Ian Dury

Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll
The Essential Collection

‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll – The Essential Collection’ featuring 20 recordings, including “What A Waste”,“Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3)”, “I Want To Be Straight”, as well as the No. 1 “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick” and the title track to the forthcoming film “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll”…the album also features extended versions of "Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3)" and a hard to find “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick”.

1 Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll 3.12
2 What A Waste 3.26
3 Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3) 4.44
4 Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick 4.05
5 Billericay Dickie 4.15
6 If I Was With A Woman 3.23
7 Blackmail Man 2.14
8 Wake Up And Make Love With Me 4.21
9 My Old Man 3.38
10 Sweet Gene Vincent 3.32
11 Blockheads 3.30
12 Clevor Trever 4.53
13 I’m Partial To Your Abracadabra 3.12
14 There Ain’t Have Been Some Clever Bastards 3.01
15 Inbetweenies 5.18
16 Sueperman’s Big Sister 2.48
17 I Want To Be Straight 3.17
18 Spasticus Autisticus (live) 4.55
19 Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (12” Version) 5.23

IAN DURY New Boots And Panties!!(1977)

1 Wake Up And Make Love With Me
2 Sweet Gene Vincent
3 I'm Partial To Your Abracadabra
4 My Old Man
5 Billericay Dickie
6 Clevor Trever
7 If I Was With A Woman
8 Blockheads
9 Plaistow Patricia
10 Blackmail Man
11 Sex & Drugs Rock & Roll

IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS Do It Yourself (1979)

"Do It Yourself", issued in May 1979, was Dury’s first album with the full line-up of The Blockheads, who brought the live tightness and excitement developed after a year and a half on the road into the studio. It reached # 2 in the album chart, spending four months in the listings.

1 Inbetweenies
2 Quiet
3 Don't Ask Me
4 Sink My Boats
5 Waiting For Your Taxi
6 This Is What We Find
7 Uneasy Sunny Day Hotsy Totsy
8 Mischief
9 Dance Of The Screamers
10 Lullaby For Franci/es

IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS LIVE! Warts 'N' Audience...Plus! (1990)

IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS Mr. Love Pants (1998)

“Mr. Love Pants”, issued in 1998, saw Ian Dury properly re-united at last with The Blockheads, their name appearing on the front cover for the first time since 1980’s “Laughter”. Chaz Jankel, Mickey Gallagher, Davey Payne, Johnny Turnbull and Norman Watt-Roy are all present and in their legendary cracking form.

• Seven of the songs were written with Chaz Jankel and the album was engineered and co-produced by “New Boots And Panties” soundman Laurie Latham.

• On its original release the album charted for several weeks. Ian Dury died some 18 months later.

New Boots And Panties!!

[ Deluxe Edition ]

Thirty years after its release, Ian Dury’s first album released under his own name remains an undisputed and timeless classic. Uniquely, every song on the album is known and celebrated as though they were all released as singles. The deluxe edition includes 17 demo versions, all retrieved from the Dury tape archive.

Tracklisting
1 Wake Up And Make Love With Me
2 Sweet Gene Vincent
3 I’m Partial To Your Abracadabra
4 My Old Man
5 Billericay Dickie
6 Clevor Trever
7 If I Was With A Woman
8 Blockheads
9 Plaistow Patricia
10 Blackmail Man
Bonus tracks:
11 Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
12 Razzle In My Pocket
13 You’re More Than Fair
14 England’s Glory [live]

BONUS DEMO VERSIONS
1 Wake Up And Make Love With Me
2 Sink My Boats
3 Apples
4 England’s Glory
5 Tell The Children
6 I Made Mary Cry
7 SweetGene Vincent [backing track]
8 Blackmail Man
9 My Old Man
10 Something’s Going To
11 Happen In The Winter
12 Wifey
13 Sink My Boats [alternate version]
14 I’m Partial To Your Abracadabra
15 If I Was With A Woman
16 Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
18 Clevor Trever
19 Blockheads

IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS Do It Yourself [Deluxe Edition]

