Bizarre Fruit
1994 studio album by M People / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bizarre Fruit is the third album by British dance band M People. It was released on 14 November 1994 and charted and peaked at No. 4 on the UK Albums Chart, spending one year on the chart before an expanded version of the album, Bizarre Fruit II, was released a year later. In 1996 it was announced that Bizarre Fruit had reached 1.1 million copies sold worldwide.[11] The albums Bizarre Fruit and Bizarre Fruit II were certified 5× platinum in the UK for sales of 1.5 million.[12]
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Released | 14 November 1994 | |||
Recorded | April – August 1994 | |||
Studio | Strongroom Studios (London) | |||
Genre | House, pop | |||
Length | 57:45 | |||
Label | Deconstruction | |||
Producer | M People | |||
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Singles from Bizarre Fruit | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Cash Box | (favorable)[2] |
Robert Christgau | A−[3] |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Entertainment Weekly | A−[5] |
The Guardian | (favorable)[6] |
Los Angeles Times | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Music & Media | (favorable)[8] |
NME | 8/10[9] |
Spin | 7/10[10] |
The album's two most popular singles were "Sight for Sore Eyes", which reached No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart and "Search for the Hero", which peaked at No. 9 on the same chart. Other singles released from this album were "Open Your Heart" (No. 9), "Love Rendezvous" (No. 32) and "Itchycoo Park" (No. 11) from the re-released album. In the US, remixes for the song "Padlock" were supplied to club DJs and appeared as the B-side to the CD maxi single of "Search for the Hero". The track reached No. 13 on the Billboard Dance chart.[13]