it's good

I thought this CD was very good. I bought it before "It wasn't me" and "Angel" became popular (and i bought it for the song "hot shot"). I was very suprised when I started hearing these songs on the radio and that other people knew of them. All in all this CD is good, because you need variety (even in a massive reggae collection like mine). Oh and one last thing: Shaggy is NOT pop, he is and will always be some sort of Reggae/Dancehall. This album was in the Reggae section, so it annoys me when people say it's pop.

Shaggy's Most Famous Cd

I'll start off by saying this.... I bought this album just because of the track "Angel". Before that song was released I didn't really know or care who Shaggy was, but after hearin' the song on the radio, and seeing how sucessful his album was on the billboard charts, I picked up a copy. For the first few weeks, I only listened to "Angel", and "It wasn't Me", but later I decided to give the whole thing a listen. As I finished up the album with the song "Chinca Bonita", I was a little happier about purcasing the cd. But at the same time, there is a part of me, that wonder's if it was worth 14 dollars.

The cd pro's - 90 percent of the tracks are great dance tracks, and are just fun. Single's such as "Angel" and "it Wasn't Me" don't age. Plus, each song doesn't repeat too much, and each track is a good length, (for a total of 53:07 minutes on the cd). The chorus's of most of the song's are very catchy (Think "Luv Me, Luv Me"). The whole album would work perfectly for a party. The lryic's are also pretty good. Even though I don't real care for some of the lryic's for tracks like "Freaky Girl". Tracks such as "Keep'n it real", "Angel", "Dance & Shout", "It wasn't me", "Luv me, Luv me", and "Hope" are all worth listening to at least once.

Cd cons - Because of Shaggy's limited vocal range, most of the song's end up sounding pretty smiliar, (in fact "Angel" is probably the only song that doesn't really sound the same vocally). Tracks like "Hot Shot", "Freaky Girl", and "Hey Love" could have been better. Also, as it starts to get past track 10, the song's become filler's. That doesn't mean they're horrible, it just mean's they aren't as fun, as the other tracks. In fact the beat of the song's changes a lot at that point.

Although Shaggy, will never have as much sucess with other works, as he did with this, it doesn't mean he is a bad artist, or a one hit wonder. This cd remind's me of the newer artist Sean Paul, who has a simliar style. I listen to probably 8 to 10 tracks on this album, when it's in the cd player, so it's definitly a good album, it just could be better. If you buy this, I don't think you'll be disappointed, but you may be suprised by some of the seriousness of some of the tracks. After all is said and done, this is still a good album, by a decent artist.

This album is what it is

Shaggy is a man trying to bridge the gap between commercially succesful pop and reggea music. This of course means he has to compromise. Not only does he use more R&B/hip-pop oriented beats but he covers and samples classics and the result: an album that though it may lean more towards radio-friendly pop bridges a reggae artist with white suburbia.