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Fishbone are an African-American Punk-Funk-Reggae-Ska-Rock band from Los Angeles who formed in 1979. They are best known for their songs 'Party At Ground Zero,' (about World War III) and their cover of Curtis Mayfield's 'Freddie's Dead' (from SuperFly).

As usual, the basics about their career can be found at That Other Wiki

'Tropes and Soul':

• Album Title Drop: 'Junkie's Prayer', from The Reality of My Surroundings, ends with 'The rest are the reality of its surroundings.'
• The Alcoholic: 'Alcoholic,' 'Beergut,' 'Drunk Skitzo'
• Angry Black Man: Suggested in 'Rock Star'
• Animal Motif/Dem Bones: Their logo is a fish skeleton
• Anti-Christmas Song: 'Just Call Me Scrooge'
  • Bad Santa: 'Slick Nick You Devil You'
  'Spillin Jack Daniels all over the drapes
  Spray-painting a bad finger over the fireplace
  Tattoos on his arms and knees
  I never thought Santa Claus would be such a sleaze'
• As Themselves: Performing 'Jamaican Ska' in Back to the Beach
• Bunny-Ears Guitarist: Literalized, as seen in some performance clips near the end of Everyday Sunshine.

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• But Not Too Black/But Not Too White: Musically, this was one of their biggest roadblocks early on in their career, as black radio stations weren't interested in them because of the punk rock element, and white radio stations weren't interested since they were a black band that didn't resemble anything else.
• Cluster F-Bomb: Some of their songs
• Cover Version: 'Freddie's Dead, ' on Truth And Soul
  • Sly and the Family Stone's 'Everybody Is A Star,' on The Psychotic Friends Nuttwerk.
  • Sublime's 'Date Rape,' on Still Stuck In Your Throat
• 'Days of the Week' Song: 'Sunless Saturday'
• Drugs Are Bad: 'Junkie's Prayer,' 'Pray to the Junkiemaker'
• Emergency Broadcast: Mentioned in '? (Modern Industry).'
• The End of the World as We Know It: The nuclear anxiety of The '80s is reflected in 'Party at Ground Zero'.
• Fatal Flaw: From 'Lyin' Ass Bitch,' as sung by guest Lisa R. Grant:
  'I still care and that's my fatal flaw'

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• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: From 'Hide Behind My Glasses':
  'Incompetent.. Moron.. Son of a.. Son of a.. Son of jerk!'
• The Grim Reaper: Mentioned in 'Junkie's Prayer'
• Improbable Hairstyle: Norwood
• Ink-Suit Actor: Lacking any footage of themselves from when they started the band in high school, the documentary Everyday Sunshine uses animated recreations instead.
• Instrumentals: 'Post-Cold War Politics,' 'V​.​T​.​T​.​L​.​O​.​T​.​F​.​D​.​G​.​F.', 'Interlude 1,' 'Interlude 2' and 'Pre Nut' (all three from Chim Chim's Badass Revenge), 'One Planet People' and 'Dear God' (from The Psychotic Friends Nuttwerk).
• Intercourse with You: 'Bonin' in the Boneyard,' 'Naz-tee May'en'
• Jekyll & Hyde: Mentioned in 'Hide Behind My Glasses'
• List Song: '? (Modern Industry)' rattles off the call letters of various radio stations.
• Live Album: Live In Bordeaux
• Long Title: The It's A Wonderful Life (Gonna Have A Good Time) EP
  • Give A Monkey A Brain..and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe
• Minimalistic Cover Art: From Fishbone through The Reality of My Surroundings
  • Design Student's Orgasm: From Give a Monkey a Brain.. to now.
• Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness: Due to the below, they've been all much of the scale, from a 1 ('Change') to a 7 ('Fight The Youth, 'Sunless Saturday'), though they're most often in the 4-6 range. As eclectic as they are, though, there's no 'normal' level of heaviness for them.
• Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly: As Mike Watt said in Everyday Sunshine:
  'I've seen them do every style, in the same song.'
• New Sound Album: To some extent, Truth and Soul is this, since it introduces Funk Metal, Alternative Metal and Hard Rock aspects to their previously mostly Ska Punk (with the odd stab at Funk) sound.
• Pre-Climax Climax: 'Party At Ground Zero':

