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Natural Selection

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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.

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.

Another victim of copyright issues I suppose. It seems NO ONE has this available as a download. All iTunes has is this stupid karaoke version.

When i first heard this song in the 90s, i thought it was by Prince... Then as years passed, you never hear it and can't remember what it was called or who did it. Then a long drawn out search to figure out what it was was made a little easier thanks to the internet.

I finally broke down and bought the CD here on amazon - it was cheap enough - only got it for Do Anything.... the rest of the cd sounded like 3rd rate filler, but I didn't really give it a good listen. Typical one hit wonder, but I really like the niki harris banter.

Oh, and while I'm soapboxing, trying to find ACCURATE, complete lyrics for this song is impossible as it seems lyric sites lift from each other and if one has them wrong, they all do. I compiled my own which i think is more than complete and attempted to upload them to some lyric sites but they never accepted them so I posted them on my own site as a PDF. if anyone is interested, you can contact me for the direct link as it doesn't show in google search.

While cleaning out the garage I came 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. I then came across "Natural Selection." "What's this? I don't remember them." So I plug in an old RCA dual tape 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, and an appreciation for the music over played on the radio I kept listening. At the end of the day the garage was almost clean and the tapes were quickly placed on eBay, but the songs remain stuck in my head.

CD was scratched but guess I couldn't expect too much for under $1