Music / The Crystal Method

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The Crystal Method is an American Electronic music and Big Beat group, whom they were early pioneers of, and they are from Las Vegas, Nevada.

For their history, their album Vegas, released in 1997, and their song “Busy Child” released as a single, the album won platinum. Other albums followed after the success. Their music has been used in the soundtrack of action movies.

Ken and Scott worked at a grocery store and worked on music, and Ken also worked at as a local DJ and on a college radio director. Eventually they moved to Los Angeles to form the band and they got their name from their helper whose name was Crystal, who helped them with their supplies and transportation needs and they adopted the name for their group, and they rented a house where they began music production.

Discography

album

• Vegas (1997)
• Tweekend (2001)
• Legion of Boom (2004)
• Divided By Night (2009)
• The Crystal Method (2014)
• The Trip Home (2018)
• The Trip Out (2022)

singles

• ”Busy Child” (1997)
• ”(Can’t You) Trip Like I Do (feat. Filter) (1997)
• ”Comin’ Back” (1998)
• ”Name Of The Game” (2001)
• ”Born Too Slow” (2003)
• ”Sine Language” (2010)

Tropes in The Crystal Method

• Alternative Dance: This is their genre. They are Big Beat.
• American Title: “The American Way”
• Boastful Rap: “Name Of The Game” has a pompous rap verse by Ryu from Styles Of Beyond and Fort Minor.
• Break-Up Song: “Over It” is about the singer letting go of her partner and breaking up.
• Broken Record: Their music contains all the same lyrics or phrase for the whole song. But these are examples where it happens the most.
  • “Busy Child” has only this line as its lyrics and is repeated for the whole song.
    Get busy child! I guess I don’t know!
    Get busy child! I guess I don’t know!
    Get busy child! I guess I don’t know!
    Get busy child! I guess I don’t know!
    Get busy child! I guess I don’t know!
  • ”High Roller” has only these lyrics.
    The transmission is coming to you.
    We’ve got it. Alright.
    The transmission is coming to you.
    We’ve got it. Alright.
    The transmission is coming to you.
    We’ve got it. Alright.
    The transmission is coming to you.
    We’ve got it. Alright.
• Cult Soundtrack: Spawn (1997) has used their songs in its soundtrack which has become this for the film and for The Crystal Method themselves.
• Drum and Bass: Their genre includes elements of this.
• Genre-Busting: Their music is Big Beat, but they combined Rock and Trance into their songs.
• I Am the Band: Scott Kirkland, since becoming the sole member in 2017.
• Instrumental Theme Tune: “Bones” for the show of the same name is instrumental.
• Looped Lyrics: Their music very often contains these. Averted with songs like “Name of the Game”.
  • “Busy Child” contains this most.
    Get busy child! I guess I don’t know!
    Get busy child! I guess I don’t know!
    Get busy child! I guess I don’t know!
    Get busy child! I guess I don’t know!
• New Sound Album: Zig-Zagged, but their album Divided By Night has more downtempo, more chill-out songs but it still has upbeat songs in their usual Big Beat style.
• Out-of-Genre Experience: “Let’s Go Home” is a Synthwave song that leans itself towards Trance, and is the only song of theirs that isn’t Big Beat.
• Precision F-Strike: In “Name of the Game”
  Listen all you motherfuckers!”
• Rearrange the Song: An alternate version of "Vapor Trail" entitled "Nowhere To Run (Vapor Trail)" is included on the 1998 Chef Aid album for South Park. It features new rock-based instrumentation from Fuzzbubble and additional contributions from Ozzy Osbourne, DMX and Ol' Dirty Bastard.
• Sampling: Present on many songs. "Busy Child" is the most famous example, sampling "Juice (Know the Ledge)" by Eric B. & Rakim, and "Summertime (Is Get Busy Time)" by Pierre's Phantasy Club.
• Self-Titled Album: The Crystal Method (2014)
• Shout-Out:
  • In “Sine Language”
    You're a Pac-Man bitch on an old Atari
    We Grand Theft Auto in a hot Ferrari
  • In “The American Way”
    In the American way it’s the American cuz rahzels the American Idol!
• Singer Namedrop: “Born Too Slow” during the first part, the singer says “Just like 70s goofballs, he’s waiting on last calls, we listen to The Method man!"

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