Ian Dury - Reasons To Be Cheerful The Best Of Ian Dury (2005)

Ian Dury made the top wave of punk rock in the late '70s, the wave subsided, but Durie remained. He wanted to be a great independent or not be at all. Rock 'n' Roll - The Work: Dury realized it earlier than others. When he did not work with contracts, he just picked up and dissolved the group - in spite of all the fans. Not for the fans, he did his job. He was really smart, the man with heavy eyes and heavy cockney accent, and he preferred to work alone or with a couple of friends musicians - composing music in which someone is looking for punk, someone - a disco, and someone - justification for his absurd life.

Tracklist:

CD1

01. Wake Up And Make Love With Me
02. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
03. Sweet Gene Vincent
04. My Old Man
05. Razzle In My Pocket
06. What A Waste
07. Rough Kids
08. The Roadette Song
09. Pam's Moods
10. Reasons to Be Cheerful, Pt. 3
11. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
12. There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards
13. Inbetweenies
14. Don't Ask Me
15. I Want To Be Straight
16. Superman's Big Sister
17. Yes & No (Paula)
18. That's Not All
19. Fucking Ada
20. The Bus Driver's Prayer

CD2

01. Jack Shit George
02. Bed O' Roses No. 9
03. Dance Little Rude Boy
04. Mash It Up Harry
05. It Ain't Cool
06. Books & Water
07. Really Glad You Came
08. Peter The Painter
09. Profoundly In Love With Pandora
10. Poor Joey
11. Poo-Poo In The Prawn
12. Clever Trevor
13. If I Was With A Woman
14. Billericay Dickie
15. Spasticus Autisticus
16. Blockheads