Advantages: Excellent covers of some old reggae standrads Disadvantages: Sometimes a bit too slick
...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 and professionalism to Labour Of Love. The original Jamaican reggae artists of the 1960s were usually poor and often recorded their songs on old second hand recording ...
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24.09.2001
My first album Review ofLabour Of Love Vol.1 - UB40by
alleykatz
Advantages: perfection Disadvantages: none
I brought this on holiday in devon with my parents in 1984.
Part of the reason I brought it was boy I was going out with loved UB40 and it was a present for him.
When I got back from devon, he was with someone else, so I kept it.
The best decision ever made thanks David lol
Well I listened to it, and loved it.
I have since replaced my old vinyl with a newer CD.
I still listen to it now, and still love every song on it. I am not a huge reggae ...
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30.07.2000
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UB40: Ali Campbell, Robin Campbell (vocals, guitar); Astro, Norman Hassan (vocals,
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