When the Stiff Records onslaught began in 1977, the roster boasted such soon-to-be luminaries as The Damned, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Wreckless Eric, and Ian Dury.
With his band The Blockheads, Ian brought stunning lyrics and a broad musical range that included jazz and funk to the exploding punk scene. While initially more popular in the UK than abroad, Dury scored worldwide hits with “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick,” “Reasons To Be Cheerful” and of course, his anthemic “Sex and Drugs and Rock & Roll”.
This 20-track CD brings together all of his hits plus several rare, live and previously unreleased songs.
Tracklisting:
- Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
- Wake Up & Make Love With Me
- Sweet Gene Vincent
- Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
- Reasons To Be Cheerful, Pt. 3
- I Want To Be Straight
- Billericay Dickie
- I’m Partial To Your Abracadabra
- Blockheads
- Clever Trevor
- Inbetweenies
- What a Waste!
- Profoundly In Love With Pandora
- Yes and No (Paula)
- Superman’s Big Sister
- My Old Man (live)
- There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards
- Spasticus Autisticus (live)
- Bill Haley’s Last Words
- Mash It Up Harry
Click below to hear Ian Dury sing SUPERMAN’S BIG SISTER
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