New Boots And Panties

Quite kitsch, but still has a bit of humour. 4/10, not a big fan.

I can get down with the music on this album, but the lyrics (and to an extent the vocal performance) knock it way down for me. If somebody else was singing about just about anything else over the music on this album, it would be an easy 4, maybe even a 5 if the singing and lyrical content was really stellar, but I’m disappointed in you Ian....

The first song is OK, but the rest of the album just fails to catch my attention. Sorry, next.

Not my thing

Eh, it's okay but not really resonating with me. 2 stars.

Not my style

boring

Not really for me, but much better than I expected. Only knew the hits before, which aren't on this record. 2.7

Ugh. I just can’t with this nonsense music.

I rather disliked this one. Dury's voice doesn't work for me, the songs don't work for me... really nothing works. "Billericay Dickie" was one of the more enjoyable tracks and it still sounded like I was about to be murdered by a circus clown. I do not expect that I will be listening again. Favorite track: "Blockheads," if I have to choose

This album was stupid. The audacity of sucking this bad and putting out a full album of terrible lyrics over what can only be described as musack is definitely something. Would not return.

As soon as the first song started I nearly vomited in my own mouth. The first time I have been grateful for the noisy workman across the road. I was praying that today was a pneumatic drill day to drown out the sound of this abomination.

I'm at the top of a high-rise in London, in a flat with peeling wallpaper and sticky carpets. I'm trapped in the corner of the living room while the worst man plays his awful music and tells me in excruciating detail about his grim sex life. He's drinking cheap, horrible alcohol, the room is full of cigarette smoke, and he is insistent that his wife deserves whatever she's got coming to her. When I get the chance I'm jumping out the window and hurtling towards the sweet release of death. Please, bring back ELP, all is forgiven.

This is a terrible album name for a worse album. No.

What the fuck man, I should have been able to die without having to listen to this.

Je is supposed to be witty and funny, but seems only juvenile and creepy to me, even if that's am intended effect. The band is competent, but the vocals are enervating. Not for me.

What in the Coronation Street fuck is this slop? Ian Dury has what is possibly the most unlistenable singing voice I may have come across, I just can’t get on board with this Cockney delivery or the jokey content of this absolute steaming pile. I listened to the whole thing though, hilariously, the closing track wasn’t terrible. 1 star

Lo siento, pero yo no iba a escuchar dos horas de esta porquería, solo pude con 5 canciones y ya

The 1 star album that makes all other 1 star albums look like Dark Side of the Moon. England must have been a creepy place in the late 70s.

With New Boots and Panties, we have reached the apotheosis of the 1,001 book's "bigger deal in Britain" phenomenon. I doubt any non-Briton would think this MUST be heard before they die. Maybe it's because I hated New Boots and Panties from start to finish. If I'm being charitable, I'd draw a line from Ian Dury to Eddie Argos of Art Brut—though maybe Argos would take offense, because this sucks. I'm sure it was a good time among the cockneys in the mid-'70s, but this gets the hardest of passes.

some of the worst "music" ive ever heard. ts literally so ahh

No album better captures the psyche of the English man at that time, and perhaps no album should.

Did not appeal to me, probably won’t listen again. Not a fan

Pre Listen: Never heard of them, the album title and cover doesn't really pop, good or bad. No expectations. Notable Tracks: Wake Up And Make Love With Me - :/ :L :( Blockheads - That synth part sounds like fart. Fart from a butt. I don't know if that's intentional or not. I think it was intentional. Post Listen: That was a painful listen. It wasn't completely unlistenable, but it was damn close to it. The musical components were alright for the most part. Like the guitar, drums, bass, additional instruments etc. were all well done enough. The horrid part (as with many such cases) was the vocals and lyrics. Edgy for edgy sake. Like a 6th grader trying to be as graphic and offensive as possible just to piss of anyone who dares engage with them. Overall reminded me of Frank Zappa and his many bands, if Zappa was a Brexit geezer who idolized punk. I didn't really enjoy a single song, even a little bit. Bounced between a 1 and 2 as I listened, and originally was going to give a 2, out of respect for the folks on the instruments. After re-listening to a few songs I thought I enjoyed a bit closer, the lyrics are so distractingly stupid, I gotta give it a 1/5. Sometimes in group projects, a single contributor bombs so hard it genuinely fucks over everyone else, despite their best efforts.

This man should never have been allowed to write lyrics. I wish it were possible to give negative scores. "You're More Than Fair" made me want to kill.

Circus music! And with terrible vocals!

Nothing about this appealed to me. The first song was cringy.

