Discography

1974

Rough Kids Single Cover

Rough Kids / Billy Bentley (Promenades Himself in London)

Kilburn and the High Roads

Single, 7” vinyl (November)

Dawn Records/Pye DNS 1090

These two tracks are available for download at Amazon on the HandsomeDownload Rough Kids and Billy Bently at Amazon album.

1975

Crippled with nerves single

Crippled with Nerves / Huffety Puff

Kilburn and the High Roads

Single, 7” vinyl (November)

Dawn Records/Pye DNS 1102

These two tracks are available for download at Amazon on the Handsome album.

Handsome front cover

HANDSOME

Kilburn and the High Roads

Album, vinyl (June)

Side one:

  1. The Roadette Song
  2. Pam’s Moods
  3. Crippled with Nerves
  4. Broken Skin
  5. Upminster Kid

Side two:

  1. Patience (So What?)
  2. Father
  3. Thank you, Mum
  4. Rough Kids
  5. The Badger and the Rabbit
  6. The Mumble Rumble and the Cocktail Rock

Dawn Records/Pye DNLS 3065

Re-issued November 1985 on Flashback FBLP/ZCFBL 8094

Available to download at Amazon: Handsome: Kilburn and the High Roads

1977

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll / Razzle in My Pocket

Ian Dury

Single, 7” vinyl (August)

Stiff Records BUY17

Available to download at Amazon:Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (EP)

New Boots & Panties'

NEW BOOTS AND PANTIES!!

Ian Dury

Album, vinyl (September)

Side one:

  1. Wake Up and Make Love with Me
  2. Sweet Gene Vincent
  3. I’m Partial to Your Abracadabras
  4. My Old Man
  5. Billericay Dickie

Side two:

    1. Clevor Trever
    2. If I Was with a Woman
    3. Blockheads
    4. Plaistow Patricia
    5. Blackmail Man
>

Stiff Records SEEZ4

Available to download at Amazon: NEW BOOTS AND PANTIES!!

Sweet Gene Single

Sweet Gene Vincent / You’re More Than Fair

Ian Dury and the Blockheads / Ian Dury and the Kilburns

Single 7” vinyl (November)

Stiff Records BUY23

Available to download at Amazon: Sweet Gene Vincent

1978

What a Waste / Wake Up and Make Love with Me

What a Waste / Wake Up and Make Love with Me

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Single, 7” vinyl (April)

Stiff Records BUY27

Available at Amazon: What A Waste Mp3

Billy Bentley (Promenades Himself in London) / Pam's Moods

Billy Bentley (Promenades Himself in London) / Pam’s Moods

Ian Dury and the Kilburns

Single, 7” vinyl (September)

Warner Brothers K17225

Available to download at Amazon: on the Handsome Album

Wotabunch!

WOTABUNCH!

Kilburn and the High Roads (featuring Ian Dury)

Album, vinyl (October)

Side one:

  • The Call Up
  • Crippled with Nerves
  • Patience (So What?)
  • You’re More than Fair
  • Upminster Kid
  • Billy Bentley (Promenades Himself in London)

Side two:

  • Huffety Puff
  • Rough Kids
  • The Roadette Song
  • The Badger and the Rabbit
  • The Mumble Rumble and the Cocktail Rock / Pam’s Moods

Warner Brothers K56513

Amazon quick search: WOTABUNCH!

Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick / There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards

Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick / There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Single, 7” vinyl (November)

Stiff Records BUY38

Available at Amazon: Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick..

1979

Do It Yourself

DO IT YOURSELF

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Side one:

  • Inbetweenies
  • Quiet
  • Don’t Ask Me
  • Sink My Boats
  • Waiting for Your Taxi

Side two:

  • Is What We Find
  • Uneasy Sunny Day Hotsy Totsy
  • Mischief
  • Dance of the Screamers
  • Lullaby for France/is

Stiff Records SEEZ14

This album has been re-issued by Demon Records.

