Track Listing

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 'n' Roll

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4307 in Music
• Released on: 2006-06-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

CD Description
Dury's one great album, so good that it overtakes major stars and million-selling supergroups. Dury portrayed the Essexman before Essex man was conceived, and brilliantly satirized it in 'Billericay Dickie' and 'Clevor Trever'. It is hardto 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 'MyOld Man'. He should be remembered for his dynamite band theBlockheads and this necessary album - not his gold radio station albatross 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick'.

Customer Reviews

At the rendevous with Nina in the back of my Cortina !
Diamond Geezer...pub rocker...artist and artiste...urban poet. Step forward the uniquely brilliant Ian Dury.
'New boots and panties' was one of those post punk albums, like The Stranglers 'IV Rattus Novegicus' and The Jam's 'This is the modern world' which slipped out of the new wave without fanfare or celebration.
Sporting a front cover which showed Ian outside an Army & Navy emporium looking 'well hard' and posing alongside a passing scally waif, NB&P was the absolute anthisis of the pomp and ceremony of the Led Zeppelin-esque albums which clogged the album charts.
Fortunately,word of mouth meant that the album garnered a new legion of Dury admirers,going on to sell 500.000 in the UK and a million world wide.
Using a unique blend of vaudeville,funk,R & R, pub rock,cockney rhyming, humour and some spicy lyrics complete with obscenities...'Plaistow Patricia' is not a track to play in polite company !...NB&P rips along like a joy rider down Peckham High street !
The Blockheads display superb musicianship and are such a tight funky unit that it must have been a joy to provide the vocals.
Conjuring up now legendary characters, 'Billericcy Dickie'..'Clevor Trevor', the aforementioned 'PP' and the dirty old tom 'Nina'.. Dury paints a vivid picture of street life 'darn sarff !

Great stuff !

An elegy, a seduction and some profanity from Ian Dury
This minimally packaged reissue of Ian Dury's seminal new wave album from 1977 is a delight. The elegiac `My Old Man' and the profane `Plaistow Patricia' show that Dury was a wordsmith writing at the height of his powers. His backing band, that included future Blockheads members, also rose to the occasion. They demonstrate on New Boots And Panties that they were equally adept in providing raucous accompaniment (see the punk rock blast of `Blockheads') as twinkling seductively in the background (on saucy opener `Wake Up And Make Love With Me').

London's finest
Despite being well into his thirties when he and his band made this debut album, Ian Dury fitted easily into the 1977 music scene. Anything that looked or sounded different in that year was likely to be labelled punk rock and Dury, with his unglamorous image and London accent was quickly accepted as such. He had though slogged around the pub circuit for several years with Kilburn and The High Roads and recorded an unsuccessful album with them before founding this latest bunch of apparent misfits. In truth, The Blockheads were a superb band, and their music was more funky than punky, even if Dury himself sounded like an articulate, intellectual punk poet. Even on the slower tracks, The Blockheads' rhythm section make your body want to move.

'Wake Up...' kicks off with some tasteful piano before launching into an infectious groove. A revered rock and roll homage to Gene Vincent follows, featuring one of Dury's more intricate lyrics. As the album progresses, there's an increasing element of artful, often smutty music hall mixed with the funk and most of the songs are character sketches. Though 'Clevor Trever' is more subdued, Dury's lyric, full of negatives, captures the sense of insecurity superbly. The second half is generally not quite up to the quality of the first, but the band finish with the album's three most manic and musically anarchic tracks. The fast boogie of 'Blockheads' brilliantly takes the mickey out of the male half of the population. The string of obscenities between tracks, though musically delivered are, however, unnecessary. This isn't an album you played to Grandma.

My version of the album contains five marvellous bonus tracks. The title of 'Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll' has passed into comman usage as an expression of a certain lifestyle, but the single itself, banned of course, is a great track. I've also always had a soft spot for the b-side, 'Razzle In My Pocket' about a teenage dirty book thief on which Dury plays drums. The band's first hit, 'What A Waste', is also included, completing one of the landmark albums of the 1970s and it's still a great listen.