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Black Magic
You might be tempted to buy Black Magic because it's a big-name affair, bursting at the seams with non-reggae heavy-hitters Annie Lennox, Sting, Wyclef, Kool & the Gang, and Joe Strummer, but pop giants aside, this is strictly Cliff's album--from the scratch- and funk-ified riddims of "Fantastic Plastic People" to the Jah-infused, Marley-reminiscent "Terror (September 11)." That is not to take away from the collaborators--Wyclef and Kool & the Gang bring the party to the streets with steady rockers "Dance" and the '70s band's fringe-of-memory chestnut "(Ooh La, La, La) Let's Go Dancin,'" and Strummer's contribution, one of his last, sticks around for its lyrical substance and light-touch genre fusing. Producer Dave Stewart, Lennox's Eurythmics partner, zigs and zags the album stylistically, but that seems to suit the reggae legend. He's equally at home sending sunny shout-outs home to Jamaica and rejiggering the old get-up, stand-up sensibility through songs like "War in Jerusalem." Closing track "Good Life" caps the prevailing mood, though: The harder and more varied the music that comes, the better it gets for Cliff. --Tammy La Gorce
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Tracks| 1 | I Want I Do I Get - Jimmy Cliff, | | 2 | Dance - Jimmy Cliff, Wyclef Jean | | 3 | Jamaica Time | | 4 | People - Jimmy Cliff, Tony Rebel, Sting | | 5 | Fantastic Plastic People | | 6 | Love Comes - Jimmy Cliff, , Annie Lennox | | 7 | Black Magic | | 8 | World Is Yours (Positive Mind) | | 9 | Terror (September 11th) | | 10 | Over the Border - Jimmy Cliff, Joe Strummer | | 11 | War in Jerusalem | | 12 | Let's Go Dancin' (Ooh, la, la, La) - Jimmy Cliff, Kool & the Gang, Kool & the Gang | | 13 | City | | 14 | Take Your Time - Jimmy Cliff, Yannick Noah | | 15 | No Problems Only Solutions | | 16 | Good Life |
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