Stupidity (Dr. Feelgood album)
Stupidity | ||||
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Live album by | ||||
Released | September 1976 | |||
Recorded | May 23, 1975 & November 8, 1975 | |||
Venue | Sheffield City Hall Southend Kursaal | |||
Genre | Rock, pub rock | |||
Length | 47:01 | |||
Label | United Artists - UAS 29990 | |||
Producer | Dr. Feelgood[1] | |||
Dr. Feelgood chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Select | 4/5[3] |
Stupidity is a
live album by English rock band Dr. Feelgood. It was released in September 1976 and is the band's third overall album. Their mushrooming popularity was confirmed when Stupidity (1976) topped the UK Albums Chart.[4]
The album reached
Sneakin' Suspicion" (June 1977).[5]
Along with hit single.[6] In 2013, NME ranked it at number 267 in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[7]
Track listing
All tracks composed by Wilko Johnson; except where indicated
Side 1
- "Talking About You" (Chuck Berry)
- "20 Yards Behind"
- "Stupidity" (Solomon Burke)
- "All Through The City"
- "I'm a Man" (Bo Diddley)
- "Walking The Dog" (Rufus Thomas)
- "She Does It Right"
Side 2
- "Going Back Home" (Mick Green, Johnson)
- "I Don't Mind"
- "Back in the Night"
- "I'm a Hog for You Baby" (Leiber, Stoller)
- "Checking Up on My Baby" (Sonny Boy Williamson)
- "Roxette"
Bonus 7" single
- "Riot in Cell Block No. 9" (Leiber, Stoller)
- "Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry)[2]
Stupidity + (Dr. Feelgood - Live - 1976-1990) CD Bonus tracks
- "Take a Tip"
- "Every Kind of Vice"
- "She's a Wind Up"
- "No Mo Do Yakamo"
- "Love Hound"
- "Shotgun Blues"
- "King for a Day"
- "Milk and Alcohol"
- "Down At The Doctors"
The original
vinyl album had the first seven tracks on Side 1, recorded in Sheffield, and the next six tracks on Side 2, recorded in Southend. A free single, only issued with the first 20,000 copies, included the final two tracks recorded in Aylesbury.[8]
The 1998 Grand Records re-release (GRANDCD 21) states that tracks 8-15 were all recorded at Southend, but this was finally corrected with the box-set release of All Through The City (2012), where it emerged that "Johnny B. Goode" had indeed been recorded at Friars in Aylesbury.
An extended CD version of the album was released in 1991 (CDP795934-2) entitled Stupidity + and sub-titled Dr. Feelgood - Live - 1976-1990. The additional nine live tracks were all recorded post-1977 in the period after Johnson had left the band.
Chart positions
Chart | Year | Peak position |
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UK Albums Chart[9] | 1976 | 1 |
Personnel
- Dr. Feelgood
- Lee Brilleaux - vocals, guitar, harmonica, slide guitar
- Wilko Johnson - guitar, backing vocals
- John B. Sparks - bass guitar
- The Big Figure - drums, backing vocals
- Technical
- Dr. Feelgood - producer
- audio engineer, mixing
- Will Birch - liner notes
- Paul Henry - design[2]
References
- ^ a b "Lee Brilleaux, 41, British Blues Singer". The New York Times. 9 April 1994. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
- ^ a b c Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Stupidity – Dr. Feelgood". AllMusic. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- ^ Cavanagh, David (May 1991). "Dr. Feelgood: Stupidity". Select. No. 11. p. 88.
- ISBN 1-84195-017-3.
- ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ISBN 0-85112-619-7.
- ^ "Rocklist.net....NME: The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time : October 2013". Rocklistmusic.co.uk.
- ^ "DR FEELGOOD - Albums". Drfeelgood.de. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- The Official Charts Company. Archived from the originalon 9 February 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2011.