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Fishbone - Truth and Soul Audio CD

A fair review of the Fishbone "Truth and Soul" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Fishbone reviews here, or go back to the Fishbone tabs.

Fishbone Band: Fishbone
Title: Truth and Soul
Rating:
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Freddie's Dead 2: Ma and Pa 3: Question of Life - Fishbone, A. Moore 4: Pouring Rain 5: Deep Inside 6: Mighty Long Way 7: Bonin' in the Boneyard 8: One Day 9: Subliminal Fascism 10: Slow Bus Movin' (Howard Beach Party) 11: Ghetto Soundwave 12: Change

Fusion Pioneers
" Well, no one does Fusion like Fishbone, and no one did it WHEN they did it! Funk/Punk/Ska/Speed Metal. The big buzz in the music scene over the last decade or so has been "fusion bands. . . with horns. I dug Truth & Soul out the other day and it still is fresh and modern. How can a 20 year old album not age a day? I think it starts with the use of real instruments, so the sound is full and rich, unlike the hollowness sythesized sound creates. Also, the album's creativity seems endless. Each song brings a new sound with it. There is no tired repetition like alot of other artists who work by "formula. "
Why isn't Fishbone the best-known band in the world right now? After listening to this album, you may want to know. Shhh. . . the secret is. . . they're black. They made music white people listened to; it was not rap or R&B, so they didn't get the support from the black community that contemporaries did. Other black bands who did "white" music, like Living Colour and Bad Brains, also excelled in their genres, but got little credit for it.
Fishbone predates No Doubt, Mighty Might Bosstones, and even the popular days of Red Hot Chili Peppers, but if you like any of the above, give this a listen. If you like more than one of the above, buy it - no preview neccessary!.


Ska music pioneers
The greatest ska band. If you get the chance you have to catch a live Fishbone show.


The type of album that makes you feel good.
You just have to play this album and you instantly feel good. As the tile says. You can play it at a party and make a good general athmosphere or you can listen to it solo. Simply awasome.

It has jumpy songs (Ma and Pa, Deep Inside, Subliminal Fascism, Freddy's Dead, I like to hide behind my glasses)
It has that perticular songs that makes you feel good (Mighty Long Way, Question of Life, In the Name of Swing)
It has that slow "feel" songs (Puring Rain, One Day, Ghetto Sounwave)

I love this album!.


Influential and rocking at the same time
But for Fishbone, but that's a good thing, because the funk and ska inspired styles incoroparted into the rock layed a blueprint for all the funk inspired rap bands, including RATM (sort of), but mostly The Red Hot Chili Peppers and of course, 311 (There's plenty more, but those stand out to me). Influence means nothing really, even though it's a cool factor. The band formed in 1979, but only played their style of music (which was always ska and funk mixed in with rock) at live shows. IN reality, they were one of the first bands to do this, so a lot of bands like Sublime, No Doubt, and more, have a link to Fishbone. More of the masses got a hold of fishbone later in the 80's, so it's little knowledge, and I am not even sure. IT's hard to know, but nevertheless, Fishbone influenced all kinds of bands. (Their first offical album was released in 1985), Both playing and style; P-nut (311) and Trever Dunn (Mr. Bungle) both say JOhn Norwood Fisher has influenced them, P-Nut in particular looks up to him.

______ that, but the music is great anyway. Truth and Soul may be considered an alternative band, but their sound is way diverse than nerdvana. Here's a quick rundown

Freddie's Dead-Not to funky, but's it got some of it. Remake of the Curtis Mayfield song from the 70's.
Ma and Pa-song about divorce. THis one is most definitly influenced by funk/ska.
Question Of Life-A funky song, it's got plenty of trumpets.
Pouring Rain-more of a slower ballad, one of the weakest on the album
Deep Inside-more of a punk song
Might Long Way-mostly a funky hard rock song.
Bonin' In The Boneyard-Cool party song!!!!!!!!! BOYEEEEEE!!!!!!!! (HAHAHA No) It's got plenty of funk in it, and the notable parts are the horns and the bass solos in the middle, just a couple of cheesy yeah-yeah-yeah's (*shudder*).
One Day-Not sure how to describe this song.
Subliminal Fascination-another punk song
Slow Bus Movin'-Some person called it cowpunk, though I am not sure. Whatever it is, it has some country in it.
Ghetto Soundwave-Sort of like Question Of Life, just not AS good.
Change-And acoustic song, but with Fishbone you never know. IT's got a lot of soul in it, and shows that Angelo Moore is pretty versatile (unlike Anthony from the RHCP)

This was definitly very impressive, this band has diversity in them, especially Angelo Moore's crazy as _____ divserve style of vocals. Reccomend to anybody who likes alternative rock.

9. 0/10.


Why oh why!
Fishbone knew how to mix funk, ska, punk and just about everything else and make is come out sounding sweet. Hey I like the Red Hot Chilis as much as anyone else but this band were just as good if not better than them so why are they not up there with them or even at least get 5 minutes of fame like No Doubt? I read on black punks website one of there members did suggest a reason and hey, it doesn't take a genius to work out (It was only really Living Colour back in the day who made it big)

Have to say though while latter day Red Hot Chilis have their own style and play it well back a few years and they were just plain average, before Mothers Milk this band blew them away. Even gave us the added bonus of lyrics that actually meant something (unlike early Chilis)

You really need to buy this one, check out 24/7 Spyz as well.


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