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Labour of Love

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  • Audio CD (30 Jan 1984)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Dep
  • ASIN: B000000WIW
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,704 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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UB40 are not great innovators, but they are great imitators, and, in a sense, Labour of Love made them the Pat Boone of reggae. Featuring a handsome and clean-cut (by reggae standards) white singer, Ali Campbell, UB40 covered Jamaican standards and turned millions of Americans and Europeans on to another form of black music. Interestingly enough, the album's smash hit, "Red Red Wine", was a cover of a rocksteady cover of a Neil Diamond track. Being that UB40 had the pick of the reggae litter, Labour of Love is chock full of stellar material. From Jimmy Cliff's "Many Rivers to Cross" to the Melodians' "Sweet Sensation" to Johnny Clarke's "Keep On Moving", Labour of Love still serves as an excellent reggae starter kit. -- Bill Crandall


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Playing reggae and supporting the UK Labour Party during a decade of Thatcherism and racism demonstrated that these chaps had morals and guts. They eventually prospered (good ultimately conquers bad) and they can now look back and taste their achievement. In the UK, UB40 have done as much to popularise reggae as Bob Marley did for the rest of the world. This is their most refined album and contains some of their major hits. They make a point in the sleeve-notes of informing the listener that all these songs had been recorded by Jamaican artists. No apology is needed - their 'Cherry Oh Baby' and 'Red Red Wine' have become classics for this band. Much respect, irie.

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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars sunday tunes, 20 Feb 2002
i have grown up on reggae, and i have heard the originals but UB40 will always be one of my favorites even though they have copied there stuff from old masters.
worth buying if you like reggae
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4 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Laboured and Lost, 12 Nov 2007
By Paul Ess. (Holywell, N.Wales,UK.) - See all my reviews
A tatty, strangled old moggy of an album.

It will become apparent that I am not a fan of UB40. I hastened to dismiss them after the atrocious 'King' and the even worse 'One in Ten', but in terms of abject dreadfulness, this is on another level entirely.
Oh so working class! Oh so socialist! Oh what a load of old cobblers.
And oh, what a scandalous assortment of shabby, flabby, crabby reggae covers presented to the world with no energy, no warmth and no strength of emotion.

Sometimes when you're reviewing music from the past, the time elapsed tempers your initial hostility, but my anger towards 'LoL' ( ha ha, that's cheered me up....a bit) has probably increased as the years have gone by.
My resolve to detest this abomination into all eternity, seems to have strengthened not diminished.

Apart from the glaring lack of ANYTHING, LoL is so conservative, so safe, so secure in it's cowardly insularity; so distant from any spirit or fire these songs may once have had.
They definitely corrupt the originals; this torrential pounding of even the best songs will eventually depreciate them. They are, as now, not-what-they-were.

What we have here is the unpleasant drone of economics. UB40 (and isn't that name still disgusting after all this time?), tired of being (or at least they pretended they were being), right on and principled, decided to bin all their proletariat ideals in exchange for the capitalist millions that are to be effortlessly made by throwing this appeasement sub-sewage at the ignorant masses. Don't even need to break sweat.

They're not on their own. Stewart, Manilow and co, are all mining the same seam, but, importantly, you don't get the stench of hypocrisy from them.
They never proclaimed they were gonna change the world, happy just to milk it.

And the music? God it's bad, I honestly can't think of much that's worse from any period. Scratchy background clicking, toy-town brass and the singing is keyless and whiny. I know things could be better in Brum, but are they really THIS grim? Bad times indeed.

In its way I suppose it does make some sort of statement about the condition of the culture which bore it, but even there it must fail as a dynamic. The focus behind it - its drive - seriously flounders amid the snail-pacing and the insulting quasi-dialectal free-loading.
In other words, 'LoL' can't be defended as any kind of abstract, in any forum, on any level.

But crucified, it (deservedly) shall be. Come worship at the altar of the latter day 'aint's' (sorry), be party to the doom of a culture.
It worries me sick that there are people out there in the world, with jobs, with children, with LIVES, that like this stuff. Will accept and consume, without question, something that is clearly, unapologetically insufficient.

1983 vomited out some awful albums: 'Let's Dance', 'Southern Death Cult', 'Inarticulate Speech of the Heart', 'Rant and Rave with the Stray Cats', a monstrosity by King Kurt called 'Ooh Wallah Wallah'(!) but 'LoL' beats them all into a cocked hat.

I recommend this cd only to masochistically curious people, who are wondering what it'd be like to actually sit down and listen to something so closely approaching the worst music ever recorded.
But please, pretty please with bells on, don't make me do it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing music, 18 Jul 2009
UB40, the best group to hit this country. Amazing voices, pity they have now split with their original singer.
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