Album · Pato Banton
Visions of the World by Pato Banton
Visions of the World is an album by Pato Banton, released in 1989. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Roots Rock Reggae”, on 1 list with a best position of #1072.
Visions of the World finds Birmingham's Pato Banton, the toaster who first turned heads trading lines with Ranking Roger of the Beat, stretching his reggae toward pop and soul in 1989 without letting it go soft in the head. The grooves come lusher and friendlier than the Jamaican roots template, but the words have more on their mind than ever.
"Pressure" takes aim at Margaret Thatcher's handling of the nation's money, and "Pato's Opinion Pt. 2", the latest in a line of "opinion" songs he'd been writing since early in the decade, goes after P. W. Botha and apartheid before signing off with a borrowed snatch of Burt Bacharach's "What the World Needs Now Is Love". "Third World Country" reports back from a trip to Jamaica and the stark divides he found there, while "Bad Man and Woman" lets his soft spot for calypso out to play. He took it across North America with his band, the Studio Two Crew.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Visions of the World on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roots Rock Reggae | 1 | #1072 | – | 2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.