![]() A generous listener wouldn’t blame them for inspiring every beach resort from South Beach to the Seychelles to mimic their facile skank, but here’s the thing: every cover of a UB40 imitates them. shirts would enjoy over a rum runner.īut UB40 kept recording these wan “island”-influenced tunes. Labour of Love hit #1 in England and easily re-charted in the American top twenty thanks to “Red Red Wine” and, I’ll guess, the success of the Beach Boys’ “Kokomo,” a plague on the chart yet the sort of wan “island”-influenced tune that a fan of Tom Cruise’s Magnum P.I. The toasting section was for many of us our introduction. Neil Diamond’s William Shatner imitation required, shall we say, a lighter touch, and Al Campbell’s lead vocal provides enough energy. A friend reminded me of “Red Red Wine.” I see no point in despising it. ![]() ![]() In an American chart career devoted to covers, UB40 scored consistent success just before and after the Poppy Bush Interzone with reggae-ified versions of songs given, if this makes sense, a bland bludgeoning. UB40’s “I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You” Songs beloved by colleagues and songs to which I’m supposed to genuflect will get my full hurricane-force winds, but it doesn’t mean that I won’t take shots at a jukebox hero overplayed when I was at a college bar drinking a cranberry vodka in a plastic thimble-sized cup. I promise my readers that my list will when possible eschew obvious selections. I don’t want to hate songs to do so would shake ever-sensitive follicles, and styling gel is expensive. Like a good single, a terrible one reveals itself with airplay and forbearance.
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