🎵 AotW UB40 RAT IN THE KITCHEN (A&M SP 5137)

[LPJim]

A1 All I Want To Do 5:30
A2 You Could Meet Somebody 4:54
A3 Tell It Like It Is 3:34
A4 The ElevatorVocals [Guest] – Mo Birch 3:27
A5 Watchdogs 4:18
B1 Rat In Mi KitchenTrumpet [Guest] – Herb Alpert 7:04
B2 Looking Down At My ReflectionVocals [Guest] – Mo Birch 3:25
B3 Don't Blame Me 3:39
B4 Sing Our Own SongVocals [Guest] – Jaki Graham, Mo Birch, Ruby Turner 7:22

• Record Company – Virgin
• Distributed By – Virgin Records
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – DEP International
• Published By – New Claims
• Published By – ATV
• Recorded At – The Abattoir
• Mastered At – Sonopress
• Pressed By – Sonopress
• Printed By – TOPAC

• Assemblage [Sleeve Assemblage By] – The Design Clinic
• Bass Guitar – Earl Falconer
• Booking [Agent (North America)] – F.B.I.*, Ian Copeland
• Booking [Agent] – Ian Flooks, Way Out West (4)
• Design [Sleeve] – Bob Linney
• Drums – James Brown*
• Engineer – John Shaw
• Guitar, Vocals – Robin Campbell
• Keyboards – Michael Virtue
• Management [Direction] – Ken Friedman (2)
• Percussion, Trombone, Vocals – Norman Lamont Hassan*
• Photography By [Inner Sleeve] – Anton Corbijn
• Producer, Composed By [All Music], Arranged By, Lyrics By – UB40
• Saxophone, Lyricon – Brian Travers
• Tape Op – Gerry 'Lippy' Parchment*
• Trombone [Guest] – Henry Tenyue
• Trumpet [Guest] – Patrick Tenyue
• Vocals, Guitar – Ali Campbell
• Vocals, Trumpet – Astro (7)

Entered the Billboard Top 200 on August 30, 1986
Charted for 17 weeks and peaked at # 53

Issued on CD by DEP International in 1986 (CD-5137/DX 711)
Reissued in 2002 by the Disky label

JB

 

[AM Matt]

Bought that CD all because of Herb Alpert!! Matt Clark Sanford, MI

 

[toeknee4bz]

Ok, I have to say... as much as I am always thrilled to hear Herb playing on anybody's record... I always thought that his solo on "Rat In the Kitchen" sounded blatantly like an afterthought. I mean, the track literally stops after the song is pretty much done, then he begins his solos over top of the already established rhythm track. Don't get me wrong. It's still cool as a cucumber... but it doesn't really sound like an inclusive feature on UB40's recording. I had a similar feeling when I first listened to Harvey Mason's "Ratamacue"... which also featured Herb on the tail end of the track, merely playing the same motif repeatedly on fade.

Now "Devil's Ball" by Double... that's another story!

 

[Steven J. Gross]

I've always loved the weird music and lyrics of the title cut. Very hypnotic...