Gold (The Very Best Of Gregory Isaacs) - Gregory Isaacs

Advantages: Excellent chill out music, what a voice!
Disadvantages: You can't sing along to some songs cos you can't suss the words out!

...Just sitting here tonight chilling I read an opinion earlier that gave Gregory Isaacs a mention. Now, he's been one of my favourites for years so I thought I'd share one of his many albums with you. Red Rose For Gregory was released way back in 1988 but has been re-released many times due to it's unerring popularity, hopefully this review will convince you to give him a try. So who is Gregory Isaacs? He's only THE reggae dancehall master - Sean Paul wasn't even born when Gregory started releasing his reggae classics and now Sean Paul is not only born but also out of nappies and into condoms, Gregory is still doing the business. He's well over 50 now and commonly referred to as the 'Grandaddy of Reggae', not bad for a guy who was at one time being busted for gun charges on a regular basis in 70's Jamaica! Red Rose For Gregory... Read review

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Advantages: Smokie at their best
Disadvantages: Absolutely none

...and much reflection Smokie recruited singer Mike Craft and Smokie were back on the road.Craft,without doubt the one with the best vocal ability of of the 3 lead vocalists was an instant hit with the fans ,his ability to make any song his own brought Smokie back to the top of the charts and returned Smokie to the peak of popularity in Europe and Scandinavia They have never stopped touring since. After 30 years they decided to cover songs that a lot of people mistakingly thought were done by them originally.It was bound to be an interesting project to work on and the finished product did not leave me dissappionted. My first thought on this album was the fact that their greatest hits had been re-recorded and re-mixed and came with this presentation but the covers disc was very interesting indeed. When a band covers another artists song... Read review

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Advantages: Music, lyrics, beat
Disadvantages: none

...political factions on stage later that year he was awarded the Peace Medal of the Third World from the United Nations. His commitment to peace was also recognised after this death when hundreds of thousands of people, including the Prime Minister attended his funeral. The Jamaican government posthumously awarded him the Order of Merit, and in 1991 his birthday was made in to a public holiday, Bob Marley Day. Marley’s musical importance generally and the importance of ‘Exodus’ cannot be minimised, with him the wave of reggae artist that followed in his wake, Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, Aswad, Black Uhuru and many others would not have had the impact they did and I turn the impact of Reggae and Ska on modern black dance music might have been less than it is. Time Magazine voted Exodus as ‘the most important album of the 20th century... Read review

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