ECHT nicht

Yeah no, this was bad. I was going to rate it a 2 for the music, but by the end it was so thoroughly in enjoyable it has to be a 1. 1/5

I'm getting tired of this challenge, man. I thought I could broaden my horizons. I love music, deeply so. Not a day goes by where I don't put on a catchy track or a song that means the world to me. But I've always just been someone who enjoys music sporadically. I thought this challenge would change that. I don't think I've developed any further musical listening skills over the duration of this challenge so far. There is so, so much bland or outright offensive shit on this list. So much pretentious twattery that it makes me want to imagine putting a gun to my head, pulling down the trigger, and watching my brain matter drip down the walls. There is nothing more true than the age old adage of "ignorance is bliss." For I have been exposed to the worst of humanity's musical sins. Anyway. Today's album is a bit shite.

This is just pure garbage

1001 albums you must hear on mute

I strongly relate to that "What the fuck, England?" comment.

This entire album was awful, every song sounds like shit

Creepy, toxic, uses slurs and borderline rapey on multiple occasions. Horrified that this made it in

Me pareció patético ridículo y no entiendo. Por qué está en esta lista y no entiendo cómo el álbum puede ser tan largo tomando en cuenta que las algunas canciones son ridículas

bit too stereotypically british for me. very hokey. just sounds like a random old guy doing some silly rhymes. it could maybe work if he had a nicer voice but that isn't the case. you know it's bad when i feel forced to set my spotify to private out of embarrassment

This was not good.

Honestly couldn't listen to it. Rarely do I dislike an album like I did here.

wtf???? so creep core it made me feel icky and also it was so incredibly british (derogatory)

What the fuck is this and why is it here?

Music for a traveling circus from East London. What the hell is this doing on here?

I only made it about 35% through the album before I turned it off. The first song "Wake Up and Make Love With Me" left such a bad taste in my mouth that I couldn't stand much more of the album. To be blunt, I think this dude has one of the worst singing voices I've ever heard. I can't stand it. Paired with what felt like very uninspired lyrics, I felt so uncomfortable listening to it. There are few things I'd rather listen to than a British man talking about sex in such a PG way. Take my 1 out of 5 stars with a grain of salt because I didn't listen to the whole thing, but the portion I made it through made me feel more gross than anything.

honestly i could've died without ever hearing this album

Just when I thought I had already heard the worst album on this list…

mai rau ca unchiul hornalau din Felnac

How does this make it into this list? Absolute ass. So many better albums that could take its place.

This album by Ian Dury felt somewhat familiar—I have a vague memory of hearing one of the songs on the radio at some point. I was pleasantly surprised by how well it sounds considering it dates back to 1976. It’s not really my usual style, but it’s easy to listen to. The overall vibe is calm and enjoyable, making it the kind of music you could play in the background while studying or reading. While it was a nice and pleasant experience, it didn’t fully connect with me. I wouldn’t go back to it, but I can appreciate it for what it is.

As you listen to this think about all the fantastic albums you’ve heard that didn’t get onto this list.

Shit from a butt.

This is truly atrocious. The most aggressive British guy singing like he’s a drunk man on a cruise about being bricked up over disco beats. How the fuck did people like this at the time?

not as good as Joni Mitchell’s Blue

I found this incomprehensible. It's funny because a few albums ago was an album entirely in French, but the unfamiliar slang in Drury's songwriting meant that even words I know mean something entirely different in this context. I don't know if the characters Drury embodies are a charade, but I found them all pretty unlikeable except for the grieving son in "My Old Man"

Proof once again there is NOT 1,001 albums anyone needs to listen to, so you add a bunch of garbage. Tomorrow is trash day, this goes right in the bin. 0.00

Nope. Utter rubbish, really shite mate. I'm not big on heavy irony and I hate this kind of novelty music, pretty sure no one would be upset if music hall got left in the Victorian era. Annoying vocals, dumb lyrics that I guess are supposed to be funny, all feels very "I'm so cheeky" with excessive winking, and then there's the cringy horniness of it all. Rather than needing to hear this before I die, nearly had me wishing for death by the end of it.

Drivel. Horny, problematic, British imperial drivel. 2/10

If I could give this negative stars, I would.

A gift for womankind... hasn't aged well. The musical equivalent of the saucy postcards they sell at the end of the pier.

I don’t think I’ve ever been so actively annoyed by an album. There would be a few charming moments and then get irritating again, which really just made listening worse.

you can't shit in your song and expect me to eat it

To put it in English terms - absolutely dreadful

Well this was awful. If there was anything interesting in the music it was very slight and was overshadowed by the stupidity of the lyrics and and obnoxiously annoying singer. 1 star

Erm no

Utter garbage. And not garbage as in thr great band, Garage. But garbage as in, how the heck did this get on the list?

