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Advantages: Excellent covers of some old reggae standrads
Disadvantages: Sometimes a bit too slick

...it must have been a labour of love can be heard in the loving way the songs are crafted and every track reproduces the excellence of the original. As a lover of real reggae I do have to make one minor criticism and that is that the album is too good. There is far more added production and professionalism to Labour Of Love. The original Jamaican reggae artists of the 1960s were usually poor and often recorded their songs on old second hand recording ...
...limited time available in the recording studios so the songs were often recorded in one take and were little better than demo tracks. What they lacked in production excellence they more than made up for in the immediacy and the urgency of the presentation. So where the old originals will regularly feature bum notes and missed intros the remakes by UB40 are clean and slick. The album opens with the Eric Donaldson song Cherry Oh Baby which UB40 released ... Read review

Advantages: New unseen footage...........
Disadvantages: CD has the usual Bob compilation tracks......

A truely Excellent documentary on Bob Marley, this is one of the first Bob Marley documentaries on over a decade which includes new never before seen footage of Bob, the film does include clips from other older bob documentaries but most of the content is new. The film gives great insight into Bob Marley and his life, with interviews from his ex-girlfriend Esther Andserson who speaks about her time with bob which was a very happy time for her, she ...
...life after he had his toe injury during a football match, how the people around him didn;t care for bob as much as they could of, she explains how the people with him should have given bob more help (one person in particular she was very angry with) and persuaded him to get professional help for his toe wound, his bandages stayed on for several years, bob did get some treatment in Bavaria but this treatment was not recognised by western medical professionals, ... Read review

Advantages: great beats and songs willmake you dance
Disadvantages: none

Most on the songs on this album will have you dancing like just to name a couple "get busy", "Shake that thing" "gimme the light". These songs are songs that you can play at a party. He also has song love songs on his album "I'm still in love with you" and one of my favorites "baby boy" featuring beyonce. Sean paul is one of the best reggae artist and he has great lyrics and beats on this album. Sean paul is a artist that gets better with time and ... Read review