So what's your favourite Ian Dury song? Comment down below! Trash Theory playlist - Spotify: tinyurl.com/yxp32pjf Apple Music: tinyurl.com/2p83px9m Deezer: tinyurl.com/y2mdp8h2 Also if you want to help support the channel, here's my patreon link: patreon.com/trashtheory
@electrolinks2 жыл бұрын
Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3 is a standout. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, My old man... I always learn something new from your well researched videos. Thanks and Cor Blimey.
@GrahamMilkdrop2 жыл бұрын
It has to be 'Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3. '.... where else would you get lyrics like: 'Dominica camels... All other mammals and equal votes...'! and a shoutout to Rico Rodriguez in the same song?
@daemonnice2 жыл бұрын
too many to name
@dambrooks75782 жыл бұрын
Billericay Dickie, a fascinating story about the Essex Boy mentality, of course being born in Essex and being a male doesn't influence my choice at all 😇
@dambrooks75782 жыл бұрын
I really should have said Plaistow Patricia shouldn't I...?
@meboppie2 жыл бұрын
One piece of trivia is that Ian’s funeral was paid for by his label mate at Stiff Records, Kirsty MacColl (who I also adore). Nine months later she was killed in a careless boating accident in Cozumel. She died saving her oldest son.
@iainjohnson12352 жыл бұрын
worth remembering that his song 'Spasticus Autsticus' was banned at the time by the BBC. But used at the opening of the Paralaympics in London 2012. I'm sure he would have enjoyed that!
@V8AmericanMuscleCar4 ай бұрын
Great song! ❤
@rockymaldonado77582 ай бұрын
Coolest thing ever
@janinebedfordl2 жыл бұрын
At the risk of sounding exactly like the old fart that I am, I'm so glad I grew up at a time when the pop singles chart was full of such diverse music / artists. Ian Dury - a huge talent and a fascinating man
@LividImp2 жыл бұрын
My wife and I say this to each other all the time. I feel bad for the kids that grew up in the last 30ish years. So much of the music is so bland and lifeless, and that goes a long way to explain why the top song in the world right now is from 1985.
@frangarcia77742 жыл бұрын
I assure you there's a lot of great stuff coming out every year... It's only harder to find
@janinebedfordl2 жыл бұрын
@@frangarcia7774 Exactly and as a result my youngest son has little interest in music in general and what he does listen to is mostly old stuff that he's picked up on through his older brother's collection. It used to be all around you
@LividImp2 жыл бұрын
@@frangarcia7774 There is still some great stuff, but the shear volume and variety is just not the same. It took me decades to catch up with all the music I wanted in the 80s. The big difference now is that it is super easy to hear music from halfway around the world. In the 80s I would have never guessed that I'd be mostly listening to bands from places like Turkey, Spain, or New Zealand.
@TheOnlyCathyCat2 жыл бұрын
the charts is STILL full of diverse music......boomers, man, I swear they get high off their own farts.
@cogsnbanjo2 жыл бұрын
Seriously, Ian Dury and the Blockheads was the best live act I ever saw. So much energy and humour. He was exhausted at the end of the gig - he gave it everything.
@antschiari80002 жыл бұрын
The Blockheads are hugely underrated as musicians!!!
@rickjones41332 жыл бұрын
Truth.
@sd34572 жыл бұрын
Ian couldn't have been Ian, without such a fantastically tight and awesome band behind him. I never got to see the Blockheads, but I've seen Norman Watt-Roy a few times with Wilko and he is for my money the most underrated bassist ever.
@decairn2 жыл бұрын
Super tight band, they always amaze me when I sit and listen.
@geraldfriend2562 жыл бұрын
They’re unreal
@bruffie2 жыл бұрын
Best rhythm section ever. Norman was astonishing.
@martinmcwilliams2 жыл бұрын
Meet Ian Dury years ago in Belfast such a delightful guy he was everything you wanted him to be.
@zyxxy2 жыл бұрын
Ian was a moody geezer, bit of a sulky but overall a top bloke. He's sorely missed.