Hahahaha British people can’t be serious

This beats Highway, this is the worst album I've heard, what the fuck is this doing on this list? It's like putting a finger painting by a 2 year old next to Picasso

Awful! Why is this album so well reviewed

I tried to like this album. I can appreciate some of the lyricism and even some of the musical ability, but boy did some of the repetition really test me. I don't think I'll be seeking out any more Ian Dury music.

1.5

As someone born and raised in Billericay, naturally, I despised this.

Can I get a refund?

kys

This has to be a joke album. Booooo.

Am I being punk's right now? Is this a real album? This sounds like something an american would put in a TV show/movie to make fun of British music. Basically all of my 1 star reviews were because I was incredibly bored by an album or the album was truly unremarkable, this is the first one to make me genuinely angry. Not only did I NOT need to listen to this before I died, I'd have rather died without having listened to it 0/5 if I could, 1/5 because I must.

If this was a parody album it would be a 5 but something tells me it’s not

utter shite innit

real bad

Couldn’t even finish this album

Not inspiring

The first song struck me w/unexpected lyrics, I laughed during my walk, and didn’t struggle to finish the album.

Não gostei muito

Uninteressant.

This guy got old real quick

Nahhh

LOATHE ENTIRELY.

Really did not enjoy this whatsoever

Stupid crap.

Couldn't finish

Fringe figure? Cult following? Garbage, I say! Couldn't/wouldn't listen to this and can't see any possible reason it's on this list.

this was not great.

I hope this is the worst album on this list. I feel like the principal from Billy Madison. “Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it” 1/5 didn’t finish the album 2/5 didn’t keep the album 3/5 kept it and will listen when songs randomly show up on shuffle 4/5 kept it and will listen to it again front to back on my phone 5/5 buying the vinyl

this was just impressively horrible

When the singer first sounded like a Dick Van Dyke chimney sweep character. I did not know what to expect..and what I got was so not what I wanted. Just nope from me from the jump. I love the music on a few tracks, without the singer mucking things up. Listened before? N Saved any tracks? N Favorite tracks? Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll..the music only, not the singer/lyrics ⭐ Didn't like it at all.

Um...what did I just listen to? Was I supposed to be drunk in a pub for this one? Because I was not. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): N/A ⭐: Hated it.

Can’t say i appreciated this album in any way. Not my jam at all.

Complete trash

Not for me. 1/5

This list just lost an incredible amount of credibility for this entry alone. And this album is almost 2 hrs long?? Absolutely not.

Sounds like David Bowie with a head injury.

Awful. I dislike everything about this.

Nonsense

Meh. Not doing much for me. Drunken pub songs that were probably a bit scandalous then but no one really bats an eye at now.

I really despised Billeriacay Dickie, and really most of this album. I could almost see giving this a 2, but I would dread listening to it again

1/5

Not so good, Al.

A banger or two but not my favorite

One of the stupidiest albums I've ever heard. What bullshit is this?

Boring, annoying and lame, I can't see why this is supposed to be an enjoyable piece of music.

production and lyrics done by a 10 year old, sung by a 50 year old tory, this was dead

I want to issue a formal apology to Depeche Mode. Let me explain: I'm a good few albums behind on my list and recently listened to one of theirs, which I personally didn't love. That's okay, everyone has what they like. Last night I excitedly noted that I was only a few albums away from Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" which I'm eagerly waiting for... but rather rudely lamented to my wife that "I have to sit through another Depeche Mode album first". Now, with that Depeche Mode album up next, Fleetwood Mac after that and Ian Dury's "New Boots and Panties" just finished, I hereby formally apologise for complaining about having to listen to Depeche Mode. Depeche - can I call you Depeche? If you're reading this (which I'm sure you are) I want you to know that your music is incredibly good in comparison to this utter garbage, and I was way out of line for being so disparaging. I will give your album a good crack shortly, confident in the knowledge that it will be better than what I just had to endure. Now, to Ian Dury: I really don't have the words to describe the painful experience this album was. Nobody should have to listen to this before they die, and I worry that for some people this may drive them to an early grave. Even if you could take out all of the offensive and cringeworthy lyrics (and be left with just instrumentals) you'd still have something that is musically upsetting. I don't give out many 1s... that's because most albums have some redeeming quality.

Nothing memorial

Girl, bye. What the hell is this first song! Sorry Ian you will not be getting any listens to your demos. 1

WTF. This album is for people who love trainwrecks. I googled if this was on the list because of how damn awful it is....and instead, there were many people who agreed about its greatness. Jesus. We're doomed. Would I listen to again? Is this a serious question?

