IAN DURY - Too Nutty To Be Naughty (Studio Recordings 1977-2002) - 9CD - Deluxe Box Set [DEC 5]

9CD - Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set

Demon Records are delighted to welcome back one of the richest and most diverse catalogues in the British rock cannon from the iconic, much-missed Ian Dury.

Kicking off what promises to be an exciting and comprehensive reappraisal of the artist’s repertoire between 1977 and the posthumously released final album ’Ten More Turnips From The Tip’, ‘Too Nutty To Be Naughty’ charts a thrilling journey from his punk-era masterpiece ‘New Boots And Panties!!’, through his classic studio works as a solo artist and with bands The Blockheads and The Music Students. Where appropriate, for this 9CD release, crucial standalone singles have been added as bonus tracks.

As to be expected from this versatile artist, throughout there are forays into rock ‘n’ roll, jazz and R&B, spoken word poetry, ska and just about all points in-between. With an innate genius for lyric writing, the songs here are, at turns, political, confrontational, tender, witty, wry, poetic and occasionally downright hilarious but always incisive…

Oh, and there’s the not inconsiderable matter of the inclusion therein of some of the all-time great tracks of the post-punk era… ‘Sweet Gene Vincent’, ‘Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick’, ‘Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3)’, ‘Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll’, ‘Spasticus Autisticus’, ‘Sueperman’s Big Sister’, ‘Bus Driver’s Prayer’ and many more.

CD1: New Boots And Panties!!
CD2: Do It Yourself
CD3: Laughter
CD4: Lord Upminster
CD5: 4,000 Weeks’ Holiday
CD6: Apples
CD7: The Bus Driver’s Prayer And Other Stories
CD8: Mr Love Pants
CD9: Ten More Turnips From The Tip

Tracklist: 

CD1: IAN DURY – ‘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 & Drugs & Rock & Roll (Bonus Track)
12. What A Waste (Bonus Track) – Ian Dury & The Blockheads

CD2: IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS – ‘DO IT YOURSELF’
1. Inbetweenies
2. Quiet
3. Don't Ask Me
4. Sink My Boats
5. Waiting For Your Taxi
6. This Is What We Find
7. Uneasy Sunny Day Hotsy Totsy
8. Mischief
9. Dance Of The Screamers
10. Lullaby For Francies
11. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (Bonus Track)
12. Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3) (Bonus Track)

CD3: IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS – ‘LAUGHTER’
1. Sueperman's Big Sister
2. Pardon
3. Delusions Of Grandeur
4. Yes and No (Paula)
5. Dance Of The Crackpots
6. Over The Points
7. (Take Your Elbow Out Of The Soup You're Sitting On The Chicken)
8. Uncoolohol
9. Hey, Hey, Take Me Away
10. Manic Depression (Jimi)
11. Oh Mr Peanut
12. Fucking Ada
13. I Want To Be Straight (Bonus Track)

CD4: IAN DURY – ‘LORD UPMINSTER’
1. Funky Disco Pops
2. Red Letter
3. Girls Watching
4. Wait For Me
5. The Body Song
6. Lonely Town
7. Trust Is A Must
8. Spasticus Autisticus

CD5: IAN DURY AND THE MUSIC STUDENTS – ‘4,000 WEEKS’ HOLIDAY’
1. (You're My) Inspiration
2. Friends
3. Tell Your Daddy
4. Peter The Painter
5. Ban The Bomb
6. Percy The Poet
7. Very Personal
8. Take Me To The Cleaners
9. The Man With No Face
10. Really Glad You Came
11. Profoundly In Love With Pandora (Bonus Track) – Ian Dury

CD6: IAN DURY – ‘APPLES’
1. Apples
2. Love Is All
3. Byline Browne
4. Bit Of Kit
5. Game On
6. Looking For Harry
7. England's Glory
8. Bus Drivers' Prayer
9. PC Honey
10. The Right People
11. All Those Who Say Okay
12. Riding The Outskirts Of Fantasy

CD7: IAN DURY – ‘THE BUS DRIVER’S PRAYER AND OTHER STORIES’
1. That's Enough Of That
2. Bill Haley's Last Words
3. Poor Joey
4. Quick Quick Slow
5. Fly In The Ointment
6. O’Donegal
7. Poo-Poo In The Prawn
8. Have A Word
9. London Talking
10. D'Orine The Cow
11. Your Horoscope
12. No Such Thing As Love
13. Two Old Dogs Without A Name
14. Bus Driver's Prayer

CD8: IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS – ‘MR LOVE PANTS’
1. Jack Shit George
2. The Passing Show
3. You're My Baby
4. Honeysuckle Highway
5. Itinerant Child
6. Geraldine
7. Cacka Boom
8. Bed O' Roses No. 9
9. Heavy Living
10. Mash It Up Harry

CD9: IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS – ‘TEN MORE TURNIPS FROM THE TIP’
1. Dance Little Rude Boy
2. I Believe
3. It Ain't Cool
4. Cowboys
5. Ballad Of The Sulphate Strangler
6. I Could Lie
7. One Love
8. Happy Hippy
9. Books And Water
10. You're The Why