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Black Uhuru
Released 2000

Darkness
03:59
970 plays

Utterance
03:43
962 plays

Dread In The Mountain
04:05
922 plays

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- 1
- Sinsemilla
- 05:08
- 382 plays

- 2
- I Love King Selassie
- 04:35
- 864 plays

- 3
- Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
- 04:54
- 1,308 plays

- 4
- Sponji Reggae
- 04:56
- 1,426 plays

- 5
- Love Crisis
- 03:47
- 658 plays

- 6
- Rent Man
- 03:18
- 734 plays

- 7
- Endurance
- 04:00
- 1,235 plays

- 8
- Whole World Is Africa
- 05:15
- 807 plays

- 9
- Utterance
- 03:43
- 962 plays

- 10
- What Is Life?
- 05:43
- 2,384 plays

- 11
- Youth Of Eglington
- 05:02
- 795 plays

- 12
- Youth
- 03:49
- 729 plays

- 13
- Try It
- 05:26
- 756 plays

- 14
- Dread In The Mountain
- 04:05
- 922 plays

- 15
- Brutal
- 04:07
- 673 plays

- 16
- Darkness
- 03:59
- 970 plays

- 17
- Chill Out
- 05:58
- 647 plays

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album review

This generous compilation isn't really a career retrospective, since it focuses almost exclusively on Black Uhuru's years on the Island label. However, it does take several tracks from the group's Greensleeves and RAS catalog and a Joe Gibbs single version of "Rent Man." What it all boils down to is an overview of the trio when it consisted of Michael Rose, Derrick Simpson, and Puma Jones, which is generally considered to be the classic Black Uhuru lineup (Rose is replaced by Junior Reid on two tracks). Fans will have most of this material already, of course, but for the uninitiated this is a good an overview as one could imagine -- all of the most important songs are here, from the inevitable "I Love King Selassie" to "Youth of Eglington" (paired with its dub version from the Dub Factor collection). "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is mixed in showcase style, but with a dubwise appendix that differs significantly from the one on Heartbeat's Showcase album. "What Is Life?" and "Try It" are both presented in their original Jamaican mixes. No track is less than worthwhile, and some of them are among the finest reggae ever recorded. ~ Rick Anderson, All Music Guide