Wild Seed – Wild Flower

Wild Seed – Wild Flower
Studio album by Dionne Farris
Released October 25, 1994
Recorded 1993-1994
Genre
Length 62:47
Label Columbia
Producer Dionne Farris, David Harris & Milton Davis (tracks 1, 2, 5, 7, 10 & 15), Randy Jackson (tracks 1-7, 13 & 15), David Frank (track 8)
Dionne Farris chronology
- Wild Seed, Wild Flower
(1994)
For Truth If Not Love
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

Wild Seed – Wild Flower is the debut full-length album by Dionne Farris, which she recorded after singing the song "Tennessee" by the alternative hip hop group Arrested Development. Rather than continue with Arrested Development, she made a solo record with members of the band Follow for Now, David Ryan Harris and Billy Fields.[1] The lead single, "I Know" (which allmusic's Tom Demalon called "percolating and infectious"[1]), peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1995.

Track listing

  1. "I Know" (Milton Davis, William DuVall) 3:49
  2. "Reality" (Farris, Billy Fields, Skitch Lovett) 4:42
  3. "Stop to Think" (Farris, Lenny Kravitz) 5:29
  4. "Passion" (Farris, Fields, Lovett) 5:44
  5. "Food for Thought" (Farris, David Harris) 6:35
  6. "Now Or Later" (Farris, Fields, Lovett) 5:19
  7. "Don't Ever Touch Me (Again)" (Farris, Harris) 4:27
  8. "11th Hour" (Farris, David Frank) 4:46
  9. "Water" (Dionne Farris, Billy Fields) 4:06
  10. "Blackbird" (Lennon, McCartney) 3:08
  11. "Old Ladies" (discussion of "Blackbird") 0:27
  12. "Human" (Farris) 3:04
  13. "Find Your Way" (Farris, Tim Heintz, Randy Jackson) 5:44
  14. "The Audition" (skit) 1:38
  15. "I Know" (NY Reprise Mix) (Davis, DuVall) 3:49

Personnel

Reception

"I Know" was the only hit from the album, but Tom Demalon wrote that the album's "charms run much deeper" than the hit single.[1] However, critic Brent Mann expressed the opposite view, stating that the other songs "lacked energy and direction" and in one case turned "plodding and ponderous."[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Wild Seed – Wild Flower at AllMusic
  2. Mann, Brent (2003). 99 Red Balloons: And 100 All-time One-Hit Wonders. Citadel Press. p. 80. ISBN 9780806525167. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
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