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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. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll | |||
| 2. I’m Partial To Your Abracadabra | |||
| 3. Wake Up And Make Love With Me | |||
| 4. Clevor Trever | |||
| 5. Billericay Dickie | |||
| 6. Sweet Gene Vincent | |||
| 7. Blockheads | |||
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
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.
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.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format: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 !
'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 !
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Over 30 years old but still sounds great. This is a seminal "new wave" album from Stiff records. The tracks are classics, if you don't have it then the remastered version is slightly clearer than the original in my opinion.
The Blockheads were a fine band with great musical compositions nicely set off by the slightly loony Ian Dury with his bawdy lyrics of life and loves in London and the South East. Billericay Dickie is a personal favourite of mine.
The DVD is taken from the excellent BBC concert series "Sight and Sound" which was broadcast simultaneously with Radio 2 (in the days before stereo TV for those of us old enough to remember). This was one of the Blockheads finest live concerts and well worth a listen although only 30 minutes / 7 songs in length.
I'm well pleased with this 2 disc set.
The Blockheads were a fine band with great musical compositions nicely set off by the slightly loony Ian Dury with his bawdy lyrics of life and loves in London and the South East. Billericay Dickie is a personal favourite of mine.
The DVD is taken from the excellent BBC concert series "Sight and Sound" which was broadcast simultaneously with Radio 2 (in the days before stereo TV for those of us old enough to remember). This was one of the Blockheads finest live concerts and well worth a listen although only 30 minutes / 7 songs in length.
I'm well pleased with this 2 disc set.
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Me and My Mate
Taking a stroll down memory lane, me and my mate used to listen to this like mad when we were growing up. We'd play backgammon all night and listen to Blockheads. Read more
Published 6 months ago by D. Smith
new boots and panties by ian dury
a little disappointed as the second disc is all demos but the first disc is fineNew Boots And Panties (Deluxe Edition) [Explicit]
Published 6 months ago by Mr. I. SMITH
New Boots and Panties
This product is really hard to find in second hand shops, so I was thrilled to be able to get it online at such a reasonable price. It's as gut wrenchingly good as ever.
Published 7 months ago by purplewebcat
original sounds
Ian Durys best ever album, i bought this to replace my worn out vinyl.Dont bother with any other remixes or best ofs this is the original mix perfect 10 out of 10
Published 14 months ago by Tricky
Plaistow surgery
Just revisiting the magic world of Dury after a long time away - it's the genuine vision that Barbara Windsor could only dream of in 'er worst nightmare. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Doug
Classic Dury - a real nostalgia trip
I bought this in order to reminisce - and it didn't disappoint. Strong musical themes, great lyrics, and lashings of humour. Magnificent......
Published on 24 April 2010 by Bakes
Knock me down with a feather !
Ian Dury is associated with punk/new wave, and both certainly shared some common ground, but he was a product of the pub-rock scene of the early 70's and his roots stretched much... Read more
Published on 19 April 2010 by A. Willard
'Sweet Ian Dury, Young and Old and Gone'!
What can I say! For all fans of the 'late, great' Ian Dury this two-disc edition is a must, just for the DVD disc alone. Read more
Published on 29 Jan 2010 by Music Mad Me!
Innovative Genius
If there has ever been a better band than the Blockheads would someone please tell me. What a wonderful album - poignant, funny and no one told a story like Ian. Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2010 by R. Morgan
New Boots 2CD edition
New Boots & Panties is a masterpiece; anyone who has a pulse should own a copy! DOn't bother to read this. Just order in now! Read more
Published on 26 July 2009 by Andrew J. Frankton
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