Buy it here: Do It Yourself

Reasons To Be Cheerful

Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part Three) / Common as Muck

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Single, 7” vinyl (July)

Stiff Records BUY50

Buy original copies here:

REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL 7 INCH (7″ VINYL 45) UK STIFF 1979

1980

I Want to Be Straight / That’s Not All

I Want to Be Straight / That’s Not All

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Single, 7” vinyl (August)

Stiff Records BUY90

You can download an mp3 of I Want to be Straight here:

I Want To Be Straight [Explicit]

Sueperman’s Big Sister / You’ll See Glimpses

Sueperman’s Big Sister / You’ll See Glimpses

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Single, 7” vinyl (November)

Stiff Records BUY100

Both these tracks are included on ‘Laughter’ – see below.

Sueperman’s Big Sister / Fucking Ada

Sueperman’s Big Sister / Fucking Ada

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Single, 12” vinyl

Stiff Records BUYIT100

Both these tracks are included on ‘Laughter’ – see below.

LAUGHTER

LAUGHTER

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Album, vinyl (December)

Side one:

  • Sueperman’s Big Sister
  • Pardon
  • Delusions of Grandeur
  • Yes and No (Paula)
  • Dance of the Crackpots
  • Over the Points

Side two:

  • (Take Your Elbow out of the Soup, You’re Sitting on the Chicken)
  • Uncoolohol
  • Hey, Hey, Take Me Away
  • Manic Depression (Jimi)
  • Oh, Mr Peanut
  • Fucking Ada

Stiff Records SEEZ30

You can buy this album as an mp3 download (with outtakes and demos on disc 2) here:

Laughter [Explicit]

1981

Spasticus Autisticus / Spasticus Autisticus (Instrumental)

Spasticus Autisticus / Spasticus Autisticus (Instrumental)

Ian Dury (with the Seven Seas Players)

Single, 7” vinyl (July)

Polydor POSP 285

LORD UPMINSTER

LORD UPMINSTER

Ian Dury

Album, vinyl (September)

Side one:

  • Funky Disco (Pops)
  • Red (Letter)
  • Girls (Watching)
  • Wait (For Me)

Side two:

  • The (Body Song)
  • Lonely (Town)
  • Trust (Is a Must)
  • Spasticus (Autisticus)

Polydor POLD 5042

JUKEBOX DURY

JUKEBOX DURY

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Compilation album, vinyl (November)

Side one:

  • What a Waste
  • Reasons to be Cheerful (Part Three)
  • Wake Up and Make Love with Me
  • There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards
  • Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
  • Razzle in My Pocket

Side two:

  • Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
  • Inbetweenies
  • Common as Muck
  • Sweet Gene Vincent
  • I Want to be Straight
  • You’ll See Glimpses

Stiff Records SEEZ41

1983

Really Glad You Came / You’re My Inspiration </

Really Glad You Came / You’re My Inspiration

Ian Dury

Single, 7” vinyl (November)

Polydor POSP 646

UPMINSTER KIDS

UPMINSTER KIDS

Kilburn and the High Roads feat. Ian Dury

Album, 10” vinyl re-issue (June)

Side one:

  • The Roadette Song
  • Crippled with Nerves
  • Thank You, Mum
  • Pam’s Moods

Side two:

  • Rough Kids
  • Broken Skin
  • The Mumble Rumble and the Cocktail Rock
  • The Call Up

PRT Records DOW17

1984

4,000 WEEKS HOLIDAY

4,000 WEEKS HOLIDAY

Ian Dury and the Music Students

Album, vinyl (January)

Side one:

  • You’re My Inspiration
  • Friends
  • Tell Your Daddy
  • Peter the Painter
  • Ban the Bomb

Side two:

  • Percy the Poet
  • Very Personal
  • Take Me to the Cleaners
  • The Man with No Face
  • Really Glad You Came

Polydor POLD 5112

Due to be re-issued in 2013. Check Amazon Marketplace for imports and out of press copies.

Very Personal / Ban the Bomb

Very Personal / Ban the Bomb

Ian Dury and the Music Students

Single, 7” vinyl (February)

Polydor POSP 673

Single, 12” vinyl with The Sky’s The Limit

Polydor POSPX 673

Both these tracks will be included on the 2013 re-issue.