Clown music.

“Do I make you horny?” – Austin Powers

1. uuake - 0 2. zueet - 1 3. partial - 1 4. man - 0 5. dickie - 0 6. clever - 1 7.woman -1 8. Block - 1 9. Patricia - 0 10. Man - 0 11. Drugs - 1.5 12. Pocket - 1 13. Fair - 1 14. Glory - 1

british pervert album. i hope that over time i will forget this experience

No

Had to stop listening 5 songs in was really doing my nut in

Maybe just my current mood but this album was sort of like a mouth sore.

This was mildly amusing to begin with, but the longer it went on, the deeper my stomach plunged into a pit of existential dread. Musically it's a passable enough fusion of disco, funk and pub rock, if a bit shallow, but this geezer might be the most irritating vocalist I've been subjected to as part of this challenge. That's no mean feat when the likes of Anthony Kiedis, Billy Corgan, Damon Albarn, Emmylou Harris, Elvis Presley and the sheep-human mutant from The Flying Burrito Brothers have been served up at various points. We get it guvna, you're desperate for sex. It's like a pub joke gone way too far.

2 hours is crazy. Just split it into two albums. They get docked a point just for that. Now onto the listening aspect… Update post listening: the first song is crazy. Choosing to sing wake up and make love to me and saying “wake up in horny morning mood” is both beyond cringe and pitiful. Overall, a terrible album and two hours I want back. On another note, shout out to the solid Brits of the 60s that released trailblazing music in the British Invasion (The Stones, The Beatles, and The Kinks) I’m sad for y’all that this is garbage that came after you.

Is this on here because it's so bad? Paved the way for bad music?? 1.4.

File under: Very talented, but too much going on. The instrumentation is all well but the vocals and lyrics just kill it. The longer this went on, the less I could look at the upside to it.

It’s hard to imagine that there was an audience for this type of music at one point. It sounds like music for the Muppets Show. Not for me. It would be interesting to meet someone who actually did like this.

I think this album hates itself.

This new wave album is abominable, with stiff, jagged guitar lines, clattering rhythms, and intrusive bursts of piano and saxophone creating a cluttered, uneasy backdrop for vocals that lurch between sneering sarcasm and grating exaggeration. The lyrics, though vivid and character-driven, come across more as abrasive caricature than engaging storytelling, leaving the whole record feeling noisy, uncomfortable, and hard to sit through.

Is this a joke? Unpleasant.

Why? Why did I need to hear this? I wanted to give it a shot, even after that title. It's just so juvenile, though. To paraphrase Benoit Blanc, I felt like it was not so dumb it was brilliant. It was just dumb.

A weird cockney pervert with the most unsexy voice in the world unleashes the pent up sexual frustrations from his teenage years onto the microphone, and all of us just suffer along with him.

Didn’t expect to have to listen to Bert the chimney sweep sing about how horny he is this morning. “If I Was was a Woman” convinced me that he’s a horrible person too. Wish I could give this less than 1 star.

I’d rather listen to a rabid raccoon slowly dying in a clothes dryer than that album ever again.

Turned off by the voice. Content was all over the place, but the voice was not good as the instruments playing. Seems like it was ahead of it's time but behind on vocals too much to be appreciated.

..... I genuinely wish I was weird enough for this album (not a dig, a serious disappointment in myself).

I couldn't get through the first song. This is horrible, not in a musical sense, but in content, then I saw they were British and it all made sense.

I'm sure this would be a good laugh in a pub or open mic night setting, and it has a certain wit and charm that was apparently lacking in the more serious alternatives in rock at the time, but I have no desire to revisit this with headphones and a careful ear.

This is a joke, right? Oh my god this was awful.

Over the decades I thought I understood England, but now I see that I was wrong. What I have learned from listening to hundreds of albums from this list is that England, for the most part, you have no taste. How much cocaine, pints, and smokes were the citizens of England consuming to think that this was ever an all time album? Now having said that I know I can already hear the furious typing of a hipster somewhere about to proclaim that this album could be used as a comb for their handlebar mustache and that it cured them of their genital warts. This is the kind of album that makes you run to your music streaming service, click on the album, and click 'Suggest Less' lest the algorithm torments you for the next week like some kind demon that only Cliver Barker can imagine.

The only reason this is "must hear" is because Robert Dimery is English.

