Each week we ask you to listen to and rate our selected album (usually a
web-only pre-release preview).
This is your chance to be Siskel. Or Ebert. Even though they don't
critique music -- but that's not the point. The point is, if we like the
way you wax prosaic, we'll post your review, and you'll have a shot at
winning some free goodies. All albums are RealAudio 3.0, 28.8 kbps unless otherwise noted.
Elvis Costello once said, "Someone should clip Sting around the ears and tell him to stop singing in that ridiculous Jamaican accent." Well, evidently Jamaicans weren't too offended by Sting, many of their greatest reggae artists are paying tribute on this album, "Regatta Mondatta: A Reggae Tribute to the Police." Aswad, Ziggy Marley (with Sting), Chaka Demus
and Pliers, Maxi Priest, Steel Pulse, Betty Wright
and Shinehead (just to name a few) tackle
everything from "Roxanne" to "Every Breath You
Take" to "Message in a Bottle" to "Wrapped
Around Your Finger."