Come To Daddy
EP by Aphex Twin
Released	October 6, 1997
Recorded	1996/1997
Genre	Drill n bass
Length	32:54
Label	Warp Records WAP094 Sire Records 31001-2
Producer(s)	Richard D. James
Professional reviews
AMG link Pitchfork Media (7.2/10) Oct 1997
Aphex Twin chronology
Richard D. James Album (1996)	Come To Daddy (1997)	Windowlicker (1999)

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James describes his work: "Come to Daddy came about while I was just hanging around my house, getting pissed and doing this crappy death metal jingle. Then it got marketed, and a video was made, and this little idea that I had, which was a joke, turned into something huge. It wasn't right at all."

The "Come to Daddy" video

The accompanying video was directed by acclaimed director Chris Cunningham. It features a number of children, each with the maniacally-grinning head of Richard D. James, terrorizing helpless adults. The children are controlled by a monstrous, skinny demon from within a television. The video was considered very disturbing and frightening to audiences; MTV executive James Hyman declared it "One of the most powerful, certainly the most disturbing I've ever seen". Image File history File links Come_to_Daddy_video. ... Image File history File links Come_to_Daddy_video. ... A music video (also promo) is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ... Chris Cunningham is a British music video film director and video artist. ... A male Caucasian toddler child A child (plural: children) is a young human. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Track listing

All tracks written, produced and engineered by Richard D. James, Chrysalis Music. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Chrysalis Music is a British independent music publisher. ...

1. "Come to Daddy (Pappy mix)" – 4:22
2. "Flim" – 2:57
3. "Come to Daddy (Little Lord Faulteroy mix)" – 3:50
4. "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball" – 5:44
5. "To Cure a Weakling Child (Contour Regard)" – 5:10
6. "Funny Little Man" – 3:58
7. "Come to Daddy (Mummy mix)" – 4:24
8. "IZ-US" – 2:57

The tracks were originally released on two separate CDs, WAP94CD and WAP94CDR, with the first four tracks on the former and the rest on the latter. These have since been deleted and replaced by one EP containing all eight tracks (WAP94CDX).

The cover of WAP94CDR

Not all the tracks featured on this album are the industrial style of the first track. "IZ-US" features mellow synth tones with jazz style drums. Each mix of "Come to Daddy" is completely different, the "Little Lord Faulteroy mix" is a calm track with bizarre vocal samples and the "Mummy mix" is a Noise music song featuring clips of James' mother talking. The other tracks also have their own style, most notably "Flim", an upbeat song with a cheerful melody and Aphex Twin's signature complex polyrhythms. Image File history File links Aphex_Twin_-_Come_To_Daddy_(CD2). ... Image File history File links Aphex_Twin_-_Come_To_Daddy_(CD2). ... The term synthesiser is also used to mean frequency synthesiser, an electronic system found in communications. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form originating around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in Western music technique and theory, and is marked by the profound cultural contributions of African Americans. ... Noise music is music that uses sounds regarded as unpleasant or painful under normal circumstances. ...

Though Aphex Twin rarely uses vocals in his work, four of Come to Daddy's eight tracks feature prominent vocals. Because of this and the hit single title track, this EP is generally considered his most pop music work. For Popular music (music that is popular, rather than of a specific genre or style), see Popular music. ...

Come to Daddy's packaging features stark black letters against a white background. All the information, tracklistings and lyrics are printed the same way, and only two images are present, both photographed by Stefan DeBatselier and digitally altered by Chris Cunningham, using James' face on children. James has used his likeness as the artwork on five of his releases: The I Care Because You Do and Richard D. James Album albums, the Donkey Rhubarb and Come to Daddy EPs and the Windowlicker single. Chris Cunningham is a British music video film director and video artist. ... ...I Care Because You Do is an ambient-techno album by Richard D. James, more commonly known by his pseudonym of Aphex Twin. ... Richard D. James Album is an album by Aphex Twin. ... Binomial name Polygonum cuspidatum Sieb. ... Windowlicker is a 1999 single by electronic music artist Richard D. James, released under the Aphex Twin name on Warp. ...

The cover of the out-of-print second CD, with its white lettering against an orange background, makes reference to the fact that "To Cure A Weakling Child" had been used in a television advertisement for Orange. Orange SA is a major mobile phone operator. ...

Cover versions

Come to Daddy has been covered by The Dillinger Escape Plan on their EP Irony is a Dead Scene featuring Mike Patton Dillinger Escape Plan is a mathcore band that integrates grindcore with a little bit of free jazz via variating time signatures and free jazz guitar interludes. ... The Kinks: vinyl EP, 1965 An example of an EP, Soft Science from Canadas Sproll released in 2006. ... Irony is a Dead Scene is an EP by Dillinger Escape Plan with Mike Patton, released on August 27, 2002 (see 2002 in music). ... Mike Patton Mike Patton (born Michael Allan Patton, January 27, 1968, in Eureka, California) is an American musician. ...

The song "Flim" was covered by jazz trio The Bad Plus on their debut album These Are The Vistas. The Bad Plus are a jazz piano trio consisting of pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson, and drummer Dave King. ... These Are the Vistas is the second studio album released by The Bad Plus. ...

External links

• More info, artwork and samples
• Complete Aphex twin discography
• Come To Daddy at the Warp Records discography (features audio clips).
• "Come To Daddy" video analysis