It's no coincidence that UB40's biggest hits and most pleasurable songs have been their ... more
reggae rock remakes of other acts' songs--Neil Diamond's "Red Red Wine", Sonny&Cher's "I Got You Babe", the Chi-Lites' "Homely Girl", Bob Dylan's "I'll Be Your Baby...
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It's no coincidence that UB40's biggest hits and most pleasurable songs have been their ... more
reggae rock remakes of other acts' songs--Neil Diamond's "Red Red Wine", Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe", the Chi-Lites' "Homely Girl", Bob Dylan's "I'll Be Your Ba...
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It's no coincidence that UB40's biggest hits and most pleasurable songs have been their ... more
reggae rock remakes of other acts' songs--Neil Diamond's "Red Red Wine", Sonny&Cher's "I Got You Babe", the Chi-Lites' "Homely Girl", Bob Dylan's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight", and so on. Only one of the 11 numbers onPromises and Liesis 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 filmSliver, the ballad gets a new momentum from UB40's horns and rhythm section and finds its obsessive quality reinforced by the reggae-dub echoes. The album also includes "Reggae Music", a delightful dancehall workout which neatly balances Astro's reggae toasting against Ali and Robin Campbell's sweetly sung pop soul hook. Unfortunately, the other nine songs are full of steady grooves and admirable sentiments but little in the way of melody or fresh ideas that might separate them from hundreds of similar reggae exercises.--Geoffrey Himes
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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. ...
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. ...
Advantages: one of my all time favourite bands Disadvantages: Ali Campbell has left
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* 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 ...
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Product details
Title
Promises And Lies
Performer
UB40
Genre
Reggae
Release Date
07/1993
Recomended Retail Price
8.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1993
Label / Distributor
DEP International / EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics
Engineer
Gerry Parchment; Delory McLean
Producer
UB40
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
77778822929
Catalogue Number
DEPCD 15
Additional notes
Album Reviews
Q (1/94, p.83) - Included in Q's list of `The 50 Best Albums Of 1993' - "...PROMISES AND LIES shows that, whatever they may be, UB40 are certainly at the top of their game now...." Q (9/93, p.81) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...[PROMISES AND LIES] is in the uncertain area between joy and melancholy where UB40 work best..." Entertainment Weekly (7/30/93, p.55) - "...the beauty of PROMISES AND LIES is that [UB40] didn't have to stray an inch from their usual course to sound as relevant and catchy as ever..." - Rating: A-
Titles on disc 1
1.
C'est La Vie
2.
Desert Sand
3.
Promises And Lies
4.
Bring Me Your Cup
5.
Higher Ground
6.
Reggae Music
7.
Can't Help Falling In Love
8.
Now And Then
9.
Things Ain't Like They Used To Be
10.
It's A Long Long Way
11.
Sorry
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24/09/2001
Additional notes
Album Notes
UB40: Astro, James Brown, Ali Campbell, Robin Campbell, Earl Falconer, Norman Hassan, Brian Travers, Michael Virtue. Additional personnel: Patrick Tenyue (trumpet), Henry "Buttons" Tenyue (trombone), Bitty McLean (background vocals). Recorded at Abbatoir Studios, Birmingham, England. All songs written by UB40 except "Can't Help Falling In Love" (George David Weiss/Hugo Peretti/Luigi Creatore).
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