Love Revolutionaries - Zion Train

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

...The creation of entire albums of music from other artists is nothing new. It has been done to great effect by David Bowie, Bryan Ferry and many more. When UB40 followed up their first 2 albums which contained their own material with an album drawn from favourite reggae songs from their youth. Having established themselves as the conscience of 80s youth with their socially aware lyrics about unemployment and social injustice it could have been seen a s a commercial sell-out and perhaps ultimately it was. It was also, however, a very fine album. That 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... Read review

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Advantages: All 25 songs are classics in Soul and Popular music
Disadvantages: None!

...flop. 2. WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO The follow-up to When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes was the frantically paced Run, Run, Run. Whilst being a nifty affair with instant immediacy, Run, Run, Run anchored at No.93 on the U.S Hot 100, a full seventy places lower than When The Lovelight. Holland-Dozier-Holland then offered the now distraught Supremes, Where Did Our Love Go. Where Did Our Love Go had already been rejected by Mary Wells (most famous for one of the defining Motown classics, My Guy) and Motown's premier female group, The Marvelettes (who helped put Motown on the map by delivering the labels first ever chart-topper with the classic, Please Mr Postman). Lead vocalist of The Marvelettes, Gladys Horton, labelled Where Did Our Love Go "junk". Diana, Florence and especially Mary absolutely hated the song... Read review

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Advantages: Good selection of songs
Disadvantages: none

...Rod Stewart's album - 'if we fall in love tonight', is a superb album of love songs and definitely one of my favourite albums of all time. It contains 16 tracks, 5 of which are new material and the other 11 are greatest hit ballads and include:- If we fall in love tonight, when i need you(remember the Leo Sayer one?), sometimes when we touch, tonight's the night, you're in my heart, have i told you lately?, downtown train, all for love(with Sting and Bryan Adams), for the first time and i don't want to talk about it. If you like Rod Stewart, then you will love this album. If you don't like Rod then have a listen anyway, you might well be surprised. This is a very relaxing album - i enjoy listening to it when i am in the bath. Released in 1996, you can still obtain this - expect to pay around the £15 mark for it now as it... Read review

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