Customer Reviews

Mr Mention

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I believe this 12" beggeed for mercy after my first 4 months of playing this on my turn table back in college. It's been mixed, scrathed, cut, sampled to everthing that my ears saw fit to put on tape back in my "wanna be a DJ" days. I actually picked this one up in St. Thomas, VI. on my senoir high school trip in 90. The total finesse and strength of this man had me open for his reggae and dance hall style til today. This was my first actual full length dance hall record that I ever had or purchased (eek-a-mouse was my first dance hall bootlegged tape) and sence then I have purchased the CD to this one. The CD is a good dance hall classic, but doesn't begin to explain or capture the dance hall king before us today. My fav's on this one are tracks 1, 2, 8, 12.

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I have to say this was one of Buju's best work. I every single album ever put out by this guy. Keep up the work Buju. Keep the music coming from your heart and the fans will never fail u. JAH, Rastafari.

buju is the king of dancehall this album was wicke

Buju Banton in many ways reminds me of U-Roy, Big Youth, and Peter Tosh all rolled into one amazing artist. For one so young, he has amazing toasting skills, as this great lp points out.

I am an old school reggae guy, (fan of reggae for 25 years or so of my 30 years..I grew up with reggae) so the newer stuff does not impress me easily, if at all, but it took only a listen or 2 of Buju's lp to know that he is someone special. Of all modern (the last 10 years or so) reggae lps, I only own maybe a dozen or so of them, but 3 of them are Buju's (this one, "'Til Shiloh," and his newest effort).

With that in mind, I strongly recommend Buju's lp to you. With the torch of reggae being passed to my generation,he could very well be the new standard bearer in reggae.

but most of all me LOVE me brownin...
This is well before Buju got consciuos and dropped his best album Til Shiloh, and then got soft and corny. Its all slackness on this album, After love mi brownin was so big, all the dark skinned girls got sad, so he made love black woman said we love you too! (...stop cryyin, we LOVE black woman!)
Buju was really at his prime and most popular around this album, when there were all these buju imitators just starting out, some who have made careers for themselves by being confused with buju -(mega banton, jigsy king, mad lion, maybe even terror fabulous).
The track w/ waynie wonder was always my favorite, and the way he comes in off waynie's singing, "woman yu may not be fancy na drive no fast car..." thats excellent, he works well w.beres too, of course, but this isnt their best duet. Plus Dickie is good, though the remix Wicked Dickie with the girl was even better.

Originally released in Jamaica in 1992 on Penthouse Records, this CD was released in America in 1993 by Fader Records. This was the same label that brought us HipHop sensation Blahzay Blahzay. Unfortuneately they were a short lived label and as a result this CD is not easy to find. Especially a new copy... although I was more than happy will the good used copy I found.

1992 was a time when producers Dave Kelly and Donnovan Germain pretty much ruled the music scene in Kingston Jamaica. Putting out hit records by artists like Buju Banton, Wayne Wonder, Beres Hammond, Cutty Ranks, Mad Cobra, Terry Ganzie, Terror Fabulous, Garnett Silk and such on boom riddims like Batty Rider, Bogle, Big It Up, Hardware & Lumber, Action, No Retreat, College Rock, Movie Star, Love I Can Feel (Special Request), Far East, etc.

I struggle to select a favourite tune on this album, as they are all pretty much 4 or 5 stars (out of 5)...

On the Dancehall tip, songs like; Batty Rider, Love How De Gal Dem A Flex, Have To Get You Tonight and Dickie top the list.
On the Rockers/Reggae vibe, tunes like Love Black Woman, Woman Nuh Fret, Love Mi Brownin', Buju Movin', Who Say (feat Beres Hammond), Bonfaide Love (feat Wayne Wonder) and Massa God World A Run are true bubblers.

NOTE: above are the original titles as released on 7" vinyl single.

