Selling Live Water

Studio album by Sole

Released

January 13, 2003

Recorded

2001-2002

Genre

Alternative hip hop

Length

54:53

Label

Anticon

Producer

Alias, Jel, Odd Nosdam, Sole, Telephone Jim Jesus

Sole chronology

Man's Best Friend Vol. 1
(2002)

Selling Live Water
(2003)

Man's Best Friend Vol. 2: No Thanks
(2003)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(77/100)^[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Drowned in Sound	(8/10)^[3]
Entertainment Weekly	(B)^[4]
Exclaim!	(favorable)^[5]
Pitchfork Media	(7.3/10)^[6]
Stylus Magazine	(B-)^[7]
The Village Voice	(B)^[8]

Selling Live Water is a studio album by American alternative hip hop artist Sole, released on Anticon in 2003.

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Selling Live Water received an average score of 77% based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Da Baddest Poet"	Telephone Jim Jesus	4:23
2.	"Shoot the Messenger"	Alias	3:23
3.	"Salt on Everything"	Odd Nosdam	3:22
4.	"I Hope You Like My Stupid Painting"		0:31
5.	"Respect Pt. 3"	Jel	4:13
6.	"Tokyo"	Alias	3:49
7.	"Plutonium"	Alias	4:54
8.	"Sebago"	Jel	4:38
9.	"Slow, Cold Drops" (written by Pedestrian)	Alias	4:03
10.	"Pawn in the Game Pt. 1"	Alias	2:30
11.	"Pawn in the Game Pt. 2"	Alias	3:17
12.	"The Priziest Horse"	Alias	4:06
13.	"Teepee on a Highway Blues"	Alias	4:02
14.	"Selling Live Water"	Odd Nosdam	4:30
15.	"Ode to the War on Terrorism"	Telephone Jim Jesus	3:12
Total length:			54:53

Personnel

Sole - entaludes
Alias - production
Jel - cuts
Why? - keyboards on tracks 3 and 14, vocal harmonies on track 14
Alex Oropexa - extra keyboards on tracks 7 and 9
Larry Butter - harmonic olive sheets

References

1 2 "Selling Live Water - Sole". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
↑ Pytlik, Mark. "Selling Live Water - Sole". AllMusic. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
↑ Hayward, Daniel (January 6, 2004). "sole - Selling Live Water". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
↑ Hermes, Will (February 7, 2003). "Selling Live Water". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
↑ Quinlan, Thomas (March 1, 2003). "Sole - Selling Live Water". Exclaim!. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
↑ Dahlen, Chris (March 26, 2003). "Sole: Selling Live Water". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
↑ Howard, Ed (September 1, 2003). "Sole - Selling Live Water". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
↑ Christgau, Robert (July 29, 2003). "Shadows in the Cave". The Village Voice. Retrieved February 18, 2015.

External links

Selling Live Water at Discogs (list of releases)

Sole

Albums	Madd Skills & Unpaid Bills What's It All About The Taste of Rain... Why Kneel? Bottle of Humans Paint by Number Songs Red Dawn: A Baybridge Epic uck rt Man's Best Friend Vol. 1 Selling Live Water Mansbestfriend Pt. 2: No Thanks Live from Rome Man's Best Friend Vol. 3: My Own Worst Enemy Poly.Sci.187 Sole and the Skyrider Band Desert Eagle Plastique Man's Best Friend Vol. 5 Hello Cruel World A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing No Wising Up No Settling Down No More Dystopias Crimes Against Totality Death Drive

EPs	Music Without a Face We Ain't Fessin' (Double Quotes) Exhile Battlefields Man's Best Friend Vol. 6: Radioactive Rain The Challenger EP Yung Planetz EP Songs That Went Void Warfare Pattern of Life

Mixtapes	Nuclear Winter Volume 1 Nuclear Winter Volume 2: Death Panel

Remix albums	The Secret History of Underground Rap Sole and the Skyrider Band Remix LP Spring Offensive Vol. 1: Nuclear Winter Remixes First as Tragedy, Then as Remix

Compilations	Learning to Walk Songs That Went Tin Dispatches from the American Fall

Record labels	Anticon Fake Four Inc. Black Canyon Mush Records Morr Music 6months 45 Below

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