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Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll - The Essential Collection [Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll] (CD)

Demon Music (UK) / 2010 / DMGTV 038
Promo CD in poly sleeve

Producer: Chaz Jankel...

1. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll 3:06 1977


2. What A Waste 3:27 1977


3. Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3) 4:45 1979


4. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick 3:43 1978


5. Billericay Dickie 4:17 1977


6. If I Was With A Woman 3:27 1977


7. Blackmail Man 2:15 1977


8. Wake Up And Make Love With Me 4:23 1977


9. My Old Man 3:39 1977


10. Sweet Gene Vincent 3:33 1977


11. Blockheads 3:33 1977


12. Clevor Trever 4:57 1977


13. I'm Partial To Your Abracadabra 3:13 1977


14. There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards 3:03 1978


15. Inbetweenies 5:19 1979


16. Superman's Big Sister 2:50 1980


17. I Want To Be Straight 3:19 1980


18. Spasticus Autisticus [Live] 5:03 1981


19. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick [12" Version] 5:24 1978


20. Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3) [12" Version] 6:40 1979

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll features the music of the late Ian Dury who was a proto-new wave, punk rocker of the 1970s. Having survived polio as a child, Ian encountered difficulties by his limited use of his left leg and arm, but persevered to become a popular recording artist for Stiff Records. He is also credited for creating the popular tagline: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, but sadly passed away in 2000 from liver cancer at the age of 57. The album featured here is timed to coincide with the release of director Mat Whitecross' motion picture biopic of Ian Dury's life: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. The part of Ian is played by Lord Of The Rings actor Andy Serkis who said Ian was, "...a real poet." The film opens in the U.K. on January 8th, 2010 and will hopefully make its way to the U.S. soon afterwards.

Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll contains twenty (20) selections from Ian Dury and the Blockheads which span the years from 1977 to 1981. All the essentials are offered here and the neat part is that we get a rare live version of Spasticus Autisticus and the extended twelve inch versions of the Disco Not Disco styled classics: Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick from 1978 and Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3) from 1979. While I haven't had a chance yet to see the movie, listening to this disc is certainly whetting my appetite as the music, especially from that first drum roll of the title track, conveys the sense of quirky song writing and plain good fun we remember from the era.

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