer (album).

Deadringer
Studio album by RJD2
Released	July 23, 2002
Genre	Hip hop Instrumental hip hop Post-trip hop
Length	67:00
Label	Definitive Jux
Producer	RJD2
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RJD2 chronology
Your Face or Your Kneecaps (2001) Deadringer (2002) The Horror (2003)

Deadringer is the debut album of RJD2. It was released on July 23, 2002 on Definitive Jux.

Track listing

1. "The Horror" – 4:11
2. "Salud" – 0:38
3. "Smoke & Mirrors" – 4:26
4. "Good Times Roll Pt.2" – 4:57
5. "Final Frontier" – 4:25
   • featuring Blueprint
6. "Ghostwriter" – 5:17
   • samples Betty Wright "Secretary"
7. "Cut Out to FL" – 3:42
8. "F.H.H." – 4:31
   • featuring Jakki da Motamouth
9. "Shot in the Dark" – 1:21
10. "Chicken-Bone Circuit" – 3:54
11. "The Proxy" – 2:14
12. "2 More Dead" – 5:17
13. "Take the Picture Off" – 1:02
14. "Silver Fox" – 3:31
15. "June" – 6:03
    • featuring Copywrite
16. "Work" – 11:39
    • Includes bonus track "Here's What's Left"

• "Ghostwriter" was featured in a 2005 UK TV advertisement for Anadin Extra, as well as in the opening credits to the 2004 romantic comedy Wimbledon and 2005 romantic comedy Prime. In America it is featured in advertisements for Wells Fargo bank. In addition, It was also used in the 2011 short film 'A Brief History of Title Design' created by the website Art of the Title.
• "Smoke and Mirrors" was featured in the 2004 Skate Video "Paul Rodriguez's Forecast" in which the track was used in Paul Rodriguez's part.
• Early copies included a "hidden" song on the same track as "Work", titled "Here's What's Left." A slow, wistful track making use of sampled vocals, much like "Smoke and Mirrors". Def Jux was forced to drop it from later pressings due to a sample clearance problem.

Samples

• "The Horror"
  • The theme music from the TV series The New Scooby-Doo Movies
  • "Hey Hey" by Gershon Kingsley
  • Various vocal samples from the TV series The Twilight Zone
  • "Bad" by the Jimmy Castor Bunch
• "Salud"
  • "Introduction" by Lol Coxhill (from his album Ear of the Beholder)
• "Good Times Roll Pt. 2"
  • "Tiger" by Brian Auger
  • "Nobody But You, Babe" by Clarence Reid
  • "Brakhage" by Stereolab
• "The Final Frontier"
  • "The Show Is Over" by Evelyn "Champagne" King
  • "Roundabout" by Yes
• "Smoke and Mirrors"
  • "Who Knows" by Marion Black
  • "Waterfall" by Cris Williamson
  • "Jupiter Child" by Steppenwolf
• "Ghostwriter"
  • "I Didn't Understand" by Elliott Smith
  • "Secretary" by Betty Wright
  • "Timesteps" by Wendy Carlos and "William Tell Overture" (from the soundtrack to the film A Clockwork Orange)
  • "Outside Woman Blues" by Cream
  • "A Taste of Honey" by Paul Desmond
  • "Ready or Not Here I Come" by The Delfonics
• "Cut Out to Fl"
  • "It's Better to Have No Love" by Gloria Scott
  • "I'll Never Be Ashamed" by The Sylvers
• "F.H.H."
  • "Universal Mind" by Mystic Moods
• "Shot in the Dark"
  • "I Still See You (Theme from The Go-Between)" by Michel Legrand
  • "The Assassin" (from the Children's storybook LP The Incredible Hulk)
• "Chicken-Bone Circuit"
  • "Dazed and Confused" by Led Zeppelin (live version from the album The Song Remains the Same)
  • "Cold Sweat" by Mongo Santamaría
  • "Part 1" by The Groupies - Spoken Word
• "Take the Picture Off"
  • "The Walrus of Love" by Franklin Ajaye
• "The Proxy"
  • Pat Metheny's performance of the first movement of Steve Reich's "Electric Counterpoint"
• "2 More Dead"
  • "Third Child" by Billy Eckstine
  • "Concrete Reservation" by Syl Johnson
• "Silver Fox"
  • "Behold, the Only Thing Greater Than Yourself" by Quincy Jones
  • "Follow Your Heart" by The Manhattans
• "June"
  • "There's a D.J. in Your Town" by Samson and Delilah
  • "The Four Seasons of Taurus" by Mort Garson
    • The B-side remix of "June" starts with a sample of "2/1" by Brian Eno.
• "Work"
  • "Something You Got" by Alvin Robinson
  • "Seers of the Truth" by Golden Avatar
• "Here's What's Left"
  • "The Black Frost" by Grover Washington Jr.
  • "Silent Running" by David Matthews
  • "Wish I Could Talk to You" by The Sylvers
  • "Memories Are Here to Stay" by The Intruders

External links

• Definitive Jux official site
• A partial list of RJD2 samples