Line #50 Music/ICareBecauseYouDo


1	[[quoteright:316:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aphextwinicarebecauseyoudo_0.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:316:''Alright!'']]
3	->''"'...I Care Because You Do' isn't for everyone. Like, at all. It's pretty understandable why it's rather divisive in the Aphex Twin fanbase. You'd be rather hard pressed to find someone who considers it their favourite Richard album. But, it's an extremely important one. Without it, we wouldn't have later classics like 'Windowlicker' or 'Music/RichardDJamesAlbum'. Its importance cannot be overlooked. What 'Selected Ambient Works [[Music/SelectedAmbientWorks8592 Vol 1]] & [[Music/SelectedAmbientWorksVolumeII 2]]' did for IDM and Ambient music as a whole, '...I Care Because You Do' did for the future of Richard's music as a whole. After all, he cared. Do you?"''
4	-->-- '''[[https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/80361/Aphex-Twin-...I-Care-Because-You-Do/ Sputnikmusic review]]'''
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6	''…I Care Because You Do'' is the third studio album by British electronic musician Richard D. James under the alias Music/AphexTwin. It was released under Creator/WarpRecords on April 24, 1995.
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8	Overall, the album marked James' return to his percussive, beat-driven "braindance" sound following the mostly beatless ''Music/SelectedAmbientWorksVolumeII'', but it does also experiment with mixing abrasive rhythms and symphonic/ambient elements. The album's symphonic compositions in particular garnered comparisons to Music/PhilipGlass, who would eventually re-record one of the album's tracks ("Icct Hedral") for James' ''Donkey Rhubarb'' EP, released around four months after the album. Further genres critics and fans have drawn connections to include {{trip hop}}, downtempo, and various branches of techno (ambient, acid, etc.).
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10	The songs on ''…I Care Because You Do'' were recorded between 1990 and 1994, with the years being denoted on the track listing on the back of the album (which ''does'' go "A, B, 3, 4"); many of the track titles are anagrams of James' aliases. It was also the last album which James recorded mainly using analogue technology, as he turned to digital methods to produce future work. The album's cover art, one of the first of [[SigilSpam many Aphex releases]] to use an image of James' grinning face, is reportedly a self-portrait done by James himself. And yes, the barcode is part of the album artwork.
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12	!!Tracklist:
13	[[AC:Side A]]
14	# "Acrid Avid Jam Shred" (7:38)
15	# "The Waxen Pith" (4:49)
16	# "Wax The Nip" (4:18)
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18	[[AC:Side B]]
19	# "Icct Hedral (Edit)" (6:07)
20	# "Ventolin (Video Version)" (4:29)
21	# "Come On You Slags!" (5:44)
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23	[[AC:Side 3]]
24	# "Start As You Mean To Go On" (6:05)
25	# "Wet Tip Hen Ax" (5:17)
26	# "Mookid" (3:51)
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28	[[AC:Side 4]]
29	# "Alberto Balsalm" (5:10)
30	# "Cow Cud Is A Twin" (5:33)
31	# "Next Heap With" (4:33)
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33	!!Fossil Potter:[[note]]List Of Tropes[[/note]]
34	* AlbumTitleDrop: Done very subtly by a text-to-speech voice a few times during "Cow Cud Is A Twin" (all in the left speaker).
35	* CapsLock: The title of "Come On You Slags!" is written this way on the back cover.
36	* EpicRocking: "Acrid Avid Jam Shred", "Icct Hedral (Edit)" and "Start As You Mean To Go On" are each over 6 minutes long.
37	* FaceOnTheCover: The first Aphex Twin album to do so, and started the trend of Richard putting his face everywhere on both his albums and his music videos.
38	* GratuitousPanning: The vocal sample in "Come On You Slags!" will occasionally switch speakers.
39	* LongestSongGoesFirst: "Acrid Avid Jam Shred" is both the longest song on the album, and the first song on the album.
40	* OneWordTitle: "Mookid".
41	* {{Sampling}}: "Come On You Slags!" samples the 1981 pornographic film ''Seka's Fantasies''.
42	* SensoryAbuse: "Ventolin (Video Version)" is the classic example, witch its high-pitched ringing noise which permeates the entire track.
43	* ShoutOut: "Alberto Balsalm" gets its name from Alberto Bal''sam'', a [[https://www.albertobalsam.com/ hair care products brand]].
44	* SignificantAnagram: Many of the song titles are anagrams of things relating to the artist himself:
45	** "Acrid Avid Jam Shred" is an anagram of Richard David James.
46	** "Wax The Nip" is an anagram of "Aphex Twin", and "Wet Tip Hen Ax" (minus an H), "The Waxen Pith" and "Next Heap With" are each anagrams of ''The'' Aphex Twin.
47	** "Cow Cud Is A Twin" is an anagram of "Caustic Window", another alias of Richard's.
48	* SingerNamedrop: Done by a text-to-speech program several times throughout "Cow Cud Is A Twin" (again, all in the left speaker).
49	* SpokenWordInMusic: Several examples.
50	** As noted above, the sample from the film ''Seka's Fantasies''.
51	** "Alberto Balsalm" has a robotic voice repeating the word "bubbly" at the beginning, and several times throughout.
52	* StudioChatter: "Cow Cud Is A Twin" begins with Richard yelling "alright!", and two ''very'' loud door slams.
53	* TextlessAlbumCover: Just Richard's grinning mug and a barcode.
54	* WordPureeTitle: "Icct Hedral", which, as far as anyone knows, is just gibberish.

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