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Fishbone - The Essential Fishbone Audio CD

A fair review of the Fishbone "The Essential Fishbone" 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: The Essential Fishbone
Rating:
Release Date: 2003-04-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Party at Ground Zero 2: Cholly 3: Skankin' to the Beat 4: When Problems Arise 5: Freddie's Dead 6: It's a Wonderful Life (Gonna Have a Good Time) 7: Movement in the Light 8: Bonin' in the Boneyard 9: Unyielding Conditioning 10: Everyday Sunshine 11: Change 12: Fight the Youth 13: Ma and Pa 14: Lemon Meringue 15: Lyin' Ass Bitch 16: Sunless Saturday

one of the best!
band in the whole
world! some of the best musicians in the biz! fun to listen and dance to!
GET IT! BECOME A FISHBONE SOLDIER!. I had the extreme pleasure to tour a few times w/ fishbone!
I learnd so much from them! they are one of my fav.


underated
They are so good. They are the most underated band and norwood fisher is the most underrated bassist ever. They are a good mix of the red hot chili peppers(best band in the world) and no doubt. THEY ARE AWESOME TRY THeM OUT.


This is the one to own...
Needless to say, I love these guys. This is a solid 16 song collection from this reggae tinged, punk inspired, ska influenced, funky alternative rock & roll party band. Most of their albums are inconsistent, but this is the one to own.


Also Consider Crazy 8's "Big Live Nut Pack!"
However, I just realized that another favorite band, The CRAZY 8'S (now defunct) would be popular with Fishboners. I'm a big fan of Fishbone, and I really like this album. If you like OINGO BOINGO and FISHBONE, you'll LOVE The Crazy 8's! (. . . especially "Big Live Nut Pack!").


Try it ... you WILL catch on!

If your music taste includes ANY of the following: Sly and the Family Stone, Funkadelic, the Specials, Ozomatli, etc, run - don't walk - to your local record store and pick up this new "Best of" Fishbone. Fishbone is a band which had -- and still has -- 99% of the ingredients necessary to make it huge, but somehow managed to nail perfectly the conditions required to meet the 1% chance that no one would hear their music -- chaos within the band, willful flouting of the "rules" of making hit songs, pigeonholeing (some would say racism?) within the music industry, etc etc etc. What Fishbone has in common with those bands is an energy and vitality that is missing from too much "mainstream" music, and an ability to combine a good-time party sound with some serious messages. And Angelo Moore, who plays sax and sings (roughly 75% of their songs; everyone in the band sings at one point or another), is the most spectacular currently-active frontman in rock-and-roll, somehow managing to be a combination of Johnny Rotten, Mick Jagger, and Marvin Gaye. Really, I mean it. He sings with the voice of an angel while leaping into the mosh pit!

Fishbone is NOT for everyone, but don't believe it if you've heard that they are outside the mainstream. They play a variety of styles -- based in funk, with a heavy dose of ska, factoring in some heavy guitars and a LOT of horns -- usually merging those styles together into a unique stew (rather than keeping the styles separate on each song). A fair number of these tunes really SHOULD have been blockbuster #1 hits (Lemon Meringue, Unyielding Conditioning, Everyday Sunshine, more) . . . you've really missed out an a lot of spectacular music if you've yet to delve into Fishbone!

If you already (really) know Fishbone, you don't need this review to tell you how great they are. But if you're curious, and like to be a little bit adventurous with your music, you absolutely will not regret spicing up your life with some of this Fishbone magic.

Try it . . . you WILL catch on!.


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