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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Wake Up And Make Love With Me (Demo Version) | |||
| 2. Sink My Boats (Demo Version) | |||
| 3. Apples (Demo Version) | |||
| 4. England’s Glory (Demo Version) | |||
| 5. Tell The Children (Demo Version) | |||
| 6. I Made Mary Cry (Demo Version) | |||
| 7. Sweet Gene Vincent (backing track) (Demo Version) | |||
| 8. Blackmail Man (Demo Version) | |||
| 9. My Old Man (Demo Version) | |||
| 10. Something’s Going To Happen In The Winter (Demo Version) | |||
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Stiff Records specialised in making stars of left-of-centre acts that didn't fit neatly within boundaries. Former pub-rocker Ian Dury's debut, New Boots and Panties!, set forth the manifesto of a visionary nearly on par with short-term label mate Elvis Costello. Linking a savage verbal wit and a fiction writer's eye for detail with a command of music from punk parody (the hilarious "Blackmail Man") to sophisto-funk ("Wake Up and Make Love with Me"), Dury was one of the most English of artists. More to the point, though, he was the only Dury-ish one. --Rickey Wright
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It’s a wonderful irony that the two lyricists who most embodied punk’s libertarian role in helping banish the last vestiges of straight-laced Victorian values in the mid-70s were the two who most resembled a Dickensian nightmare. Johnny Rotten and Ian Dury both sought release from a social system designed to keep working class oiks like them in their place, and although one approached the task through head-on confrontation and the other with art school nuance, the message was the same: Think For Yourself.
After hundreds of pub gigs as Kilburn & The High Roads, Dury went solo in 1975, writing New Boots and Panties!! over the following year with young and precocious multi-instrumentalist jazzer Chaz Jankel, recording it on the fly with session rhythm section Norman Watt-Roy (bass) and Charley Charles (drums), soon to be the core of The Blockheads. With major record companies running scared of the graphic lyrical content, independent label Stiff licensed it and stepped into a storm around Dury’s misunderstood signature single Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, which duly had him banned from BBC radio. Absent from the album’s earliest pressings, Sex & Drugs… was misconstrued as a celebration of debauchery and hedonism when it was actually a call for people to question their daily grind.
It was far from a lone jewel. Sweet Gene Vincent is a blast of rockabilly hero worship for a kindred spirit, felt by Dury not least because of their common disability – Dury’s leg wasted through childhood polio, the Virginia Whisperer’s through a drunken motorbike crash. Lustful opener Wake Up and Make Love With Me sets out Watt-Roy and Charles’s stall as the pub rock JBs; the squalid Billericay Dickie shows that TOWIE has no new light to shed on Essex ways; Clever Trevor and Plaistow Patricia (with its child-unfriendly opening gambit of "A***holes, bastards, f***ing c***s and p****s") were down-at-heel characters straight out of an imagined modern Dickens novel.
Dury’s work quickly mellowed (well, relatively), but the combination of cheeky ire, libertarianism and jazzed-up music hall punk on New Boots… was defiant, original and, 35 years later, stands as a mighty missing link between The Kinks and Blur.
--Andy Fyfe
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must have album.,
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This review is from: New Boots and Panties: +DVD (Audio CD)
In many ways the quintessential British New Wave album,New Boots And Panties gets yet another re release.So the question is do you need this as well as the brilliant 2 cd reissue of a couple of years ago?If you have never owned this album on cd this is probably the best time to invest,but if you own a previous version, i'm not fully convinced.The Sight And Sound dvd is fantastic,[But clocking in at under 30 minutes],and is a perfect representation of Ian Dury and the Blockheads at their peak[and they were a tight,disciplined live unit].However with only seven songs i feel a little short changed[surely some other footage could have been found to make this better value],and as much as i love this album and band,it is hard to recommend buying this if you own the album on cd already. A five star review is given for the amazing music on both discs,which is timeless,but approach this reissue with some caution,as you may already own a perfectly adequate version.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
At the rendevous with Nina in the back of my Cortina !,
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This review is from: New Boots and Panties (Audio CD)
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 !
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
genius,
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This review is from: New Boots and Panties (Audio CD)
this is an amazing funky album that really shows what a funny bloke ian dury was. Wake up and make love to me, has one of the most funky intros that you will ever find on record and the lyrics are classic too, and the album manages to keep this feel all the way through. the bonus tracks on the album contain Sex and Drugs and What a Waste which are too utterly brilliant songs. this album should be brought by any one that likes good tight jazz rock and who has a sense of humour.
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