1985

Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick / Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll (Paul Hardcastle remixes)

Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick / Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll (Paul Hardcastle remixes)

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Single, 7” vinyl (May)

Stiff Records BUY 214

Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick / Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll (Paul Hardcastle remixes)

Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick / Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll (Paul Hardcastle remixes)

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Single, 12” vinyl with Reasons to Be Cheerful / Wake Up and Make Love with Me (Paul Hardcastle remixes)

Stiff Records BUYIT 214

Pandora

Profoundly in Love with Pandora / Eugenius (You’re a Genius)

Ian Dury

Picture single, 7” vinyl (October)

EMI EMIP 5534

1986

NEW BOOTS AND PANTIES!!

NEW BOOTS AND PANTIES!!

Ian Dury

Album re-issue plus interview, vinyl (September)

Side one:

  • Wake Up and Make Love with Me
  • Sweet Gene Vincent
  • I’m Partial to Your Abracadabra
  • My Old Man
  • Billericay Dickie

Side two:

  • Clevor Trever
  • If I Was with a Woman
  • Blockheads
  • Plaistow Patricia
  • Blackmail Man

Stiff Records SEEZ 4, Re-issued by Demon Records

1987

SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL

SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Compilation album, vinyl (April)

  • Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
  • I Want to Be Straight
  • There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards
  • What a Waste
  • Common as Muck
  • Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part Three)
  • Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
  • Sueperman’s Big Sister
  • Razzle in My Pocket
  • You’re More than Fair
  • Inbetweenies
  • You’ll See Glimpses

Demon Records FIEND/+CASS/CD 69

1989

APPLES

APPLES

Ian Dury

Album, vinyl (October)

Side one:

  • Apples
  • Love Is All
  • Byline Browne
  • Bit of Kit
  • Game On
  • Looking for Harry

Side two:

  • England’s Glory
  • Bus Driver’s Prayer
  • PC Honey
  • The Right People
  • All Those Who Say Okay
  • Riding the Outskirts of Fantasy

WEA WX326 246 355-1

Apples / Byline Browne

Apples / Byline Browne

Ian Dury

Single, 7” vinyl (October)

WEA YZ437

1991

Warts-N-Audience

WARTS ‘N’ AUDIENCE

Ian Dury & the Blockheads

Live album recorded 22nd December 1990, CD (April)

Side one:

  • Wake Up and Make Love with Me
  • Clevor Trever
  • Billericay Dickie
  • Quiet
  • My Old Man
  • Spasticus Autisticus

Side two:

  • Plaistow Patricia
  • There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards
  • Sweet Gene Vincent
  • What A Waste
  • Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
  • Blockheads

Demon Records FIEND 777

1992

THE BUS DRIVER’S PRAYER & OTHER STORIES

THE BUS DRIVER’S PRAYER & OTHER STORIES

Ian Dury

Album, CD (November)

  • That’s Enough of That
  • Bill Haley’s Last Words
  • Poor Joey
  • Quick, Quick, Slow
  • Fly in the Ointment
  • O’Donegal
  • Poo-poo in the Prawn
  • Have a Word
  • London Talking
  • D’Orine the Cow
  • Your Horoscope
  • No Such Thing as Love
  • Two Old Dogs without a Name
  • Bus Driver’s Prayer

Demon Records FIENDCD 702

SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL: THE BEST OF IAN DURY AND THE BLOCKHEADS

SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL: THE BEST OF IAN DURY AND THE BLOCKHEADS

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Compilation album, CD (May)

  • Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
  • Razzle in My Pocket
  • Wake Up and Make Love with Me
  • Sweet Gene Vincent
  • Billericay Dickie
  • Clevor Trever
  • Blockheads
  • You’re More than Fair
  • What a Waste
  • Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
  • There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards

Rhino Records R2 70270

1995

THE BEST OF IAN DURY

THE BEST OF IAN DURY

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Compilation album, CD

  • Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
  • Wake Up and Make Love with Me
  • Sweet Gene Vincent
  • Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
  • Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part Three)
  • I Want to Be Straight
  • Sueperman’s Big Sister
  • What a Waste
  • I’m Partial to Your Abracadabra
  • Billericay Dickie
  • Clevor Trever
  • Blockheads
  • Plaistow Patricia
  • Inbetweenies
  • Sink My Boats
  • Waiting for Your Taxi
  • This Is What We Find
  • Mischief
  • Dance of the Crackpots
  • Hey, Hey, Take Me Away
  • Profoundly in Love with Pandora

