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Reissue, 50th Anniversary Remaster
An inspiration to bands ranging from The Jam and Boomtown Rats to Blondie, Down By The Jetty celebrates it’s 50 year anniversary.
Recorded in stark mono, the Southend-on-Sea quartet tore into a set of r&b covers and jagged Wilko Johnson originals with surgical intensity-making this one of the most vital UK debut albums of the decade. Tracks like 'She Does It Right' and 'All Through the City' rumble with cocky, adrenaline-spiked swagger, while 'Roxette' and 'Twenty Yards Behind' ooze with amphetamine bite. They tip their hat to tradition-John Lee Hooker's 'Boom Boom', Larry Williams' 'Bonie Moronie'-but keep everything sharp and uncompromisingly British. Wilko's clipped Telecaster twang and Brilleaux's sandpaper bark make an archetype of pub rock that'd inspire everyone from The Jam to the Ramones. As punk loomed on the horizon, Dr. Feelgood made the dirt sound good.
Side 1
1. "She Does It Right" 3:20
2. "Boom, Boom" 2:43
3. "The More I Give" 3:24
4. "Roxette" 2:54
5. "One Weekend" 2:15
6. "That Ain't The Way To Behave" 3:57
7. "I Don't Mind" 2:33
Side 2
1. "Twenty Yards Behind" 2:07
2. "Keep It Out Of Sight" 2:59
3. "All Through The City" 3:02
4. "Cheque Book" 4:01
5. "Oyeh!" 2:27
6. "Bonie Moronie/Tequila" 4:44