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The Reality of My Surroundings by Fishbone
The Reality of My Surroundings is an album by Fishbone, released in 1991. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 45 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Everyday Sunshine”, on 24 lists with a best position of #42.
Fishbone's third album, The Reality of My Surroundings, arrived on Columbia on April 23, 1991, and it's the sound of a band that had finally broken through deciding to get weirder, not safer. They'd cracked it in 1988 on a stint opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, watched Truth and Soul reach the Billboard 200 and turned up in the film Tapeheads, then sank most of 1989 into writing. David Kahne produced, with basic tracks cut at Ocean Way in Hollywood.
The Los Angeles crew throws funk, reggae, punk and hard rock into the blender and cranks the guitars toward heavy metal; AllMusic's Greg Prato found it far more unpredictable than its predecessor. Angelo Moore hollers and blows sax, John Norwood Fisher and his brother Philip "Fish" Fisher lock the groove, Kendall Jones and John Bigham are aboard, and Walter Kibby's trumpet and Christopher Dowd's trombone keep the horns blaring. "Sunless Saturday" and "Everyday Sunshine" are the ones that stuck.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Reality of My Surroundings on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everyday Sunshine | 24 | #42 | – | 1994–2026 | |
| 2 | Sunless Saturday | 20 | #72 | – | 1991–2022 | |
| 3 | Fight the Youth | 1 | #1512 | – | 2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.