Bizarre Fruit II

Bizarre Fruit II
Studio album (reissue) by
Released27 November 1995
RecordedApril – August 1994
GenreElectronic dance music
Length62:58
LabelDeconstruction
ProducerM People
M People chronology
Bizarre Fruit
(1994)
Bizarre Fruit II
(1995)
Fresco
(1997)
Singles from Bizarre Fruit II
  1. "Itchycoo Park"
    Released: 13 November 1995
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Music & Media(favorable)[1]
NME3/10[2]

Bizarre Fruit II is a reissued and expanded version of British band M People's 1994 Bizarre Fruit album, with the single versions of "Search for the Hero" and "Love Rendezvous" in place of the originals, and including the band's cover of the Small Faces' "Itchycoo Park". It was initially released as a limited edition with a bonus Live and Remixed CD or cassette. The Live and Remixed disc contains live versions of tracks from Bizarre Fruit and M People's previous two albums, Northern Soul and Elegant Slumming. The live tracks were recorded at GMEX in Manchester on 16 December 1994, except "Search for the Hero" which was recorded at Grosse Freiheit in Hamburg on 26 February 1995.

Bizarre Fruit II was later released as a single CD replacing the original Bizarre Fruit album. Confusingly, later editions of this single-disc version bear the title Bizarre Fruit, although the cover art remains the same as the initial Bizarre Fruit II release.

  1. ^ "New Releases: Albums" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 12, no. 51/52. 23 December 1995. p. 7. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
  2. ^ Beaumont, Mark (2 December 1995). "Long Play". NME. p. 46. Retrieved 9 May 2024.