prune juice!
― Mark G, Sunday, 2 December 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
I am surprised by the lack of Dury on the forum. I have recently been enjoying New Boots and Panties (the album that is) and wrote about it on our blog:
http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/ian-dury-and-the-blockheads-new-boots-and-panties-round-43-toms-selection/
― yugi ex, Saturday, 5 January 2013 11:33 (eleven years ago) link
i remain astonished he doesn't get more love. why is that?
― piscesx, Friday, 27 May 2016 22:29 (seven years ago) link
There is a kind of gap, almost a black hole, on this borad with respect to the pub rock era and its artists. See also Nick Lowe. Graham Parker as well.
― Son of Shaftway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 May 2016 22:49 (seven years ago) link
if we're talking ilx love then fair enough, but in the uk he's fairly feted, they even made a biopic starring the Gollum guy
― the unbearable jimmy smits (jim in glasgow), Friday, 27 May 2016 22:56 (seven years ago) link
probably hurts his legacy a little bit that two of his best known songs, hit me with your rhythm stick and reasons to be cheerful, have a bit of a novelty song feel about them
― the unbearable jimmy smits (jim in glasgow), Friday, 27 May 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
unlike the more philosophical sex and drugs and rock n roll
― Οὖτις, Friday, 27 May 2016 22:59 (seven years ago) link
probably hurts his legacy a little bit that two three of his best known songs, hit me with your rhythm stick, reasons to be cheerful and sex and drugs and rock n roll, have a bit of a novelty song feel about them
― the unbearable jimmy smits (jim in glasgow), Friday, 27 May 2016 23:03 (seven years ago) link
tbf those are the only songs I know so I would say you are probably right lol
― Οὖτις, Friday, 27 May 2016 23:04 (seven years ago) link
http://eil.com/images/main/Ian+Dury+Profoundly+In+Love+With+Pandor+189227.jpg
I want this Gian Sammarco + Lindsey Stagg picture disc so badly
― soref, Friday, 27 May 2016 23:11 (seven years ago) link
Decades ago I remember meeting a guy who claimed Ian Dury lived down the road from him and would sponsor clean up the neighborhood and give away Ian Dury records as prizes. Over time I've forgotten the name of the town he was from and have not being able to get myself to recall it as there is confusion from someone else's hometown. So I keep thinking Wolverstonecraftshire and my brain can go no further. If anyone can provide further information I would be most grateful.
― Son of Shaftway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 May 2016 23:22 (seven years ago) link
Reasons to Be Cheerful has a bit of a novelty song feel about it, the others don't.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Friday, 27 May 2016 23:32 (seven years ago) link
I kind of get the impression that critical opinion turned against him at some point in the early 80s despite him having been acclaimed in the late 70s? I agree that he has definitely become established as a canonical acclaimed figure since his death, though.
has anyone else heard this tribute album? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Boots_and_Panties!!#Brand_New_Boots_And_PantiesI remember it mostly seeming a bit irrelevant aside from the Sinéad O'Connor track, Shane MacGowan staggering through Plaistow Patricia is kind of entertaining as well. what an odd collection of artists, though!
― soref, Friday, 27 May 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
Laughter is an incredible album, it's a pity that it also marked the beginning of a collapse in his chart peformance
― soref, Friday, 27 May 2016 23:41 (seven years ago) link
Nottingstonegate?
― Son of Shaftway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 May 2016 23:41 (seven years ago) link
Warhamptonwick?
― Son of Shaftway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 May 2016 23:47 (seven years ago) link
oh wait
― Son of Shaftway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 May 2016 23:49 (seven years ago) link
I was listening to this live recording of a show by Bill Nelson's Red Noise from 1979, and at one point Nelson's talking to the audience about music he doesn't like and says something like "something really boring like... Ian Dury" - which made me kind of sad! of all of the people he could have picked as examples of boring music, and he picks Ian Dury :(
― soref, Saturday, 28 May 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
Wow, US Spotify's got a lot of Dury, incl. some I've never heard of. US CD-wise, Rhino's version of the excellent comp Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll might be the most findable I suppose the ace Juke Box Dury might be around over here too, though have never seen it as a domestic release.
― dow, Saturday, 28 May 2016 01:02 (seven years ago) link
never have
― dow, Saturday, 28 May 2016 01:03 (seven years ago) link
Upminster
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 28 May 2016 08:49 (seven years ago) link
Serkis is good but there's just something a little too rough about his Essexisms (which was kind of a deliberate persona for Dury anyway, raised in comfortable Harrow) - there's none of the sweetness of Dury in his singing voice. There's a world of difference between Reasons To Be Cheerful Part "FREE" (Serkis), and Part "THREE" (Dury). Pretty decent film though.― Michael Jones, Sunday, 10 January 2010 11:05 (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 10 January 2010 11:05 (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeahhhh...... (It was on last night)
I dunno, Andy Serkis did a good job, just .. it .. wasn't.. close enough? The firsttime I saw it, I did wonder if Robbie Williams would have made a better visual resemblance, but then again he's not a trained actor so probably wouldn't have been as good.
One scene gets close to Ian: the return to the disabled boarding school where he talks to the kids, I remember this as a verbatim recreation of what actually happened, (was it on Nationwide or something?). Maybe there wasn't enough of Ian being charming, offsetting the 'mad disabled bloke' which he is most of the time in the film.
Still, this was more about Baxter than Ian, really, wasn't it?
― Mark G, Monday, 22 August 2016 11:43 (seven years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/31/baxter-dury-everything-was-about-dad-it-was-the-only-way-he-knew-how-to-survive
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 00:56 (two years ago) link
I guess there are some Baxter Dury threads but they seem to be super-short.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 01:03 (two years ago) link
At the heart of Chaise Longue is an unlikely trio living in belligerent harmony – dad, son and the Sulphate Strangler. They shared a flat in west London by the banks of the Thames; part of a block renowned for its arty squatters, which Ian dubbed Catshit Mansions. They drank together, took drugs together, smashed crockery together, rowed and made up together when Baxter was still in his mid-teens.
The squatted Catshit Mansions were famously sited in Kennington - looking onto the Oval Cricket ground, rather than the banks of the Thames. This seems to be conflated two periods of Ian Dury's life: the earlier struggling years in Kennington where he lived with Denise Roudette and the later post fame years in Chiswick (I think).
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 10:28 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ova26J0BcDs
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 18:40 (two years ago) link
aw shit, thanks for the heads up!
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link
That whole sequence of him in the pool was beautiful. Also talking to the kids at that school, that was lovely
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 21:56 (two years ago) link
Yeah, remember this one well. One example as to why the S&D&R&R movie didn't work for me : they re-create that school scene in the movie and it's not as good.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 09:34 (two years ago) link