Deal alert / Ian Dury: The Studio Albums Collection / 9CD career box set

Fantastic deal in the UK at the moment for The Studio Albums Collection, the career spanning box set featuring music from the much-missed Ian Dury.

This nine-CD box features eight original albums (five by Ian Dury and three by Ian Dury and The Blockheads) and a superb bonus CD of non-album tracks. Everything is packaged in a clamshell box and you get a 16-page booklet.

This is really nicely done, and an absolute bargain at just £23 – about £2.50 a disc!

Disc: 1 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

Disc: 2 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 For The Screamers
10. Lullaby For Francies

Disc: 3 Laughter
1. Sueperman’s Big Sister
2. Pardon
3. Delusions Of Grandeur
4. Yes & 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

Disc: 4 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)

Disc: 5 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

Disc: 6 Apples
1. Apples
2. Love It 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

Disc: 7 The Bus Driver’s Prayer & Other Stories
1. That’s Enough Of That
2. Bill Haley’s Last Words
3. Poor Joey
4. Quick Quick Slow
5. Fly InTthe 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. The Bus Driver’s Prayer

Disc: 8 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

Disc: 9 – Bonus Disc
1. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
2. Razzle In My Pocket
3. You’re More Than Fair
4. England’s Glory [live]
5. What A Waste
6. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
7. There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards
8. Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3
9. Common As Muck
10. Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3 [12″ version]
11. I Want To Be Straight
12. That’s Not All
13. You’ll See Glimpses