@markofsaltburn2 жыл бұрын
You were lucky you caught him on a good day 😀
@kieranmclaughlin89202 жыл бұрын
Excellent. 👏🙂
@pcno28322 жыл бұрын
1:28 Gene Vincent kept performing not only after his 1955 motorcycle accident, but even after his body was wrecked further in the Wiltshire crash that killed Eddie Cochran. As his career waned, he developed a habit of pointing guns around recklessly and in 1968 he even took a few shots at Gary Glitter. For better or worse, he missed.
@Vinyladdict952 жыл бұрын
Definitely for worse. Gary Glitter is trash
@kieranmclaughlin89202 жыл бұрын
Thankyou. #legend 👊
@marsh443 Жыл бұрын
Too bad he missed! Tkx PC
@philsurtees Жыл бұрын
He probably would have been a better shot if not for that plane crash, dammit!
@benpotaka589311 ай бұрын
That's a shame he didn't ice that nonce
@chasetower67732 жыл бұрын
Ian is still Much loved in the US.
@kevinparker4612 жыл бұрын
Years ago i remember Elton John being on the radio & saying Ian Dury had some of the best musicians of the time in the Block heads, souded right to me!.
@Frip366 ай бұрын
So he's like an English Captain Beefheart?
@plasticsoundwavecult2 жыл бұрын
My dad was in the USAF and our family were stationed in England. I still remember when “Hit Me…” was in the charts and watching it on TotP. 1978 was a wonderful year to hear all of that new music.
@Spectrescup11 ай бұрын
The difference between chart music in the US and the UK between about 78 and 82 was enormous. You picked a good time to be here.
@NewFalconerRecords2 жыл бұрын
The new wave era was a remarkably open time for artists in their 30s to suddenly be cutting-edge rock artists (which would have been unthinkable in earlier times). People such as Dury himself, Debbie Harry, Lemmy, Andy Summers of the Police and Dave Edmunds all had a new lease on their careers.
@triffidkiller12342 жыл бұрын
You can add Charlie Harper, Hugh Cornwell, Jet Black and Dave Greenfield.
@NewFalconerRecords2 жыл бұрын
@@triffidkiller1234 Indeed!
@dingdongism2 жыл бұрын
I don’t think Lemmy’s relevance had anything to do with being in the new wave era, other than coincidence. How is his success related in any way to new wave?
@kieranmclaughlin89202 жыл бұрын
@@dingdongism Hey Doug... em... as all musicians are... Lemmy was a total muso. He loved all types of music. Musos do, Doug. Stay cool, bro. 👊
@blackmore4 Жыл бұрын
@@dingdongism All the punks I knew loved Motorhead. They were one of the few metal bands that still seemed cool in that era. Probably the only one come to think of it.
@simplesimon57392 жыл бұрын
Makes me realise how lucky I was to be a teenager and live with such great musicians.
@freddysquirenaranjo48595 ай бұрын
In my late fifties now, probably like you and yes, we were very lucky.... to hear and see these great bands!!!!
@kevintyerman19062 жыл бұрын
As an Australian I have a number of times been surprised to learn, via Trash Theory, that British bands that I thought were alternative turned out to be mainstream in Britain (eg: Echo and the Bunnymen). This time my surprise was that Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll didn't get radio airplay in Britain, as it got decent airplay here in Australia (although by Wikipedia it didn't chart here - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick made number 2).
@kieranmclaughlin89202 жыл бұрын
Well cool, bro. 👊 Kieran, from Glasgow.
@AutPen38 Жыл бұрын
Britain was going through a bit of a puritanical phase where we didn't like any mention of sex and drugs or swearing. It was quite controversial when people found out that "Hit Me" was basically a euphemism for sex. It was also a bit shocking that the b-side was called something like "There ain't half been some clever bastards". Britain was a country that was terrified of punks and the Sex Pistols were being prosecuted for having the word "Bollocks" on their album sleeve. Daytime radio was very anodyne, but the youngsters were getting some controversial artists in the charts, and sometimes their parents quite liked the tunes when the bands appeared on Top of the Pops. A lot of it was "noise" though, as mums across the nation just wanted to hear Cliff Richard.
@reginaldside457520 күн бұрын
@@AutPen38 Also Dury had soaked up so much working class diction. Following 'There ain't half been some clever bastards' with the response 'Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders' was just spot on.
