Track Listing

1. One to One
2. Sense of Purpose
3. World of Uncertainty
4. Rock Me
5. One More Time
6. One to One
7. Children of the World
8. Can't Get You (Outta My Mind)
9. Girl From Hiroshima
10. Reggae Jam Boogie
11. How Can You?
12. One Song (Nyahbinghi)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #54363 in Music
• Released on: 1990-10-25
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Sense Of Purpose
Let's be realistic, compared to previous work; "96 Degrees In The Shade", "Journey To Addis", "Rock The World", & "You've Got The Power", this album would fall into the "sellout" category. Then again this is the same group who made albums like the easily forgotten "Arise In Harmony", and forgotten for a pretty good reason, since it did lack more of a Roots style like it's previous albums like "96 Degrees In The Shade" & "Journey To Addis". So to most Third World fans who dealt with their "Arise In Harmony" album, wouldn't find this much of a disappointment, but nevertheless some what of a disappointment.

First thing's first, this album mainly speaks about two things; Love & Dancing, some songs speak about one, some about the other, and some about both. The only song that stops the continuous topics in it's tracks is "Children Of The World", which is an pretty okay song, but if they were going to make this the only song about peace and politics, they could of done a lot better. If Steel Pulse Could of did it with "Earth Crisis", I'm pretty sure Third World could of done the same with this album.

Secondly, track listing could of been mixed better, the beginning of the album seems to have a bit of a slow feeling to it, but how can't it be when you have "World Of Uncertainty" & "Rock Me" as track 3 & 4? I also never got why didn't they put the Extended Version of "One To One", at the end of the album as a bonus track. So basically if this were a tape, both sides A & B would start off with "One To One", which doesn't make any "Sense" at all.

Although there are some flaws there are some upsides to this album. This albums does contain hits like; "How Can You", "World Of Uncertainty", "Rock Me", and of course "Sense Of Purpose". Let's not stop there tho, there are a couple of great songs that are not known as "hits" and are over looked, "Reggae Jam Boogie" & "Can't Get You (Outta My Mind)", to me, are the BEST songs on the albums, but never get any credit. Sadly both songs does not have Bunny Rugs on lead, but you can't have the limelight all the time, but we still love him tho.

So this album isn't bad, but it isn't all that great either, in fact I don't know how it did better than their next album "Hold On To Love", but I'll save that for another review. It has it's up's but a few downs, yet it's downsides aren't that bad. If you're a fan of Third World that fell in love with them because of albums like "You've Got The Power" & "96 Degrees In The Shade", this is really not up your alley, but if you would like to wing it, go ahead. It's not that bad of an album, but when I listen to it, I don't hear the same band who made "96 Degrees In The Shade", but maybe that was their plan all along.

Oh yeah if anyone out there have more than one copy of Third World's self titled debut album, don't be stingy, sell it....to me!

***1/2

-D.J. Winston

Reggae infused with R&B and Dance. I like it!
When I think of Reggae I tend to think of Bob Marley, and for good reason, he is the "Elvis" of Reggae! Sonically alot of Reggae can sound alike, like one long song having that same beat with the guitar plunk consistently following immediately right after the beat. I know this is hard to describe but that is what I tend to think when I describe it, I just "beat box" it popping my lips and singing "dank" for the guitar going something like this at about 85 bpm "pop" "dank" "pop" "dank"
"pop" "dank" "pop" "dank" "pop" "dank" (each "pop") is the beat and the "dank" is the guitar.
Ok enough already. So what do I like about Third World? Well firstly they blow off the "pop" "dank"
"pop" "dank" "pop" "dank" "pop" "dank" routine in favor of giving you some rhythm & blues and dance influence. My first introduction to Third World was their rendition of "Now That We've Found Love". I do not even know what the original artist's version sounds like but I have always enjoyed TW's rendering and to me it's the one I know as it it were the only version. From this album, One To One is a beat heavy mid-tempo dance arrangement. Sense of Purpose is an uptempo dance-funk tune while One More Time is more along the lines of dance/R&B. Now while these songs are dancey, they do not seemingly leave their reggae roots.
I guess you can say it's more of a contemporary sounding reggae opposed to the folkish type of Bob Marley.

I like it!

Swinging Island Reggae
"Cause you and me, together / We will be, forever / Feeling as one, yeah. One to one."

Jamaican-tinged songs that catch you and take you to the Islands... Sense of Purpose delivers fairly mellow reggae in an accessible format. The first two tracks are the strongest-- listen to either and you'll get a sense of the entire CD. Good stuff, plain and simple.