We’ve had some pretty dreary weather here recently so listening to this put me in a much better mood instantly. Now, that’s what I call Neggae! The smooth and silky Chaka Demus and Pliers are back at it with this tropical delight. Score: 6.5/10 – quite harsh but these boys are capable of better. It’s a pleasant enough song overall, nothing earth shattering and probably appealed to the hormonally challenged section of the neggae fanbase. This man’s fishing technique is also confusing, as it seems to be simply tying a fishing net to your genitalia and then wandering about, I haven’t seen this happening in Grimsby. Whilst Chaka Demus has dressed appropriately for the occasion I’m less sure of Pliers attempting his ‘ Clockwork Orange’ homage, it’s messing with my gulliver. The video is standard neggae, blue sea, white beach, neggae chicks, the lot. It’s the ‘let’ bit that bothers me, not ‘want’ but ‘let’, which doesn’t seem to be the most stable basis for a relationship and to me it looks like the whole thing’s been built on a house of cards. Lyrically I have a bit of a problem with the phrasing, it might be me not understanding the patois but I’ve watched loads of episodes of Desmond’s so it’s doubtful.
I’ve had the last laugh though, I’m sitting here sporting a Pringle jumper as I type, true fact.
Towards the end of the night after driving the crowd wild with favourites by Musical Youth, Junior and Smiley Culture (plus a bit of Madness for the special needs kids), the tempo would drop and you’d approach the girl of your dreams who’d take one look at your hand knitted (by Grandma) blue jumper with Spurs scrawled across the front, laugh, then go off with the bloke sporting a Le Shark jumper twinned with a Fila polo. On to the song, the production isn’t my favourite by them but it’s a pleasant enough Lover’s Rock sound and reminds me of early school discos in North London. The line is ‘All day a gwan and I run round the world Like I can’t get my girl’, clearly it was Chaka Demus that Lisa Stansfield was searching for, yet due to unpredictability of global travel in the nineties it appears the two star struck lovers were destined to continually pass each other like ships in the night. Marilyn Manson starring in the Wonder Years and.The opening lines to this song solve one of the great pop mysteries it’s up there with
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