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Shaggy: Boombastic

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: Virgin Records
Released: 1995.06.15
Time:
 55:20
Category: Pop/Rap/Reggae
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: ****...... (4/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.shaggyonline.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2001.10.11
Price in €: 6,99



 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] In the Summertime [Featuring Rayvon] (R.Doset) - 3:57
[2] Boombastic (O.Burrell/R.Livingston/K.Floyd) - 4:07
[3] Something Different [Featuring Wayne Wonder] (O.Burrell/W.Charles/T.Kelly) - 4:31
[4] Forgive Them Father (O.Burrell/R.Livingston/D.Dennis/P.Crosdale/M.Miller) - 3:27
[5] Heartbreak Suzie [Featuring Gold Mine] (O.Burrell/RLivingston/A.Hawthome) - 4:09
[6] Finger Smith (O.Burrell/R.Livingston/D.Dennis/P.Crosdale/M.Miller) - 3:28
[7] Why You Treat Me So Bad [Featuring Grand Puba] (O.Burrell/R.Livingston/M.Dixon/B.Marley) - 3:47
[8] Woman a Pressure Me (O.Burrell/D.Dennis/P.Crosdale/M.Miller/M.Dixon) - 3:31
[9] The Train Is Coming [Featuring Ken Booth] (O.Burrell/K.Booth/R.Livingston) - 3:41
[10] Island Lover(O.Burrell/R.Zapata/R.Livingston) - 4:13
[11] Day Oh (Belafonte/Burgess/Attawa) - 3:56
[12] Jenny[Featuring Budda Junky Swan] (O.Burrell/S.Pizzonia/D.Benoitt) - 4:15
[13] How Much More(O.Burrell/T.Kelly) - 3:51
[14] Gal Yu a Pepper(O.Burrell/S.Pizzonia/R.Livingston/D.Halliburton) - 4:18

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


SHAGGY - Main Performer
WAYNE WONDER - Performer
KEN BOOTH - Performer
GRAND PUBA - Performer
RAYVON - Performer

KENT BRYAN - Background Vocals
DULEY CULTURE - Background Vocals
BRIAN & TONY GOLD - Background Vocals
TONY GOLD - Background Vocals
SHAUN "Sting Int'l" PIZZONIA - Background Vocals, Engineer, Mixing, Overdubs, Producer
GLEN RICKS - Background Vocals
ROBERT ZAPATA - Background Vocals
MARTY KERSICH - Horn Overdubs

TONY KELLY - Engineer, Producer, Tracking
ROBERT ZAPATA - Producer, Tracking
BOBBY "Digital" DIXON - Engineer, Producer
GEMMA CORFIELD - Executive Producer
ROBERT LIVINGSTON - Executive Producer, Producer, Tracking
Dr. MARSHALL MURPHEY - Engineer, Mixing, Overdubs
DENNIS HALLIBURTON - Engineer, Mixing, Tracking
ROBERT MURPHY - Engineer, Mixing
WAYNE NICHOLSON - Engineer
LES - Engineer
COLLIN "Bulbie" YORK - Mixing
FATTA MARSHALL - Mixing
LYNFORD "Fatta" MARSHALL - Mixing
JOHN RAF ALLEN - Tracking
KENT BRYAN - Tracking
PAUL CROSDALE - Tracking
ANASTAS HACKETT - Tracking
GEORGE MILLER - Tracking
TOM DOLAN - Art Direction, Design
JAKE CHESSUM - Photography

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


Shaggy first burst onto the scene in 1993 with "Oh Carolina." His update of that early-'60s Jamaican hit (for the Folkes Brothers and Prince Buster) pointed reggae in a new direction by dipping back into its past. Featuring the hard-hitting rhythms and relentless vocals of dance hall, "Oh Carolina" also harked back to the joyousness and soul that characterized the pre-Rastafarian Jamaican music of the '60s: a sense of fun that's been lost to some extent amid the sexism and violence glorified in a lot of dance hall.

Boombastic not only fulfills the promise of "Oh Carolina" and Pure Pleasure, the album from which it came, it catapults Shaggy to the top of the heap. It's a diverse collection of great songs without a weak cut among them. Shaggy's back-to-the-future style is perfectly summed up by a double A-side single. "In the Summertime," a bouncy, infectious remake of the 1970 Mungo Jerry hit, alternates a soulful chorus with a rapid-fire rap à la Chaka Demus and Pliers' "Murder She Wrote." The flip, "Boombastic," is a stripped-down dub masterpiece, a percussive cacophony of samples, sound effects and a clanging piano. Shaggy's baritone growl oozes a sexuality that recalls both the dance-hall swagger of Shabba Ranks and theatrical self-deprecation of ska king Prince Buster.