This album epitomizes the hilarious, inappropriately quaint British phrase “sex pest.” If you don’t read the lyrics, you might think this is a harmless, silly, jaunty, Kinks-by-way-of-Sex-Pistols, very English romp. But you’d be wrong. This album is what happens when you let your pervy, racist drunk uncle make a record. I’ve looked back at all the albums I’ve rated a “1” and there’s a pretty common theme: they elicit disgust. Fastest way to a “1” rating. The first song begins with the lines “I come awake / With a gift for womankind” and doesn’t improve from there. Could a singer with more rizz, as they say, than Ian Dury pull off this bawdy humour without making me want to hurl? Honestly I don’t care, he’s not nearly as funny as he thinks he is and I just regret having to listen to this mess. I know about Ian Dury because his goofy single, Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (not on this album) gets semi-regular airplay on Lauren Laverne’s show. It seems a decent portion of BBC 6Music’s listenership is fond of this guy. That song and its stupidly obvious double entendre is extremely silly, but I appreciated it as one of the random bits of English eccentricity that pepper 6Music shows. Now it’s just going to make me roll my eyes. Currently in 2025, his son Baxter (who is pictured on the cover of this record) is being played on pretty heavy rotation on 6Music with his own goofy single. Allbarone is a silly piece of EDM pop but the spoken word lyrics are surprisingly poignant. At least something decent came out of Dury Sr.

In a nutshell: Britain's guilty pleasure I really don't know what else to say about this album. I'm literally flabbergasted and exhausted by it. Overall: 1/10

Not entirely sure if this is serious or a joke. Regardless I didn’t enjoy it. 1/5

Mostly bad. Childish lyrics with simple rhymes trying to be dirty and shocking. Poorly done. I will give credit to the musicians because this is mostly pretty good music. But Ian cannot sing a tune. He's horrible. I'd only ever heard Sex and Drugs and Rock n Roll and thought it was a fun song, but listening to it and it's worse siblings for an hour is a chore.

Meh

Oh, this first track is very off putting. Yeah, this is all making me nauseous. The poor individuals that supported this album must have had such a small selection of music that they were exposed to.

Steaming british shit.

Would give 0 stars if that were an option

Wow. Just no.

2/10

Straight trash homie. It’s just some horny English dude who is terrible at singing. A single song made me chuckle, then that track ran the whole shtick in to the ground by going on way too long. Hit stop around track 4 or 5. Not worth wasting time on. 0.5 / 5

Albums like this make me think this project was one of the biggest mistakes of my life. The music isn't great but Ian Dury himself - my god. Maybe the worst "musician" of all time?

The "Laughing" chorus at the end of "If I Was With a Woman" was the final straw.

Load of bollocks got me bloody knackered.

Take your average sex-obsessed high school boy’s sense of humor, converted into lyrics and sung like a chimney sweep. That’s this album.

It's like someone's uncle from Essex stole the karaoke mic for a half hour and slowly got drunker and drunker while preforming. This at no point was an enjoyable listen. 1/5

Bollocks

Nope

Something had me thinking this guy was gonna sing in a like Little Lord Fauntleroy voice for some reason. He didn’t, so it was better than I expected, but oh boy it was still pretty bad.

Maybe I'd have to be more british to understand this. Punk vocals, music a mix of old punk, ska and some post punk sensibilities. It's endearing but not good by any stretch.

I didn't really like this. It's giving clowns at the circus. "If I Was A Woman" was absolutely fucking obnoxious. "Blockheads" was equally obnoxious. I made it to "Blackmail Man" before I had to turn this off. I saw there was two discs and I just simply could not do it. Also, why does he look like Henry Hill on this album cover? 0/5 stars.

If it wasn‘t for the sexism, I might have given this 3 stars. But I really can‘t be bothered with this nonsense anymore.

Heard of the guy but never heard his music. God, this album is absolute ass. Quite literally, there even were some shitting synth sounds 1/5

This is grim

This is a joke, right? Never heard of him before, and now after listening to this, I know why.

I would advise against offering to hold on to the hard drive of any person who owns this album.

I feel bad as I couldn’t finish it, and I always want to give all albums a fair chance. BUT, it was 2 hours long, 2 hours of my life that I know I would never get back. It felt like listening to a bad comedy troupe at a caravan park.

This isn’t bad. It’s awful. Ridiculously awful. My ears will never recover

Yeah I don’t get this one at all

1,4/5

Awful

STOP IT WITH THE BASIC BLAND BORING BRITISH STUFF. IT'S NOT FUNNY. IT'S NOT CUTE. IT'S NOT WHIMSICAL. IT'S NOT CHEEKY. IT'S NOT GOOD. CUT IT OUT! I had to tap out after Billericay Dickie. It was way too British and stupid for me and I feel like I now need to go get my teeth re-straightened

“I don’t want to make you, I’ll let the fancy take you” That’s creepy as hell. I get it’s supposed to be funny, but - ew.

