Maverick A Strike

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A 23-year-old singer of mixed heritage--he's part Scottish, part Ghanaian--Quaye can bust a smooth groove like Al Green or offer a straight reading of roots reggae (listen to his jaunty arrangement of "Your Love Gets Sweeter"). "It's Great When We're Together" skirts too close to Green in sentiment and sound, but the blues guitar and deep bass rumble of "Ultra Stimulation" goose an otherwise conventional reggae number. Still, Quaye isn't afraid to explode convention completely. Despite its hippy-dippy title, "Ride on and Turn the People On" is a thrilling duel between Quaye's elastic wordplay and a hyperactive bassist (who goes uncredited in the CD booklet but deserves star billing throughout). Quaye is best when he takes all the music he's heard and fashions a new pastiche that doesn't sound like one. His take on Marley's "Sunday Shining" is one such marvel, a glorious smear of slide guitar, Rastaman imagery, '60s soul horns, and a rhythm track that belongs squarely to the '90s. It may be the brightest light on Maverick a Strike, but this 13-track album never really dims much. --Keith Moerer

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Maverick A Strike

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Why mention Saint Bob?
amazing music, phenomenal sound...
Add some flavor to your weekends and summer nights
Hyper!
Nice thing... but nothing more

Maverick A Strike
Finley Quaye
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002C1E
Release Date: 1997-11-04

Tracks:

Ultra Stimulation
It's Great When We're Together
Sunday Shining
Even After All
Ride On And Turn The People On
The Way Of The Explosive
Your Love Is Getting Sweeter
Supreme I Preme
Sweet And Loving Man
Red Rolled And Seen
Falling
I Need A Lover
Maverick A Strike

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A 23-year-old singer of mixed heritage--he's part Scottish, part Ghanaian--Quaye can bust a smooth groove like Al Green or offer a straight reading of roots reggae (listen to his jaunty arrangement of "Your Love Gets Sweeter"). "It's Great When We're Together" skirts too close to Green in sentiment and sound, but the blues guitar and deep bass rumble of "Ultra Stimulation" goose an otherwise conventional reggae number. Still, Quaye isn't afraid to explode convention completely. Despite its hippy-dippy title, "Ride on and Turn the People On" is a thrilling duel between Quaye's elastic wordplay and a hyperactive bassist (who goes uncredited in the CD booklet but deserves star billing throughout). Quaye is best when he takes all the music he's heard and fashions a new pastiche that doesn't sound like one. His take on Marley's "Sunday Shining" is one such marvel, a glorious smear of slide guitar, Rastaman imagery, '60s soul horns, and a rhythm track that belongs squarely to the '90s. It may be the brightest light on Maverick a Strike, but this 13-track album never really dims much. --Keith Moerer

Customer Reviews:

Why mention Saint Bob?.......2007-07-08

Why classify this? I suppose anyone playing reggae or using elements of reggae could be deemed a second rate Bob Marley. It's catchy pop music, some of the tunes are infectious. Isn't that enough?
(Does anyone know who the musicians are?)

amazing music, phenomenal sound..........2007-04-11

This is a must own for anyone who truly appreciates good music - there is something for everyone in terms of musical style, and the production on this CD is amazing. An all-time favorite...

Add some flavor to your weekends and summer nights.......2006-04-24

This a such a great album. Just got around to buying it, many years later than I should have, and have been grooving to it steadily ever since. I am certainly not a reggae aficionado, Bob Marley is about the extent of my collection, but this album will certainly have me looking into futher reggae purchases.

The first half of the album is excellent, easily a 5 star effort in my opinion, but it does fall apart a little in the second half. Check out "Sunday Shining", "It's Great When We're Together", and "Even After All". You'll be hooked, too.

Hyper!.......2006-01-17

The finest blend of old-school reggae vibe with sounds and structures from the future. One of my all time favorites.

Nice thing... but nothing more.......2004-10-05

I like this album, I mean, really... but I like the sound, not the music. The songs are just mediocre, there is only a decent one (It's great when we're together) and listening to the acoustic demos for this album made me think that Finley Quaye makes records only because he's Tricky's uncle, Caleb Quaye's nephew and son of Osibisa percussionist. The product is good, but thanks to the staff around Finley, not certainly thanks to Finlay himself, which proves to be a good singer but without emotions...