DEREK & CLIVE – "A Right Pair Of C****: The Complete F****** Derek & Clive" released on July 31st on UMC
Rude words ahoy! (sorry its a bit late too) Have a few review copies if needed x
ARTIST: Derek & Clive
TITLE: A Right Pair Of C****: The Complete F****** Derek & Clive
RELEASE DATE: 31st July 2015 on
LABEL: UMC
FORMATS: 5CD
UPC: 00600753607435
Derek and Clive were fictional comedic characters created by Dudley Moore (Derek) and Peter Cook (Clive) in the 1970s.
Their outrageous performances were captured on the records Derek and Clive: (Live) (1976), Derek and Clive – Come Again (1977), and Derek and Clive – Ad Nauseam (1978). A greatest hits album containing some previously unreleased material, called Rude & Rare The Best of Derek and Clive, was released in 2011.
When Derek and Clive arrived, they were a revelation and pre-dated alternative comedy by several years. Their barrier-shattering range of topics – a veritable cornucopia of obscenity – was also a comic prelude to the punk revolution that was to come.
Considered highly offensive by many at the time, they even provoked complaints from police forces across England demanding they be banned. The sketches primarily took the form of bizarre, sometimes drunken streams of consciousness led by Cook, with interjections from Moore. Memorable moments from the records include Clive claiming that the worst job he ever had was retrieving lobsters from Jayne Mansfield’s behind and and a horse-racing ‘commentary’ featuring horses named after sexual organs or their vulgarised derivatives.
“To hear two famous comedians abusing each other was unmitigatedly liberating. It felt as if they had enfranchised a whole section of working-class society, giving it a comic voice that had been overlooked by middle-class comedians for years. Pete and Dud were permanent outsiders, looking in at a world they didn’t understand. Derek and Clive recognised the simple but overlooked fact that ordinary people swear a hell of a lot, but the way that Cook – especially Cook – used language was so casually evocative that he achieved something that surpassed mere obscenity”. Alexander Games (author of Pete & Dud: An Illustrated Biography)
To this day they are still highly revered by a huge raft of well-known comedians: Ricky Gervais, Jenny Éclair, David Baddiel and Johnny Vegas to name but a few
Needless to say, this complete Derek and Clive collection contains very strong language…
>> TRACKLISTING:
Disc one
Derek & Clive: Live
- The Worst Job I Ever Had
- This Bloke Came Up To Me
- The Worst Job He Ever Had
- Squatter And The Ant
- In The Lav
- Little Flo
- Just One Of Those Songs
- Winkie Wanky Woo
- Bo Duddley
- Blind
- Top Rank
- Cancer
- Jump
Disc two
Come Again:
- You Stupid C***
- Coughin’ Contest
- Cancer
- Non-Stop Dancer / My Mum Song
- Joan Crawford
- Norman The Carpet
- How’s Your Mother
- Back Of The Cab
- Alfie Noakes
- Nurse
- In The Cubicles
- Ross McPharter
- Hello Colin
- Having A W***
- I Saw This Bloke
- Parking Offence
- Members Only
- Valerie’s Hymen
- Mother
- Films
- Young Dudley Moore Performs “Jump”
Disc three
Ad Nauseam:
- Endangered Species
- Horse Racing
- T.V.
- Bruce Forsyth
- Records
- Soul Time
- Russia
- Sir
- Celebrity Suicide
- Politics
- Labels
- Street Music
- The Horn
- Mona
- The Critics
- Intergalactic Sex
- Rape, Death And Paralysis
- Lady Vera Fart Teller
- I Can’t S***
- Sex Manual
- Stupid
Disc four
Rude & Rare (pt1)
- Bruce Forsyth
- Celebrity Suicide
- Endangered Species
- Horse Racing
- Labels
- Mona
- Records
- The Horn
- Alfie Noakes
- Back Of The Cab
- I Saw This Bloke
- In The Cubicles
- Joan Crawford
- Members Only
- Non-Stop Dancer / My Mum Song
- Norman The Carpet
- Nurse
Disc five
Rude & Rare (pt2)
- Marriage
- Mother In Law
- Pete’s Impressions
- How Sex Was Invented
- Bogey Song
- Eight Legged Elephant
- Duds Walk
- Sex Education
- Drumming Session
- Punk Song
- Stripper
- Ballroom
- Cough Song
- Hamsters
- The End