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| Label | Shanachie | |||
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Rule Dance Hall is an album by the Jamaican reggae musician Bunny Wailer. [1] [2] It was released in 1987 via Shanachie Records. [3]
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Rule Dance Hall is an album by the Jamaican reggae musician Bunny Wailer. [1] [2] It was released in 1987 via Shanachie Records. [3]
The album was made with the Roots Radics band. [4] [5] Rule Dance Hall contains cover versions of Sam Cooke's "Saturday Night" and the Wailers' "Stir It Up". [6]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| Robert Christgau | B [7] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [8] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [9] |
The State called the album Wailer's "most successful outing in years," writing that he's "returned to the heavy drums and bass rhythms that are prevalent in the Jamaican dance halls." [5] Stephen Davis, in The Reggae & African Beat, called the album "as brilliant as anything Bob Marley ever did." [10] High Fidelity wrote that it celebrates "the lighter, good-times nature of Jamaica's music." [11] The Boston Globe deemed the album "just a misguided mistake." [12]
AllMusic wrote that "Bunny is in top form to deliver a set of old-school-tempo tunes intent on teaching the newer generation a musical history lesson." [4]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Rule Dance Hall" | 3:53 |
| 2. | "Jolly Session" | 4:05 |
| 3. | "Saturday Night" | 3:38 |
| 4. | "Trash Ina We Bes" | 3:50 |
| 5. | "Put It On" | 3:52 |
| 6. | "Reggae in the U.S.A." | 3:46 |
| 7. | "Haughty Tempo" | 4:41 |
| 8. | "Camouflage" | 3:52 |
| 9. | "Hot Food Head" | 4:17 |
| 10. | "Stir It Up" | 3:38 |
| 11. | "Old Time Sinting" | 3:43 |
| 12. | "Reasons" | 3:08 |
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