What the actual fuck did I just listen to? When the instrumentals started, I was kind of into it. It was kind of funky. Other tracks reminded me of a bad musical set Then the lyrics started. I think this guy stopped maturing at the age of 13. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Part of me was giggling at the juvenile nature of it, but the other part was like "I need to stop listening to this".

Awful, just awful

And I thought Tim Buckley was bad. This Ian Dury guy is a sex pest, and, worse, an Englishman. Some of it's pretty funny, but it's ultimately several shades too ribald for my taste. I blush to even think about it!

annoying, distasteful and not in a fun way, and a downright unlistenable singing voice. kind of amazed that this seems to be considered some great classic

Easily top 3 worst album I’ve listened to😭😭😭

Could be worse, but I feel like this is the British answer to modern lovers. Which I didn't really like. Between one and two stars, would be more enjoyable without the singer

I'm SO glad that ween got rid of the cockney guy

never darken my doorstep again. May have driven me genuinely into a depressive episode.

3/10 *crosses arms* we need to talk about British people YouTube Thumbnail

by far the worst album on the whole list so far (400 days in) this was miserable and he should feel ashamed for making it

Retro, but aged very poorly.

This is trash

It started out so funky and immediately lost me when he started singing. WTF are these lyrics? I bet it was certified platinum only because it was "edgy" and "raunchy" like how the Bloodhound Gang was in the early 00s. This is super british humor. 2*: gets a +1 because of instrumentals. Actually, fuck it, 1*, the tracks got generic after a while. The last handful of tracks I had to just skip toward the end because it was just belligerent noise. Again, total garbage I didn't need before dying.

Just straight stupid. Like a guy trying to make it big and recorded his own album hoping some sucker label would buy it. Unfortunately, it ended up happening, only difference that two more suckers were thrown into the equation: One in the guy that added to the 1001 list of albums you absolutely have to listen to before you die, and two is me, for having to listen to this nonsense. 2/10.

I listened to seven (SEVEN) albums today and this one was by far the least exciting (BORING). Even the Kid Rock album scored better than this one. Why? Because this has ZERO (ZERO) personality and I am just through (THROUGH!) listening to bullshit albums. C'mon, 1001, why do I keep coming back here ... ?!

Annoying in so many different ways.

No to the voice. No to the lyrics. Is that a saxophone? No to the saxophone. Just no.

I just don’t understand this, and why anyone would listen to it. I always associate Ian Dury with my ex who lived on the boat - his parents were fans. Also as I was saying I had the pleasure of watching his son Baxter perform live and he’s adopted a similar style as it obviously works so well here?! Fkn painful I tell you. Luckily Pulp were epic and made up for it but I left mighty perplexed at what I obviously wasn’t understanding and other people were. Listening to this album revives this feeling. It’s a no from me.

Yea… this is trash. 1/10

My ears are offended

Garbage.

Maybe the Taliban were right for banning music in Afghanistan.

"Widely considered to be the best album of Ian Dury's career" In that case I hope this is the last time he shows up on this list

2/10

"Genre: Punk Rock", now I'm inspired to put Simon and Garfunkel in the hair metal section of the record store. This statement isn't false just because he yells a bit on three songs towards the end with some electric guitar, this is taking the absolute piss. This is probably how it feels to my mates when I play Serbian music and I'm like "ah this might sound silly but boy oh boy this Balasevic fella paints a story!". This was hard to sit through. Sometimes I complain about albums being too broad and unfocused in style, this is FAR too uniform. This was like Ludovico at points but instead of making me ill when I see violence I now walk around the city and gag when I hear a British expat Highlights: when he shuts the fuck up

Did not love. I could see this album having more of a cult following, and there were definitely moments of solid musicianship, but overall it didn't feel up to par. It was an interesting experience, but not one I'm planning to revisit.

Tack men nej tack, detta var inget som underhöll mig, bitvis riktigt dåligt i min mening. Förstår inte varför denna hamnade på listan. 1 av 5.

I guess it’s punk? Strange!

I guess this album is on here due to the lyrics, but since they don't resonate with me, I couldn't care less. The music itself is not remarkable.

This is some novelty song garbage. Unlistenable dreck, but with naughty words. It will get one listen ever and that's it.

Another pointless waste of time. I actually feel worse off having listened to this.

Even in the song singing the praises of yorkshire pudding, I couldn't find any way in my heart to enjoy it

Yeah, this was not for me...

I don't think this album has to be on this list. music for kids with lyrics for adults. This really wasn't necessarily. I hope I never have to waste my time with this artist again.

Just too fucking British. Calm it down, mate. I hate quirky British music... except Madness, they can stay.

