Arrested Development - 3 Years 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of--
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Artist: Arrested DevelopmentEdition: Music CD
Audio: German (Unknown)
Published: 1992
CD Release Date: 1992-03-24
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Man's Final Frontier
- Mama's Always On Stage
- People Everyday
- Blues Happy
- Mr. Wendal
- Children Play With Earth
- Raining Revolution
- Fishin' 4 Religion
- Give A Man A Fish
- U
- Eve Of Reality
- Natural
- Dawn Of The Dreads
- Tennessee
- Washed Away
- People Everyday (Metamorphosis Mix)
Free Music Notes for 3 Years 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of--
Free Music Review: Greatest CD in Music History
Hit: 5 Stars
A Proud, black, socio-political consciousess wrapped around a cat-footed, organically funky groove-thang, Arrested Development were an immediate critical and commercial success. Along with De La Soul, P.M. Dawn, and several other acts, Arrested Development represented a far more musical approach to hard-core rap--the ramifications of which continue to resonate across the pop charts. Solo star Dionne Farris begain her career here, too.Led by Speech, the male-Female, muti-generational quintet-- Baba Oje, age 60, was the group's "Spritual Adviser"--came together in Atlanta. The Title of their 1992 debut (3 years, 5 Months and 2 days in the life of...) refers t the lenght of time it took 'em to get a record deal. Spurred by the slice-of-life-down-south "Tennessee" and anti hooiganism of "People Everyday (Metamorphosis Mix)" (which incorporates Sly & The Family Stone's "Everyday People" to help make a point, the album with samples stretching from Earth, Wind & Fire, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells to Minnie Riperton and Bob Dylan--- was a soild smash. And Hit Mr. Wendal is one of the best songs of the group.
"Childern Play with Earth" catlogs tangible ways of grasping our origins: climb trees, put your hands in dirt. "Raining Rovolution" finds a spritual and social renewal as origanic as the fall rain, an extended play on concepts of watery renewal: "the sperm of a brother into a sister" producing a "conscious baby for black resistance." The Narrator concludes soberly: "i feel the rain enhancesthe revolution."
The black church is criticized: "when they want change, the preacher says shout it/does shoutin' bring about change? I Doubt it." Country and folk idioms (white as well as black) are blended in to dramatize the message that the city isnt the best route to spirtual evloution and to "dawn of dreads" (anther number). It is exhilarating and moving to listen to this much thought and resolve expressed in one musical.
3 Years 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of-- Poster
15 Tracks - 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' For Religion 9. Give A Man A Fish 10. U 11. EPop Music CDs