This 1989 released album starts with the cover tune of Curtis Mayfield's "Freddie's Dead." From the first ska-punk taste via the second which had rather "soft" impression, Fishbone seemed to expand widely a capacity of their sounds in this work. It can be called the masterpiece in their first era. "Freddie's..." is the most sales-recorded single in their history. It contains danceable ska tunes like "Ma And Pa" and also has speedy punk tunes like "Subliminal Fascism," but with regard to the whole album, this piece has variety of music style such as funk, punk, ska, ballad, and...even country(?).

In "Freddie's..." which already mentioned, we notice a heavy guitar riff which will show in later "heavy-metal oriented" albums. This is an aggressive message song of anti-drug, originally sung by Curtis Mayfield, who also apealed to public about the heavy reality of black community. It's exciting to cover the song of pioneer with this kind of hard edge arrangement. Another prominent tune is "Bonin' In The Boneyard," in which Norwood's funky stinky crazy bass acts wildly.

Which is the most featured side of this album is, their attempt to evoke consciousness towards the problems of black community(especially poor class) which means racism, poverty is more than ever. With the "Freddie's..." previously mentioned at the top of the list, "Slow Bus Movin'" which starts with the phrase of "Born In the 1940's, my parents couldn't vote," "Ghetto Soundwave" which describes like this, "There's another cry of murder. Policeman shoot down baby brother. Shot him, shot him down In the street." In this album, the problems they try to accuse are especially serious among all their albums. In spite of this fact, musically you must feel like you can't stop your body dancing. The impression in terms of music in this work is very dancable and... colorfull.

This album, including mostly the songs which refer to heavy realities of black community, ends with a beautiful ballad which Chris Dowd sings as solo, "Change." This song tells us that even if somebody is in heavy and hard situation and face the awful incidents which they can't do nothing about them, people still should not abandon their hopes of changing their situation. It is like the an essence of their spirits.