Born in Jamaica, Shaggy moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., when he was 18. He's perfectly positioned to continue a vibrant tradition of musical cross-fertilization between reggae and R&B. Shaggy's propulsive cover of Ken Boothe's 1966 ska hit "Train Is Coming" and even his remake of the campy calypso classic "Day Oh" reflect an intuitive connection to the island's musical roots; meanwhile, the New Jack Swing glide of "Something Different" and the funky grind of "Why You Treat Me So Bad" (a duet with rapper Grand Puba) demonstrate an equal fluency in contemporary mainland rhythms.

AL WEISEL - RS 716
© Copyright 2001 RollingStone.com



I want to get you in the mood for this review. A little music, some candles, that's it, how about a glass of wine? O.K. take a hit of this, yeah it's good. Hope you're relaxing and feeling ro... romantic because that's the overall tone for this great reggae record. Never has a U.S. Marine and Gulf War veteran made such music. Shaggy is a very romantic gentleman. He talks about sex, he boasts about his prowess in the sensual arts, but he always keeps it respectful. In this record, women aren't bitches and ho's. They may cause Shaggy some consternation but he is never disrespectful. His mother raised him right.

Shaggy was born in St. Andrews, Jamaica and moved to the fabulous borough of Brooklyn when he was fourteen. He got the nickname Shaggy from the Scooby Doo cartoon. In high school, he started DJing and discovered his unique bass voice. When he finished high school, he decided to join the Marines and served in the Gulf War. While stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, he made some road trips to New York to do some recording. From these road trips came his remake of the Prince Buster classic, Oh Carolina this got great play here and in England and put Shaggy on the charts.

The record starts with a wonderful remake of the 1970 hit In The Summer Time by Mungo Jerry. I loved this song as a kid and its a great choice to sample. The second cut, Boombastic, which was sampled at the top of the review is classic. Shaggy's voice is one of a kind and he uses it playfully to act out the mood of the song. There is a unique pastiche of sounds on this and other tunes. The repeated single bass note on piano brings it all together for me and the groove is well... groovular. Another style Shaggy employs through the use of sampling is that great seventies funk/soul sound. With lots of great back up vocals. The combo of Shaggy's voice against great soul back vocals is sweet.

Shaggy also writes great lyrics I especially like the word play on the song about a pick pocket called Finger Smith. It's always nice to see a sense of humor in pop music.

   Take off a gal teeth from under her top lip
   Take off a gal hair and leave on the clip
   Take off a guy shoes and leave the polish
   Strip a gal naked and she don't even feel it
   Them take off him pants and leave on the zip
   Them take off him brief and leave the elastic
   Take off him balls and leave hair pan it.

Another song with a good sense of humor is Island Lover. It's about a girl whose man takes her for granted so she goes on a Jamaican vacation to find an Island lover. According to one of my island friends, a lot of girls go to Jamaica to find an Island lover. He said. "Oh ya mon, ya mean a rent-a-rasta." News to me, although thinking back on my last trip to Jamaica I do remember a lot of foreign white girls with local dreads. Shaggy even makes fun of himself in the song called Jenny. He plays Carolina (his big hit) off his new girlfriend/song Jenny. Check it out and see what I mean.

In the great tradition of Reggae, there are also songs about social injustice. Forgive Them Father and How Much More deal with youth violence and ghetto life and they really deal with it head on. The record ends with two remixes. The first one is In The Summertime set to It's Your Thing by the Isley Brothers. The other is Boombastic set to the backdrop of one of the greatest love songs of all time: Marvin Gaye's Lets Get It On. I really dig this disc. It's got a great sense of playful bravado. This is my number one pick this month.

by David Levine
© Copyright 1995 Urban Desires
 

 L y r i c s


IN THE SUMMERTIME

It's a summertime affair
Shaggy ha! Ravyon
Sun and fun in the atmosphere oh yes

In the summertime when
the weather is high
You can stretch right up, and touch the sky
When the weather is fine you've got women
You've got women on your mind
I'm gonna drive and ride and see now what I can find

