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Shaggy: Midnite Lover

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Label: Virgin Records
Released: 1997.08.26
Time:
 45:45
Category: Pop/Rap/Reggae
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: **........ (2/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.shaggyonline.com
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Purchase date: 1997.08.26
Price in €: 6,99



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[1] My Dream (Burrell/Livingston) - 3:24
[2] Perfect Song (Burrell/Elliot/Kelly/Livingston) - 3:43
[3] Tender Love (Berger/Burrell/Livingston/Robinson) - 3:49
[4] Geenie (Burrell/Livingston/Thompson) - 4:00
[5] Sexy Body Girls (Birch/Burrell/Dunbar/York) - 3:49
[6] Piece of My Heart (Berns/Ragovoy) - 4:17
[7] Think Ah So It Go (Burrell/Livingston) - 3:24
[8] Midnite Lover (Burrell/Livingston) - 3:44
[9] Mission (Burrell/Livingston) - 3:49
[10] Way Back Home (Burrell/Dunbar/Mayfield/Morrison/Shakespeare/Thompson) - 4:09
[11] John Doe (Burrell/Kelly) - 3:40
[12] Thank You Lord (Marley) - 3:51

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SHAGGY - Vocals

MAXI PRIEST - Performer
CURTIS MAYFIELD - Performer
ERMA FRANKLIN - Performer
MICHAEL FLETCHER - Performer
BRIAN GOLD - Background Vocals, Performer
TONY GOLD - Background Vocals, Performer
PAUL KASTICK - Performer
LLOYD "Gitsy" WILLIS - Performer
CHRISTOPHER BIRCH - Performer
STEVEN "Reggae Jesus" MARSDEN - Performer
MARTY KERSICH - Performer
ROBERT ZAPATA - Performer
JOHN RAF ALLEN - Performer
WILLIAM DEBARGE - Performer
E. JORDAN - Performer
HEATHER LEWIS - Background Vocals
GORDON DUKES - Background Vocals
KIM RATCLIFF - Background Vocals
DEBBIE COLE - Background Vocals

ROBERT LIVINGSTON - Producer, Executive Producer, Mixing
COLLIN "Bulbie" YORK - Producer, Mixing
FATTA MARSHALL - Producer, Mixing
SHAUN "Sting Int'l" PIZZONIA - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
DAVE KELLY - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
SLY DUNBAR - Producer
ROBBIE SHAKESPEARE - Producer
ORVILLE BURRELL - Producer
GEMMA CORFIELD - Executive Producer
ASHLEY NEWTON - Executive Producer
KEVIN "Wingy" THOMPSON - Engineer, Assistant Engineer, Mixing
DENNIS HALLIBURTON - Engineer
ALAN GRAHAM - Engineer
IRVIN JARRETT - Engineer
HUGH PALMER - Engineer
MARTIN LEWIS - Engineer
FAT HEAD - Engineer
BURRUR - Engineer
BRYCYN "Juvie" EVANS - Remixing

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1997 LP Virgin 44487
1997 CD Virgin 44487
1997 CS Virgin 44487



Midnite Lover, the followup to Shaggy's career-making Boombastic, doesn't have anything as memorable as that album's title track or his dancehall reworking of "Oh Carolina," but that hardly makes the album a failure. It's a consistently entertaining collection of ragga from one of the leaders of the genre. There is a bit too much sexism for some, but even "Sexy Body Girls" has one of the best beats on the record, and the title cut has a supremely funky hip-hop rhythm. It's hard to excuse the ridiculous cover of Janis Joplin's "Piece of My Heart," but his version of Bob Marley's "Thank You Lord" (featuring vocals by Ky-Mani Marley) shows that there's more to Shaggy than bumping and grinding.

Leo Stanley - All Music Guide
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Shaggy's final album for Virgin Records failed to yield a huge hit single on the order of huge crossover successes "Oh Carolina" and "Boombastic," from his two previous sets. It's a respectful effort, nonetheless, with the DJ's "Mr. Lovah-Lovah" persona working overtime on originals--alone and with Maxi Priest, Brian & Tony Gold, and Ky-Mani Marley, the latest "son of" to take up a mic career. Shaggy's many fans get the great R&B-flavored tracks they've come to expect, as well as some shocking cover choices--"Piece of My Heart"!--no one anticipated.

Elena Oumano - Amazon.com



"Shaggy's second Virgin release, MIDNITE LOVER, manages to seduce the ladies while also emphasizing his lyric prowess..."

Vibe (9/97, p.243)



Unvergessen das scharfe "Boombastic", mit dem Shaggy 1996 die Charts aufrollte. Der Jamaikaner war "in" - und kurz darauf vergessen. Dieses "Comeback" könnte ihn wieder nach oben spülen: ein Dutzend federleichte Zückerlis, die kalte Wintermonate verkürzen helfen. Was nicht von ihm stammt, ist hübsch verwurstet, so "Tender Love" oder Bob Marleys "Thank You Lord". Das klingt nett. Doch erst coole Dance-Raps wie im Oldie "Piece Of My Heart" sind Maßarbeit für den Smartie mit der rauhen Kehle.

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It was Shaggy who set the world alight with his fantastic hip-hop reworking of the old hit "Oh Carolina." Like many artists who burst out of the gate with such a strong and massively successful major label debut, Shaggy has to work awfully hard to follow up such a huge hit. Wisely he does so not by attempting to replicate his previous hit, but by stepping out as a suave R & B/reggae artist. Maxi Priest guests on "Perfect Song," while the title track blends electro-funk with R & B. Any number of tracks from Midnite Lover might just work in the same way as Eddie Grant's hit "Electric Avenue" did.

CMJ New Music Report Issue: 539 - Sep 29, 1997
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When Shaggy had a Global smash with his irresistible version of the Folkes Brothers' "Oh Carolina," in 1993, and followed it up with the U.S. hit "Boombastic," in 1995, he carved a role for himself as dance-hall reggae's genial ambassador. Four years later, the former Orville Richard Burrell – an ex-Marine who hails from Kingston, Jamaica, via Brooklyn, N.Y. – is back with another friendly, all-things-to-all-people album.

The superbad, Stagger Lee-inna-Trenchtown machismo of the Buju Bantons and the Bounty Killers is of no interest to the Shagster. He may share a clowning baritone-rap style with these dance-hall dons, but his self-appointed "Mission" (as one of Midnite Lover's tracks is called) is to "see nothing but a smiling face." Even the raucous "Sexy Body Girls" takes an essentially polite approach to female pulchritude. Percy Sledge's quaint ballad "Warm and Tender Love" may seem an odd choice for a cover, but it sums up the sort of romance that Shaggy is offering.

Throughout Midnite Lover, Shaggy achieves an entertaining balance between soulful fun and dance-hall swagger. The Berns-Ragovoy tearwringer "Piece of My Heart" – a Top 10 hit in Britain – is reworked as a soul duet with neophyte singer Marsha and works even though the lass in question can't hold a candle to Erma Franklin. The cautionary "John Doe" and the title track are closer to P-Funk in feel, and "Way Back Home" is vintage rock-steady fused with the '60s beach soul of the Tams. The closing treatment of Bob Marley's "Thank You, Lord" features Ky-mani Marley sounding even more like Bob than Ziggy does.

Shaggy clearly cares not a jot for credibility, nor does he pretend to be a hard man. In "Think Ah So It Go," there's a riposte to the detractors who call him "brown and uptown" (as opposed to black and downtown), but one suspects that he could care less what the Bounty Killers of the world think of him. Watch him go global all over again.

BARNEY HOSKYNS - RS 769
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