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Chim Chim's Badass Revenge

Fishbone

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Midway through “Rock Star,” singer Angelo Moore offers the most personal and revealing confession of Fishbone’s career: “Unaware of how propaganda works/I soon became a victim.” Rather than let itself be stymied by creative and commercial obstacles, Fishbone did the most Fishbone-esque thing possible and channeled its frustration into Chim Chim’s Badass Revenge, a document of a band on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Top 40 R&B producer Dallas Austin hoped the album would reinvigorate Fishbone’s career, but instead it accomplished something more interesting. Though the album contains all the musical diversity that made a success of 1991's The Reality of My Surroundings, here the earlier album's sense of merriment is replaced by doubt, frustration, and resentment. Of course, Fishbone addressed these themes in its hyperactive fashion, which was an anomaly among the morose post-grunge acts of 1996. While many fans criticize this album's inexplicably dry mix, its portrait of internal strife is too raw and imaginative to dismiss.

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Strangely Neglected

One can never be sure why a large percentage of an artist's fanbase decides to remove itself from the bedrock sustaining the artist's livelihood when faced with his/her/their latest creation, but such was the case when Fishbone released this behemoth of a record. Clocking in at I don't remember what, CCBR runs the length of Fishbone's stylistic gamut, and then some. Deep in the mix you'll find funk, punk, soul, thrash, noise, hip-hop, and spoken word. Maybe the fact that CCBR is Fishbone at their most humorous, emphatically disregarding the standards they'd already established, is part of the reason so many fans tuned out for good. I'll never know. This is unabashedly my favorite Fishbone record, and writing about it makes playing it a necessity. Hopefully you'll deem purchasing it a necessity as well.

A moment in music history.

Fishbone is a beast, starting off as a deep ska band and over the years evolving their own form of music. Chim Chim is an epic album, dripping with so much creativity it explodes on almost every track. the pace is unstoppable and the lyrics are beyond poetry. even the way the album is mixed is a masterpiece. Alot of their earlier fans consider this their low point but life doesn't always give you happy scenes to write jumping dance tunes about. This is a dark album but in my opinion it is one of the best ever written. Chris (the spades PA)

This was it

I remembering thinking that Give A Monkey A Brain was the turning point for Fishbone, but looking back over a decade later it is very clear that Chim Chim's Badass Revenge was it. Give a Monkey A Brain should be the last album Fishbone made and you'd be doing yourself a favor if you treated it as such. At times it seems like Angelo is the soul and beating heart of this band but this album and every one to follow proved that he is not.

Biography

Formed: 1979 in Los Angeles, CA

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Combining equal parts of deep funk, high-energy punk, and frantic ska, the Los Angeles-based Fishbone was one of the most distinctive and eclectic alternative rock bands of the late '80s. With their hyperactive, self-conscious diversity, goofy sense of humor, and sharp social commentary, the group gained a...
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