“Fight the Youth” by Fishbone

"Fight the Youth" comes from The Reality of My Surroundings, the third Fishbone album, which Columbia released on April 23, 1991. John Norwood Fisher, Phillip Fisher and Kendall Jones wrote it; the band produced it themselves with David Kahne as associate producer, and Michael Brauer mixed.

The album arrived with wind in its sails. A stint opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers had helped push Truth and Soul onto the Billboard 200 in 1988, and the band spent most of 1989 writing its follow-up, a stew of funk, reggae, punk and hard rock with the guitars newly beefed up on heavy metal. Basic tracks went down at Ocean Way Recording in Hollywood, with overdubs there and at Studio 55, Summa and Capitol Studios. AllMusic's Greg Prato heard something wilder and harder to predict than the more straightforward record before it.

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