Expektoration

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Expektoration
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Live album by
ReleasedSeptember 14, 2010 (2010-09-14)
RecordedNovember 24, 2004
Genre Hip hop
Length51:33
Label Gold Dust Media
MF Doom chronology
Unexpected Guests
(2010)
Expektoration
(2010)
Key to the Kuffs
(2012)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 61/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Pitchfork 6.0/10 [3]

Expektoration is a 2010 live album by British-American rapper/producer MF Doom, featuring Big Benn Klingon. Recorded in New York, this performance was originally released as a DVD packaged with the 2007 expanded edition of Mm..Food .

Contents

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 61% based on 7 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Act 1 ("Hoe Cakes", "Kon Queso", "Kon Karne", "One Beer", "Beef Rapp", "Vomitspit", "Accordion", "Meat Grinder", "All Caps", "Curls", "Figaro", "People Places Things")"30:06
2."Intermission"1:36
3."Act 2 ("Go with the Flow", "Doomsday", "Hey!", "Rhymes Like Dimes", "Change the Beat", "The Fine Print")"19:38

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References

  1. 1 2 "Expektoration (Live) by MF Doom". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved January 21, 2017.
  2. Jeffries, David. "Big Benn Klingon / MF Doom - Expektoration (Live)". AllMusic . Retrieved January 21, 2017.
  3. Patrin, Nate (September 17, 2010). "MF DOOM: Expektoration Live". Pitchfork . Retrieved January 21, 2017.