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Track Listing
1. Soon Be Done
2. Give Thanks and Praise
3. Lust
4. Oh Carolina
5. Tek Set
6. Bedroom Bounty Hunter
7. Nice & Lovely - (with Rayvon)
8. Love How Them Flex
9. All Virgins
10. Ah-E-a-Oh - (with Sylva)
11. It Bun Me
12. Big Up - (with Rayvon)
13. Bow Wow Wow
14. Follow Me
15. Mampie - (bonus track)
16. Oh Carolina - (Raas Bumba Claat Version)
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Rayvon, Sylva | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Shaggy, Rayvon, Sylva (vocals); Arthur Sharp (saxophone); Jimmy Delgado (congas).
Producers: J. Ralph Allen, Sting International, Robert Livingston, Phillip Smart.
Recorded at HC&F Recording Studio and INS Studios, New York.
Two years before the Gulf War I vet blew up on the pop charts with his career-defining single, "Boombastic," the Jamaican-born and Brooklyn-based Dancehall crooner known as Shaggy premiered with 1993's PURE PLEASURE. Truer to the Dancehall tradition than his later, more mainstream-oriented work, PURE PLEASURE sees Shaggy developing his self-dubbed "dog-a-muffin" style, laying rugged ragga chants over Caribbean riddims. The album shined a new light on the New York reggae scene and spawned three hit singles--Shaggy's infectious cover of the ska classic "Oh Carolina" (originally recorded by the Folkes Brothers), "Soon Be Done," and "Nice & Lovely."
Industry Reviews
...with a coarse, sexy growl, Shaggy's a rough boy with a comic edge, and PURE PLEASURE, his impressive major-label debut, could easily make him dancehall's next superstar...
Vibe (10/01/1993)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...PURE PLEASURE is the best on offer...
Q (09/01/1993)
3 Stars - Average - ...More untrammelled sexual innuendo set to a rattling old ska stomper! What more could we want? Alas, everything...[new single `Soon To Be Done'] ends up as a boring account of Shaggy's nightly conquests because he forgets to put a tune to it...
NME (07/10/1993)
3 Stars - Average - ...More untrammelled sexual innuendo set to a rattling old ska stomper! What more could we want? Alas, everything...[new single `Soon To Be Done'] ends up as a boring account of Shaggy's nightly conquests because he forgets to put a tune to it...
NME (07/10/1993)
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