Lord Upminster
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| Studio album by Ian Dury | ||||
| Released | September 1981 | |||
| Recorded | April - May 1981 | |||
| Studio | Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas | |||
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| Length | 36:04 | |||
| Label | Polydor, PGP-RTB | |||
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| Robert Christgau | B- |
| Daily Express | |
Lord Upminster is the second solo studio album by the English rock and roll singer-songwriter Ian Dury.
It was released by Polydor Records and PGP-RTB in September 1981. It was recorded over a period of one month at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas with his old writing partner Chas Jankel and the reggae duo Sly and Robbie. It is also the first Dury album distributed by Polydor. It was his first solo album in four years, since New Boots and Panties!! (1977). Alike the aforementioned album, this album covers a diverse range of musical styles reflecting Dury's influences and background in pub rock, taking in funk, disco, British music hall and early rock and roll, courtesy of Dury's musical hero Gene Vincent.
But unlike New Boots... the album was received negatively by the majority of music critics, while other reviewers noted good points to the album. It was a commercial disappointment failing to make the Top 40, and the album's only single, "Spasticus Autisticus", failed to chart.
Island Records' founder Chris Blackwell suggested that Dury and Chas Jankel (who had returned from America and temporarily buried the hatchet with Dury) fly to Nassau and record with Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, the duo who were renowned as both reggae musicians and producers, and were also on Island Records.
However, Dury and Jankel were greatly unprepared and without enough material for a new album, so they wrote much of the album either on the plane or at their destination. The final album was eight tracks long, and both of them were ultimately disappointed with it.
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