What a Waste: The Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  What a Waste
  3:27
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Jack Shit George
  4:22
  1.0 ★
• 3
  Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
  3:05
  3.8 ★
• 4
  Bed O' Roses No.9
  5:19
  1.0 ★
• 5
  Sweet Gene Vincent

  Ian Dury
  3:34
  3.6 ★
• 6
  My Old Man

  Ian Dury
  3:40
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Mash It Up Harry
  4:44
  1.0 ★
• 8
  Razzle in My Pocket
  2:58
  1.0 ★
• 9
  Wake Up and Make Love With Me

  Ian Dury
  4:23
  3.5 ★
• 10
  Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3
  4:45
  4.5 ★
• 11
  Poor Joey

  Ian Dury
  3:50
  1.0 ★
• 12
  Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
  3:44
  3.9 ★
• 13
  Poo-Poo in the Prawn

  Ian Dury
  3:17
  1.0 ★
• 14
  There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards
  3:02
  1.0 ★
• 15
  Clever Trever (live)
  4:35
• 16
  Inbetweenies
  5:19
  1.0 ★
• 17
  Dance of the Screamers
  6:39
• CD 2
• 1
  Don't Ask Me
  3:19
  1.0 ★
• 2
  Billericay Dickie (live)

  Ian Dury
  3:37
• 3
  I Want to Be Straight
  3:19
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Spasticus Autisticus (live)
  5:00
  1.0 ★
• 5
  Superman's Big Sister
  2:50
  1.0 ★
• 6
  Blockheads (live)

  Ian Dury
  4:01
• 7
  O'Donegal

  Ian Dury
  3:53
• 8
  Geraldine
  3:38
• 9
  Fucking Ada
  6:01
  1.0 ★
• 10
  I'm Partial to Your Abracadabra

  Ian Dury
  3:13
  5.0 ★
• 11
  Blackmail Man

  Ian Dury
  2:16
  5.0 ★
• 12
  England's Glory (live)

  Ian Dury & The Kilburns
  3:29
• 13
  You'll See Glimpses
  3:41
• 14
  Itinerant Child
  4:48
• 15
  Plaistow Patricia

  Ian Dury
  4:14
  5.0 ★
• 16
  I Believe
  3:23
  3.0 ★
• 17
  One Love
  3:29

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Release credits

• Charley Charles
  drums (drum set) [2.1, 2.5, 2.9-11, 2.15, 1.3, 1.5-6, 1.9, 1.12, 1.14, 1.16-17]
• Chaz Jankel
  arranger [1.2, 1.4, 2.8], bass guitar [8], electric guitar [3], guitar [1.2, 1.4-6, 1.8-9, 2.4, 2.8, 2.10-11, 2.15], keyboard [1.2, 1.4-6, 1.9, 1.14, 2.4, 2.8, 2.10-12, 2.15], performer [10], piano [12], producer [1.16-17, 2.1]
• Davey Payne
  flute [1.2, 1.4, 2.5, 2.8-9], harmonica [5, 9], saxophone [2.1, 2.4-5, 2.8-11, 2.15, 1.2, 1.4-6, 1.9-10, 1.12, 1.14, 1.16-17]
• Ed Speight
  guitar [1.5-6, 1.9, 2.10-12, 2.15]
• Geoff Castle
  Moog [1.5-6, 1.9, 2.10-11, 2.15]
• Giorgi Dionisiev
  bass guitar [12]
• Ian Dury
  drums (drum set) [8], lead vocals [1.2-6, 1.8-10, 1.12, 1.14, 1.16-17, 2.1, 2.4-5, 2.8-12, 2.15]
• Ian Dury & the Blockheads
  producer [2.5, 2.8-9, 1.2, 1.4]
• Ian Horne
  sound [5, 9]
• John Earle
  saxophone [12]
• John Turnbull
  guitar [2.4-5, 2.8-9, 1.2, 1.4, 1.12, 1.14]
• Jon Bailey
  engineer [2.8, 1.2, 1.4]
• Laurie Latham
  engineer [5, 9], mix [2.8, 1.2, 1.4], producer [1.5-6, 1.9, 1.12, 2.10-11, 2.15], recording [1.16-17, 2.1]
• Malcolm Mortimer
  drums (drum set) [12]
• Merlin Rhys-Jones
  guitar [4]
• Mick Gallagher
  Hammond organ [12], keyboard [2.4-5, 2.8-9, 1.2, 1.4]
• Norman Watt-Roy
  bass guitar [2.1, 2.4-5, 2.8-11, 2.15, 1.2, 1.4-6, 1.9, 1.16-17], electric bass guitar [3, 12, 14]
• Peter Jenner
  engineer [5, 9], producer [1.5-6, 1.9, 2.10-11, 2.15]
• Rick Walton
  engineer [5, 9], producer [1.5-6, 1.9, 2.10-11, 2.15]
• Rupert Coulson
  engineer [2.8, 1.2, 1.4]
• Steve Monti
  drums (drum set) [1.2, 1.4, 2.4, 2.8]
• The Breezeblocks
  background vocals [1.2, 1.4, 2.8]
• Wilko Johnson
  guitar [4-5, 9]
• Will Parnell
  percussion [4]
• Show all credits (24)

Issues

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  What a Waste: The Collection

  2x CD
  2017