• Protest Song: 'Party At Ground Zero,' 'Slow Bus Movin' (Howard Beach Party),' 'Subliminal Fascism,' 'Give It Up,' 'Movement in the Light,' 'Fight the Youth,' 'Change,' the list doesn't end. Their alt-radio hit 'Sunless Saturday' counts as well.
  • Notably averted with 'Post Cold War Politics,' from 1985's In Your Face, which is an instrumental. However, as this was four years before The Great Politics Mess-Up, and six years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, it is understandable.
• Record Producer: David Kahane, at least for their first few albums.
• Revolving Door Band: 17 different members over a 30+ year career.
• Rock Star Song: 'Rock Star'
• Rockumentary: Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
• Self-Titled Album: The debut EP
• Shout-Out:
  • 'V​.​T​.​T​.​L​.​O​.​T​.​F​.​D​.​G​.​F.' stands for 'Voyage Through the Land of the Freeze Dried Godzilla Farts'
  • It's a Wonderful Life (Gonna Have A Good Time)
  • 'Junkie's Prayer' is modeled on 'The Lord's Prayer' as presented in The Book Of Matthew
  • The fade-out of 'Party At Ground Zero' repeats the line 'this is not a chawade!'
• Singer Namedrop: From 'Party At Ground Zero':
  'Please do not fear
  Cause Fishbone is here to say'
• Single Stanza Song: 'One Day'
• Slut-Shaming/Your Cheating Heart: 'Lyin' Ass Bitch'
• Special Guest: The music video for 'Sunless Saturday' was directed by Spike Lee.
• Stage Name: Frontman Angelo Moore is also known as 'Dr. Madd Vibe'
• Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks: 'Cholly'
• Take That!: In Everyday Sunshine, Perry Farrell talks about how Fishbone's lack of success in the mid-90s led to the record industry deciding, 'No more freaks. Let's just get a little girl with a song,' followed by pictures of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.
• Theremin: According to the documentary Everyday Sunshine, Angelo's discovery of this led to him developing his 'Dr. Madd Vibe' persona, which annoyed everyone else in the band.
• 'The Villain Sucks' Song: Some of their songs fall into this category.
• Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma: The superfluous apostrophe in 'Let Dem Ho's Fight'

Truth and Soul is the second album by American funk-rock and ska band Fishbone. It was released on September 13, 1988. As is typical of the band's history of music the album features a wide array of genres including punk, ska, reggae, soul, funk, and blues. Additionally, Truth and Soul includes the band's earliest foray into hard rock and heavy metal music. The album begins with a cover version of Curtis Mayfield's 'Freddie's Dead,' originally from the soundtrack to the film Super Fly.

Recording[edit]

Following the release of the Fishbone EP and In Your Face, the band had completed their original record contract with Columbia Records and renegotiated a new deal that would allow them another full-length album. It was later acknowledged as a sign of how much faith Columbia had in Fishbone at the time to continue to support their records.^[1][2]

Guitarist Kendall Jones was becoming concerned that the band's image was 'cartoonish,'^[2] and reviews of their previous album had, in fact, criticized the attempt at socially conscious subject matter alongside other absurd frat-rock songs.^[3][4] Meanwhile, Jones was beginning to experiment with heavy rock guitar work, which was influencing Fishbone's new material. These elements together influenced the band to make a more serious album with a consistently socially conscious theme.^[2]Ios60 v6174 wad wii file download.

