Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe

Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe

Infobox Album |
Name = Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe
Type = Album
Artist = Fishbone


Released = May 25, 1993
Recorded = ?
Genre = Funk metal Ska punk Alternative metal
Length = 64:22
Label = Columbia
Producer = Terry Date, Fishbone
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:goo20r4ar489 link]
Last album = "The Reality of My Surroundings" (1991)
This album = "Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe" (1993)
Next album = "Chim Chim's Badass Revenge" (1996)

"Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe" is the fourth full-length album from alternative rock band Fishbone. It is the last album to feature all six original members, as guitarist Kendall Jones would leave the band just months after the album's release.

It is Fishbone's heaviest album, with the band focusing on heavy metal without any trace of their trademark horn section until the fourth song, the ska-infused "Unyielding Conditioning". Saxophonist Branford Marsalis makes an appearance on the manic "Drunk Skitzo", and the ending of "Swim" includes excerpts of a Damon Wayans stand-up routine about his experience at a Fishbone concert.

One year earlier, the Seattle grunge movement of 1992 completely engulfed the music industry, leaving many of the pioneering funk/rap/metal groups of the early 1990s in disarray.

Shortly after the release of the album, the band toured as part of the third annual Lollapalooza festival, but were dropped by Sony Records the following year. In 1999, the album was featured in The A.V. Club's list of the "Least Essential Albums of the '90s". [cite web |url=http://www.avclub.com/content/node/24539 |title=Least Essential Albums of the '90s |accessdate=2008-03-28 |last=Phipps |first=Keith |coauthors=Rabin, Nathan; Thompson, Stephen |date=December 22, 1999 |publisher=The A.V. Club ]

Track listing

#"Swim" (John Bigham) – 4:42
#"Servitude" (Kendall Jones) – 5:20
#"Black Flowers" (Chris Dowd) – 5:46
#"Unyielding Conditioning" (Kendall Jones) – 4:45
#"Properties of Propaganda (Fuk This Shit On Up)" (John Norwood Fisher) – 5:22
#"The Warmth of Your Breath" (John Norwood Fisher, Angelo Moore) – 4:55
#"Lemon Meringue" (John Norwood Fisher) – 6:10
#"They All Have Abandoned Their Hopes" (John Norwood Fisher, Angelo Moore, Chris Dowd) – 4:58
#"End the Reign" (Kendall Jones) – 5:23
#"Drunk Skitzo" (Angelo Moore, John Norwood Fisher) – 5:17
#"No Fear" (John Bigham) – 6:01
#"Nutt Megalomaniac" (John Norwood Fisher) – 5:43

Personnel

*Angelo Moore – saxophone, vocals
*Walter A. Kibby II – trumpet, vocals
*Kendall Jones – lead guitar, vocals
*Chris Dowd – keyboards, trombone, vocals
*John Bigham – guitar, keyboard
*John Norwood Fisher – bass, vocals
*Philip "Fish" Fisher – drums

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