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The Very Best of UB40 1980-2000
: :It's hard to believe that UB40 have been around since the early 1980s, but the proof is right here in the 18 tracks on this album. While most famous for their cover songs, UB40 have written a good portion of original material that's excellent. But songs like 'Red Red Wine' and a previously unreleased version of the Doors' 'Light My Fire' will attract the majority of listeners to this collection. Following in the footsteps of greats like Bob Marley and Burning Spear, this band from Birmingham, England (led by the two ...
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Twentyfourseven
:Album Description:2008 release, the band's final recording with former member and lead singer Ali Campbell. Twentyfourseven represents UB40 at their creative and musical best which takes strength and inspiration from their political and social conscience, arguably producing one of their finest albums to date of original material, cover versions and collaborations. This new album features seventeen tracks with collaborations from Maxi Priest, 1 Love & Rasa Don from Arrested Development, Marvin Priest and Hunterz. The album was recorded in Birmingham, London, Sweden, New York and Fayetteville, Georgia. Reflex Records. 2008.
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Greatest Hits
from: Virgin Records
:Album Description:2008 release of UB40's Greatest Hits. For over twenty five years, UB40 have continued the job of popularising Reggae around the globe. In the process, they continue to give enormous pleasure to a public too vast to be defined by age, generation, tribe or fashion. Coming to prominence in the '80s, they've always paid homage to their Roots. This CD is a must have for all present and future UB40 fans. 21 tracks of UB40 Irie life & love!
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Labour of Love I II & III: The Platinum Collection
:Album Description:2008 release of UB40's Greatest Hits. For over twenty five years, UB40 have continued the job of popularising Reggae around the globe. In the process, they continue to give enormous pleasure to a public too vast to be defined by age, generation, tribe or fashion. Coming to prominence in the '80s, they've always paid homage to their Roots. This CD is a must have for all present and future UB40 fans. 21 tracks of UB40 Irie life & love!
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Labour of Love
: :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 ...
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Signing Off
: :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 ...
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The Best of UB40, Vols. 1 & 2
:Album Description:Both volumes of the European versions of UB40's 'best of' compilations in one handy two CD package! Containing more tracks than the domestic versions of these collections, this double disc set contains 34 tracks from the Birmingham-based British Reggae band. Includes 'Food For Thought', 'One In Ten, 'I Got You, Babe' (with Chrissie Hynde), 'Red Red Wine', 'Rat In Mi Kitchen', 'If It Happens Again', 'Breakfast In Bed' and more. EMI.
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Promises and Lies
: :It's no coincidence that UB40's biggest hits and most pleasurable songs have been their reggae-rock remakes of other acts' songs--Neil Diamond's 'Red Red Wine,' Sonny and Cher's 'I Got You Babe,' the Chi- Lites' 'Homely Girl,' Bob Dylan's 'I'll Be Your Baby Tonight,' and so on. Only 1 of the 11 numbers on Promises and Lies is a cover tune, but the band's remake of Elvis Presley's 'Can't Help Falling in Love' is a real treat. Featured in the film Sliver, the ballad gets a new momentum from UB40's horns and ...
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Who You Fighting For?
:Album Description:With a winning sound fusing reggae with both pure pop and topical politics, UB40 has sold over 50 million albums worldwide. Twentyfive years down the road from their groundbreaking debut LP Signing Off, the eight-man British reggae supergroup is still at the top of their game with the new album Who You Fighting For?. Weaving together the band's revolutionary roots and pop sensibilities, their latest is among the best, delivering originals including the title track, 'Sins of the Fathers,' and 'One Woman Man' alongside a handful of irresistible covers, in ...
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Present Arms
:Album Description:With a winning sound fusing reggae with both pure pop and topical politics, UB40 has sold over 50 million albums worldwide. Twentyfive years down the road from their groundbreaking debut LP Signing Off, the eight-man British reggae supergroup is still at the top of their game with the new album Who You Fighting For?. Weaving together the band's revolutionary roots and pop sensibilities, their latest is among the best, delivering originals including the title track, 'Sins of the Fathers,' and 'One Woman Man' alongside a handful of irresistible covers, in ...
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