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Paranoid & Sunburnt

Skunk Anansie

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Album Review

Skin is an intense black woman from Brixton sporting a shaved head and powerhouse set of pipes. Set to squealing, no-frills, combat-boot rock with a power funk edge, her lyrics advance a strong social agenda, spelled out in bold capitals by such polemical song titles as "Intellectualize My Blackness," "Little Baby Swastikkka," and "It Takes Blood & Guts to Be This Cool but I'm Still Just a Cliche." The minor downside is that no matter how strongly you agree with the agenda, the forceful preaching, without any mitigating shades of contrast or sublety, starts to wear thin (as an audio experience) after a few listens. Fortunately, the music is mucular and interesting enough to carry the burden. Those hungering for protest music working in a '90s rock context can fill their plates and slake their thirst here.

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Paranoid and Sunburnt

A fantastic pop punk album from one of the 90s most contraversial but brilliant bands in Skunk Anasie. Skin writes great lyrics which cover themes such as religion, racism and politics. This album is for fans of great rock music.

Best songs are Charity, Here I Stand, All In The Name of Pity, Selling Jesus and the incredible Weak.

Selling Jesus - 10/10
Intellectualise My Blackness - 9/10
I Can Dream - 8/10
Little Baby Swastikka - 8/10
All In The Name Of Pity - 10/10
Charity - 10/10
It Takes Blood and Guts To Be This Cool But I'm Still Just a Cliche - 9/10
Weak - 10/10
And here I Stand - 10/10
100 Ways To Be A Good Girl - 8/10
Rise Up - 9/10

Paranoid & Sunburn

If anyone over the age of 30 does not own this album then they should cancel all plans and buy how. Skin has one of the most evocative voices of the nineties with lyrics that are both political and personal.Check out Little Baby Swastikka then fall for Weak, Charity the rest will soon make sense

Biography

Formed: 1994 in London, England

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s

British alternative quartet Skunk Anansie played what their lead singer, Skin, called c**t-rock — an amalgam of heavy metal and black feminist rage. Skin began singing in high school for a classmate's band after considering the offer for over a year. Six years after that band broke up, the members of Skunk Anansie (including bass player Cass, guitarist Ace, and drummer Robbie France, who was replaced by Mark Richardson on 1995) met one another by chance....
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