on Upstter in Dub were "little more than overture" to the Upsetters' next release, Sugar Ape (1976), which saw Perry update the equipment at Black Ark to create a more experimental release for Island Records. However, Nigel Williamson of Music & Media considers both Revolution Dub and Sugar Ape to be "ground-breaking albums". The album is considered innovative for sampling television before the invention of the sampler, with Will Russell of Hot Press describing it as a "sampling revolution". In 1998, The Wire included the album in their list of "100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)". In addition to finding Revolution Dub to boast some of Perry's "most potent dubs ever", the staff described the album as innovative for incorporating fragments of television dialogue, which they described as "material completely foreign to popular music", and wrote how the collision between British sitcom samples and Junior Byles' lament "The Long Way" "took reggae into retaliatory culture-shock experimentation. In their list of 50 of the best dub albums, Matador Network wrote of Revolution Dub: "This concise take on dub from the master is super-stripped down but simply features some of the best work he ever did." In the Portable Press guide Encyclo-Weedia, the record is listed among the best stoner albums and is highlighted for its sparseness, minimal grooves and distinctive sense of space. In the late 1970s, soul singer Stevie Wonder was shown Revolution Dub by his British manager, Keith Harris, and Wonder was greatly impressed by Perry's sonic experimentation and scratching styles. The album became one of the singer's favourite reggae albums, and he combined its influence with that of Bob Marley into his reggae-styled 1980 hit "Master Blaster (Jammin')". Holger Czukay of Can, who tape recorded excerpts of shortwave radio for vocals in his own music, recognised Perry as his first "brother in music" for his innovative use of television snippets on Revolution Dub and cited the album as one which "changed his life". According to Jon Langford of rock band the Mekons, Revolution Dub was one of three albums that members of his group and Gang of Four listened to in "constant rotation" in their shared student home in Leeds. Eshun describes the snare drum work on "Bush Weed" as anticipating 4Hero's "The Paranormal in 4 Forms" (1994). Track listing All tracks composed by Lee "Scratch" Perry. Side one "Dub Revolution"