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Artist: Ian Dury and The Music Students. Title: Reasons to Be Cheerful: The Best Of. 10: Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3. Genre: Rock/Pop. 6: What a Waste. Edition: Album. Format: CD. Release Date: 26/09/2005.

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Demon
UPC
5014797670167
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Artist
Ian Dury
Format
CD
Release Year
1996
Style
New Wave
Release Title
Reasons to Be Cheerful: The Best of Ian Dury [PA]
Run Time
150 mins 17 seconds
Genre
Rock

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Colorful, cranky, compelling, and cool, the creator of the Blockheads was could always be relied upon to crank out some at once evocative and raucous rock. Culled from his Blockheads recordings, as well as his solo outings and his work with Kilburn and the High Roads, this 34 track set features the anthems "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll," "Rough Kids," "Wake Up," and "I Wanna Be Straight." Liner Note Author: Phill Jupitus. The late Ian Dury knew for sure that it was a question of the right moment at the right time in the right place, because tomorrow might never arrive. And one day, he was right; it didn't. But his work ethic and never-give-up attitude left the world with some truly memorable music that is as much naughty fun as one can reasonably bear. There are 18 tracks, and all of the faves are here, of course. Who would want an Ian Dury comp without "Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll," or "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick," or "Sweet Gene Vincent?" So yeah, those are all here, and if those were the only singles the cat released, they would have assured his place in the pantheon of all that happened in the U.K. in the late '70s and early '80s. But what about the other stuff, like the James Brown meets Tom Tom Club meet Kurtis Blow mutation of the title track, with its sweet soul-jazz middle eight? Or, what about the driving piano funkiness of "Wake Up and Make Love With Love Me," with its hilarious dirty boasting and truly infectious greasy groove? And then there's the provocative ska meets reggae and R&B of "I Want to Be Straight," with its proclamation of wanting to get out of the dumps and into a place of stature in the welfare state. There is humor in this music in bushels. But all of that humor points to the heart of a cultural malaise, and at what crap it is to be lonely and brokenhearted and broke in an age of abundance while questioning what that abundance is. All of it backed by a band that never got credit for how tight and versatile it was, how it provoked Dury onto greater lyrical plateaus just to match those killer grooves. It's a shame the guy's gone, man, a real shame. What's worse is that he didn't get nearly the credit he was owed during his lifetime -- he had a better sense of humor and was more musically interesting that James White by a country mile, and had a better band than anybody. Hopefully, anybody who was remotely interested in Dury will pick this little slab of memory up and be astonished. Never has the sound of real rebellion been so friendly or so necessary. ~ Thom Jurek
Number of Audio Channels
Stereo
Number of discs
2

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