The Geto Boys - The Resurrection

Primary Artist
The Geto Boys
Album Title
The Resurrection
Release Date
April 2, 1996 
Time
57:35 
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
After spending nearly five years apart, The Geto Boys reunited in 1996 and released The Resurrection. Since they were more notorious for their lyrical violence than their music -- only 1991's We Can't Be Stopped, with its stunning single "Mind Playing Tricks on Me," showed the band experimenting musically -- it comes as a surprise that The Resurrection is such a strong album. Although the band never deviates from its standard blood-guts-sex lyrical routine, they have a greater sense of humor throughout the album. Read More