@kevincross9206 Жыл бұрын
I think Ian is often overlooked when thinking about the influential people in British music. I saw the Blockheads at a local venue a few years back, and they blew me away, being a would be bassist, Norman is a legend!
@ampersand20012 жыл бұрын
I don't have enough superlatives for your work. I just fucking love it. All of it. Thank you for spreading music knowledge in an accessible and interesting way. Even as a hardcore music nerd I always learn something from your videos. 🖖🖖🖖
@bacht47992 жыл бұрын
He is one of the reason why KZfaq is too tolerant besides the garbage.. it’s such a great work he does and we very thankful for it .. 😎
@austintrousdale23972 жыл бұрын
An upload by TT is appointment viewing 👏💯
@johnpresnell2 жыл бұрын
Agreed!
@SebastianGrantElKiva2 жыл бұрын
This is pure love.
@paulgmarriott2 жыл бұрын
As an early Costello fan, I went along to the Stiff tour in Birmingham - in my red shoes, as I recall - yet was impressed by the unique, eccentric stage persona and physical stance of Dury, whom I'd never seen nor heard of before. It was only later that I learned of his unfortunate tangle with Polio and how that contributed to that stance. Top geezer, gawd bless 'im.
@danneumann32742 жыл бұрын
I am going to see elvis in august. 2nd row center seats.
@kieranmclaughlin89202 жыл бұрын
Well cool. 👊
@marsh4432 жыл бұрын
What an insult, Drury' voice was the best! That deep clear rasp is stellar & can't be duplicated, ever. To this day, i go wild over Ian's music & miss him madly. RIP luv, you left us far too soon, there was so much more for you to create. Rock on!
@AutPen38 Жыл бұрын
I used to think Ian Dury's voice was unique, but then I discovered his son Baxter Dury (the kid on the front of "New Boots") sounds almost identical. Baxter delivers his vocals in similar way too, at least on the records of his from about 2010. Well worth checking out on Spotify.
@marsh443 Жыл бұрын
@@AutPen38 OMG, tkx 4 the heads up. Rock on & live well Baxter D👍
@Maldoror2005 ай бұрын
@marsh443..Hey marsh.., I Love You, for that Beautiful Comment/ Declaration, to Ian Dury..Truly Beautifully spoken, and Clearly Sincere.., Righteous 🎸!!, Love, K
@rudetuesday2 жыл бұрын
My favorite Ian Dury song is Reasons to Be Cheerful, Pt. 3. The combination of things I knew upon first listen and the incredibly puzzling and intriguing stuff said in a foreign accent fascinated me enough to play the song over and over again. Trying to figure out what all the things were before the internet existed was a big challenge. I think I became a fan through sheer effort.
@ronfriedman87402 жыл бұрын
My reply was Reasons as well ...while I never got to see the Blockheads, it was a dance favorite for sure.
@ruangrant41472 жыл бұрын
Brilliant as always. Would love to see you do something about XTC. Never thought they got the credit they deserved for how influential they were and they were effectively new wave's Lennon and McCartney.
@kieranmclaughlin89202 жыл бұрын
Bloody hell. They weren't bad. Not the same as Ian Dury though. Stay cool. 👊
@KoenraadWeiss Жыл бұрын
I first thought you meant the drug
@Frip366 ай бұрын
i like that xtc song where the singer starts yelling like a madman.
@Qlyphy2 жыл бұрын
After a bloody busy week at work, a trash theory video is a great start to the weekend, much appreciation from a 70's child :-)
@arthurmcgonnell1179 Жыл бұрын
i can still remember going to school as a 6 yr old , the day after watching Rhythm stick was performed on TOTP & the whole class was going mad hitting each other with anything stick like! ..Top Magician ! x
@cattycakes642 жыл бұрын
Hugely influential, hugely talented and incredibly funny. Ian and the lads set my small suburban dance and life on fire. I still play their songs and smile everytime I do.
@DrDooDah2 жыл бұрын
I was lucky enough to see Ian & the Blockheads in 1999, on their final tour. Fantastic night. Incredible band.
