"Dub Be Good to Me" was a number-one hit in the United Kingdom and also reached number one on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.

This instrumental track is heavily based on the bassline from The Clash's "Guns of Brixton", with a sample of the distinctive "harmonica" theme from the epic western film Once Upon a Time in the West, written by Ennio Morricone.

Bill Coleman from Billboard described 'Dub Be Good to Me' as a "reggae-fied, Soul II Soul-tinged reworking", adding that "big on import, stateside release sports the new remixes.

"[7] Dave Sholin from the Gavin Report noted that Cook from the Housemartins takes this 1983 track by the SOS Band, "beats and mixes well, and what emerges is a fresh delicacy for now tastes."

"[8] Simon Reynolds from Melody Maker remarked that "the heartquake synths of the original [are] replaced by sonar bleeps, ocean bed alarums, lugubrious horns and a lonesome, Midnight Cowboy harmonica.

"[10] Pan-European magazine Music & Media described it as an "appealing mixture of house and reggae", complimenting "good vocals by Lindy and some tasteful blues harmonica.

A classy and pertinent fusion, 'Dub Be Good to Me' is similar in execution to the recent British import 'Wishing on a Star' by Fresh Four, featuring Lizz E. That bombed in this country, and so will this probably.

[14] Writing in Freaky Trigger in 1999, Tom Ewing ranked the song as the 97th best single of the 1990s, and described it as "the Wild Bunch/Massive Attack dub-dance Bristol sound, commercialised before it had even come close to breaking through.

"[15] Revisiting the single in 2010, he noted "the latent cheekiness of the track – its lifts so flagrant, its components so random – gives it a warmth, a sense of reassurance that despite Layton's desperation everything in Beats International's world is going to be alright.