Could honestly have lived without hearing about how horny he is first thing in the morning - really painted quite the mental image. This is just not the kinda thing I enjoy listening. I blame his voice, and his subject matter. I couldn't even get through Billericay Dickie or Clevor Trever - sweet Jesus they were awful

what the fuck was that???

Beginning to doubt whether there in fact is 1001 albums I need to hear before I die, because I didn't need to hear that.

Not into explicit lyrics.

Ew, no why? Fuck outta here man...

I thought of Dury as a one song wonder. Nothing on this album changed my mind.

Total crap.

Is this real? What an absolute pile of dogshit....First album I did not finish. How the fuck is this garbage on the same list as Songs in the Key of Life?

Awful

NO.

Not really my thing. Reminds me a bit of the guy in Love Actually

Like listening to your British uncle, who nobody in your family likes to talk about, do karaoke

Fucking dreadful.

I did not use a private Spotify session. I am familiar with some of Ian's song, which I liked, but knew they were more novelty songs and was worried that the album would be a collection of novelty songs, some filler, and none of which where good enough to make it on my radar before. I was correct.

1 star. Why is this on the list?

Instrumentally sound, but Ian's vocals are genuinely unbearable to me.

General impression: isn’t rape culture fun? Detailed review: I guess the idea of a man being relentlessly horny and singing often about his penis used to be funny and cool in the 70s. In 2024 it’s gross, overdone, unnecessary, and there’s nothing clever or funny about it. I’ve been dreading getting to this album since reading the title. It’s not even musically clever, it’s good old boy UK rock and roll, touches of Elton, touches of Bowie, hints of the punk scene, and nothing unique or novel of its own. Deeper thoughts (context): The only explanation I can think of for this being on the list is that the editor has a heavy UK rock bias; that much has been clear already from the fraction of the list I’ve listened to. But with the other artists, they were at least recognizable names from the pop music canon. I can understand this dude being famous in British culture, but that shouldn’t mean the rest of us need to listen to this album over any number of other albums from other countries’ music traditions. Score: 1 Number of albums left to review: 956 Number of albums from the list I’d consider “must-listens”: 26 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 19 (including this one)

It's as if the horny 12-year-old version of me could create an album. Maybe it was edgy in a delightful way at some point, but now it just feels dopily crass. I didn't truly hate it, but even two stars feels too generous.

I’ve heard some shitters before but that was a decaying dead body smothered in shit.

Absolutely not, England, take this limerick-core elsewhere

This album is terrible

I’m curious how many Australians picked Billericay Dickie as the tune that the infamous Spray & Wipe ad from the 90’s was based on. Anyway this was cringy, unnecessarily vulgar and reeked of immaturity. I didn’t enjoy it at all. Wake Up And Make Love With made me shudder and the rest of it annoyed me in general. Especially If I Was With A Woman. Ugh.

What the heck was that? I had to stop listening.

This was baaaaaad. Not even remotely what I was expecting.

The vocals are really really bad and I couldn't listen to more than a couple songs. Musically it seemed fine though.

Some things shouldn't exist.

Not overly impressed with this.

Proof that there is no god

I feel like this project is a little too heavily skewed to old music. Out of 270 albums, I’ve gotten 78 albums from the 70s (the most of any decade) and 46 from the 50s/60s - nearly half - and only 10 from the 2010s. Now, I do not, as a rule, like old music from the 70s and before. There are outliers, to be sure, and it's always fun when I discover the occasional BB King, or David Bowie, or Nick Drake. This album is not that. From the first song, it almost sounds like parody. Like a British comedian's version of what American disco sounds like. It's awful, is what I'm saying. It gets better after that...which is to say that while it still sounds like a British comedian's version of American music, it doesn't sound like disco anymore. So...better? It still sucks though. Bad. It's embarrassingly bad. I can only think of a few albums worse than this. Country music, shit like Gene Clark, Gram Parsons and The Byrds which claims to be rock music but is really country music in disguise, and Throbbing Gristle. That's it. This album is *that* bad. It's irredeemable.

Oh dear. I do not want to wake up next to this dude Like the beat though. Two

Songwriter who thinks he’s a lot funnier and smarter than he actually is pauses his dull songs a couple of times to wank over the American flag… Terrible.

Dear me. Not ready to have the humor for this. Let's let it go.

Chas and Dave does punk

That was rough

Total. Cockney. Wank. Never saw the appeal of Ian Dury. Too melodic to be punk, his lack of edge is like shaving with marshmallows and he bores me intensely

Creepy and bad lyrics, awful vocals, annoying attitude / outlook. The best emotion I felt listening to this was relief when I realised the opening track wasn’t about raping someone while they slept.

