Dance Little Rude Boy is the penultimate single to be released, as a promo, by British rock band Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

[1] The song was one of two singles taken from the 2002 album Ten More Turnips from the Tip, (the other being "One Love" / "Ballad of the Sulphate Strangler").

[1] Reviewing the album for the BBC in 2002, Chris Jones said: The title seems to imply some kind of rejected product is on offer here.

How far this is from the truth is immediately made plain from the sophisticated stroking of a Fender Rhodes that opens the first track "Dance Little Rude Boy".

[...] The aforementioned "Rude Boy", "Books and Water" and "It Ain't Cool" all bounce with robust good health with Dury's razor-sharp lyrics cutting a swathe through the smoothest jazz-funk this side of the Atlantic.