Now if her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal
and if her daddy's poor, then do as you feel
Speedin down the lane even thought the speed limit's 25
And when the sun goes down I'll make it with my cutie pie

Weh me say
Pretty little women sexy as can be
Sweet as a honey sting like bumble bee
Shaggy say
Pretty little women sexy as can be
Sweet as honey sting like bumble bee

RAP:
It's a summertime affair in the atmosphere
I man love off her attire
and the clothes she wear
Some burn off them with tyre
and a draw down a gear
Some a shine up wax up
not a sign of snare
Got to be rolling in my
Christas so the girl them stare
This is Shaggy and Rayvon
as your ultimate pair
Taking care of our career
so tell the world beware
'cos it's a brand new
selection for your musical ear

We say what we want and
we say what we need
and we love everybody
and we do as we please
and when the weather is fine,
we go fishin' we go fishin' in the sea
We are happy to live life
that's our philosophy

Now if her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal
and if her daddy's poor, then do as you feel
Speedin down the lane even thought the speed limit's 25
And when the sun goes down I'll make it with my cutie pie

Sweat a run off her body
with her caramel skin
I man smiled at her she
looked at me and grinned
I offered her a drink she said
Juice and Gin
And I whispered in her ear
I asked how you doin
Where was it that I reside
and I told her Brooklyn
Atmosphere filled with romance
her eyes sparkling
Just her voice and what
she said let my poor head spin
Raggamuffin Shaggy with a musical swing

I say
Pretty little woman sexy as can be
Sweet as a honey sting like bumble bee
In the summertime when the weather is high
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather is fine
You've got women
You've got women on your mind
I'm gonna drive and ride
and see what I can find

Now if her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal
and if her daddy's poor, then do as you feel
Speedin down the lane even thought the speed limit's 25
And when the sun goes down I'll make it with my cutie pie

Pretty little women sexy as can be
Sweet as a honey sting like bumble bee
Pretty little women sexy as can be
Sweet as honey sting like bumble bee

REPEAT RAP

In the summertime
In the summertime
(To fade)


MR. BOOMBASTIC

Mr. Boombastic
Shaggy
Mr. Boombastic
What you want is some boombastic romantic fantastic lover
Shaggy
Mr. Lover lover, Mr. Lover lover, girl, Mr. Lover lover
She call me Mr. Boombastic say me fantastic, touch me in me back
she say I'm Mr. Ro...mantic
She call me Mr. Boombastic say me fantastic, touch me in me back she say
I'm ro... Smooth just like silk
Soft and coddle hug me up like a quit
I'm a lyrical lover no take me for no filth
With my sexual physique Jah know me well built
Oh me oh my well well can't you tell
I'm just like a turtle crawling out of my shell
Gal you captivate my body put me under a spell
With your cus cus perfume I love your sweet smell
You are the only young girl that can ring my bell
And I can take rejection so you tell me go to hell

I'm Mr. Boombastic say me fantastic touch me in my back she says I'm Mr
Ro...mantic
I'm Mr. Boombastic say me fantastic touch me in my back she says boom
boom
boom
I'm Mr. Boombastic say me fantastic touch me in my back she says I'm Mr
Ro...mantic
I'm Mr. Boombastic say me fantastic touch me in my back she says boom
boom
boom

Gee wheeze baby please
Let me take you to an island of the sweet cool breeze
You don't fell like drive baby hand me the keys
And I'll take you to a place to set your mind at ease
Don't you tickle my foot bottom ha ha baby please
Don't you play with my nose I might ha chum sneeze
Well you a the bun and me a the cheese
And if me a the rice well you a the peas

CHORUS

Give me your loving gal your loving well good
I want your loving gal give it like you should
Give me your loving gal your loving well good
I want your loving gal you remember the woo
Would like to kiss and carress
Rub down every strand of hair on my chest
I'm Boombastic rated as the best
The best you should get nothing more nothing less
Give me your digits jot down your address
I'll bet you confess when you put me to the test
That I'm

CHORUS

Gal your admiration if a tick me from the start
With your physical attraction gal you know to feel the spark
A man of few word naw go tell you no sweet talk
Naw go laba laba and a chat pure phart
I'll get straight to the point like a arrow or a dart
Come lay down in my jacuzzi and get some bubble bath
Only sound you will here is the beating of my heart
And we will mmm mmm (kiss) and have some sweet pillow talk
I'm

CHORUS


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