Lord Upminster is the second solo studio album by the English rock and roll singer-songwriter Ian Dury.
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.
While recording the album Dury and Jankel were mobbed by Jamaican band Smokey, who mistook a line from his hit "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3" to be about them.
Beside "Spasticus", another noteworthy track appears on the album; "Girls (Watching)" is the only officially released cover version Ian Dury recorded; it was written by Sly Dunbar.
In a contemporary review music critic Robert Christgau gave the album a "B−" and panned that "Spasticus Autisticus is every bit as startling as Dury must have hoped after Laughter got lost in the hustle" but added that "I suppose the idea is to let the riddims of Steve Stanley, Chaz Jankel, and Sly & Robbie turn jingles into rallying cries"[3] In a retrospective review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that "Lord Upminster turned out to be a set of uninspired funk that lacks the joyful energy of his three previous records.