Dirk Wears White Sox in London on 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd of November. The art deco, grade II listed building in Upper Street is the perfect intimate venue for the shows Tickets are now available here. Also available are limited edition signed copies of the 2014 released remastered deluxe White vinyl album. Together with Dirk Wears White Sox, which was quite an independent-sounding art school album, it brought another life into it. So I never waste any songs. Any songs I have written I do plan to.
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Dirk Wears White Sox is the debut studio album by Adam and the Ants, released in 1979. It is the only album released by the original Adam and the Ants line-up, who would go on to be swiped by Malcolm McLaren for Bow Wow Wow. The 'Dirk' of the title refers to classic British film icon Dirk Bogarde.
Tracklist:
Side One
- 'Cartrouble (Parts 1 & 2)'
- 'Digital Tenderness'
- 'Nine Plan Failed'
- 'Day I Met God'
- 'Tabletalk'
Side Two
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- 'Cleopatra'
- 'Catholic Day'
- 'Never Trust A Man (With Egg On His Face)'
- 'Animals And Men'
- 'Family Of Noise'
- 'The Idea'
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Bonus Tracks (Reissues):
What Gang Wears White Sox
- 'Kick!' (2:05)
- 'Zerox' (3:45)
- 'Whip In My Valise' (3:58)
- 'Physical' (3:59)
- 'Friends' (2:40)
Principal Members:
- Adam Ant - lead vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica
- Matthew Ashman - guitar, piano
- Dave Barbarossa - drums, percussion
- Marco Pirroni - guitar
- Andrew Warren - bass
Never Trope A Man (With Egg On His Face):
- Album Title Drop: The line 'Dirk wears white sox' doesn't appear until 'Don't Be Square (Be There)' on the NEXT Ants' album, Kings of the Wild Frontier.
- Aliens Are Bastards: 'Never Trust A Man (With Egg On His Face)', in which a woman shoots her husband in front of her children because of an extraterrestrial conspiracy (or possibly just a psychotic break):She was the victim of an awful plan
Announced through the mouthpiece of a little green man
She'd heard the voices from outer space - Alliterative Name: The main character in 'Whip In My Valise'I can't thank her, my Sunday spanker
- Anti-Love Song: 'Digital Tenderness'That alphabet you call love is just a digital tenderness(..) And my heart is stronger than a four-letter-long word
- Belief Makes You Stupid: 'The Idea'You didn't have to kneel downA god would say 'hello'An angel touched my shoulder
- Car Song: 'Cartrouble (Parts 1 & 2)'Ever stopped to think who's the slave and who's the master?Have you ever had to push, push, push?
- Deliberately Monochrome: The album cover.
- Ethereal Choir: 'The Day I Met God'And the herald angels sang: 'Ooh, ooh, oooh, ooh
- Gratuitous Italian: 'Animals And Men'
- Mundane Made Awesome: 'Cartrouble', a song about .. well.. car trouble.
- Named After Somebody Famous: 'Cleopatra', named after the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII.
- One-Woman Song: 'Cleopatra'.
- One-Word Title: 'Tabletalk', 'Kick!', 'Zerox', 'Physical' and 'Friends'.
- Post-Punk: It was released in it's wake.
- Record Producer: Adam Ant and Chris Hughes.
- Religion Rant Song: 'The Idea'I could be religious if..I could be religious if..I could be religious if..
- Shout-Out:
- The 'Dirk' in the album title refers to actor Dirk Bogarde.
- 'Catholic Day' references the assassination of John F. Kennedy and his affair with Marilyn Monroe. The song also name-drops the line 'I see the chickens have come home to roost', which was Malcolm X's reaction when interviewed about JFK's death.
Kennedy died in '63(..) No more messing around, playing with MonroePoor Jackie-- 'Animals And Men' references artists from the Futurism movement:
Marinetti, Boccioni, Carra, Balla, Palazzeschi!Futurist Manifesto!- 'Cleopatra' has a reference to the film Cleopatra, and what a disappointment it was:Elizabeth and Richard gave you
- 'Family Of Noise' quotes from 'She Loves You' by The Beatles, available on Past Masters.
- 'Nine Plan Failed'
And he sings like Buddy Holly - Sadist: The subject person in 'Whip In My Valise', whose activities include pulling the wings off flies, killing grandmothers and good old punishment.
- Spell My Name with an 'S': The word 'socks' is spelled as 'sox' in the title.
- Stock Punishment: 'Whip In My Valise'You put my head into the stocks
- Too Kinky to Torture: The main character in 'Whip In My Valise'I can't thank her, my Sunday spanker
- War Is Hell: 'Nine Plan Failed'After nine years in the army, they took away his brainAnd signed him up again
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Dirk Wears White Sox | |||
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Studio album by | |||
Released | 30 November 1979[1] | ||
Recorded | 24–29 August 1979 | ||
Studio | Sound Development Studios, London | ||
Genre | Post-punk, alternative rock | ||
Length | 40:39 | ||
Label | Do It | ||
Producer | |||
Adam and the Ants chronology | |||
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Alternative cover |
Dirk Wears White Sox is the debut studio album by English new wave band Adam and the Ants. It was released on 30 November 1979[1] by record label Do It. It was the first number one album on the UK Independent Albums Chart when the chart debuted in Record Week in 1980.[2]