Truth and Soul

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Truth and Soul
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 13, 1988
Recorded1987–1988
Studio The Sound Factory (Los Angeles)
Genre
Length41:38
Label Columbia
Producer David Kahne
Fishbone chronology
It's a Wonderful Life
(1987)
Truth and Soul
(1988)
Set the Booty Up Right
(1990)
Music video
"Ma and Pa" on YouTube
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Freddie's Dead" Curtis Mayfield 4:31
2."Ma and Pa" Angelo Moore, Kendall Jones3:19
3."Question of Life"Moore, Jones, John Norwood Fisher3:02
4."Pouring Rain"Chris Dowd5:13
5."Deep Inside"Moore, Fisher1:22
6."Mighty Long Way"Fisher3:26
7."I Like to Hide Behind My Glasses" (only included on European CD release)Dowd, Moore4:43
8."Bonin' in the Boneyard"Moore, Fisher, David Kahne 4:44
9."One Day"Walter Kibby, Jones, Kahne4:34
10."Subliminal Fascism"Moore1:28
11."Slow Bus Movin' (Howard Beach Party)"Jones, Moore, Kibby, Philip "Fish" Fisher2:38
12."In the Name of Swing" (only included on European CD release)Moore, Fisher, Kahne2:46
13."Ghetto Soundwave"Jones4:24
14."Change"Jones, Dowd2:58

European CD version comes with a slightly different track listing order as tracks 3 (Question of Life) and 6 (Mighty Long Way) are inverted. Outside of Europe, the album contained only twelve tracks, with "I Like to Hide Behind My Glasses" and "In the Name of Swing" not included. These two tracks from the European CD version would later be released in the US on the EP Set the Booty Up Right .

Personnel

Fishbone
Production

Charts

Chart (1988)Peak
position
US Billboard 200153

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