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Come to Daddy (song)

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unleashes a spirit, accompanied by a gang of small children, all of whom bear James' grinning face and who appear to inhabit the abandoned buildings. The children go around wreaking havoc, trashing an alley and chasing a man into his car. The thin man (played by Al Stokes) emerges from the television, screams in the woman's face, then gathers the children around him.
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The video opens with an old woman (played by Coral Lorne) walking a dog in a grimy, industrial setting. The dog urinates on an abandoned television lying on the pavement, causing it to sputter unexpectedly into life, and a distorted and warping headshot of Richard D. James chants the lyrics. This
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After its successful release, James claimed that he removed the record from circulation for one week, hoping to prevent it from reaching number one; it peaked at 36.
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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."
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placed the song at number 42 on its "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years" list. The song peaked at number 10 on the
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of the same name. A music video for the song was released, which ranked at number one on
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for "Come to Daddy" (released in October 1997) was directed by
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James noted his thoughts on the song in a 2001 interview with
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s Top 50 Music Videos of 1990s list. In October 2011,
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Index


Single
Aphex Twin
Come to Daddy
A-side
B-side
Genre
Drill 'n' bass
breakbeat
Label
Warp
Songwriter(s)
Richard D. James
Producer(s)
Aphex Twin
Girl/Boy
Windowlicker
"Come to Daddy"
YouTube
electronic music
Richard D. James
Aphex Twin
Warp Records
extended play release
Pitchfork
NME
Danish Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
Index Magazine
death metal

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