[2019-10-25] The Dickies "The A&M Years" 2CD set (Caroline UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Sep 19, 2019 2:05 am

Description
This 31 track double CD rounds up all of madcap American Punk outfit The Dickies releases for A&M Records in the late 70’s. Disc 1 is debut album The Incredible Shrinking Dickies which hit No.18 in the UK National Charts. It contains the UK hit singles 'Silent Night' (No.47), 'Banana Splits (The Tra La La Song)' (No.7) and 'Paranoid' (No.45). The second disc is 1979’s Dawn Of The Dickies album which reached No.60. This includes the hit singles 'Nights In White Satin' (No.39), Fan Mail (No.57) and Gigantor (No.72). This digi-pak release comes with a 20 page booklet containing sleeve notes by Vive La Rock’s Andy Cairney plus pictures of all relevant sleeves and a stack of memorabilia.

Tracklist
[CD1: The Incredible Shrinking Dickies]
1. Give It Back
2. Poodle Party
3. Paranoid
4. She
5. Shadow Man
6. Mental Ward
7. Eve Of Destruction
8. You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)
9. Waterslide
10. Walk Like An Egg
11. Curb Job
12. Shake And Bake
13. Rondo (The Midgets Revenge)
Bonus Tracks:
14. I'm OK, You're OK
15. Silent Night
16. Sounds Of Silence
17. Banana Splits
18. Hideous
19. Got It At The Store

[CD2: Dawn Of The Dickies]
1. Where Did His Eye Go?
2. Fan Mail
3. Manny, Moe & Jack
4. Infidel Zombie
5. I'm A Chollo
6. Nights In White Satin
7. (I'm Stuck In A Pagoda With) Tricia Toyota
8. I've Got A Splitting Hedachi
9. Attack Of The Mole Men
10. She Loves Me Not
Bonus Tracks:
11. Gigantor
12. Bowling With Bedrock Barney

Amazon USA
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y1H86GC/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Y1H86GC/?tag=imwan-21

Rick A · 23 Jul 2006

Wow, I remember these guys. They played in the same club, "The Showplace" Dover NJ as my band. I loved the energy and humor they processed.
They may have been one of the first L.A. punk bands at the time. I'll need to get this for the walk down memory lane.

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Nov 08, 2019 5:08 pm

Bump: Added the tracklist to the first post.

[2019-10-25] The Dickies "The A&M Years" 2CD set (Caroline UK)

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