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Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Los Angeles Times	(favorable) [2]
Robert Christgau	B+ [3]
Rolling Stone	(favorable) [4]

Rat in the Kitchen is the seventh album by UB40, released in July 1986. This album contained two UK hits, "Sing Our Own Song" (UK #5 in 1986) and "Rat in Mi Kitchen" (UK #12 in 1987).^[5] The album itself reached 8 in the UK album charts in 1986 staying in the charts for twenty weeks.^[5]

Track listing

All tracks composed by UB40

1. "All I Want to Do" - 5:33
2. "You Could Meet Somebody" - 4:52
3. "Tell It Like It Is" - 3:36
4. "The Elevator" - 3:25
5. "Watchdogs" - 4:18
6. "Rat in Mi Kitchen" - 6:58
7. "Looking Down at My Reflection" - 3:27
8. "Don't Blame Me" - 3:36
9. "Sing Our Own Song" - 7:21

Highlighted in blue were U.K singles taken from the album.

Personnel

• The guest vocalists who appeared on the album were Mo Birch, Jaki Graham & Ruby Turner
• Herb Alpert (co-founder of A&M Records) played trumpet on "Rat in Mi Kitchen"

References

Follow-up

Following the success of the album, UB40 decided to record a new "sister" studio album. The eventual album, UB40, saw release in 1988 and contained eleven further tracks, including the single "Dancing with the Devil".

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