22-04-2018, 17:27
^Since you ask so nicely … I wasn’t crazy about the title track CH but just listened to the album and to my surprise – I quite liked it.
Reminds of Sting’s collaboration with Ranking Roger which was very fab – going way back. His and Shaggy’s voices provide a great foil for one another, it seems like a slick production, and most importantly, it sounds as though they’ve really enjoyed making it – well produced but nice and loose – something of a lark and a break from earnestness for Sting. Huh! Who’da thunk?? Also calls to my mind Linton Kwezi Johnson (maybe for obvious reasons, i.e. Shaggy’s baritone and the rhyming) – someone I’ve not listened to, or thought about in many a moon.
As you say, Mr Sumner always did have reggae leanings so it kinda makes sense. The rendition of “Love Changes Everything” is a revelation I could have lived without, but I expect that's because I’m most decidedly not an Andrew Lloyd Webber fan. Just goes to show – you can fit pretty much anything to a reggae beat, lol!! On the whole, I’d say it’s fun, and not to be taken too seriously – no deep critique.
Reminds of Sting’s collaboration with Ranking Roger which was very fab – going way back. His and Shaggy’s voices provide a great foil for one another, it seems like a slick production, and most importantly, it sounds as though they’ve really enjoyed making it – well produced but nice and loose – something of a lark and a break from earnestness for Sting. Huh! Who’da thunk?? Also calls to my mind Linton Kwezi Johnson (maybe for obvious reasons, i.e. Shaggy’s baritone and the rhyming) – someone I’ve not listened to, or thought about in many a moon.
As you say, Mr Sumner always did have reggae leanings so it kinda makes sense. The rendition of “Love Changes Everything” is a revelation I could have lived without, but I expect that's because I’m most decidedly not an Andrew Lloyd Webber fan. Just goes to show – you can fit pretty much anything to a reggae beat, lol!! On the whole, I’d say it’s fun, and not to be taken too seriously – no deep critique.
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