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Album Savings: £5.12 compared to buying all songs
- Original Release Date: 5 July 2004
- Format - Music: MP3
- Compatible with MP3 Players (including with iPod®), iTunes, Windows Media Player
- Also available in CD Format
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| Play | 1. Car Trouble (Parts 1 & 2) (Original Album Version) | 6:48 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 2. Digital Tenderness (Album Version) | 3:03 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 3. Nine Plan Failed (Album Version) | 5:11 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 4. The Day I Met God (Album Version) | 2:57 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 5. Tabletalk (Album Version) | 5:32 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 6. Cleopatra (Album Version) | 3:15 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 7. Catholic Day (Album Version) | 3:05 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 8. Never Trust A Man (With Egg On His Face) (Album Version) | 3:13 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 9. Animals And Men (Album Version) | 3:17 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 10. Family Of Noise (Album Version) | 2:36 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 11. The Idea (Album Version) | 3:25 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 12. Zerøx (Album Version) | 3:46 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 13. Whip In My Valise (Album Version) | 4:00 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 14. Kick! (Album Version) | 1:34 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 15. Physical (Single Version) | 3:57 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 16. Car Trouble (Parts 1 & 2) (Chris Hughes Mix) | 6:36 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 17. Friends (Single Version) | 2:38 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 18. Car Trouble (Single Version) | 3:24 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 19. Kick! (Single Version) | 2:06 | £0.69 |
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is my favourite Adam & The Ants album and I am delighted that it finally got the remastered CD release that it deserved.
I have a battered copy of the original vinyl record and was a little dismayed when the previous CD release of 'Dirk..' had a different track listing and included different mixes of the tracks.
This release fixes all those gripes and it sounds wonderful, the packaging is fantastic too. Kudos to all involved. This is the way all resissues should be handled!
I love the whole album. It still sounds fresh to this day. The songs have a slightly dark humour running through them, but the album manages to avoid being depressing.
The thing that made the Ants stand out among a lot of the other "punk" (for want of a better word) acts around at the time was that they could actually play their instruments. This is evident all the way through and in my mind this is the best ever line up of the Ants.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Gorgeously remastered, beautifully produced, lovingly packaged...I cannot say enough about how wonderful this--along with the other two new (5th July 2004) rereleases of Kings of the Wild Frontier and Prince Charming--disc is. I haven't gotten finished with this one yet, as I'm slowly enjoying them in chronological order (and Dirk is probably my favorite, especially here, as it includes tracks from the Antmusic EP and other rare Do It Records tracks never before available on CD--as far as I'm aware)...but I'm sure the other two are equally fantastic. So many of the original Ant circle are involved (mainly, it appears, Adam's sidekick Marco Pirroni) that these projects are absolute gems. I urge all Antfans to snap up the whole set of three!
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
'Dirk Wears White Sox' (a title that would be used later in the chorus of 'Don't Be Square (Be There)' from 'Kings of the Wild Frontier') was the sole album from the original Adam & the Ants- a band who would largely become Bow Wow Wow and who were more famous at the time for appearing in Derek Jarman's 'Jubilee.'
This budget-priced reissue, released alongside the great 'Kings...' (1980) & the popular 'Prince Charming' (1981)is in many ways greater than the commercial peak Ant is known for. This is probably due to the fact that no hits are here, so we don't have the cloud of nostalgia and good feeling get in the way. The other thing is, this collection of songs is a fantastic display of post-punk - sounding not unlike peers such as Subway Sect, Josef-K, The Fall, The Slits & Wire. Thus the angular-guitar-pop on display makes complete sense today in an age of similar sounding acts including Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol & The Futureheads...
This version of 'Dirk...', overseen by long-time Ant-associate Marco Pirroni, offers up a wonderfully-packaged, remastered collection that not only includes the original 1979-album, but also the singles 'Zerox'/'Whip in My Valise' & 'Cartrouble/Kick' alongside a 1982 e.p. of remixed-tracks from the 'Dirk'-era. It's notable that two popular acts from the 1990s would cover songs from here- Elastica covering 'Cleopatra' (on a bonus-single with their debut) and Nine Inch Nails covering 'Physical' on their 1992 'Broken' e.p.
'Dirk...' is a great achievment and shows that Ant can do the indie-thing with ease- here it is perfected, so it makes sense that like Green Gartside (Scritti Politti) he shifted to pop from indie/post-punk/D.I.Y. Ant not only composes all the songs here, but he produces the record and plays several instruments alongside the tight-band that also includes David Barbe, Matthew Ashman & Andrew Warren.
I love it all, highlights include 'Tabletalk', 'Never Trust a Man (With Egg On His Face)- which is very Blur, 'Catholic Day' (a companion to Magazine's 'Motorcade'), 'Cartrouble (Parts 1 & 2)' & 'Animals and Men' (which predates The Art of Noise in the futurist-alluding stakes!).
An excellent collection, an album that deserves to find a posthumous audience in the climate with a penchant for post-punk and ultimately something that if released today by a new band would have the N.M.E. excited, provided the singer could get a drugs-problem and/or celebrity girlfriend!!!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
What Do You Mean, You Don't Like Adam and the Antz?
The Day I Met God! Only audibly of course, was the day the original incarnation of the Ants (like so many before him) were introduced to my airwaves by Mr John Peel, sometime in... Read more
Published 5 months ago by npl62
Yout forget how good this guy is.
Gaet past all of your preconceptions about Adam Ant a bit like Abba fell out of favour for being too popular. Read more
Published 11 months ago by DW
A Darker Sounding CD
Great stuff for Antpeople, although i think if you are more into the Prince Charming and later albums, this may take you by surprise. Read more
Published on 10 Sep 2006 by Mrs. C. M. Stacey
Dirk's White Sox Are Shining Brightly
I don't really know what I can say about this album that hasn't been said time & time again. It's historic first full length release by Adam & the Ants and it's only a glimpse of... Read more
Published on 14 April 2005 by S. sisemore
This is the 'Family of Noise'
I do not need to present a critical analysis of this legendary album. I still possess my vinyl copy of the original 1979 release. Read more
Published on 5 Sep 2004 by "simon_conning"
Still fresh today
If you want to know where indie music got all its ideas from over the last 20 years, whether directly or indirectly, look no further than here. Read more
Published on 6 July 2004 by Matthew
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