“Watchdogs” by UB40

"Watchdogs" sits on Rat in the Kitchen, the seventh UB40 album, which came out in July 1986. On paper it's a true group effort: the writing credit is split eight ways, between Jim Brown, Ali Campbell, Robin Campbell, Earl Falconer, Norman Hassan, Brian Travers, Michael Virtue and Terence Wilson, and the band produced it themselves, with John Shaw engineering.

It shared the album with two UK hits, "Sing Our Own Song" and "Rat in Mi Kitchen", and the record as a whole climbed to 8 on the UK album chart and spent twenty weeks on it. Critics were kind: AllMusic found the usual tuneful reggae in it, and later called the album edgy.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.