Return Of Django – The UPSETTERS***

Return Of Django/Touch Of Fire/Cold Sweat/Drugs & Poison/Soulful I/Night Doctor/One Punch/Eight For Eight/ Live Injection/Man From MI5/Ten To Twelve/Medical Operation

Return Of Django was the debut album from the Jamaican reggae group The Upsetters, and consists entirely of instrumentals. The title track was a UK No. 5 hit single.

“The title track has got to be one of the best instrumental reggae songs there is. The album has its formula and sticks to it pretty close. Not all of the songs are as good, some come across as just organ doodling, although it never gets to the point of reminding you of a sleep inducing soul jazz album showing off the organ player. Everyone should have the song Return Of Django though, essential reggae.”

“Wicked ska instrumentals with some innovative organ work. Just listen to that guitar tone too, you see how you can be loud through timbre.”

“Rather average collection of early reggae tunes - not ska, which is way faster and bouncier than the stuff on here. Still, it's got Live Injection and Return Of Django, so though it's largely second-rate it's still fun and more than listenable.”

“This album not only set a standard for how ska should be produced and how it should sound, but also how it should be played. Crunchy, yet clean guitars play along to organ led songs that follow much more than a standard verse-bridgechorus- verse-bridge-chorus formula. This album contains a handful of the many Upsetter classics, notably the title track, as well as Live Injection. This is classic Upsetters the way it was meant to be heard."

“Contains the classic Return Of Django, but the rest of the album gets a bit repetitive.”

“All the songs on this are rocking instrumentals (some of them with eerie opening lines from Lee Perry like on Cold Sweat and Man From MI5) and all the songs are filled with old spaghetti western imagery with sometimes violent sounding solos. Basically this album is just solid rhythms played by an extremely talented band.”