Tracklisting
1 Inbetweenies
2 Quiet
3 Don’t Ask Me
4 Sink My Boats
5 Waiting For Your Taxi
6 This Is What We Find
7 Uneasy Sunny Day Hotsy Totsy
8 Mischief
9 Dance Of The Screamers
10 Lullaby For Franci/es
11 What A Waste
12 Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
13 There Ain’t Have Been Some Clever Bastards
14 Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3
15 Common As Muck
16 Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3 [12” version]

From the “Stiff’s Live Stiffs” tour, 1977
1 Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
2 I’m Partial To Your Abracadabra
3 Wake Up And Make Love With Me
4 Clevor Trever
5 Sweet Gene Vincent
6 Billericay Dickie
7 My Old Man
8 If I Was With A Woman
9 Blockheads
10 Plaistow Patricia
11Blackmail Man

IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS Laughter [Deluxe Edition]

"Laughter", issued in December 1980, was Dury’s third album for Stiff Records, and the only one to feature Dr. Feelgood's original (and best) guitarist, the remarkable Wilko Johnson who co-wrote the hit single "Sueperman’s Big Sister".

• This deluxe edition includes the three non-album singles sides (including the hit "I Want To Be Straight"). The bonus edition features sixteen previously unreleased tracks, starting with three excellent outtakes from the album sessions, including a full-blown version of the legendary "Duff ‘Em Up And Do ‘Em Over", along with the Blockheads’ demos for the album, including many unused song ideas. The bonus selection closes with Wilko Johnson’s trademark guitar on a demo of "Duff ‘Em Up", and a superb blasting cover of Henry
Mancini’s "Peter Gunn".

Tracklisting
1 Superman’s Big Sister
2 Pardon
3 Delusions Of Grandeur
4 Yes And No (Paula)
5 Dance Of The Crackpots
6 Over The Points
7 ( Take Your Elbow Out The Soup) You’re Sitting On The Chicken
8 Uncoolohol
9 Hey, Hey Take Me Away
10 Manic Depression (Jimi)
11 Oh Mr Peanut
12 Fucking Ada
13 I Want To Be Straight
14 That’s Not All
15 You’ll See Glimpses

Album Outtakes
1 Duff ‘Em Up And Do ‘Em Over (Boogie Woogie)
2 You Are Here
3 Come In No. 9

Demo instrumentals by The Blockheads
1 Chicken [Take Your Elbow Out Of The Soup]
2 CC’s Rock
3 I Know Your Name
4 Public Party [Dance Of The Crackpots]
5 Black And White [Yes And No (Paula)]
6 Manic Depression
7 More Turns For Everyone
8 Blue Light [That’s Not All]
9 Back To Y-Front
10 Fatback
11 On The Spot (Do The Block)
12 Duff ‘Em Up And Do ‘Em Over (Boogie Woogie) [Oh Mr Peanut]
13 Peter Gunn

IAN DURY The Bus Drivers Prayer And Other Stories [Deluxe Edition]

Often-overlooked gem “The Bus Drivers Prayer And Other Stories”, with the full co-operation of the Dury estate and the Blockheads this deluxe set includes eight song demos recorded in advance of the album.

Tracklisting
1 That's Enough Of That
2 Bill Haley's Last Words
3 Poor Joey
4 Quick Quick Slow
5 Fly In The Ointment
6 O' Donegal
7 Poo-Poo In The Prawn
8 Have A Word
9 London Talking
10 D' Orine The Cow
11 Your Horoscope
12 No Such Thing As Love
13 Two Old Dogs Without A Name

Demos
1 Amerind
2 I Believe
3 Cowboys
4 One Love
5 Grape And Grain
6 The Writer
7 Whale
8 Itinerant Child

The Stiff Singles + The Promo Videos + The Peel Session
[8 CDs +DVD]

• A box set of Ian Dury’s seven Stiff Records singles, in CD-sized replicas of their original classic 7” sleeves, as well as a four song disc featuring Ian & The Blockheads one and
only session for John Peel (or for any BBC Radio show), which is released for the first time in any format!

• The box also includes a bonus DVD of Ian and the band’s six entertaining promo videos for the singles, which have never been commercially released in any format, and have remained unseen
since they were broadcast on a handful of occasions in the late 70s / early 80s.

• The illustrated booklet is extensively annotated by chief Blockhead and Dury’s songwriting partner Chaz Jankel, along with keyboard player Mickey Gallagher.