Repetoire Records REP4507

1996

THE BEST OF IAN DURY

THE BEST OF IAN DURY

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Compilation album, CD

  • What a Waste
  • Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part Three)
  • Wake Up and Make Love with Me
  • There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards
  • Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
  • Razzle in My Pocket
  • Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
  • Inbetweenies
  • Common as Muck
  • Sweet Gene Vincent
  • I Want to Be Straight
  • You’ll See Glimpses

Disky Records DC 869752

1998

MR LOVE PANTS

MR LOVE PANTS

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Album, CD (June)

  • Jack Shit George
  • The Passing Show
  • You’re My Baby
  • Honeysuckle Highway
  • Itinerant Child
  • Geraldine
  • Cacka Boom
  • Bed o’ Roses (No 9)
  • Heavy Living
  • Mash It Up, Harry Ian Dury and the Blockheads

east central one / Ronnie Harris Records DUR1

1999

THE VERY BEST OF IAN DURY AND THE BLOCKHEADS: REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL

THE VERY BEST OF IAN DURY AND THE BLOCKHEADS: REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Compilation album, 2 CD set

Side one:

  • Reasons to Be Cheerful
  • Wake Up and Make Love with Me
  • Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
  • Clevor Trever
  • What a Waste
  • Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
  • This Is What We Find
  • Itinerant Child
  • Sweet Gene Vincent
  • I Want to Be Straight
  • Blockheads
  • Mash It Up Harry
  • There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards
  • Billericay Dickie
  • Inbetweenies
  • Spasticus (Autisticus)
  • My Old Man
  • Lullaby for France/is

Papillion Records 72435 22888 23

2000

Warts 'n' Audience...Plus

WARTS ‘N’ AUDIENCE PLUS! – IAN DURY AND THE BLOCKHEADS LIVE

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Live album re-issue, CD

  • Intro
  • Wake Up and Make Love with Me
  • Clevor Trever
  • Inbetweenies
  • If I Was with a Woman
  • Billericay Dickie
  • Quiet
  • My Old Man
  • Spasticus (Autisticus)
  • Plaistow Patricia
  • There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards
  • Sweet Gene Vincent
  • What a Waste
  • Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
  • Blockheads

Edsel Records DIAB 8037

You can buy this album here: Warts ‘n’ Audience…Plus

2001

STRAIGHT-FROM-THE-DESK

STRAIGHT FROM THE DESK

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Live album, CD, recorded at Ilford Odeon on December 23rd, 1978

Side one:

  • Wake Up and Make Love with Me
  • I’m Partial to Your Abracadabra
  • Upminster Kid
  • Clevor Trever
  • This Is What We Find
  • You’re More than Fair
  • Blackmail Man
  • Billericay Dickie
  • Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
  • There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards
  • Plaistow Patricia
  • I Made Mary Cry
  • What a Waste
  • My Old Man
  • Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll

BLOXLIVE 001

BRAND NEW BOOTS AND PANTIES

BRAND NEW BOOTS AND PANTIES

Various artists

Tribute album, CD

  • Wake Up And Make Love With Me (Sinead O’Connor)
  • Sweet Gene Vincent (Robbie Williams)
  • I’m Partial To Your Abracadabra (Paul McCartney)
  • My Old Man (Madness)
  • Billericay Dickie (Billy Bragg And The Blokes)
  • Clevor Trever (Wreckless Eric)
  • If I Was With A Woman (Cerys Matthews ) Blockheads (Grant Nicholas)
  • Plaistow Patricia (Shane MacGowan )
  • Blackmail Man (Keith Allen)

east central one NEWBOOTS 2CD

2002

TEN MORE TURNIPS FROM THE TIP

TEN MORE TURNIPS FROM THE TIP

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Posthumous album, CD (March)

Side one:

