Scenery and Fish is the second album by the Canadian alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band I Mother Earth

I Mother Earth

I Mother Earth, or IME, was a Canadian alternative rock band. The band was at the peak of its popularity in the mid-to-late 1990s; its members have moved on to other projects.-Early years:...

, released by Capitol

Capitol Records

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 and EMI

EMI

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 on July 9, 1996. It was the band's most commercially successful work, going double platinum in Canada.

The album was somewhat of a continuance of the band's percussive, psychedelic

Psychedelic music

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 sound, albeit this time with more of a post-grunge

Post-grunge

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 twist tinged with elements of both progressive rock

Progressive rock

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 and pop

Pop music

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.

Personnel

• Edwin
  Edwin (musician)
  Edwin is a Canadian alternative rock singer and solo artist from Toronto, and former lead vocalist for I Mother Earth. He was on the band's first two albums, and was also on the majority of the songs on Victor, a 1996 side project from Alex Lifeson of Rush. He went solo in late 1997 and released...
  
   – vocals
• Jagori Tanna
  Jagori Tanna
  Jagori Tanna is a Canadian musician. Together with his brother, Christian Tanna, he formed I Mother Earth around 1990. He wrote almost all of I Mother Earth's music, and produced much of it as well...
  
   – guitars, backing vocals
• Bruce Gordon
  Bruce Gordon (musician)
  Bruce Gordon is a Canadian rock musician, best known as the bassist for I Mother Earth.He was born to parents of Scottish and German heritage. He immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of six...
  
   – bass
• Christian Tanna
  Christian Tanna
  Christian Tanna is a Canadian musician. He began playing drums in high school, and with his brother, Jagori Tanna, formed I Mother Earth in 1990. Tanna played on 1993's Dig, 1996's Scenery and Fish, 1999's Blue Green Orange, and 2003's The Quicksilver Meat Dream...
  
   – drums

Additional musicians

• Alex Lifeson
  Alex Lifeson
  Aleksandar Živojinović, OC, better known by his stage name Alex Lifeson, is a second generation Serbian-Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist of the Canadian rock band Rush. In the summer of 1968, Lifeson founded the band that would become Rush with friend, drummer John Rutsey...
  
   – additional guitar on "Like A Girl"
• Luis Conte
  Luis Conte
  Luis Conte is a Cuban percussionist.-Early years:As a child in Cuba, Conte began his musical odyssey playing the guitar. However, he soon switched to percussion, and that has remained his mode since....
  
   – percussion
• Daniel Mansilla – percussion
• Kenny Pearson – Hammond B3 organ

Track listing

(All songs written by "I Mother Earth", later revealed to be Jagori and Christian Tanna)

1. "Hello Dave!" – 0:47
2. "Like a Girl" – 4:40
3. "One More Astronaut
   One More Astronaut
   "One More Astronaut" is the first single by I Mother Earth from the band's second studio album, Scenery and Fish. The song reached #1 on Canada's Alternative chart. It is one of the band's most successful songs and is considered their signature song....
   
   " – 5:24
4. "Another Sunday" – 4:05
5. "Three Days Old" – 5:47
6. "Used to be Alright" – 5:27
7. "Shortcut to Moncton" – 7:56
8. "Pisser" – 5:00
9. "Raspberry" – 5:45
10. "Songburst & Delirium" – 5:55
11. "Sense of Henry" – 5:16
12. "Earth, Sky & C" – 7:06