Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Arrow Root
2. Bergamot
3. Coffin Nails
4. Podina
5. Saffron
6. Elder Blossoms
7. Kava Kava Root
8. Orris Root
9. Powder
10. Zatar
11. Calamus
12. Valerian Root
13. Coltsfoot Leaf
14. Charnsuka
15. Agrimony
16. Pennyroyal
17. Burdock Root
18. Patchouly Leaves
19. Emblica Officinalis
20. Galangal Root
21. Eucalyptus
22. Datura Stramonium
23. Jasmine Blossoms
24. Vinca Rosea
25. Safed Musli
26. Fenugreek
27. Benzoin Gum
28. Lavendar Buds
29. Vervain
30. Shallots
31. Licorice
32. Camphor
33. Dragon's Blood Resin
34. Syrax Gum
35. Myrrh
36. Chrysanthemum Flowers
37. Sumac Berries

Disc 2:

1. Coriander
2. Arabic Gum
3. Black Snake Root
4. High John
5. Mullen
6. Spikenard
7. White Willow
8. Bark
9. Sarsaparilla
10. Bergamont
11. All Spice
12. Lemon Grass
13. Orange Blossoms
14. Buckeyes
15. Passion Flower
16. Mugwort
17. Four Thieves Vinegar
18. Dragon's Blood
19. Devil's Shoestring
20. Monosodium Glutamate
21. Yellow Dock
22. Nettle Leaves
23. Cinquefoil
24. Wormwood
25. Coca Leaf
26. Blood Root
27. Peach Extract
28. Horehouns
29. Lovage
30. Myrtle Leaf
31. Meditation
32. Star Anis
33. Hyssop
34. Red #40
35. Mandrake

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43189 in Music
• Released on: 2006-01-24
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Box set, Explicit Lyrics, Limited Edition
• Dimensions: .27 pounds

Customer Reviews

Great, but a few caveats...
If you've been actively searching for this MF releases, you're probably going to buy it regardless of the ratings. Everything is done in the well-known MF style - beats a little rougher and unfinished, maybe a little off beat. Before you buy, just a few things to note: 1) Just like the other reviews, the tracks are mixed up. 2) I should've read some of the reviews a little closer, but this is NOT a box set! It's mix of his Instrumental albums, so maybe two minutes of each track. So if you're looking for small patches of beats for mixes or sampling it's fine. But if you're looking for the full instrumentals, you'll have to keep buying the rest of the Special Herbs releases. If you still have the full set of Special Herbs releases, there's still a reason to buy it. There's a 3rd with 10 full length instrumentals of tracks from MF's KMD days.

I'd recommend this for hardcore Doom fans who want everything he has to offer. For those who care only for the extra 10 tracks, and are satisfied with owning all Special Herbs albums already, you'll have to decide if it's worth buying a whole box set for the 10 KMD tracks.

Oh Yeah. This is exactly how Special Herbs should be presented.
The Special Herbs collections are essentially instrumental-only tunes of what you have heard from MF DOOM / VIKTOR VAUGHN before and then some extra stuff that did not make it to the final cut and of course tunes that MF DOOM had being working on but had no place outside of an instrumental offering. Hence the name, Special Herbs! I would suggest that you search out a full MF DOOM collection and then get these supplements unless you are looking for instrumental-only hip-hop. If you are, then you have come to the right place.

Special Herbs: The Box Set is Special Herbs vol. 0-9. You get all five double albums for the price of two albums. So it is much better value. MF DOOM has done it again. You can play this album from start to end for a full day in your home and never get bored with any of it. It is a masterwork.

Burning the Herbs of Instrumental Greatness
MF Dooms super collection of beats is finally upon us. First the bad: the names are all messed up. All the track titles are wrong. SO, if you are just going to bump this masterpiece in your car or home stereo, no problem but if you are looking on iTunes for your favorite herb/beat, you'll come up with the wrong track. However, the good must be brought to all of ya'lls attention: It is the sickest instrumental CD in history. It is perfect for some freestyle sessions with the homies or with your lady (specificlly track 13, disk one). That's my two cents, and it'll be worth it to gather a couple to purchase the sickness that is the Special Herbs Box Set. CCow Out.