Promotion[edit]

Domestically, two tracks were released as singles in promotion of the album. The first, 'Freddie's Dead,' had a music video directed by Douglas Gayeton, and the second, 'Ma and Pa,' had a video directed by Mike Lipscombe. Additional singles were released in Europe for the songs 'Change' and 'One Day.'^[5] Additionally, a promotional EP titled Interchords was released with live versions of six songs from the record followed by excerpts from an interview at KUSF explaining each song's meaning.^[6][7]

Reception[edit]

Contemporary reviews of Truth and Soul were generally mixed to positive. David Silverman for the Chicago Tribune gave the album a mixed review saying that the blend of musical styles hurts the album 'despite the band's talent.'^[8] In a separate review for the same newspaper, Chris Heim positively reviewed the record, especially in light of it being only the band's sophomore effort, calling the record 'fresh, assured and bursting with ideas and energy [that] seem like it should come from more experienced musicians.'^[9] Netherlands music magazine OOR awarded the album as the twenty-second best rock album of the year out of 154 entries.^[10]

Retrospective reviews were generally positive. Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Greg Prato awarded the album four-and-a-half stars out of five and noted that, as Fishbone's first significant use of hard rock, guitarist Kendall Jones' guitar-playing yielded 'often-spectacular results.'^[11] Robert Christgau gave the album a B rating and said that he didn't think the album flowed well when taken as a whole, but that each song on its own could 'change any radio station's pace quite satisfactorily.'^[12] Additionally, the album was awarded four-out-of-five stars in 2004's The New Rolling Stone Album Guide.^[13] Music critic Tom Moon called the album one of his '1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die'^[14] and Robert Dimery listed it as one of his 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.^[15]

Track listing[edit]

Outside of Europe, the album contained only twelve tracks, with 'I Like to Hide Behind My Glasses' and 'In the Name of Swing' not included. These two tracks from the European version would later be released in the US on the EP Set the Booty Up Right.

Personnel[edit]

Fishbone

• Chris Dowd – vocals, keyboards, trombone
• John Norwood Fisher – vocals, bass guitar
• Philip 'Fish' Fisher – drums, percussion, vocals
• Kendall Jones – vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitars
• Walter A. Kibby II – vocals, trumpet
• Angelo Moore – vocals, saxophone

Additional musicians and production

• John Bavin – engineering
• Larry Ferguson – additional engineering
• David Kahne – production, engineering

Charts[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'New Album could be the Big One for Fishbone.' Billboard 103.17 (1991): 26-. ABI/INFORM Complete; ProQuest Discovery. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.
2. ^ ^abcEveryday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone. Dir. Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler. Perf. Fishbone. Grindstone Media, 2010. DVD.
3. ^Pareles, Jon. 'Pop and Jazz Guide.' The New York Times: C.22. Oct 03 1986. New York Times. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.
4. ^Christgau, Robert. 'Fishbone.' robertchristgau.com, Retrieved on March 31, 2010.
5. ^http://www.pettediscographies.com/fishbone/fishbonesingles.asp
6. ^http://www.fishbonelive.org/discography/Interchords/22/
7. ^http://www.pettediscographies.com/fishbone/fishbone09.asp
8. ^Silverman, David. 'Talented Sextet Fishbone in Need of Right Angling.' Chicago Tribune (1963–current file): 1. October 16, 1988. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849–1989). Web. February 5, 2013
9. ^Heim, Chris. 'Ambitious Artists Put New Life in some Old Musical Styles.' Chicago Tribune (1963–current file): 2. October 7, 1988. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849–1989). Web. 8 February 2013
10. ^'OOR - Albums of the Year'. OOR. Retrieved 2009-12-03.
11. ^Prato, Greg. 'allmusic ((( Truth and Soul > Review )))'. AllMusic. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
12. ^Christgau, Robert. 'Fishbone'. robertchristgau.com, Retrieved on March 31, 2010.
13. ^Brackett, Nathan. 'Fishbone.' The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. November 2004. pg. 298, cited March 31, 2010
14. ^'Tom Moon - 1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die'(PDF). Tom Moon. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2009-01-05. Retrieved 2009-12-03.
15. ^Dimery, Robert - 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die; page 856

External links[edit]

• Truth and Soul (Adobe Flash) at Radio3Net (streamed copy where licensed)