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Fight For Your Mind by Ben Harper

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Oppression 2:57 79,674
2 Ground On Down 4:52 79,996
3 Another Lonely Day 3:42 174,627
4 Please Me Like You Want To 4:55 61,714
5 Gold To Me 4:58 71,027
6 Burn One Down 3:30 204,588
7 Excuse Me Mr. 5:22 77,885
8 People Lead 4:12 56,237
9 Fight For Your Mind 4:04 56,759
10 Give A Man A Home 3:34 57,958
11 By My Side 3:33 91,040
12 Power of the Gospel 6:00 61,340
13 God Fearing Man 11:46 40,524
14 One Road To Freedom 4:18 39,083
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About this album

Virgin Records America (1995) Released: 20 Jul 1995 14 tracks (67:43)
Fight for Your Mind is a 1995 (see 1995 in music) album by Ben Harper. It was his last solo album before adding The Innocent Criminals to his line-up. Reviews were generally very positive, praising Harper’s fusion of multiple genres, from Folk (“Another Lonely Day”), folk rock (“Gold to Me”), Black Sabbath-style riffing heavy metal (“Ground on Down”) and politically-charged reggae (“Excuse Me Mister”).

After Harper’s well-received debut, Welcome to the Cruel World, he expanded on his fanbase by touring relentlessly with jam bands like Dave Matthews Band. On this, his second album, Harper added a more refined sense of his own intense spirituality, such as on the gospel-influenced album closers, “Power of the Gospel”, “God Fearing Man” and “One Road to Freedom”.

Track listing

All songs written by Ben Harper except as noted.

1. “Oppression” 2:58
2. “Ground on Down” – 4:53
3. “Another Lonely Day” – 3:43
4. “Please Me Like You Want To” – 4:55
5. “Gold to Me” – 5:00
6. “Burn One Down” – 3:31
7. “Excuse Me Mr.” (Harper, Plunier) – 5:24
8. “People Lead” – 4:13
9. “Fight for Your Mind” – 4:06
10. “Give a Man a Home” – 3:35
11. “By My Side” – 3:34
12. “Power of the Gospel” – 6:02
13. “God Fearing Man” – 11:49
14. “One Road to Freedom” – 4:14

Artwork

The Fight For Your Mind artwork features the use of military roundels from African nations (plus Jamaica) to represent each track on the album. The track corresponding to each roundel is:
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  • PedroCorvino

    The title track is amazing!

    February 2012

  • cslyp

    “Fight for Your Mind”　progresses from Ben Harper’s debut album. It has a little bit of everything, and shows Ben’s diverse talent. It adds more funky percussion and bass lines (Burn One Down) and more of the use of the slide guitar in harder rock songs. At the same time, he continues to perform of his softer acoustic songs, which made his first album special.

    November 2011

  • TheDistantOne

    An absolute favorite of mine. It sounds like gold to me!

    January 2011

  • gygli

    great, GREAT album. It`s just so awesome, like a march through so many different emotions. Oh man, gotta love this. Good job Ben! keep on rockin!

    November 2010

  • daraloglan

    great album

    October 2009

  • antity

    His best album in my opinion.

    October 2009

  • Lysurgeon

    Please me like you want to is one of the most beautifully depressing songs I've ever heard.

    June 2009

  • webbzy

    such a great album!!

    March 2009

  • sunnotes

    Yeah! Mi piace correre con questo pezzo! ;)

    November 2007
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