The biggest plus about this album is the fact that many of these songs are not available on any other CD, at least not that I've found. Especially not on iTunes... songs that you can't find elsewhere are:
- Love How The Gal Dem Flex
- Look How You Sweet
- Woman No Fret
- Have To Get You Tonight
- Dickie
- Love Me Brownin'
- Buju Movin'
- How The World A Run

For the DJ's out there... here's a breakdown of the riddims each song is on.
* SONG TITLE - RIDDIM NAME
* Batty Rider - Batty Rider
* Love How The Gal Dem Flex - Action
* Love Black Woman - Feeling Soul
* Look How You Sweet
* Woman No Fret - Nanny Goat
* Have To Get You Tonight - Hardware & Lumber
* Dickie - No Retreat
* Love Me Brownin' - Feeling Soul
* Buju Movin' - College Park (Freak Out)
* Who Say
* How The World A Run - General
* Bonafied Love - Movie Star

This is Buju's second studio album (to my knowledge) coming on the heels of 1992's "Stamina Daddy" (re-packaged here on Amazon as "Quick"). With this offering, we still find the youthful Mr. Myrie in the rudebwoy persona of his pre-crossover years, reveling in 12 slackness tunes concerned chiefly with girls and guns. And guess what? Every one of them is far and away a boomshot!

Buju truly shines on this album, which contains not a single "throwaway" track. It's hard to pick a "favourite" tune from this collection of glistening gems, but if pressed, I'd have to go with the melodious and braggadocious "Buju Movin'". Another top contender is "Who Say", Banton's syrupy-sweet duet with the legendary Beres Hammond. Over the years, Buju and Beres would collaborate on a number of tunes, playing off of one another's vocals in the classic dancehall tradition of the deejay/singer combination. In terms of performing as a cohesive and complimentary unit, they certainly rank right up there with (and in some cases surpass) such classic combos as Flourgan and Sanchez, Chaka Demus and Pliers, Edley Shine and Mr. Notch, and Terror Fabulous and Nadine Sutherland. This disc also finds Buju collaborating with Wayne Wonder on the classic tune "Bonafide Love (Movie Star)" on which Buju waxes nostalgic about the girl who stuck by him when he only had one Arrow dress shirt. What struggling man with a good, loyal woman at his side can't relate to that? Other stand-outs include the smooth, reassuring "Woman No Fret" and of course the classic juxtaposition of "Love Me Brownin'" and "Love Black Woman" on which Buju declares his love for light and dark-skinned sisters respectively. Variety is the spice of life for a young, virile man in his prime, right?

Basically, there's not a bad song on this disc. Fans who came to Buju Banton later in his career (after he became a Rasta and a mainstream superstar) may be reticent about simplisitc slackness tunes with titles such as "Dickie" and "Love How The Gal Them Flex", but there's no denying Buju's lyrical acumen on each of these rockers. If "Too Bad" is Buju's return to his gritty, dancehall roots, said roots are clearly on display in this magnificent disc.

everyone and i mean everyone who loves dancehall music this is a must have.... all of the songs bring back memeories of the first time i saw him in 1990 at a carribean fest in D.C. he was new on the scene, the first song he played was "brownin" and from then i was hooked, you will enjoy all of the songs on here i promise it will bring back memories of when dancehall was dancehall!!!

i am only 21 but when it comes to good reggae music i know who can turn to "Buju Banton" i think that he is up there with bob marley and all the reggae legions.I love his music it relax my mind, body, as well as my sprit, and when im in the mood to party theres no other person who can make me shake my a#$ like he can im like he is the dancehall god.If you don't have any of his cd's then i think you need to go get one you'll become a fan right off the back because, i know i did.thank you buju for your music because, with out you there is no me. keep making good music for us reggae/dancehall fans,and im sure to buy it. just as long as i see buju banton on a cd i will buy it in a "heart beat".

I think that this album was excellent. He has the perfect voice for reggae. I especially like song #10 with Beres Hammond. Who Say! He is probably my favorite reggae artist, next to Bob of course.