Handsome Boy Modeling School

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Here you go Jeter

The main guys behind it are Prince Paul (producer for Del La Soul and a bunch of others) and Dan the Automator (sang on the Gorillaz album and much more)

Here are some of the people on the first album
Del tha Funkee Homosapien
J-Live
Sean Lennon
Miho Hatori
Mike D
Don Novello

Here's some of the folks from the second album
RZA
Cat Power
Casual
Alex Kapranos
Chester Bennington
Mike Shinoda
Jack Johnson
Cedric Bixler-Zavala
Mike Patton
El-P
Pharrell
John Oates
Chino Moreno
Lord Finesse
Black Sheep
Tim Meadows

The name comes from an old Chris Elliot show. The album has songs with "skits" inbetween


Here's a few songs form the first album (So... how's your girl)
Sunshine
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Magnetizing
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Holy Calamity
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Waterworld
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That's a collection to show you the difference in the songs. When you have members of De La Soul, Beastie Boys, Cibo Matto, and Sean Lennon (son of John) all on one album you end up with a strange mix



Here's some of the music form the second album (White People)
Rock n' Roll (could never Hip Hop like this)
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I've Been Thinkin
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The World's Gone Mad
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Class System
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Breakdown
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For the second album you have members of N.E.R.D., John Oates (of Hall & Oates), Faith No More, Wu-Tang Clan, Linkin Park, and Black Sheep

For such odd groupings of musical styles Prince Paul and Dan make it work. You can get both albums off iTunes.

[keyser28146]

That's really good stuff!

[Dioxin]

del the funky homosapien is great. he also sang on the gorillaz's first single, clint eastwood.

[keyser28146]

Yep, and I'm a longtime Faith No More fan, so the Mike Patton is a no brainer... if he is doing it, it's going to be pretty nuts on the collaborative side.

[Dioxin]

Their second album (2004) seems a little less chaotic and more organized than their earlier release (1999). I bought the newer of the two on amazon in mp3 and I'm really happy with it. BTW, it really reminds me of the RZA's album Bobby Digital. If you like Handsome Boy, look into this album. It's a big collaboration, but not THAT large.

Some songs to look into are:
My Lovin is Digi
Never Again

... and like 3/4 of the other songs on the album. It's pretty damn good.