Operation: Doomsday
by MF DOOM
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Operation: Doomsday is ranked 2nd best out of 17 albums by Daniel Dumile on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Daniel Dumile is Mm..Food which is ranked number 540 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,167.
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Operation: Doomsday track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Operation: Doomsday rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 50 Music Albums of 1999 | 11/50 | 4 |
| 2026 | tyleraepps | Top 24 Music Albums of the 1990s | 12/24 | 11 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 57 Music Albums of 1999 | 15/57 | 4 |
| 2026 | jonny5244 | My Favourite Album by Year | 28/74 | - |
| 2026 | mttr-in-plc | Top 5 Music Albums of 1999 | 2/5 | 4 |
| 2026 | daCritic | Top 37 Music Albums of 1999 | 12/37 | 4 |
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 85 Music Albums of 1999 | 25/85 | 4 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 99 Music Albums of 1999 | 20/99 | 4 |
| 2026 | sweetness | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 55/100 | 9 |
| 2026 | xhitmanx | Top 38 Music Albums of 1999 | 29/38 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 235 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,082 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/14/2026 02:25 | SD100852 | 1,333 | 76/100 |
| ! | 08/28/2026 02:32 | Melway94 | 118 | 83/100 |
| ! | 08/18/2026 13:47 |  dubayawalta | 401 | 80/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.4/100, a mean average of 79.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.4.
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Operation: Doomsday forum mentions
pedro1976 42 hours ago in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
BestEverAlbums 03/21/2023 20:00 in Album of the day (#4475): Operation: Doomsday by MF DOOM
Purplepash 03/14/2021 07:58 in What album are you listening to right now?Operation: Doomsday comments
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After the breakup of DOOM's old band KMD, caused by the death of his brother and bandmate Subroc, DOOM (or Zen Love X as he was called at the time) went into a time of alcoholism and near homelessness. After some time he decided to get his shit together and return to the hip hop scene. He would wear things like women's stockings and bandanas to cover his face, before ending up cutting up and spray painting a paper mask, creating the prototype for his trademark mask (you can see the original mask in his music videos from around that time). He came up with his supervillain persona based on the Marvel character Doctor Doom. The album has a rough and somewhat clumsy lo-fi sound that only brings the album a lot of charm. The album has some catchy hooks and lots of good self-made beats, some of which sample well-known songs like Sade's "Kiss of Love" (on "Doomsday") and The Beatles' "Glass Onion" (on "Tick, Tick..."). There's also a fair share of skits sampling cartoon and movie dialogues, holding together the supervillain theme of the album. We also get to see a more human side of DOOM, the Danial Dumile side, something that we never really get to hear on his later albums. An example of some more emotional and personal lyrics is "?" where he talks to his passed away brother about how "everything is going according to plan, man". But the album also has it's fair share of funny one-liners peppered all over, like you'd expect on a DOOM album. Def' another classic, and such an awesome cartoony cover!
JulianR TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/09/2018 02:35 | #207450 | TOP COMMENT
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This is one of my favorite hip hop albums that I've discovered recently. While his acclaimed Madvialliany definitely had some good moments, his flow on this record is much more appealing to me
This is quality. Doom is tha man.
I can't believe this album hasn't been shown more love on BEA. The fuck?
Larcx13 09/25/2020 13:03 | #258695 | TOP COMMENT
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Madvaillainy is a straight classic and Mm...Food was also very well received, but where I'm concerned, Doomsday is MF Doom's best record. After the themes and the many characters/aliases/voices of Doom, the jazzy and psychedelic beats make this album the masterpiece that it is. The lyrics are nothing deep but the rhymes are quite enjoyable, and though monotone, his experiments with flow are very interesting.
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