DESCRIPTION:
MF DOOM!!
Released: March 23, 2004.
Recorded: Various Dates.
Special Herbs, Vols. 5 & 6 is an album of instrumental works released by MF Doom under the Metal Fingers moniker. As with the other installments of the Special Herbs series, each track is named for a herb or similar flora.

This album, aside from the bonus tracks, also forms the last thirteen tracks of the Metal Fingers series' previous volume, Special Herbs, Vols. 4, 5 & 6, due to the different record labels the various albums in the series were released on. This is the last volume of the series with such track listing overlaps.

1. "Pennyroyal" --
Produced by Metal Fingers
Contains a sample from "Cathedral" by Galt MacDermot.
Contains sound effects from the classic Doom game are used in the background.
2. "Lavender Buds" --
Produced by Metal Fingers
Contains a sample from "April Showers" by The Blackbyrds.
3. "White Willow Bark" --
Produced by Metal Fingers
"Orange Blossoms" --
Produced by Metal Fingers
4. "Coffin Nails" --
Produced by Metal Fingers
5. "Kava Kava Root" --
Produced by Metal Fingers
6. "Valerian Root" --
Produced by Metal Fingers
Contains a sample from "Do It Again" by New Birth, from the album Comin from All Ends.
7. "Jasmine Blossoms" --
Produced by Metal Fingers
Contains a sample from "Sweet Love" by Anita Baker
8. "Black Snake Root" --
Produced by Metal Fingers
Contains a sample from "Lowdown" by Boz Scaggs
9. "Horehound" --
Produced by Metal Fingers
Contains samples from the end credits of 1970's Sesame Street theme.
10. "Dragons Blood" --
Produced by Metal Fingers
11. "Myrtle Leaf" --
Produced by Metal Fingers
12. "Patchouly Leaves" --
Produced by Metal Fingers
Contains a sample from "Our Day Will Come" by Isaac Hayes, from the album ...To Be Continued
13. "My Favorite Ladies" (bonus track)


"Orange Blossoms" is an instrumental version of "The Instructor" by B.I., from the Spark the Sound split 7" with Chris Craft featuring MF Doom. It was also used on "Underwater" by Ghostface Killah, from the album Fishscale.
"Kava Kava Root" is an instrumental version of "Anarchist Bookstore Pt. 1" by MC Paul Barman, from the album Paullelujah!. It is also used on "Stress Box" by MF Grimm, from the MF DOOM collaboration album Special Herbs and Spices Volume 1.
"Valerian Root" is an instrumental version of "Anarchist Bookstore Pt. 2" by MC Paul Barman, from Paullelujah! .
"Coffin Nails" is an instrumental version of "Rapp Snitch Knishes (Rap Snitches)" by MF DOOM featuring Mr. Fantastik, from the album MM..Food?.
"Horehound" is an instrumental version of "Kookies" by MF DOOM, from the same album. It is also used on "Tonight's Show" by MF Grimm featuring Invisible Man and Lord Smog, from Special Herbs and Spices Volume 1.
"Dragon's Blood" is an instrumental version of "Fig Leaf Bi-Carbonate" by MF DOOM from MM.. Food. It is also used on "1000 Degrees" by MF Grimm, from Special Herbs and Spices Volume 1. It is also used on "Guns N' Razors" by Ghostface Killah from More Fish.
"Myrtle Leaf" is an instrumental version of "Monster Zero" by King Geedorah, from the album Take Me to Your Leader.
"Patchouly Leaves" is an instrumental version of "Operation: Greenbacks" by MF DOOM featuring Megalon, from Operation: Doomsday.