Track Listing DISC 1: NEW BOOTS AND PANTIES: 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 and Drugs and Rock and Roll 12. Razzle in My Pocket 13. You're More Than Fair 14. England's Glory - (live) 15. What a Waste
DISC 2: BONUS DISC: 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. Sweet Gene Vincent - (backing track) 8. Blackmail Man 9. My Old Man 10. Something's Going to Happen in the Winter 11. Wifey 12. Sink My Boats - (alternate take) 13. I'm Partial to Your Abracadabra 14. If I Was With a Woman 15. Sex and Drugs and Rock & Roll 16. Clevor Trever 17. Blockhead
| Details | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes This 1998 reissue contains 5 bonus tracks not on the original release. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Personnel: Ian Dury (vocals, drums); Chaz Jankel (guitar, keyboards, bass guitar); Ed Speight, Steve Nugent (guitar); Davey Payne, John Earle (saxophone); Geoff Castle (Moog synthesizer); Kuma Harada, Norman Watt-Roy, Giorgi Dionisiev (bass guitar); Peter Van Hooke, Charley Charles, Malcolm Mortimer (drums). Recording information: 1976 - 1977. Dury's one great album, so good that it overtakes major stars and million-selling supergroups. Dury portrayed the Essex man before Essex man was conceived, and brilliantly satirized it in 'Billericay Dickie' and 'Clevor Trever'. It is hard to imagine Dury the romantic, but there is a romantic in 'Wake Up And Make Love To Me' and 'I'm Partial To Your Abracadabra'; there is also sadness and regret in the beautiful 'My Old Man'. He should be remembered for his dynamite band the Blockheads and this necessary album - not his gold radio station albatross 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick'.
Editorial Reviews Ranked #66 in Q's 100 Greatest British Albums - ...Part punk mayhem, part gallery of grotesques and part music hall funk. If James Brown had worked with Max Miller, they might have made this record... Q (06/01/2000)
Included in Q's 100 Best Punk Albums. Q
5 stars out of 5 - All of it as warmly exhilarating as anything thrown up by Tamla Motown... Uncut
4 stars out of 5 - [R]emaining his most instantly enjoyable work. Mojo
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