UB40 - The Very Best of UB40 1980-2000
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Free Music Review: Yeah, I loves me da rasta!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm a total reggae fan. I got into Bob Marley in college and acted like I've like him since I was five. That's how you do reggae. Clearly, the best and most influential reggae group of all time is UB40. I don't know if they wrote a hit song by themselves, but they are the greatest reggae rasta out there. Red, Red wine is waaaaayyyyy better than anything that inner circle or Chaka Demis has ever done. I think Bob Marley sounds like a poser compared to UB40. Now Ziggy Marley, that's reggae that didn't sell out like Bob. UB40 blows them both out of the water with original songs like "I got U babe" and "Can't help falling in love". I formed a reggae band after hearing Red, Red Wine. We were called UB39 and featured Kroll on Bongos, Burns on keyboards, J Abs as our screaming guy like the punk bands have now, The Nook on lead vocals and bass and Meat on Accordian. We dressed in the most rasta gear. I wore a ten gallon hat, hip waders and body armor, Kroll wore a Tito Landrum throwback jersey with cut off jean shorts and flippers, J Abs wore the K-st mascot head with a leotard and choose your weapon magic johnson Converse, Burns wore a clown suit with an astronaut helmet and Meat wore a houston astros hat with the poland flag draped around him. We put on a great stage show with covers and originals like, "Ya Mon" and "We Rasta Nation" and "White kid Reggae ya mon". Our influence is still being felt by your wife.Free Music Review: A REALLY GREAT COLLECTION
Hit: 5 Stars
I just got my cd today. Spent hours listening to it, remembering when I first heard UB40, many years ago, very sweet memories. "Don't break my heart" and "Food for Thought", some of my favourites. Love UB40, would like to see a DVD, that would be fantastic!Free Music Review: where is
Hit: 4 Stars
where is "Where Did I Go Wrong?" one of there very best songs, and "Breakfast In Bed" is great too. So not quite the best.Free Music Review: Good album but I have ONE major ISSUE
Hit: 4 Stars
The "rap" part of Red Red Wine, which I grew up listening to, is not the version on this album. :(I could have done without the Doors cover but overall a great album. :)
Free Music Review: The Best "Best Of" Available
Hit: 5 Stars
If your reggae collection is going to include only one UB40 album, this one wins out over all the others hands down. Virgin released two 10-track "best ofs" in the mid-90s, but this 2000 release duplicates 15 of those tracks and adds "Cherry Oh Baby" from 1983's landmark LABOUR OF LOVE album, "Tell Me Is It True" from 1997's GUNS IN THE GHETTO, and the previously unreleased cover of the Door's "Light My Fire."While most American listeners only recognize UB40 for their covers of songs that hit the Top 40 like Neil Diamond's "Red Red Wine," Elvis's "Can't Help Falling in Love" and Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Babe," the band had hits in the U.K with original material like "Food for Thought" (No. 4, 1980), "If It Happens Again" (No. 9, 1984), "Don't Break My Heart" (No. 3, 1985), and "Rat in Mi Kitchen" (No. 12, 1987).
While UB40 may be viewed merely as a populizer of reggae music, they do it exceedingly well. This album is a joy from start to finish. [Running time: 66:59] HIGHLY RECOMMENDED