Labour Of Love [2 LP][Deluxe Edition]

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Album: Labour Of Love [2 LP][Deluxe Edition]
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Cheery Oh Baby	More Info...
2)	Keep On Moving	More Info...
3)	Please Don't Make Me Cry	More Info...
4)	Sweet Sensation	More Info...
5)	Johnny Too Bad	More Info...
6)	Red Red Wine	More Info...
7)	Guilty	More Info...
8)	She Caught The Train	More Info...
9)	Version Girl	More Info...
10)	Many Rivers To Cross	More Info...
	Disc 2
1)	Red Red Wine (7" Version)	More Info...
2)	Sufferin' (Dub Mix)	More Info...
3)	Many Rivers To Cross (7" Version)	More Info...
4)	Johnny Too Bad (Unexpurgated Version)	More Info...
5)	Cherry Oh Baby (Dub Mix)	More Info...
6)	Frilla (12" Version)	More Info...
7)	I've Got Mine (Extended Version)	More Info...
8)	Dubmobile	More Info...
3)	Please Don't Make Me Cry	More Info...	0:03
4)	Sweet Sensation	More Info...	0:03
5)	Johnny Too Bad	More Info...	0:05
6)	Red Red Wine	More Info...	0:05
7)	Guilty	More Info...	0:03
8)	She Caught the Rain	More Info...	0:03
9)	Version Girl	More Info...	0:03
10)	Many Rivers to Cross	More Info...	0:04

Album: Labour Of Love [2 LP][Deluxe Edition]
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Cheery Oh Baby	More Info...
2)	Keep On Moving	More Info...
3)	Please Don't Make Me Cry	More Info...
4)	Sweet Sensation	More Info...
5)	Johnny Too Bad	More Info...
6)	Red Red Wine	More Info...
7)	Guilty	More Info...
8)	She Caught The Train	More Info...
9)	Version Girl	More Info...
10)	Many Rivers To Cross	More Info...
	Disc 2
1)	Red Red Wine (7" Version)	More Info...
2)	Sufferin' (Dub Mix)	More Info...
3)	Many Rivers To Cross (7" Version)	More Info...
4)	Johnny Too Bad (Unexpurgated Version)	More Info...
5)	Cherry Oh Baby (Dub Mix)	More Info...
6)	Frilla (12" Version)	More Info...
7)	I've Got Mine (Extended Version)	More Info...
8)	Dubmobile	More Info...
3)	Please Don't Make Me Cry	More Info...	0:03
4)	Sweet Sensation	More Info...	0:03
5)	Johnny Too Bad	More Info...	0:05
6)	Red Red Wine	More Info...	0:05
7)	Guilty	More Info...	0:03
8)	She Caught the Rain	More Info...	0:03
9)	Version Girl	More Info...	0:03
10)	Many Rivers to Cross	More Info...	0:04

Performer Notes

UB40: Ali Campbell, Robin Campbell (vocals, guitar); Astro, Norman Hassan (vocals, percussion); Brian Travers (saxophone); Michael Virtue (keyboards); Earl Falconer (bass); James Brown (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Josh Fifer (trumpet); Jackie Mittoo (keyboards); Ruby Turner, Jackie Graham, Mo Birch (background vocals).
This is UB40's "tribute" album with cover versions of their favorite songs from 1969 through 1972.
A victim of both overexposure and embracement from privileged hedonists around the globe, UB40's Labour of Love is still a near perfect album, one filled with warmth and an infectious love of the music it's covering. Then there's that reggae version of "Red Red Wine" that spills out of yachts, frat parties, soirees by the pool, water parks, and just about anywhere there are sun-seeking tourists. Delivered with a drunken sway, the band's cover of the Neil Diamond favorite also features a new toasted/rapped break in the middle, which comes courtesy of UB40 MC Astro and adds so much mirth and fun to the number that Diamond lifted it for his own live show. Even if omnipresence has since made it pop-reggae's "Don't Worry Be Happy," the U.K. crew's version is in the Jamaican tradition of covering sweet, soothing tunes that pre-date lovers rock, plus the rest of this all-cover-versions album sticks with the classic reggae songbook, as even the Impressions' "Keep on Moving" is done in a style that honors the 1973 recording from Bob Marley & the Wailers. If "Red Red Wine" is effortless almost to a fault, Jimmy Cliff's "Many Rivers to Cross" is performed with full heart and can rock the soul's foundation, while "Johnny Too Bad" is just spiky enough to bring reminders of the group's birth in the time and land of post-punk. Everything else is A- at worst, and the end-to-end LP flow is classic while recontextualizing "Red Red Wine" for the better. Put it on at a party and spill beer on it if you must, because the resilient Labour of Love is true sweetness and light. ~ David Jeffries

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone - ranked #98 in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Albums Of The Eighties" survey. (November 89)

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