Track Listing

1. Man's Final Frontier
2. Mama's Always On Stage
3. People Everyday
4. Blues Happy
5. Mr Wendal
6. Children Play With Earth
7. Raining Revolution
8. Fishin' 4 Religion
9. Give A Man A Fish
10. U
11. Eve Of Reality
12. Natural
13. Dawn Of The Dreads
14. Tennessee
15. Washed Away

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6219 in Music
• Released on: 2010-06-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
With their feel-good humanism, uniquely rural perspective, and melodic blend of funk and rap, Arrested Development seemed like the next big thing in 1992. The group hailed from Atlanta, which was not then a capital of hip-hop and R&B, and this, their debut recording, won the New York Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics poll. Speech, the primary lyricist, wrote and delivered eloquent attacks on gangsta rap's mindless nihilism: the band's first hit, "Tennessee", spoke of reclaiming Southern black traditions from the racism that sullied their memory, while their second, "People Everyday", deftly updated the Sly Stone classic. Although Speech's rapping style was not distinctive, Dionne Farris's keening vocals highlighted the band's front line. Unfortunately, Speech began to run short of ideas and the band failed to maintain the high standards that this debut set. They disbanded a few years later. --Martin Johnson

Chronique amazon.fr
"Life Music" est le concept qu'inventent les six membres (dont Baba Oje, 60 ans) du collectif mixte d'Atlanta, dans le sud des Etats-Unis. Les instruments joués live et les samples tissent un hip-hop bucolique, doux, aux accents africains, en prise directe avec les éléments naturels et traversé de voix féminines. Si leur leader, Speech, chronique aussi bien les événements intimes, familiaux ("Tennessee"), que ses préoccupations religieuses et sociales, Arrested Development affiche une sérénité qui est aux antipodes du rap urbain. --Hector Fricotin