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via Gee Street Records, and was unable to attain the success of the group's first two albums, '' Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience'' and '' The Bliss Album...? (Vibrations of Love and Anger and the Ponderance of Life and Existence)''. The album's highest charting single was "

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", which contained a

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's " Hush". The single reached number 48 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and crossed over to alternative radio, resulting in the song peaking at number 39 on the

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chart.

Music samples

Noteworthy samples from this album include: "4 O'Clock in the Morning" by The Hassles in "My Own Personal Gravity", "Pacific" by

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in "I'll be Waiting for You", "Don't Interrupt the Sorrow" by

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in "Forever Damaged (The 96th)", "Nite and Day" by Al B. Sure! in "Sometimes I Miss You So Much" and "Mama Told Me Not to Come" by Three Dog Night in "Fantasia's Confidential Ghetto: 1999 (Prince song), 1999/Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads song), Once in a Lifetime/Coconut (song), Coconut". The track also contains a musical reference to The Beatles song, "Flying (The Beatles song), Flying".

Track listing

Songwriting credit is given to Attrell Cordes on each song along with whoever is being sampled with the exception of "Silence...Recorded at the Gravesite of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.", which is, as the title suggests, 21 seconds of silence. It received no song writing credit.

Singles

*"Downtown Venus", 1995 (various mixes) *"Sometimes I Miss You So Much", 1995 (various mixes)

Chart positions

References

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