@camerondodge20702 жыл бұрын
Even though a lot of acts like his have been kicked out of the punk pantheon for not being 'truly punk', I will always say that the greatest punk rocker was Ian Dury. Shame that punk had to be nailed down to a specific sound instead of the wide ranging movement it was. And a shame that more people in the States don't know about Dury and the Blockheads.
@geraldfriend2562 жыл бұрын
In Austin Texas US A they got quite a bit of airplay on the aor stations mid 70s on
@camerondodge20702 жыл бұрын
@@geraldfriend256 Yeah, they got some decent regional play in some spaces, but the majority of people didn't know them. Heck, a lot of people over here still don't know them to this day. It's to the extent that you'd think the Blockheads, and others, had been written out of history. Of course, the change of punk in the late 70's didn't help any. Went from a wide ranging movement of many sounds to a specific sound and look, and if you didn't conform you were out. Because of that, acts that didn't fit in were forgotten about, and aren't brought up in the conversation.
@johannbogason16622 жыл бұрын
The first punks were probably The Kinks. Rest is history... ;)
@bobbenson68252 жыл бұрын
So happy you did this, Ian Dury was one of my absolute favorites during the 70's punk explosion. So unique and funny, with wonderful songs. I was able to get Melody Maker in my college town and he was one of the best I learned about through it.
@papalazarou66742 жыл бұрын
It was the first record I owned, and it still sounds great to this day I've told my children I want this played at my funeral
@ETBrenner2 жыл бұрын
Billericay Dickie was actually the first of his songs I ever heard - even though I'm in the USA, I happened to be living in Boston at the time, which had some awesome FM radio stations that were on top of the punk rock thing from the gitgo. And I fell in love with the song, despite or even because of all the Britishisms - but most of all because of Drury's wonderful anarchic music-hall delivery, as he takes his working-stiff protagonist from drunken bawdy cheek to drunken weepy pathos and back.
@lincbond4422 жыл бұрын
Trash Theory does the best music documentaries on KZfaq. The information is very well articulated and I always learn so much after watching these videos. Thanks!!!
@imogenx91452 жыл бұрын
Watching this I was surprised by how many of these songs I know but had never realised were Ian Dury and the Blockheads which is weird because he sounds so unique. I've been in a bubble of Cool for Cats and I Wanna Be Straight my whole life.
@ThreadBomb2 жыл бұрын
Cool for Cats isn't by Dury! It's Squeeze copying Dury.
@imogenx91452 жыл бұрын
@@ThreadBomb oh thanks for the info, that makes sense!
@stepheng87792 жыл бұрын
@@ThreadBomb Copying?? 😂
@reginaldside457520 күн бұрын
@@ThreadBomb They were South London. They wouldn't have been copying.
@NathanWind992 жыл бұрын
Reasons To Be Cheerful, Pt 3 is great, it's just Ian name-checking all his favorite things. Years ago I saw a clip from I think a benefit concert for Ian, where Saffron from Republica sang Mash It Up Harry, it seems to have disappeared from the internet but I'd love to see it again.
@bingbong73162 жыл бұрын
I remember the breath of fresh air that arrived as the antidote to musicians disappearing up their own chuffs in waves of self-indulgent pomp. Great energy, and "New Boots" was breathtaking to my ears. A great time to be young, we were spoiled. Edit: Clever Trevor.
@fasthracing2 жыл бұрын
Clever bastard
@SlackrUk2 жыл бұрын
Frightens me to think how young I was when I was listening to his music, but it's stuck with me all these years :) The older I get the more I appreciate it :)
@stevejohnson12312 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. I saw The Who in 1973 at Kings Hall Manchester and always thought later on it must have been Ian Dury backing them up but didn't know at the time because nobody paid any attention to them. You just confirmed it for me, thanks!
@robbiem19612 жыл бұрын
I'm an old git now, but was a youngster in the late 70s early 80s, it has to be said that MR DURY is probably my hero, along with John Lydon, my 24 year old son has grown up listening to These artist/LP's/songs and he rates them as well: bloody brilliant
@robbiem1961 Жыл бұрын
@kyfaydfsoab whether you like it or not, but old age IS COMING TO YOU, one day at a time
@bernardtonge55182 жыл бұрын
Saw them play the Olympic Ballroom in Dublin, late 70's. Probably the best gig ever.
