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Sensitive to a Smile is the fourth studio album by New Zealand reggae band Herbs. It reached number 10 and spent 30 weeks in the New Zealand album chart and was awarded Album of the Year at the 1987 New Zealand Music Awards. The album included the four singles "Sensitive to a Smile", "Rust In Dust", "Listen" and "No Nukes", all of which charted. Sensitive to a Smile was re-released on CD and digitally, with extra tracks from Herbs' 1984 album Long Ago and their 1982 single "French Letter". The album was launched at Mangahanea marae in Ruatoria, as a gesture of unity to Ruatoria after it had seen conflict between local Rastafarian groups and the community, as well as arson attacks. The launch concert was filmed by director Lee Tamahori and became the basis of the music video for the first single "Sensitive to a Smile". Fred Faleauto and Dilworth Karaka first recorded a version of "E Papa" with the Pātea Māori Club who released it as a reggae pop single in 1985. The song is a traditional composition sung during tītī tōrea. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensiti...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)