Fishbone: Truth and Soul.

too perfect as an LP. Hard to choose one to stand alone.

Was just listening to this yesterday! The Mayfield cover is awesome, "Bonin'" is tons of fun, the ska is great. Either the Mayfield or "Ma and Pa," I'd say.

Such an awesome record. Like EZ says, hard to pick out one song, especially since I've listened to it so many times that it's like one long song to me. Feel the same way about the Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime.

I love "Bonin"

who doesn't?

"I Like to Hide Behind My Glasses" (only included on European release)

I feel like I should hear this, immediately

still the best live band I ever saw

Toss-up between "Ma and Pa" and "Ghetto Soundwave". Went with the former.

Not sure how I feel about the album as a whole. It was played mercilessly to death for years by friends, to the point where it still gives me angrified boredom flashbacks. Despite that, I do dig a lot of it, especially the more punked-up and goofy stuff: "Deep Inside", "Bonin' In the Boneyard", "Subliminal Fascism" and "Slow Bus Movin'".

Inextricably associated in my mind with Check Your Head, with which it shares a "bros united in punk-funky party music" ethos.

"I Like to Hide Behind My Glasses"

Not that awesome of a song. I want to say it was also on the "Bonin'" EP, with the 17 minute long or whatever version of "Bonin'"

this was such a jam back in the day! Haven't heard in years, but Bonin sprang to mind first. great songwriting all the way thru tho, great playing -- before they started to get a lot darker, cynical

lol I didn't even see "In the Name of Swing" (only included on European release)

this is one of my favorite albums of all time, we played the SHIT out of this when it came out

bonin

Curtis and Fishbone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC5sNomuilU

Never heard this, not out of context of the film, for sure.

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeeeah-ah-ah

oh shit I forgot how completely perfect "One Day" is

1984: minutemen - double nickels on the dime
1988: fishbone - truth and soul
1992: beastie boys - check your head
1996: ?

You would think the album would lose steam after the insanity of "Bonin' in the Boneyard" but IMO the true genius is that they ramp the energy down without losing any of the intensity or awesomeness.

purchased for the fun ska joints and then the mellower songs sneak up on you

"glasses" and "swingin" were on the bonin in the boneyard cd single. I like the former a LOT, but don'tm know if everything e;se on this album.

"...when I'm TRIPPIN' IN THE STOBE-LIGHT!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HBfCynDO6g

crazy fun band.

I voted 'ma and pa'

Bonin in the Boneyard, easy

FUNKY A_____ BAASSSSS

1984: minutemen - double nickels on the dime
1988: fishbone - truth and soul
1992: beastie boys - check your head
1996: ?

― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, June 7, 2012 5:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I hate to say it, but the answer is obviously Sublime's self-titled

no miccio

1997: cornelius - fantasma

not sweaty enough. whiney otm.

Sublime is never the answer.

odelay is a better pick for 96.

no, it's not. wgw otm.

did rage against the machine put out a record in 1996?

yes. it was not part of this aesthetic continuum.

seems like it was at that point that "this aesthetic continuum" had fed back on itself and/or splintered

or was directly and proudly influenced by the Minutemen, Fishbone and the Beastie Boys, ymmv

I thought RATM was influenced by Korn or something.

that would be a neat trick, considering RATM formed 2 years before Korn did

"Ghetto Soundwave" is the only song I remember, and it's gorgeous. Never got into album-oriented Fishbones past the perfect first EP but I'll give this one another try. For some reason I always transposed "Bonin' in the Boneyard" to the tune of "Rollin' on a River" in my mind.

Cornelius is wild, never heard them. If you're going to look for mid-'90s pretenders, maybe Arab on Radar, NoMeansNo, Rancid, Fugazi--none as great as Minutemen, but all better than Sublime, Beck, or RATM IMHO.

Lumping nomeansno into the mid-90s category is not ok. And also wrong.

that generational "yes, actually"/"fuck you, no quarter" divide around Sublime is so interesting imo

I have no idea what any of you are talking about with this year by year list.

Wish I'd re-listened to this before I voted, because I too had forgotten how amazing "One Day" is.

1984: minutemen - double nickels on the dime
1988: fishbone - truth and soul
1992: beastie boys - check your head
1996: ?

― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, June 7, 2012 9:23 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

1992 should be 40 oz to freedom. 1996 should NOT be the self-titled sublime, but I don't really know where to go with it.

Is this a list of albums released every four years, beginning in 1984, that don't sound like one another?

This is the most Algerian Goalkeeperian conversation I've ever been in and I'm disgusted with myself for even opening this thread

I think I'm only getting every other post on this end. Either that or I've totally flaked on my ILX mythology.

Anyway, I was in a high school band. The guitarist really liked the Cure and the Smiths. The bassist was really into the Chili Peppers. The singer liked Hendrix. I liked Fishbone. I had yellow sneakers.

I had a high school band where 3 guys were into fishbone and the specials and op ivy and the drummer was into the eagles.

actually, he was really into zima, then don henley.

We played "Purple Haze," "Foxy Lady" and "Knock Me Down."

Is this a list of albums released every four years, beginning in 1984, that don't sound like one another?

nah, it's a list of albums that had been previously mentioned itt, united by punk, funk, sweat and brotherhood as an ethos.

This is the most Algerian Goalkeeperian conversation I've ever been in and I'm disgusted with myself for even opening this thread

― calm me maybe (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, June 9, 2012 9:05 PM (Yesterday)

dude 5 of the last 25 posts before this are your posts! you are amazing

i am amazing, thank u

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

What a great for this thread to fall asleep on.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

huh, i expected more support for "bonin' in the boneyard" after all the talk on this thread

Ma and Pa was my favorite for a long time back when I first got this album back in 6th grade (a direct result of Anthony Keidis' exhortation to "funk it up, Fishbone!"). I came from a super-functional household, so I didn't really i.d. with the lyrics, but it was probably the first ska song I heard. "Fighting for love on an angel's feather/why don't you get your shit together" is such a great line.

you guys should check out the Fishbone doc on Netflix streaming if you haven't already

XP - Did you check out X and fIREHOSE too?

Haven't played this in like 20 years but I liked it at the time. Not as much as The Reality of My Surroundings or their debut EP tho.

Somehow never got around to hearing In Your Face. And by the time Give A Monkey A Brain or whatever came out I kinda hated everything.

Give A Monkey A Brain is still my favourite fishbone LP. Truth & Soul is excellent, tho - would've voted Ghetto Soundwave, or Ma & Pa, or Question Of Life.

Really? After "Reality ..." which is one of my fave LPs, period, I hated "Monkey."

XP - Did you check out X and fIREHOSE too?

― MaresNest, Thursday, June 21, 2012 11:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Much later. This was back in middle and high school when I was lucky to buy 4 or 5 albums a year. I got a fIREHOSE album maybe four years later and didn't get into X until after college. "The New World" was a staple on the radio when I was a kid and I just lumped them in with other middle-of-the-road adult alternative based on that song.

In Your Face actually kind of hold up the best of all the 'bone stuff

Rong. But it is the most new wave.

xp really, though it was also my first fishbone, so... but you can't go wrong with Black Flowers, Lemon Meringue, Unyielding Conditioning and so on...

'what would you do Walter?'

'aaaaaaaaaiiiiiii-duh!'

When was 'The New World' a radio staple?

Late 80s/early 90s on WHFS.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/video/roots-play-joke-michele-bachmann-15009556