Fishbone and the Familyhood Nextperience Present: The Psychotic Friends Nuttwerx

Fishbone and the Familyhood Nextperience Present: The Psychotic Friends Nuttwerx is an album by alternative rock band Fishbone, released in 2000.[5][6] It features a large number of special guests and is the only Fishbone album released on Disney's Hollywood Records.

Fishbone and the Familyhood Nextperience Present:
The Psychotic Friends Nuttwerx
Studio album by
Fishbone
ReleasedMarch 21, 2000
Recorded1999–2000
StudioThe Village, Los Angeles, Palindrome Recorder Venice, CA, Sunset Sound, Grand Master Recorders, & Cherokee Recording Studios Hollywood, CA
Genre
Length45:01
48:38 (Japanese version)
LabelHollywood[2]
ProducerSteve Lindsey[2]
Fishbone chronology
Chim Chim's Badass Revenge
(1996)		 Fishbone and the Familyhood Nextperience Present:
The Psychotic Friends Nuttwerx
(2000)		 Fishbone and the Familyhood Nextperience Present: The Friendliest Psychosis of All
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Rolling Stone[4]

Whereas the band's previous album, the angry Chim Chim's Badass Revenge, contained some of the band's heaviest moments, Psychotic Friends Nuttwerx is full of sunny reggae, ska and pop hooks that make it the most accessible Fishbone album to date. The album has cameos from H.R. of Bad Brains, Gwen Stefani, George Clinton, Rose Stone, Rick James, Flea, John Frusciante and Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Durga McBroom, best known for her work with Pink Floyd, and many others.

While AllMusic called it the band's best album in a decade,[1] it received little support from the band's record label, and Fishbone once again found themselves without a record deal.

"Where'd You Get Those Pants?" uses the same melody as "Weed Plant," another Fishbone song.

Critical reception

LA Weekly called the album "a funk-o-ramic magnum opus."[7] The Chicago Reader wrote that the "jittery, giggly, and thoroughly funky comeback attempt ranges from painstaking old-fashioned hand-constructed R & B to slinky reggae to a loving but violent mangling of Sly & the Family Stone's 'Everybody Is a Star.'"[8]

Track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Shakey Ground"Eddie Hazel, Alphonzo Boyd, Jeffrey Bowen3:46
2."The Suffering"Angelo Moore, Bridget Benante, David Baerwald, Steven Lindsey5:17
3."Where'd You Get Those Pants?"Moore, Lindsey, Alta Willis, John Norwood Fisher3:44
4."Everybody Is a Star"Sly Stone3:51
5."One Planet People"Moore, Walter A. Kibby II, Dallas Austin5:16
6."Just Allow"Moore, Kibby, Fisher, Tracey Singleton3:29
7."AIDS & Armageddon"Baerwald5:58
8."It All Kept Startin' Over Again"Moore, Fisher5:59
9."Dear God"Fisher, Kibby, Austin, John Bingham3:46
10."Karma Tsunami"Moore, Fisher, McBroom3:55
11."In the Heat of Anger" (Japanese Release Only)Moore, Fisher3:37

Personnel
  • Angelo Moore - vocals, saxophone, theremin; drums (#10)
  • Walter A. Kibby II - trumpet, vocals
  • Spacey T - guitars, vocals
  • John McKnight - piano, keyboards, trombone
  • John Norwood Fisher - bass guitar, vocals
  • John Steward - drums

Additional Personnel

References
  1. Huey, Steve. "allmusic ((( The Psychotic Friends Nuttwerx - Review )))". AllMusic. Retrieved March 31, 2010.
  2. Inc, Nielsen Business Media (July 29, 2000). "Reviews & Previews". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. – via Google Books. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  3. Larkin, Colin (May 27, 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958 – via Google Books.
  4. Brackett, Nathan. "Fishbone". The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. November 2004. pg. 298, cited March 31, 2010
  5. Himes, Geoffrey (September 1, 2000). "FISHBONE" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  6. "Fishbone Pack Upcoming Album With Guest Artists". MTV News.
  7. "Welcome to the Nuttwerx". LA Weekly. April 12, 2000.
  8. Kendrick, Monica. "Spot Check". Chicago Reader.
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