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Best of The Lightning Seeds is the first greatest hits album by English alternative rock band The Lightning Seeds, released on 10 November 1997. The album includes the band's singles from 1989 up until the album's release, plus two previously unreleased tracks and one new version of a song from a previous studio album.
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- There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards. The B-side of 1987 single 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick', 'There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards' was written by Ian with Russell Hardy, his former Kilburn and the High Roads bandmate.
- Wake Up and Make Love with Me. Originally appearing as the opener of Ian's best-known album New Boots and Panties!! , 'Wake Up and Make Love with Me' is one of those released as Ian Dury, rather than -and the Blockheads.
- I Want to Be Straight. Ian Dury and The Blockheads - I Want To Be Straight [Official Video] 'I Want to be Straight' was the very first release from the Blockheads after the departure of key figure Chaz Jankel.
- What a Waste. Ian Dury and The Blockheads - What A Waste (Official HD Video) This non-album 1978 single originally released on punk label Stiff Records, 'What A Waste' is all about not doing those jobs you could have had and – instead – doing what you love, like being in a rock 'n' roll band.
- Billericay Dickie
- Superman’s Big Sister
- Ballad of The Sulphate Strangler
- Dance Little Rude Boy
- Sweet Gene Vincent
- Spaticus Autisiticus
- Sex and Drugs and Rock N Roll
- Reasons to Be Cheerful Part 3
- Hit with Me with Your Rhythm Stick
- What A Waste
Kicking off our Ian Dury songs list is this track taken from his debut solo album New Boots and Panties!!!. A song that is very much an example of Dury’s penchant for taking inspiration from his native Essex which is located in the South of England, this music hall-style number tells the story of a somewhat pathetic character as he experiences vari...
Here is a single released in 1980 that purposefully misspelled Superman to avoid any copyright trouble that the band may have had with DC Comics. It was released as a single to promote the album Laughterbut was not very successful, peaking at only fifty-one on the UK charts. The song was co-written with Wilko Johnson and tells the story of being in...
This emotive and poignant song is taken from the Blockhead’s final album Ten More Turnips from the Tipwhich was released posthumously in 2002, two years after Dury’s death. The album’s existence came to be after Dury’s wife found a list of songs amongst the papers he had left, which was described as being almost “like a will.” Dury wrote the songs ...
Here we have a single that is also taken from Ten More Turnips From the Tip. It was one of two singles to be taken from the album, the other being “One Love/ Ballad of the Sulphate Strangler.” There were two songs included on the B side of this single which were “Books and Water” and “It Ain’t Cool.”
This song is taken from Ian Dury’s first solo album New Boots and Panties released in 1977 which was recorded as a tribute to the Rock n Roll singer Gene Vincent. It is one of the faster paced songs in the singer’s discography and despite the fact that he dropped other similar songs from his live sets in later years due to his declining health, thi...
Here is what is possibly the most controversial song in Dury’s back catalogue which was released as a single off the album Lord Upminster.Dury wrote it as a protest against the British International Year of the Disabled Person which as a disabled person himself, he found patronizing. The word “spastic” which was previously the name of the British d...
Here is a song that has always been released under the name Ian Dury as opposed to the Blockheads, despite the fact that three of the original Blockheads appear on it. It was released in 1977before the Blockheads were officially established. Despite the song’s critical acclaim and subsequent popularity, it did not chart upon its initial release.
At number three is a song that got to number three in the UK charts upon its release in 1979. It is the final single to be released by Blockhead’s original line-up. Despite its title, it is not actually a “part three” of anything. It was written after a near fatal accident that one of the band’s roadies suffered when he was electrocuted during a co...
Just off the top spot is this single released in 1978. It is the group’s most successful single, topping the UK charts. It was very critically acclaimed upon its release, receiving many accolades for best single of the year in several big music publications. The song’s lyrics were written by Chaz Jankel, who is the one of the Blockhead’s longest ru...
At number one is a single released in 1978. To this day it remains in the Blockheads live sets. The song’s lyrics are about viewing what someone has done with their life. It was written before the Blockhead’s formation after the breakup of Dury’s previous band Kilburn and the Highroads. It was the group’s first hit peaking at number nine in the Uk....
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Mar 26, 2017 · Here, however, we whittle down a decade of societal decadence and political decay into the 100 tracks that defined it. Words: Ben Hewitt, Matthew Horton, Priya Elan. 100. ‘Graceland’. Simon ...
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