- Record Label: Artist Direct / Boo Boo
- Release Date: Aug 19, 2003
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Musically, it's as diverse as anything the band has ever done, smoothly vacillating between forceful beats and heady grooves.
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MojoMusically and vocally, this is Franti's most confident and varied work to date. [Jul 2003, p.106]
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Q MagazineAn intelligent, well-crafted and catchy mix of funk, rap, soul and right-on sloganeering. [Jul 2003, p.104]
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BlenderThe pie-in-the-sky ambitions may be a little much, but credit Franti for dreaming up a kinder, gentler new world order. [Sep 2003, p.122]
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Everyone Deserves Music excels beyond simple good intentions because Franti and Spearhead are also at peace with their musical influences.
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Always undervalued as a songwriter, Franti reassembles his familiar building blocks of rock, reggae, and vintage R&B into the funkiest, most inviting neighborhoods he's yet created.
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Franti and Spearhead almost made a deliberate attempt to stray from the typical hip-hop beats and go for something a bit more organic and acoustic than their previous efforts -- and the experiments more than pay off.
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When he gets it right, the rich grooves and soulful voices can be sublime, like early '70s Curtis Mayfield or Sly and the Family Stone.
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A joyous celebration of life that pulverizes bullets with positive vibes.
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The musical stretches Spearhead makes go a long way toward making Everyone Deserves Music a memorable, even highly recommended affair, but the sanding down of Franti's rougher edges just prevents it from being an essential album. Spearhead fans deserve more consistently inspiring fare than they get here.
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DaveRSep 1, 2004
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anepiphanyJan 22, 2004lush and lovely and meaningful
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MikeMNov 23, 2003Yet another great album from the most criminally ignored artist(s) of the last 10 years.