The Very Best of Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Reasons to Be Cheerful

by Ian Dury & The Blockheads

The Very Best of Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Reasons to Be Cheerful cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 27 September 1999
  • Label: Stiff
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:14:55
  • Community rating: 3.87/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Steve Monti, Charley Charles, Chas Jankel, Ian Dury, The Blockheads, John Turnbull, Norman Watt-Roy

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A very-best-of collection from Ian Dury & The Blockheads, gathering the singles of the Kilburn pub rock band turned new wave hitmakers. The set, its subtitle drawn from their album 'Reasons to Be Cheerful', includes 'Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick' and 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll'.

Genres

Descriptors: synthesizers, atmospheric, melodic, dance, bassy

Tracklist

  1. Reasons To Be Cheerful (4:46)
  2. Wake Up And Make Love With Me (4:22)
  3. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (3:44)
  4. Clevor Trever (4:56)
  5. What A Waste (3:26)
  6. Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll (3:13)
  7. This Is What We Find (4:06)
  8. Itinerant Child (4:46)
  9. Sweet Gene Vincent (3:33)
  10. I Want To Be Straight (3:19)
  11. Blockheads (3:32)
  12. Mash It Up Harry (4:44)
  13. There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards (3:03)
  14. Billericay Dickie (4:16)
  15. Inbetweenies (5:19)
  16. Spasticus (Autisticus) (5:11)
  17. My Old Man (3:39)
  18. Lullaby For Francis (5:00)

Credits

  • Chas Jankel - guitar, keyboards, vocals [guitars/keys/vox], written-by
  • John Turnbull - guitar, vocals [vox]
  • Micky Gallagher - keyboards [keys], written-by
  • Davey Payne - saxophone [saxophones], written-by
  • Gilad Atzmon - saxophone [saxophones]
  • Ian Dury - vocals [vox], written-by

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