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Labour of Love
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0077778641223
Label: Virgin Records Us
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
MPN: 86412
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Virgin Records Us
Release Date: March 11, 1997
Studio: Virgin Records Us
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Editorial Review:
UB40 are not great innovators, but they are great imitators, and, in a sense, Labour of Love made them the Pat Boone of reggae. Featuring a handsome and clean-cut (by reggae standards) white singer, Ali Campbell, UB40 covered Jamaican standards and turned millions of Americans and Europeans on to another form of black music. Interestingly enough, the album's smash hit, "Red Red Wine," was a cover of a rocksteady cover of a Neil Diamond track. Being that UB40 had the pick of the reggae litter, Labour of Love is chock full of stellar material. From Jimmy Cliff's "Many Rivers to Cross" to the Melodians' "Sweet Sensation" to Johnny Clarke's "Keep On Moving," Labour of Love still serves as an excellent reggae starter kit. --Bill Crandall
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Laboured and Lost
A tatty, strangled old moggy of an album.
It will become apparent that I am not a fan of UB40. I hastened to dismiss them after the atrocious `King' and the even worse `One in Ten', but in terms of abject dreadfulness, this is on another level entirely.
Oh so working class! Oh so socialist! Oh what a load of old cobblers. And oh, what a scandalous assortment of shabby, flabby, crabby reggae covers presented to the world with no energy, no warmth and no strength of emotion.
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Rating:  - Inspiring and pulsating regae beat
OK, these songs are mainly covers but they are really done well, with UB40's own special beat added to the reggae brew.
Look how Neil Diamond's Red, Red wine is changed into a regae-disco song with Red Red, Wine.
then there is the upbeat love song, Cherry Oh Baby, the redone Bob Marley song, Keep On Moving, the sad love song Please Don't Make Me Cry, that cover of the super Jimmy Cliff hit, Johnny Too Bad, with it's inspiring and pulsating regae beat, as well as the cover of another smashing ... Read More
Rating: - Good Enough
I'll admit it: I just wanted "Red Red Wine."
What I got was about 40 minutes of 80s reggae. I think that about sums it up: Plinkety-plonk synths meet the slow boom-chaka-boom-chaka rhythms of reggae. There's nothing wrong with that, though. It's a good listen, and it would go well at a party. The songs were all alright in their own way, I suppose, but the one that caught my attention was "She Caught the Train." It's stunted rhythms seemed so of-their-time that I just couldn't help liking it.
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Rating: - A REGGAE CLASSIC
ALONG WITH STEEL PULSE'S TRUE DEMOCRACY & BLACK UHURU'S ANTHEM FOR EXAMPLE, THIS IS ONE OF THE STELLAR RECORDINGS THAT REALLY HELPED TO KEEP REGGAE ALIVE IN THE EARLY YEARS AFTER MARLEY'S DEATH. UB40 ARE NOT A COVER/TRIBUTE BAND. THEY ARE DEDCATED REGGAE ARTISTS WHOSE TRUE PASSION IS ALL FOR REGGAE MUSIC. OUT OF 23 ALBUMS, ONLY 3 ARE ACTUAL COVERS. I HOPE REGGAE FANS WILL CHECK OUT THEIR NON LABOUR RECORDINGS. THIS ALBUM IS THE FIRST AND BEST OF THE LABOUR TRILOGY, PRESERVING THE ESSENCE OF THE PIONEERING ... Read More
Rating: - UB lovin' this album.
Some may be tempted to get the "best of" because of its length, but this first "Labour Of Love" is hard to beat. This disc runs a perfect 40 minutes, and every song brings good vibrations. Of course their biggest hit is on here, the cover of "Red Red Wine", and it is the full version with the rap. But I also love "Cherry Oh Baby", "She Caught The Train", and the excellent and moving "Please Don't Make Me Cry". Every other track is a pleasure as well. The other two "Labour Of Love" discs are good also, but this is easily ... Read More
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