To celebrate 21 years since the album’s release, this Deluxe Edition contains three discs, encompasses the original album rare B-sides with remixes from artists such as Goldie and tracks (including the band’s unofficial Euro ’96 football song, ‘England’s Irie’, which featured guest vocals from legendary Clash frontman Joe Strummer), live tracks from the band’s 1996 Brixton Academy performance, a DVD featuring official music videos, TOTP and Later With Jools Holland appearances, and a 20-page booklet featuring postcards and rare photos, with sleevenotes by Paolo Hewitt. It’s Great When You’re Straight…Yeah is a surreal, funky, profane and perversely joyous party album, overflowing with casual eclecticism and giddy humour. Working with a band that is looser and grittier than the Mondays, Ryder sounds reinvigorated, creating bizarre rhymes that tie together junk culture, drug lingo, literary references and gobbledygook. Ryder’s lyrics have always been freewheelingly impenetrable, but working with Kermit, a rapper that is equal of his skills, the pair pushed each other into some of the wittiest wordplay ever recorded. Soundtracking this chaos is music of deep groves and catchy pop hooks that comes straight out of the leftfield. From the blaring harmonica of the swaggering ‘Reverend Black Grape’ and the trippy sitar of ‘In The Name Of The Father’ to the seedy, rolling ‘Shake Your Money Maker’ and the infectious guitar riff of ‘Kelly’s Heroes’, It’s Great When You’re Straight…Yeah is filled with music that goes in unconventional directions without ever sounding forced. Not only was the album a triumphant return for Ryder and Bez, but it fused everything that was brilliant about the Mondays with a love of hip hop and funk, taking their work to new, dizzying heights.