Reasons to Be Cheerful: The Very Best of Ian Dury & The Blockheads
Compilation by Ian Dury & the Blockheads
Released 1999
Tracklist
- 1Reasons to Be Cheerful4:454.5 ★
- 2Wake Up & Make Love With Me4:223.5 ★
- 3Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick3:433.9 ★
- 4Clevor Trever4:555.0 ★
- 5What a Waste3:263.0 ★
- 6Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll3:123.8 ★
- 7This Is What We Find4:065.0 ★
- 8Itinerant Child4:46
- 9Sweet Gene Vincent3:333.6 ★
- 10I Want to Be Straight3:193.0 ★
- 11Blockheads3:324.5 ★
- 12Mash It Up Harry4:431.0 ★
- 13There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards3:031.0 ★
- 14Billericay Dickie4:165.0 ★
- 15In-Betweenies5:181.0 ★
- 16Spasticus (Autisticus)5:115.0 ★
- 17My Old Man3:383.0 ★
- 18Lullaby for Francies5:00
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Release credits
- drums (drum set) [2-4, 6-7, 9, 11, 13-15, 17-18]
- arranger [8], electric guitar [6], guitar [2, 4, 8-9, 11, 14, 16-17], keyboard [2, 4, 8-9, 11, 13-14, 16-17], performer [1], piano [3], producer [7, 15-16, 18]
- flute [8], saxophone [1-4, 7-9, 11, 13-15, 17-18]
- guitar [2, 4, 9, 11, 14, 17]
- Moog [2, 4, 9, 11, 14, 17]
- lead vocals [1-4, 6-9, 11, 13-18]
- producer [8]
- guitar [3, 8, 13]
- engineer [8]
- engineer [2, 4, 9, 11, 14], mix [8], producer [2-4, 9, 11, 14, 17], recording [7, 15, 18]
- drums (drum set) [16]
- Hammond organ [3], keyboard [8]
- bass guitar [2, 4, 7-9, 11, 14-15, 17-18], electric bass guitar [3, 6, 13]
- engineer [2, 4, 9, 11, 14], producer [2, 4, 9, 11, 14, 17]
- engineer [2, 4, 9, 11, 14], producer [2, 4, 9, 11, 14, 17]
- bass guitar [16]
- engineer [8]
- drums (drum set) [8]
- producer [16]
- background vocals [8]
- clavinet [16], piano [16], sampler [16]





