Another vague query - album from bad description of the cover

A friend asked the following...

I keep getting an image in my mind of the cover of a music album that
I saw a long time ago (upwards of 6 years now) and for the life of me
I cannot remember the name of the album or the name of the artist. I
know that the version I saw had a blue and black cover, possibly with
bits of white, and that the artist was male and possibly
Afro-Caribbean, but I couldn't swear to that. I think the version I
saw might even have been an LP. I'm sure that the artist had one of
those short, punchy, one-word names, but I just can't make it come to
mind (something like "Beck", but it wasn't that). It's infuriating
because I know I liked the music but don't know where to look to find
it!

Does any of this bring anything to mind for anyone?

Further questioning led to...

I have a feeling that the front cover of the album was what I would
call a stylised photograph (if you know what I mean) of the artist.

And it wasn't Moby or Seal but thanks for the suggestion.

So any ideas FOAK?

 

Shabba?

 

Shaggy? http://www.mcarecords.com/MCAImageUpload/52438-Full.jpg

 

If it's any help I ws addicted to a track when I worked in Our Price in
1987. I lost touch with it and through all manner of twists and turns I
eventually found the name and artist a couple of years ago: Hey Love by King
Sun De Moet (or something) I actually tracked it down via P2P, it took ages.
And then I realised it was shit.

My advice: Don't bother.

 

Heh. Perhaps forgetting the name of an artist, album or song is nature's way
of telling us it wasn't worth remembering in the first place.

Sons of *who*?

 

Syphilis.

 

That fits the description certainly, I'll mail her the link, ta.

 

It still....hurts. Sob.

 

Hey Porl! We got [a|the] clap!

 

To be fair you butchered scooter boi.

 

Nah, we butchered Sk8ter Boi.

 

I thought we treated in with kid gloves tbh.