Ian Dury - Anything That Rocks - The Best Of

Ian Dury - Anything That Rocks - The Best Of is a new 12-track vinyl collection bringing together highlights from across Ian Dury's career, following Demon Records' recent vinyl reissue campaign.

The collection includes the UK number one single “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick” and the Top 3 follow-up “Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3)”, alongside enduring favourites including “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll”, “Wake Up And Make Love With Me”, “What A Waste” and “Spasticus Autisticus”. The sequence draws from Dury's solo work as well as recordings with The Blockheads and The Music Students.

Across these songs, Dury's music moves freely through punk, rock ’n’ roll, jazz and R&B, spoken-word poetry and ska. Just as important is his distinctive lyric writing: political and confrontational one moment, tender, witty, poetic or sharply comic the next. The result is a compact overview of an artist whose songs consistently resisted easy categorisation.

Pressed on LP by Demon Records, Anything That Rocks - The Best Of works as an accessible introduction to Ian Dury while also gathering many of his most recognisable and most-streamed songs in one vinyl collection.