Promises And Lies - UB40

Advantages: must for your collection
Disadvantages: listening to "Red Red Wine"

...I have followed UB40 since i first heard the single "Food for Thought" and i been a fan ever since. The best of UB40 is a brilliant Album and i think their best one. It has some great tracks on it especially all the early stuff, which in my opinion is when they were at there best.. It has singles on it like "King",....."1 in 10"....."Food for Thought",... ..."Rat in my kitchen"......"..."Dont Break my Heart" and "Red Red Wine" which is the only UB40 record i really dont like, i think they sold out a bit when they made that record. But saying that the lads from Brum are a top class act and if you are fan you got to have this Album in your collection. UB40 has a percussion section which is rare nowdays and the Cambell brothers have a very distictive vocals.... Read review

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Advantages: An excellent listen
Disadvantages: None

...I am totally obsessed with UB40 and own nearly all of there albums, this being one of them, if you like reggae and rap this is definately for you. It has a mixture of all their original songs, like red wine and chrieo baby, all the songs are excellent some of them are of UB40 tunes with UB40 rapping over them, I know it sounds tacky but the way it is done is so good, you really need to listen to it, although if you do not own it you may have a job trying to get old of it as I do not think they are sold anymore. Again I can't rave enough about this tape I have even just put it on to listen to. Brings back some memories. One of the best is the song If it happens again with rapping over it.... Read review

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Advantages: one of my all time favourite bands
Disadvantages: Ali Campbell has left

.... * Brian Travers - saxophone. 2008 has seen Ali Campbell leaving after 30 years with the band as well as Mickey Virtue and 2 new band members have been taken on Duncan Campbell on vocals and Tony Mullings on keyboards. ALBUMS, SINGLES, OTHER IMPORTANT STUFF To this date July 2008, UB40 have released about 33 albums, their first one titled "Signing Off" in 1980 (which is now a Platinum album), an album which stayed in the charts for 72 weeks and most recently they released TwentyFourSeven in 2008 (which sadly didn't even make the top 75 album charts). 9 of their albums have had decent sales in the US including: "Labour of Love", "Labour of Love II", "Promises and Lies" and "Rat in the Kitchen". Of their singles, they have had a several singles which topped the UK charts and some which topped the US charts too, namely... Read review

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