- I'll Be There
- Happiness
- Open Your Eyes
- Signs And Wonder
- Chant Down Babylon
- Can You Be Mine
- Loving In Your Eyes
- Practice What You Preach
- Only You
- It Won't Be Long
- Party Song
- I'm Back
- I'm Back (Dub Version)
Review by Chuck Foster, published in The Beat :
Immediately reminiscent of Jack Radics, Richie Stephens and precursor-of-them-all Brook Benton, deep-voiced Mikey Spice presents a lovers selection intermixed with penetrating message tunes on “Happiness”. Although he might well score with his romantic ballads like “I’ll Be There”, “It Won’t Be Long” and “I’m Back” (do I detect a theme ?) – he even pulls of a Barry White cover (“Practice What You Preach”), no easy task – it’s the message tunes “Chant Down Babylon”, “Signs And Wonder” and “Open Your Eyes” that make me want to take that crucial second spin some CDs never get, a spin Mikey Spice passes with flying dreads. Although released out of the Netherlands, Spice is a Jamaican artist and these cuts were recorded at Grove studios in Ocho Rios by producer Barry O’Hare for the X-Rated label.
Review by Steve Barrow & Peter Dalton, taken from “Reggae. The Rough Guide” :
Included in the Barry O’Hare-produced debut set is Spice’s version of Barry White’s “Practice What You Preach”, a strong contender for the reggae vocal of 1995. Plenty of pure rub-up-a-girl music here, though tracks like “Signs And Wonder” and “Chant Down Babylon” have him handling ‘consciousness’ lyrics with aplomb.