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Track Listing
1. Reggae Party
2. Tuff Me Tuff
3. Generation Coming
4. Clown in a Circus
5. De Do Do Do de da da Da
6. Love Train
7. Can't Afford to Lose
8. Dem Man Deh
9. Baltimore
10. Millennium Symphony
11. Reggae Party - (remix, featuring Shaggy/Bounty Killer)
Album Notes
Third World: William "Bunny Rugs" Clarke (vocals, guitar); Stephen "Cat" Coore (guitar, cello, background vocals); Rupert Bent Jr. (guitar, keyboards); LeRoy "Baarbe" Romans (flute, keyboards); Richard "Bass" Daley (bass); Tony "Ruption" Williams (drums).
Additional personnel: Shaggy, Bounty Killer.
Engineers include: Noel Hearne, Rupert Bent, Dalkeith "Grizzly" Shaw.
Recorded at Ocean Drive Recording Studio, Miami, Florida; Tuff Gong Recording Studio, Sonic Sound Studios, and Grafton Studios, Kingston, Jamaica.
GENERATION COMING was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.
When the pop-reggae crossover music of Third World made its initial splash in the '80s, most people focused on the pop side of the group's aesthetic. To do so is to overlook the serious reggae chops Third World possesses. Even in the case of 1999's GENERATION COMING, it's likely that the band's covers of pop tunes will garner much more attention than its equally worthy straight reggae offerings. The thing is that Third World works the crossover trick with such originality that it's hard to ignore.
Third World's version of the Police's "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" neatly turns the tables on pop cultural history by putting a reggae spin on the music of the world's most famous reggae-inspired rock band. Similarly, the Caribbean lilt added to Philly soul classic "Love Train" casts the R&B chestnut in a new light. And Randy Newman's "Baltimore" surely wins the prize as the song least likely to be covered by a reggae group. As usual, while purists may find that Third World strays too far from reggae's boundaries, the band's agreeable blend of influences is the kind of sound that might change the minds of those who think they don't like reggae.
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