[Jimmy Cliff] has for the past 10 years been the most commercially celebrated artist performing the highly stylized Jamaican pop musical idiom known as reggae….

This metrical innovation from Jamaica is perhaps the ultimate "body music" and, with the possible exception of Bob Marley and The Wailers, nobody has it covered more completely than Jimmy Cliff….

While [Unlimited] has several redeeming qualities,… the album is a far cry from his galvanic 1969 set, Wonderful World, Beautiful People …, which stands as a cornerstone of reggae.

Unlimited is a "concept album" whose theme is the oppression of black people, Jamaicans and the artist himself. Unfortunately Jimmy tends to wax a bit didactic, whereas his message was more universal and subtly rendered on Wonderful World. (p. 22)

Unlimited strives for righteous outrage but too often leaves us with self-righteous platitudes. (p. 23)

James Isaacs, "Record Reviews: "'Unlimited'," in down beat (copyright 1973; reprinted with permission of...