Consumer Guide Album

Ian Dury & the Blockheads: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll [Demon, 1987]
Presumably, this substitutes "Superman's Big Sister" and "You're More Than Fair" for Juke Box Dury's "Wake Up and Make Love With Me" and "Sweet Gene Vincent" because the latter are available on New Boots and Panties!!, his second-best LP, while the former are rare items as well as genuine singles. They ain't as good, though, and if they're why Demon reprogrammed a perfect record, it is to weep. I even prefer the earlier title--if a change was required, give me Reasons To Be Cheerful, not a slogan more misused than born-in-the-U.S.A. But you can't buy Juke Box Dury any more, and that's not Demon's fault. The millions who foolishly passed it by should lay down their inflation-wracked dollars or pounds for this reasonable facsimile. A