''Let's Play Domination'' is the debut studio album by English rock band

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, released in 1988 by

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' subsidiary label Product Inc. World Dom guitarist/singer Keith Dobson re-released it on CD with bonus tracks in 2009 on his label Free Love Records.

Songs

"Message for You People" opens side one with a thud reminiscent of a blowing speaker or

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explosion, then a pulsing bassline followed by "drums and blistering guitar

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." According to Wyndham Wallace of ''

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'' wrote that Dobsons' guitar in the song "forever redefines concepts of ‘

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’ music." According to ''

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'', " e astonishing high-pressure racket of ''Let's Play Dominations opening salvo ("Message for You People") may send you rushing to the turntable to see if your stylus is accidentally gouging a hole in the platter." "Ghetto Queen" and "Blu Money", the latter featuring a refrain of "I blew money that I could've bought drugs with," have been described as "ghetto punk" in their musical style. Side two of the album is more

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. "The Bullit Man" is followed by "The Stack Blew Jack," possibly intentionally placed next to each other in the album "as they follow the same exact start/stop blueprint and melody scheme."

Reception

It was included at number 89 in ''

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''' list of the top 99 albums from 1985 to 1995. ''Dusted'' magazine wrote that "''Let's Play Domination'' proves World Domination Enterprises ''had it'' in the mid to late 1980s, an era when a lot of people lost it, or never found it in the first place." In 2009, John Doran of the ''

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'' included the album in the magazine's "Unspun Heroes" series where the writers " igup buried treasure from the depths of our collection." He called the band "truly radical

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ers" and said that "World Domination Enterprises didn’t just bite the hand that fed. They gnawed the fingers off, chewed the bone, cartilage, skin and blood and then spat the mess back in the owner’s face." The same year, Wyndham Wallace of ''

'' wrote that:

Track List

All songs written by World Domination Enterprises (Keith Dobson, Steve Jameson, Digger Metters) unless otherwise indicated. The use of uppercase and lowercase letters are as they appear on the back cover and labels of the original Product Inc. LP and CD. The Product Inc. LP and CD both include a thank-you message from Dobson at the very end, hence the difference in run time of the 7" version of "Radio" between the two CD releases.

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1988 debut albums