The Reality of My Surroundings

Infobox Album |
Name = Reality of My Surroundings
Type = Album
Artist = Fishbone


Released = April 23, 1991
Recorded = November 1990 - January 1991 at Ocean Way Recording in Hollywood, California
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 59:28
Label = Columbia
Producer = Fishbone, Dave Jerden, David Kahne
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8257gj4rj6i9 link] |
Last album = "Truth and Soul" (1988)
This album = "The Reality of My Surroundings" (1991)
Next album = "Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe" (1993)

"The Reality of My Surroundings" is the third album by Fishbone. It was released on April 23, 1991. It is the first album to feature former Miles Davis music director John Bigham (guitar, keyboards).

With this album, Fishbone obtained critical and commercial success with a ranking of #49 on the Billboard 200 on May 18, 1991. The album is widely considered by fans and critics as the creative peak of the band. Fishbone experienced a large growth in concert tickets and record sales during this period, making two memorable television appearances: performing "Sunless Saturday" and "Everyday Sunshine" on "Saturday Night Live", and "Everyday Sunshine" on "The Arsenio Hall Show". (The SNL performance of "Sunless Saturday" has been re-edited in reruns. The original television broadcast showed a brief glimpse of Angelo Moore doing a backflip on stage. The re-edited version simply switches the camera angle, making it possible to see the full flip right after signaling "Special K" (Kendall Jones) to do his guitar solo.)Fact|date=March 2008

The album's title comes from a line in track 3, "So Many Millions", which reads "I cannot get over legitimately, the Realityof My Surroundings do not point to the sky".

Track listing

# "Fight the Youth" (John Norwood Fisher, Philip Fisher, Kendall Jones) – 5:01
# "If I Were A...I'd" (Chris Dowd, Angelo Moore) – :53
# "So Many Millions" (J. N. Fisher, Moore) – 5:49
# "Asswhippin'" (John Bigham, Dowd, J. N. Fisher, P. Fisher, Jones, Walter A. Kibby II, Moore) – :39
# "Housework" (J. N. Fisher, P. Fisher, Jones, Kibby, Moore) – 4:45
# "Death March" (Dowd, Moore) – :33
# "Behavior Control Technician" (J. N. Fisher, P. Fisher) – 3:08
# "If I Were A...I'd" (Dowd, Moore) – :29
# "Pressure" (Jones, Moore) – 4:47
# "Junkies Prayer" (Dowd, J. N. Fisher, Jones, Moore, Byron West) – 3:00
# "Pray to the Junkiemaker" (Dowd, Moore) – 4:02
# "Everyday Sunshine" (Dowd, Moore) – 4:57
# "If I Were A...I'd" (Dowd, Moore) – :29
# "Naz-Tee May'en" (J. N. Fisher, P. Fisher, Jones, Moore) – 4:56
# "Babyhead" (Kibby) – 5:31
# "If I Were A...I'd" – :53
# "Those Days Are Gone" (Dowd, Moore) – 5:23
# "Sunless Saturday" (Jones) – 4:17

Personnel

Fishbone

*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 guitar, vocals
*Philip "Fish" Fisher – drums

Additional

*Sam Mims – programming
*Fenando Pullum – trumpet
*T-Bone – percussion
*Greg Bell, Vicky Calhoun, Aklia Chin, Katherine Cederquist, Jeff Conners, Larry Fishburne, James Grey, Kyva Holmes, Nadja Holmes, Wendell Holmes, Natalie Jackson, Gaz Mayall, Sultana Muhammad, Susan Rogers, Clip Payne, Susan Stoval, Kristen Vigard, Byron West – background vocals

Engineers

*Larry Duhart
*Clark Germain
*Joel Stoner

Charts