General
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| Artist: | Ian Dury & The Blockheads |
| Label: | Stiff Records |
| Year: | 1979 |
| Genre: | New Wave; Punk Rock |
| URL: | http:/ |
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Tracks
| Title | Artist | Length |
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| Inbetweenies | Ian Dury & The Blockheads | 5:20::Ian Dury & The Blockheads |
| Quiet | Ian Dury & The Blockheads | 3:34::Ian Dury & The Blockheads |
| Don’t Ask Me | Ian Dury & The Blockheads | 3:19::Ian Dury & The Blockheads |
| Sink My Boats | Ian Dury & The Blockheads | 4:12::Ian Dury & The Blockheads |
| Waiting for Your Taxi | Ian Dury & The Blockheads | 2:54::Ian Dury & The Blockheads |
| This Is What We Find | Ian Dury & The Blockheads | 4:10::Ian Dury & The Blockheads |
| Uneasy Sunny Day Hotsy Totsy | Ian Dury & The Blockheads | 2:10::Ian Dury & The Blockheads |
| Mischief | Ian Dury & The Blockheads | 3:33::Ian Dury & The Blockheads |
| Dance of the Screamers | Ian Dury & The Blockheads | 6:40::Ian Dury & The Blockheads |
| Lullaby for Francies | Ian Dury & The Blockheads | 5:07::Ian Dury & The Blockheads |
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| Purchase Date: | 11/12/2017 |
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Comments
Do It Yourself is a 1979 album by Ian Dury & the Blockheads. It was the first album to be credited to Ian Dury & the Blockheads rather than Ian Dury alone, although Dury had used the full band name for the "What a Waste" 7" single of 1978. The album was released in the wake of the chart-topping hit single "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick", and reached number two in the charts, behind ABBA's Voulez-Vous. Do It Yourself sold around 200,000 copies, and was Dury's second Platinum album (after its predecessor New Boots and Panties!!). Like New Boots and Panties!! before it, much of Do It Yourself was written at Dury's home, no longer a flat near the Oval cricket ground, but now a rented home in Rolvenden, Kent. Even though he declined point blank his management's attempts to get him to dust off and re-record old Kilburn & the High Roads songs like "England's Glory" Dury did resurrect one old song, "Sink My Boats", the very first song he and Chas Jankel wrote together. In fact, a number of other songs pre-date the rehearsal and songwriting sessions for Do It Yourself; the instrumentals for "Quiet", "This Is What We Find" and "Uneasy Sunny Day Hotsy Totsy" were all arranged by Blockheads members while they were still in their band Loving Awareness. Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll: