Critical Reception
It is common for reviewers to unfavourably compare an artist's new work to their old, and this was the case with Apples with critics pointing out the songs were not as good as Dury's 'old stuff', Ironically two of the tracks "Apples" and "England's Glory" were written over 13 years earlier while Dury was still in Kilburn & The Highroads, a studio recording of "Apples" (with slightly different lyrics) and a live version of "England's Glory" by Ian Dury & The Kilburns, the final phase of Dury's influential pub-rock outfit are included on Edsel's re-issue of New Boots and Panties!!, when Dury was beginning work on Do it Yourself New Boots' follow up, his management begged him to revive old Kilburns numbers, Peter Jenner (one of his management) stated in Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Song By Song that "England's Glory" was a 'Hit in the making'. Likewise "Byline Brown" had been written around 8 years before.
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