Stupidity (Dr. Feelgood album)


Stupidity was the third album by Dr. Feelgood. It was released in September 1976, and was their first live album recording. Their mushrooming popularity was confirmed when Stupidity topped the UK charts.
The album reached number 1 in the UK Albums Chart in October 1976, and remained in that chart for nine weeks. It was the first ever live album to go to number 1 in the UK chart in its first week of release. It was Dr. Feelgood's first and, to date, only recording to reach number 1, and appeared over eight months before their first single entered the corresponding UK Singles Chart - "Sneakin' Suspicion".
Along with Rock Follies in 1976, it reached the top spot in the UK without the benefit of a hit single.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Wilko Johnson; except where indicated

Side 1

  1. "Talking About You"
  2. "20 Yards Behind"
  3. "Stupidity"
  4. "All Through The City"
  5. "I'm a Man"
  6. "Walking The Dog"
  7. "She Does It Right"

    Side 2

  9. "Going Back Home"
  10. "I Don't Mind"
  11. "Back in the Night"
  12. "I'm a Hog for You Baby"
  13. "Checking Up on My Baby"
  14. "Roxette"

    Bonus 7" single

  16. "Riot in Cell Block No. 9"
  17. "Johnny B. Goode"

    ''Stupidity + (Dr. Feelgood - Live - 1976-1990)'' CD Bonus tracks

  19. "Take a Tip"
  20. "Every Kind of Vice"
  21. "She's A Wind Up"
  22. "No Mo Do Yakamo"
  23. "Love Hound"
  24. "Shotgun Blues"
  25. "King For A Day"
  26. "Milk and Alcohol"
  27. "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. The 1998 Grand Records re-release 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, 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 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

Personnel

;Dr. Feelgood
;Technical