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Black Uhuru
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.5981
Black Uhuru Album Rankings
1
The sophomore release from the third and most successful incarnation of Black Uhuru (singersDon Carlos,Erroll "Jay" Wilson, andRudolph "Garth" Dennishad come before),Redspotlights the singing talents
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2
Released on the Island Records subsidiary Mango in July 1980,Sinsemilla, named after a type of marijuana, was Black Uhuru's first album to be issued internationally, their third overall.
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3
During the band's heyday in the late '70s and early '80s, Black Uhuru was one of the most unique and influential reggae bands in the world.
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4
Generally acknowledged to be Black Uhuru's masterpiece as well as one of the defining documents of roots reggae,Guess Who's Coming to Dinner(originally released on the Taxi label under the titleShowca
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5
Most of the songs on this live LP date back to Black Uhuru's early days and, as a result, may not be familiar to American fans who discovered the group via its most recent studio albums on Island.
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6
Released the same year as their Grammy-winningAnthemalbum, Black Uhuru'sThe Dub Factorfigures as one of the most impressive of reggae's electronic age dub releases.
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This dub version of Black Uhuru's 1986Brutalbenefited from a great mixing job byScientist, whose snaking patterns and boosting ofRobbie Shakespeare's bass illuminated the appeal of the original produc
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11
One of reggae's finest (three-quarter) hours, Chill Out showed how electronics could help exploit the musical sense of space essential to the genre.
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12
Brutal was the word; attempts to pump up the trio's sound with contributions by an already-fading Arthur Baker resulted in a genreless mess.
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15
Dynasty is a shameless return to the classic Black Uhuru sound of the 1980s, complete with vintage '80s reggae rhythms provided by Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, just like in the old days.
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16
Portraits culls a dozen tracks from Black Uhuru's two RAS albums, 1986's Brutal and the following year's Positive, and their dub companions, all cut during the most chaotic period in the group's care
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23
Decent but not essential, Iron Storm falls short of the type of excellence one associates with Black Uhuru.
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25
Ever since its earliest incarnation as a standard male vocal harmony group, Black Uhuru's uncompromising Rasta nationalism has set the band apart from most of its peers.
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26
This generous compilation isn't really a career retrospective, since it focuses almost exclusively on Black Uhuru's years on the Island label.
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31
Sometimes maligned in comparison to Chill Out and Red , but very nearly as good as both those albums.
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