In Your Face  

Movement in the Light. Listen to the lyrics. This just shows how well they are musically. To slow it down, with the horns, Norwood on that bass, his brother Fish keeping that smoooooth tempo. Great cd.

I love Fishbone's first LP. The purposely-misleading gangsta inlay design (before there was any such thing as gangsta rap), sums up Fishbone well: What you see is NOT what you get. In Your Face is filled with gorgeous and soulful songs ("In the Air" and "Give it Up"), as well as a few that are a bit raunchy lyrically ("Cholly" and "Knock It"). And as expected, there's lots of silly Fishbone-style humor (like "Selection", which says that no matter what day-to-day choices you make, it's all the same in the end). But no matter what the songs are about, they maintain an excellent sense of melody. Like I said, don't expect the music on this record to be how the "stereotypically-black" cover would suggest it is.

This is music that everyone can enjoy.

I guess there is nothing much I can add that hasn't already been said. This is the fishbone album with the most polish, but what everyone else is seeming to overlook, is that although it is calmer, the abscence of chaos makes it much easier to listen too. get this, and get Give a Monkey a brain... and tell me which one you find picking up more often. If that wasn't saying enough, the more simple flow heremakes it fishbone's most consistent release. Not that the experimentation was bad but it divided the albums to come between stunning ("Freddie's dead," "Sunless saturday," "LEmon meringue)" the good ("bonin In the boneyard," "Pressuere,") to the downright cringe-worthy ("the warmth of your breath"). Here it's all great. However it only really works here, and I'm glad they moved on (they tried to bring this sound back for the psychottic nuttwerx album, with pretty ugly results). But for now,although it's ,by far, not the "in your face album (that would have to be "the reality of my surroundings")" here's a great album to take off the rack and just chill to.

I love da Bone, but I got to say, this is their best album. Sure, it's a lot cleaner and mellower sounding than later albums, but that's part of the appeal.

It's one of those albums you can put on and relax to, not to mention, most of the songs here are funny, which I like much better than their later, more serious work.

People can say all they want about their other albums. Maybe it doesn't have the social message of the some of their others. But for pure fun, "In your face" is possibly one of thier best. How can you listen to "Selection" and not smile when Angelo yells, "what? no toothpaste?". To this day (14 years after I first heard it) "when problems arise" is one of my single favorite tunes by any band! This is very good, and often times forgotted album, but one worth getting and enjoying the hell out of!