Well that was horrific, potentially the worst album we've had?

Yikes

That was painful

Awful stuff, England has a real cottage industry of crap like this 1*

I came in with an open mind but I just couldn't do it. Bass lines were funky but damn this guys voice is annoying and all the screaming was a bit much.

One of those albums I just couldn't finish. Raunchy lyrics combined with disco pop-rock and a thick Cockney accent. Certainly wins on novelty, but just doesn't work for me. Feels like a bad karaoke night where you just want to go home to bed but your friends won't let you leave. The rhythm section is pretty tight though, to be fair.

Dear god what a horrible album

Eh. Not my jam.

This is straight rubbish

This is pretty goofball.

Did not enjoy any part of this one. 1.5 rounded down for that first song, yikes.

woof

Not really sure what the appeal is of the bouncy cockney chas and dave genre. Bawdy lyrics and being a cheekie chappie must have been really popular back in the day but it just sounds like a novelty act to me, may as well have Mr blobby or the crazy frog on here. Rhyming as many words as you can to a girls name isn't the talent Ian seems to think it is. Sex and drugs and rock and roll was the best song by virtue of being a legitimate song, and along with blackmail man brings it up to 1.5, but I'm still giving it a 1.

No vocal range or power. He sings like he is in a confessional at church. I keep picking up old Dr. Demento vibes. No thanks.

Could’ve happily made it to death without ever hearing this

As fun as getting kicked in the teeth by a horse

Why?

This is 40 min of my life I'll never get back.

More British nonsense. The vocals are so odd and boring. I'm turning this off after 4 songs. I'm not wasting any more time on this. 2/10 (1/5)

I know there's a swath of people who may enjoy this kind of music. I am not one of them.

I can't believe what I'm hearing here???? The entire album sounds like it comes from some 2am sketch comedy show that's trying a little tooo hard to be goofy. The singing got boring after exactly 2/5ths of the first song, the instrumentals are decent enough, but do absolutely nothing to inspire any kind of emotion. Bro is YAPPINGGGG Can he PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE JUST STOP YELLING?? Two songs in a row where he's just SCREAMING THE SAME WORD because he can't end a song or something??? 😭 1/5

Oof! Did not finish

Nope. Actually below 0.

Awful

Did I really need to hear this before I died? Pretty sure my life is not measurably better for having listened to this drivel.

Am I missing something here?

I really am not wanting to be disrespectful but that could be a contender for the worst album on the list. Opens with such a dreadful song that it may have set the tone for me. I feel like a guy just wandered into a music studio one day by mistake.

Just awful. No wonder the dude didn't make it big.

70’ don’t care

My first 1 star review... whomever thought this needed to be recorded should be banished from every recording studio. The music sounds like what you would hear on a children's album, but the lyrics are for adults, and painfully awful.

My man Ian is a sex freak! Also, he sounds like Elmer Fudd.

Just awful

This is awful. His voice is grating, and the lyrics aren’t any better. Opening by saying you are a gift for women then talk about grabbing bums. Ick. I tried but it doesn’t get any better. 1

xd pass NNN

Absolutely atrocious. Sounds like British pub karaoke if that even exists. Horrific. Couldn’t even get through the album not worth my time.

Sounds like a cockney chimney sweep shouting. Fair play if you managed to get through this without skipping a track.

This was HORRENDOUS. I left this album a worse person then I was before it.

The best part is the album title.

Literally one of the worst albums ever made.

Like listening to Brick Top from Snatch sing. Love the movie, but not a big fan of it as a music performer.

I’m surprised that it was even allowed to get published but it was the 70s. Es profundamente perturbador.

ummm.....no. why is this on this list??? music is "meh" & lyrics are just crass. not my cup of tea at all

started with : \"this is clearly a 2\" and went to \" that is a 1 pretty fast\" nothing fun about it. could have died without listening to it 2/10

Sounds like my colleague Dave from work at karaoke but less funny

Never go full British.

Wtf?

awful

is this a joke why is this album on this list

Not for me.

I think this was supposed to be funny but I did not get it

WTF is this trash? First thing that comes to mind is that Family Guy episode where they parody Randy Newman singing about eating an apple. But seriously, this is God awful. 0 stars, would not recommend

Not at all my kind of music. Very sloppy.

New Boots And Panties is alllllllllll over the place, synthy rock that was probably slightly ahead of it time to 50s rock to something you’d here at a high school dance to funky jazzy bizarre stuff and on top of it all is Dury’s truly horrendous vocals. 2.7/10

A prolonged bad joke

wow. this is terrible.

that voice... no thank you!

What the fuck was that?