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 Signing Off - UB40
Description: Genre: Reggae / Artist: UB40 / Audio CD released 1993-09-27 at Virgin / Disc #1 Tracklisting 1 Tyler 2 King 3 Twelve B ... more  Signing Off - UB40 ... Twelve Bar4 Burden Of Shame 5 Adella 6 I Think It's Going To Rain Again 7 25% 8 Food For Thought 9 Little By Little 10 Signing Off 11 Madame Medusa 12 Strange Fruit 13 Reefer Madness Newest Review: ... their first single Food For Though/King (it was probably the first gig I ever went to) and I was amazed to see that the ... more ... audience was made up in equal parts of Swastika wearing Skinheads (attracted by the bands image, short cropped hair and Ska rhythms) and Rasta tuning in to the roots sound and political message. It provided for an interesting atmosphere in the auditorium!
THE ALBUM
1. Tyler
2. King
3. 12 Bar
4. Burden of Shame
5. Adella
6. I Think It's Going to Rain Today
7. 25%
8. Food for Thought
9. Little by Little
10. Signing Off
11. Madam Medusa
12. Strange Fruit
13. Reefer Madness
On the original vinyl the last three tracks Madam ...more |
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Signing Off - UB40: BRUMMIE REGGAE (1714 words)
by Mauri - written on 19.05.05 (Very useful, 807 readings)
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The legacy of punk has been widely recognised, we can see a direct link between the late seventies anarchic punk music and the more politically based new wave groups and indie guitar groups that followed in the 80’s all the way through to today’s nu punk bands. Another rather more unusual spin off of the punk era was a popularisation and eventual emergence into the charts of Ska/Reggae. In the early days when live punk bands were playing small venues DJ were filling in the time in between acts not with punk records as none of these new acts had been recorded yet but with reggae and Ska records. This led to an awareness of reggae to a young white audience and it wasn’t ...
Dole queue reggae with a message (1038 words)
by dave27 - written on 06.07.04 (Very useful, 310 readings)
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Most of the 2 Tone era bands were hyper energetic dance bands, deeply ingrained with a love of Ska and Bluebeat and stomping the night away. Dexys Midnight Runners at one end of the spectrum, fronted by the EGO of Kevin Rowland were avowedly a soul band, with passionate romance in their hearts (Searching for the young soul rebels, indeed) before they became gypsies with Come On Eileen. Over on the other wing, there was the dub and loping, smooth reggae sounds and political comment of Birmingham?s UB40. Even the name was a STATEMENT writ large ...
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