Album info

• Title Paranoid and Sunburnt
• Artist Skunk Anansie
• Year 1996
• Genre Rock

Tracklist

1. Selling Jesus
2. Intellectualise My Blackness
3. I Can Dream
4. Little Baby Swastika
5. All in the Name of Pity
6. Charity
7. It Take Blood and Guts to Be This Cool but I’m Still Just a Cliché
8. Weak
9. And Here I Stand
10. 100 Ways to Be a Good Girl
11. Rise Up

Thoughts

I have a vague memory of Skunk Anansie from the 90s but I don’t suppose it was my kind of music back then. I quite enjoyed this album, it’s a strong, proud and emotive rock from a superbly powerful front-woman. It did cross, occasionally, into the realm of being slightly too angry for my tastes, although by the sounds of it she has every right to get a bit shouty.

Weak is the stand out song, it’s a new/old favourite. I’m not sure any of the others are as memorable as that one, but it was still a good listen from start to finish.

Rating: 3 / 5