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- Verified Buyer
This 2-CD collection gathers not the best of Ian Dury solo, Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Kilburn & The High Roads (it's really Dury and friends too), Ian Dury & the Music Students, and 5 "live" tracks recorded "live" in London in 1990, just ten years before Dury's death.I gave a good review to the Landmark "Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll, Greatest Hits" collection, but this collection tops it by containing several favorites not included on the Landmark set. The volume levels of the songs are better on this version as well. There's no real break between the first two songs on the Landmark collection either.So if it's a choice, I recommend this collection above the other by a long shot! It includes "Spasticus Autisticus", "Billericay Dickie", "Pam's Moods", "There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards," "F##king Ada (my own censorship there), and many other songs not on the Landmark CDs. This one even spell's "Superman's Big Sister" correctly on the credits, whereas Landmark spells it "Sueperman's Big Sister."The liner notes reveal nothing, not even a photo of Dury, whereas this collection has a few notes and a few photos.And, as with the other collection, this one goes perfectly with the 2010 film bio of Dury, "sex & drugs & rock'n'roll". The star looks and sounds so much like Dury it is hard to tell them apart in your mind after a few minutes. Excellent film with an excellent, insightful and touching script, i.e., see it too!
