Selling Live Water

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. "Selling Live Water - Sole". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
2. Pytlik, Mark. "Selling Live Water - Sole". AllMusic. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
3. Hayward, Daniel (January 6, 2004). "sole - Selling Live Water". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
4. Hermes, Will (February 7, 2003). "Selling Live Water". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
5. Quinlan, Thomas (March 1, 2003). "Sole - Selling Live Water". Exclaim!. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
6. Dahlen, Chris (March 26, 2003). "Sole: Selling Live Water". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
7. Howard, Ed (September 1, 2003). "Sole - Selling Live Water". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
8. 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)