Operation: Doomsday

Operation: Doomsday
Studio album by
MF Doom
Released19 October 1999
Recorded1997–1999
Genre
Length58:20
LabelFondle 'Em
ProducerMF Doom
MF Doom chronology
Black Bastards Ruffs + Rares
(with KMD)
(1998) 		Operation: Doomsday
(1999) 		Black Bastards
(with KMD)
(2000)
Singles from Operation: Doomsday
  1. "Dead Bent" / "Gas Drawls" / "Hey!"
    Released: 1997
  2. "Greenbacks" / "Go with the Flow"
    Released: 1997
  3. "The M.I.C." / "Red & Gold"
    Released: 1998
  4. "I Hear Voices Pt. 1"
    Released: 2001
    (2001 re-release)
  5. "Tick, Tick..."
    Released: 20 January 2015[1]

Operation: Doomsday is the debut studio album by British-American rapper MF Doom, released through Fondle 'Em Records on 19 October 1999[2][3][4][5] and reissued by Sub Verse Records in 2001 with a slightly altered track listing.[6] It was his first solo release under the MF Doom moniker after previously performing as Zev Love X in the group KMD. Operation: Doomsday is regarded as one of the most influential albums in independent hip-hop history.[7] A deluxe remastered version of the album was released by Doom's own Metal Face Records on 24 October 2011.[8][9]

  1. ^ Tick, Tick... (liner notes). MF Doom; MF Grimm. New York, New York: Day by Day Entertainment. 2015.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. ^ Adams, Dart (19 April 2019). "MF Doom 'Operation: Doomsday': A 20th Anniversary Retrospective". Medium. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  3. ^ Garcia, Robert (22 April 2020). "Had to repost this from last year ... Dear press/Wiki: Here's the invoice, dated August 9, 1999, for the original MF Doom debut album 'Operation Doomsday'". Instagram. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  4. ^ Garcia, Robert. "It came out 10/19/99, not today". Instagram. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  5. ^ Ducker, Jesse (19 October 2019). "MF Doom's Debut Album 'Operation: Doomsday' Turns 20 | Anniversary Retrospective". Albumism. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  6. ^ "MF Doom DISCOGRAPHY". Stones Throw. Archived from the original on 15 December 2006.
  7. ^ Caramanica, Jon (14 January 2021). "MF Doom, Magician of Memory". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  8. ^ Operation: Doomsday (liner notes). MF Doom. Kennesaw, Georgia: Metal Face Records. 2011. MF1107.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  9. ^ "Operation: Doomsday [Deluxe Edition] (CD)". Amoeba Music. Retrieved 22 February 2021.