Description
Skunk Anansies debut album ran contrary to the grain. While everyone around them was celebrating the resolutely white- boy, hedonistic, traditional 1960s-based sounds of Britpop, these four Londoners released a multi-racial, politically- charged album that owed as much to the funk visions of Sly & The Family Stone and Living Colour as it did to the metal mightiness of prime Black Sabbath. On songs such as Intellectualise My Blackness and 100 Ways To Be A Good Girl, vocalist Skin directly confronted peoples prejudices and threw them straight back in their faces. Elsewhere, tracks like Selling Jesus and I Can Dream showcase her voice pretty much at the height of its power indeed, this whole album captures the band in top form, with hardly a weak track present The album was recorded with the bands original drummer, Robbie France, but he was not featured on the cover. The album, featuring a mix of controversial protest songs (mainly about politics and religion), peaked at #8 in the UK Albums Chart.
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