Chill Out

Black Uhuru | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 4, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mango
• ASIN: B000003QI8
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #489,120 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Chill Out

2. Darkness

3. Eye Market

4. Right Stuff

5. Mondays

6. Fleety Foot

7. Wicked Act

8. Moya (Queen of I Jungle)

9. Emotional Slaughter

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the OTHER really VERY best reggae albums..., December 13, 2005

By 

Madrok - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chill Out (Audio CD)

...of all time. Just behind "Red", ahead of "Sinsemilla". The bass lines are excellent. Robbie Shakespeare is at his best. "Emotional Slaughter" is so very...emotionally wrenching. Singer Michael Rose pours out his heart on that one.

"Eye Market"? "Fleety Foot"?!? What the heck does it all mean? Not a clue, but you feel like you know in your heart what he's going on about, in some way, when you hear that guy sing. His tortured, plaintive phrasing...Wow! I hate to be hyperbolic, but, er...the Jamaican Bach, maybe?

Sly plays Syndrums again on this one, but they still manage to sound real and pure, not silly or overly synthetic. The band is a little more electronic. But the mood is maybe more relaxed and atmospheric than "Red". Still very hypnotic and tight. In comparison, Uhuru start to lose focus and fall apart by "Anthem, at least in terms of the togetherness of the song structures.

I'd also add that these Uhuru albums are some of the very few reggae records that sound even more groovy and hypnotically cool to me than the dub versions.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Should be taken with...., October 21, 2008

By 

Nico (subterranean) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chill Out (Audio CD)

I believe if you spin this record once a day, you should be able to keep the Doctor away.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Has it been 20 years already?, June 14, 2003

By 

Truckin' In Texas (Coppell, TX United States) - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Chill Out (Audio CD)

This is essential reggae listening. It's the "right stuff" for sure.