  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. Ian’s Poem by Jock Scot
  11. You’re the Why

east central one / Ronnie Harris Records DUR2

ONE LOVE

ONE LOVE

Ian Dury and the Blockheads / Jock Scot

Single, CD

  1. One Love
  2. Ballad of the Sulphate Strangler
  3. Ian’s Poem by Jock Scot

east central one DUR4

2005

REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL: THE BEST OF IAN DURY

REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL: THE BEST OF IAN DURY

Kilburn and the High Roads / Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Compilation album, 2 CD set (September)

  • 1-1 Wake Up and Make Love with Me
  • 1-2 Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
  • 1-3 Sweet Gene Vincent
  • 1-4 My Old Man
  • 1-5 Razzle in My Pocket
  • 1-6 What a Waste
  • 1-7 Rough Kids
  • 1-8 The Roadette Song
  • 1-9 Pam’s Moods
  • 1-10 Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part Three)
  • 1-11 Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
  • 1-12 There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards
  • 1-13 Inbetweenies
  • 1-14 Don’t Ask Me
  • 1-15 I Want to Be Straight
  • 1-16 Sueperman’s Big Sister
  • 1-17 Yes and No (Paula)
  • 1-18 That’s Not All
  • 1-19 Fucking Ada
  • 1-20 The Bus Driver’s Prayer
  • 2-1 Jack Shit George
  • 2-2 Bed o’ Roses (No. 9)
  • 2-3 Dance Little Rude Boy
  • 2-4 Mash It Up Harry
  • 2-5 It Ain’t Cool
  • 2-6 Books and Water
  • 2-7 Really Glad You Came
  • 2-8 Peter the Painter
  • 2-9 Profoundly In Love with Pandora
  • 2-10 Poor Joey
  • 2-11 Poo-poo in the Prawn
  • 2-12 Clever Trevor (Live)
  • 2-13 If I Was with A Woman (Live)
  • 2-14 Billericay Dickie (Live)
  • 2-15 Spasticus (Autisticus) (Live)
  • 2-16 Blockheads (Live)

Music Club Deluxe MCDLX016

2008

IAN-DURY---THE-STIFF-SINGLES-THE-PROMO-VIDEOS-THE-PEEL-SESSION

IAN DURY: THE STIFF SINGLES, THE PROMO VIDEOS, THE PEEL SESSION

Kilburn and the High Roads/Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Single, 8 CD set

  • 1-1 Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
  • 1-2 Razzle in My Pocket
  • 1-3 Two Steep Hills
  • 1-4 England’s Glory
  • 2-1 Sweet Gene Vincent
  • 2-2 You’re More than Fair
  • 3-1 What a Waste
  • 3-2 Wake Up and Make Love with Me
  • 4-1 Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
  • 4-2 There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever
  • 5-1 Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part Three)
  • 5-2 Common as Muck
  • 5-3 Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part Three) (12″ version)
  • 6-1 I Want to Be Straight
  • 6-2 That’s Not All /7-1 Sueperman’s Big Sister
  • 7-2 You’ll See Glimpses
  • The Peel Session 8-1 Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
  • 8-2 Clevor Trevor
  • 8-3 Sweet Gene Vincent
  • 8-4 Blockheads
  • Promo Videos 9-1 Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
  • 9-2 What a Waste
  • 9-3 Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
  • 9-4 Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part Three)
  • 9-5 I Want to Be Straight
  • 9-6 Sueperman’s Big Sister

Edsel Records EDSB 4003

2010

SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL: THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION

SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL: THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION

Ian Dury & The Blockheads

Compilation album, CD (January)

  1. Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
  2. What a Waste
  3. Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part Three)
  4. Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
  5. Billericay Dickie
  6. If I Was with A Woman
  7. Blackmail Man
  8. Wake Up And Make Love with Me
  9. My Old Man
  10. Sweet Gene Vincent
  11. Blockheads
  12. Clevor Trever
  13. I’m Partial to Your Abracadabra
  14. There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards
  15. Inbetweenies
  16. Sueperman’s Big Sister
  17. I Want to Be Straight
  18. Spasticus (Autisticus) (Live)
  19. Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick (12″ version)
  20. Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part Three) (12″ version)

DMG TV DMGTV 038

Available to buy on Amazon sex&drugs&rock&roll – The Essential Collection

See the film ‘Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll’ starring Andy Serkis – also available to buy at Amazon

Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll [DVD]