Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Party At Ground Zero
2. ?(Modern Industry)
3. Ugly
4. Lyin' Ass Bitch
5. When Problems Arise
6. A Selection
7. Cholly
8. It's A Wonderful Life (Gonna Have A Good Time)
9. Freddie's Dead
10. Ma And Pa
11. Bonin' In The Boneyard
12. Change
13. Fight The Youth
14. Sunless Saturday
15. Everyday Sunshine
16. Lemon Meringue
17. Black Flowers
18. Unyielding Conditioning

Disc 2:

1. Skankin' To The Beat
2. Lyin' Ass Bitch
3. Mister Zero
4. Alcoholic
5. Fishbone (Is Red Hot)
6. Pink Vapor Stew
7. And They Prey On You
8. Poem Dance/Instrumental
9. Game Of Destruction
10. Glow In The Dark
11. What Have I Done
12. Skankin' To The Beat
13. ?(Modern Industry)
14. Slick Nick, You Devil You
15. Iration
16. Just Call Me Scrooge
17. Love And Bullshit
18. The Goose

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #126793 in Music
• Released on: 2005-03-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Best of

From Amazon.com
Here's a righteous romp through the free-spirited L.A. ska-punk pioneers' history. This two-CD set features a well-chosen best-of disc that pulls prime cuts such as "Party at Ground Zero" and "U.G.L.Y" (from Fishbone's mercurial 1985 debut), "Bonin' in the Boneyard" and "Freddie's Dead" (from 1988's Truth and Soul), "Everyday Sunshine" and "Sunless Saturday" (from 1991's The Reality of My Surroundings), and "Black Flowers" (from the 1993 swan song, Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe). Disc 2 features formative demo tracks from the group's early-'80s incarnation; it's amazing to hear their development from fun, awkward ska players to assured monster musicians, from scrappy horn band to metalloid mofos. Fishbone's influence--be it on the Red Hot Chili Peppers or the Mighty Mighty Bosstones--is massive; their success wasn't. This retrospective clarifies why, for once, you could believe the hype. --James Rotondi