Natural Selection

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I can't believe it's been that long
While cleaning out the garage I come across some tapes that my sister had stored there from the 90's. Recognizing most of the names; Vanilla Ice, R.E.M., Wilson Phillips etc. etc. I then came across "Natural Selection." "What's this? I don't remember them." So I dust off and plug in an old RCA dual tape/record player to start playing side A. Not bad, so I continue to clean. Now in the 90's I was more into birth of alternative music but perhaps for the sake of nostalgia an appreciation for the music manufactured and over played on the radio was forged. At the end of the day the garage was almost clean and the tapes quickly placed on eBay, but the songs remain stuck in my head.

You get what you pay for...
CD was scratched but guess I couldn't expect too much for under $1

Still not bad
I'm surprised we didn't hear more of Natural Selection in the early 1990's. I was in high school when the CD came out and was drawn in by the single 'Do Anything'. 'Hearts don't think they feel' was also a single. After high school I studied piano, percussion, and composition in college and after all that, I still think this is a decent attempt at pop music and I've held onto it even though selling most of my other early 90's CD's. There is an obvious Prince influence throughought the album and the hit single had to compete with Prince's 'Cream' from the Diamonds & Pearls album. If 90's music is ever to become a 'genre' like 80's music has, I recommend Natural Selection as one of the most noteworthy, but overlooked, works of the early part of that decade. At the used prices it is worth hearing.

Natual Selection
Not bad... Standout song of course is the hit single featuring Niki Harris (famous for being Madonna's backup singer & releasing 3 of her own albums:see nikiharris.com) but this cd lacks in some areas...with mostly filler music sounding like scraps from Prince, they still pull it off because scraps from Prince is still good music! Neither here nor there.