The Essential Fishbone (Rm): Fishbone: Amazon.ca: Music

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. A 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

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5.0 out of 5 stars underated, July 22 2005

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jeff (canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Essential Fishbone (Rm) (Audio CD)

They are the most underated band and norwood fisher is the most underrated bassist ever. They are so good. 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

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4.0 out of 5 stars Also Consider Crazy 8's "Big Live Nut Pack!", Nov 21 2003

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M. J. WALLACE "Snow Junkie" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Essential Fishbone (Rm) (Audio CD)

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

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5.0 out of 5 stars Try it ... you WILL catch on!, May 21 2003

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This review is from: The Essential Fishbone (Rm) (Audio CD)

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.

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. 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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