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Intoxication is the eighth studio album released by Jamaican rapper Shaggy. The album was released on October 22, 2007, to critical acclaim, but without major chart success. The album was re-issued in September 2008 to include additional tracks, remixes and music videos. Four singles were released from the album: "Church Heathen", "Bonafide Girl", which features guest vocals from Rikrok and Tony Gold, "Feel the Rush", the official single for Euro 2008 (which only appears on the subsequent re-issue of the album) and "What's Love", featuring R&B singer Akon. Critical reception David Jeffries of Allmusic said the following of the album: "Shaggy's last effort, Clothes Drop, was widely ignored in the States and only semi-accepted in the United Kingdom and Europe. In Jamaica and Japan, however, the album had serious legs, carrying the dancehall singer's career all the way to August 22, and the release of the "Church Heathen" single. Seeing as how his most supportive territories were Jamaica—the home of it all—and Japan—where they'll take their dancehall straight, no R&B chaser required—it made perfect sense for Shaggy to deliver a JA flavored tune featuring Jamaican Patois and references for the dancehall literate. That tune, "Church Heathen," took the dancehall world by storm, re-established the singer's footing in Britain, and began to make an impact in the States towards the end of the year That the United States would even pay attention is the biggest surprise since insider lyrics like "She a do the dutty dance to the Matterhorn song, And a say she get the ting them from Baby Cham" are hardly the stuff of "It Wasn't Me" or even his breakthrough hit "Oh Carolina". Still, the single has a riddim that's infectious, a Gregorian chant inspired chorus that's very clever, plus Shaggy in top form, pointing out all the pious church-goers he deals with back home with his usual crafty slang and humor. While the album - his worldwide comeback hit - lands on isn't totally without its crossover material, with "What's Love" with Akon being the best example—Shaggy is more discerning than ever and makes sure the radio-friendly material is right in line with his skill set. The breezy "Bonafide Girl" with Rik Rok brings welcome reminders of their "It Wasn't Me" interplay, and while "Out of Control" could have come straight from the house of Jermaine Dupri, it's R&B-meets-dancehall stance feels natural, not forced.

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“Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.”
— Hermann Adler, quoted in Joseph H. Hertz, The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (One-volume edition) p. 933
“It would not be too much to say that if all drinking of fermented liquors could be done away, crime of every kind would fall to a fourth of its present amount, and the whole tone of moral feeling in the lower order might be indefinitely raised.”
— Charles Buxton; reported to be in his pamphlet How to Stop Drunkenness in Grappling with the Monster by T. S. Arthur.
“If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall in to this vice. The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and generosity.”
— Abraham Lincoln, Address to the Washington Temperance Society, Springfield, Illinois, 22 February (1842).
“May my pain remain drunk singing its own love songs”
— Suman Pokhrel, Song of Soul
“Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.”
— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness (1958), p. 23.
“Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.”
— Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun, Vol II, Ch. 17: The Tale of the Student and his Son, Part 4.

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Notable quotes

“Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.”
— Hermann Adler, quoted in Joseph H. Hertz, The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (One-volume edition) p. 933
“It would not be too much to say that if all drinking of fermented liquors could be done away, crime of every kind would fall to a fourth of its present amount, and the whole tone of moral feeling in the lower order might be indefinitely raised.”
— Charles Buxton; reported to be in his pamphlet How to Stop Drunkenness in Grappling with the Monster by T. S. Arthur.
“If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall in to this vice. The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and generosity.”
— Abraham Lincoln, Address to the Washington Temperance Society, Springfield, Illinois, 22 February (1842).
“May my pain remain drunk singing its own love songs”
— Suman Pokhrel, Song of Soul
“Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.”
— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness (1958), p. 23.
“Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.”
— Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun, Vol II, Ch. 17: The Tale of the Student and his Son, Part 4.

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