Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Feet High and Rising is the debut studio album by American hip hop trio De La Soul. It was released on March 3, 1989, by Tommy Boy. It marked the first of three full-length collaborations with producer Prince Paul, which would become the critical and commercial peak of both parties. Critically, as well as commercially, the album was a success. It contains the singles, Me Myself and I, The Magic Number, Buddy, and Eye Know. The album title came from the Johnny Cash song Five Feet High and Rising. I’ll be honest, record stores have never been a favorite place of mine. Weird, I know, considering I’ve been a music critic for most of my career, and now you’re reading this in a piece devoted to crate-digging. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always loved the quest — discovering new music via mixtapes, college radio, clubs, online, etc. The city’s billion hole-in-the-wall venues like The Palomino and The Smell informed a lot of what I grew to love and hate as a music fan and critic. A truly sleeper classic. Like many bands of the British pop movement of the early 1990s, the La's created a big-though short-lived-splash, then belly-flopped into obscurity. Most will remember them only from their pillowy single, There She Goes, but this album is replete with delightfully jangly, remarkably well-crafted songs and deserves to be waived from the stigma of one-hit-wonderdom. Lead singer and songwriter Lee Mavers is largely the culprit responsible for the success and failure of this album; a perfectionist, he ultimately paralysed the album's momentum with band-member changes, the relentless rerecording of songs, and obsession over details, which caused fatal delays in its completion and release. But his pursuit of perfection was nearly achieved - almost every song had potential as a successful single.