This is the first album made with the new member, John Bigham. This album, and the next "Give a monkey a brain..." take a quite heavy way in their music tendency. It may reflect the mood of the age under which these albums were released. Considering its hard-edge guitar souds, its groove, these albums could be taken as an expression of "heavy-rock(heavy-metallic groovy rock)" in Fishbone's way. But different from many "white" heavy-rock bands, Fishbone's music would never be ruined even when they play hard and heavy and chaotic sounds. In heavy tunes, we can see "Fishobone style" which means the chorus, the horn arrangement in it. In that sense, their heavy-rock could be said as carefully assembled one(somebody might not like these style just because it's not simple, though). Anyway, in this album, the world of "heavy-rock" style which is so unique is certainly organized. Of course, ska, funk side which is their originality never be lost at all here.

All tunes included in this work are of high quality, and the structure of album which goes with some live takes of "If I were a...I'd" here and there, is ingeneous. And its quantity is enough, too. The groove made by Fish and Norwood pierces through the album, and taking this groove and whole atmosphere, we might say this album is of "P-Funk flavored" so much. Many layers of sounds which stand on the base of the rhythm section, make this album "thick." In spite of that, it's amazing they never lose their speedy punky music style at the same time. The messages of social problems are more refered than ever.

One of the features in this album is that they refer to drug problems in many songs. Needless to say about "Junkies Prayer"(this tune is credited as made being inspired by Q-Tip of "A Tribe Called Quest"), "Pray To The Junkiemaker," we can see referings in many other songs.

i think this band is very rare in a sense that they achieve to emphasize both the messages(political, social) and the music. There are some musicians who make music as a measure to spread his or her messages to the world. On the other hand, there are some musicians who "just love music" and have nothing particularly to say to the world. Even when he or she refer to that social, political problems, it is often the case it's not his or her point. There's very few bands who keep these two sides to a high level at a same time and of course, Fishbone is one of those bands. Take "Pray to the Junkiemaker" in this album for instance. When you listen to only its sounds, you must feel like being in a tropical island and you can not stop yourself dancing. But when you read that lyric, it's the song written about the people around them who ruin their own lives by drug abuses. This kind of tense balance could never be seen in other bands. We can see it just in only in Fishbone's music.

"Everyday Sunshine." Living is a hard thing to do. We know, they know, they truly know. But knowing that fact sufficiently, they are still saying you never abondon your hope, you never stop keeping on dreaming about the world that "everyday the sun would shine." This could be said this song embodys a tough and positive world of Fishbone. This kind of atttitude reminds me of Sly and The Family Stone. Personally, this tune is the best among all their songs.

They SHOULD have reach to higher level in terms of record sales at the time this album was released. In terms of the power of the band at that time(as you can see when you listen to this piece), the quality in every tune in this piece, the total balance of whole album, too. But, this magnificent album couldn't accepted well by the market as a result.