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Ian Dury

El Jefe said:
Seriously, though, I do find it astonishing that an alleged grown-up like LoL can listen to Judas Priest and not piss themselves laughing. Studs and flying V guitars are fine when you're 12, but then you kiss a girl or something and move on.
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Flying Vees are great, don't knock them just because they fall into the wrong horrible hands from time to time.
 
How weird, after Youtubing Hit Me With your Rhythm Stick with Big Brother on in the background they were singing it on Big Brother - became vey confused for a moment.

Anyway - Dury is a top top man - funny lyrics like Blockheads and touching ones like My Old Man.

I read a good Biography of him once - said he was not such a nice fella really - huge ego and was brought up by two middle class irish sisters - he adopted Essex as his spiritual home. Could be called an early example of a mockney.

Takes nothing away from his music though - one of the first gigs i went to - Brixton academy with me dad circa 1990
 
D'wards said:
I read a good Biography of him once - said he was not such a nice fella really - huge ego and was brought up by two middle class irish sisters - he adopted Essex as his spiritual home. Could be called an early example of a mockney.
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I think I read the same one. But it's no biggie - the art is the main thing, and unless someone is a vicious racist wifebeating bastard, the rest doesn't matter too much.
 
El Jefe said:
I think I read the same one. But it's no biggie - the art is the main thing, and unless someone is a vicious racist wifebeating bastard, the rest doesn't matter too much.
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True dat, ya get mi.

Did anyone ever get the tribute New Boots and Panties - some okay versions on it.

Some of his later stuff was okay as well - like this one - called One Love, a charming little song

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qhyF0Tn61xI
 
lights.out.london said:
...either way his music is/was dull...not very interesting...not life changing...Blur have done it better since...*gets coat*
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Why do you keep on making a fool of yourself in this thread?

You clearly haven't a clue about Dury's music or his part in the punk/new wave movement, so why keep typing out laughably ill-informed drivel like the above?

It's bordering on embarrassing. Read these links and learn.

A peerless lyricist and louche vocalist, Dury introduced cockney- rhyming slang and shopping-list rapping to the charts, while his stage antics influenced both the leering and leaning-into-the-mike stance of the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten and the street-urchin pop of Madness..
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000328/ai_n14285614
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Dury had long been lauded for his distinct physical humor on the pub circuit. His style, a mutated fusion of spiv, greaser, cockney pearly king, and Dickensian villain, was grotesque yet transfixing. And using his disability to his advantage, he used his cane as a prop, strutting around the stage like a dirty dandy, making his deficiencies integral parts of his distinctive charisma.

As startlingly amusing as his stage persona was, it was always secondary to the striking humor that defined the Blockheads’ song catalog. Dury was adept at moving between the anthemic and the intimate in his lyrics. “Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll”, the band’s 1977 debut single, stressed the former with its soccer slogan-style sing-along chorus line. They are “all my brain and body needs”, Dury proclaims of his title’s contents in the “naughty Uncle” snarl that Johnny Rotten would later inherit...

The “fashionable” ‘80s were not kind to Dury’s career, but his legacy and influence lived on during those times via such fellow London acts as Madness, Squeeze, and Billy Bragg. Indeed, his proto-rap delivery and working-class tall-tales still resonate through the more humorous U.K. artists of recent years, such as the Streets and the Arctic Monkeys. All of these performers cast deeply into Britain’s pub rock and music hall traditions, each bringing a distinction that enables their malleable conventions to be forever updated.

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column...hythm-shtick-the-life-and-rhymes-of-ian-dury/
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I know my 'punk' history, I just also happen to think his music is pretty bland.*shrugs* I'm pleased he had a couple of hits - he must have enjoyed that! Woo!

Pedestrian. Thanks for the links, though!
 
lights.out.london said:
I know my 'punk' history, I just also happen to think his music is pretty bland.*shrugs* I'm pleased he had a couple of hits - he must have enjoyed that! Woo!

Pedestrian. Thanks for the links, though!
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Nothing pedestrian about these guys, eh?

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BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW :D
 
Trying to make the connection between Priest and Ian Dury.. Nope. Can't do it.

Is not liking Dury's music a banning offence? Just I've never been banned before. :(
 
butchersapron said:
It's 'punk rock' L.o.L :rolleyes:
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I don't mind them 'breaking the law', as long as that law isn't the one banning the disgusting habit of drinking on public transport. Rock'n'roll is one thing, civil disobedience quite another, thank you very much.

Yours,

Disgusted of South London.
 
Plaistow Patricia and Blackmail Man sound pretty much like punk to me, not bland at all - great tracks.
 
lights.out.london said:
Trying to make the connection between Priest and Ian Dury.. Nope. Can't do it.
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There's no connection per se, it's just astonishing that a grown man can listen to such teenage toss and yet criticise Dury for being pedestrian and boring.

lights.out.london said:
Is not liking Dury's music a banning offence? Just I've never been banned before. :(
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It's not, but it should be :)

In fact, liking Judas Priest should be itself.
 
The Blockheads were the first live band I ever saw back in 1979 when I was 15 & Ian Dury has been a hero of mine ever since. A sublime lyricist to counterpoise Chaz Jankel's musical mastery. I took my 15 year old lad to see them last night & they still fucking rock! :D
 
The foot that steps with measured tread
receives instructions from your 'ed

loved kilburn & the high roads Handsome too great album
 
Top notch lyricist, like a working class Noel Coward. I always like lyrics or poems with a lot of rhymes but without being obvious, and despite his odd bit of mangling Dury always pulled it together and delivered. As well as his wit and undeniable charm he was also a bit of a hard bastard, which is a good thing.

Had a love affair with Nina
In the back of my cortina
A seasoned-up hyena
Could not have been more obscener
She took me to the cleaners
And other misdemeanours
But I got right up between her
Rum and her Ribena

of course this song also pairs Janet with Thanet, a geographical thrill not matched until HMHB did "She's in Broadstairs"...
 
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