@billbennett93092 жыл бұрын
Love this, thanks for making it. Been re-listening to a lot of Ian Dury recently. My 14YO enby child is very hard to impress with my crappy old Gen X tunes, but even they give props to "Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll" - surely the funkiest, most musically accomplished of punk songs to ever trouble the charts.
@SyntaxErr1928711 ай бұрын
Enby :/
@gethappycyclingcampingoutdoors2 жыл бұрын
Seen Ian Dury & the Blockheads in Australia round 1978/79, one of the best concerts I've ever seen.
@benjammin81842 жыл бұрын
The man was a rare gem. Technically brilliant and a poet.
@Phreestyle12 жыл бұрын
I had the pleasure of seeing Ian and the Blockheads when they toured Australia in the late '70s. They were at our concert hall and the place was only half full, but it is still one of the best gigs I have ever seen. Great musos and a great energy.
@corkpop84012 жыл бұрын
Ian Dury and the Blockheads toured the SUNY colleges in upstate New York in 1978. He was very gracious and glad to be there. He opened for Lou Reed. It was a hard act to follow. Dury was throwing to the audience little badges each with one word of SDRR. Great performer
@trentonbaird89562 жыл бұрын
I was driving to work this morning, listening to the Stranglers, and thought, “This would be a great subject for ‘New British Canon’.” And then I learned that they supported Ian, and had a nice chuckle. Thanks for sharing.
@greyguy.9602 жыл бұрын
This channel is a music lovers' delight .
@PelleSpokes2 жыл бұрын
The geat thing about this channel is that I discover some of the most interesting stories about music history. Stories you'd never have heard of if they weren't still being told.
@davidhoward33762 жыл бұрын
I was very lucky to see Ian and The Blockheads perform at the Old Waldorf in San Francisco.....opening for Lou Reed..2 nights in a row...March 21 & 22 1978!! I still have the ticket stubs...Good Memories!!
@jonnyfalimarcos7 ай бұрын
The funny thing for me is that although he was the man who put cockney on the world stage his band reflected the whole of London life, Jankel was Jewish, Watt Roy was Asian, Charley Charles was black, a real cockney mix of all the people in the shit together, and as the video explains their musical influences were deep and varied, and completely original in their reworking of jazz, funk, soul and rock riffs. I loved them!
@allanrussack28442 жыл бұрын
I’m so glad to see this documentary on Ian Dury. I love his words and funky tight bands!
@gerryedwards97382 жыл бұрын
Great film! Possibly one of the best funk bands to have come out of the UK. And the lyrics! Poetry you can dance to.
@jemwand25302 жыл бұрын
I thoroughly enjoyed this video, I felt that it was well researched, succinct, yet covered the major aspects of a much loved British icon, who is so sadly overlooked today.
@jean_con2 жыл бұрын
New Boots and Panties is a transcendent record for me, I adore Ian Dury, thank you for covering him!
@TomMouat2 жыл бұрын
Great video as always. What a legend Ian was. I never realised how much he changed music
@--pbrstreetgang-- Жыл бұрын
I heard "Hit me with your Rhythm Stick" on a NY FM station on the way home from high school the year it came out. It blew me away, and then I didn't hear it again for years. Nobody played it over here - because he had lost his US distribution. A huge million selling hit in the UK, but radio silence across the pond.
@kadiummusic2 жыл бұрын
A true genius! By any measure Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick and Reasons To Be Cheerful Pt.3 are two of the greatest pop songs every written, performed and produced, period!
@simoncoker31802 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Always loved IDATB, Thanks for expanding my knowledge.
@MrGnuifje2 жыл бұрын
Grand! But, regarding the indebtedness of later artists to Dury's Cockney, I'd say a hat tip to another contemporary (1979) no.1 hit song, Squeeze's Cool for cats (including "giving the dog a bone"), would be in order
@helenbartoszek2432 жыл бұрын
Dog and bone in Cockney means telephone. Give a dog a bone in UK Squeeze's Cool for Cats means fucking a woman.
@donaldanderson66042 жыл бұрын
I saw the Blockheads at Leeds in 1980. One of the tightest bands I've ever heard with Ian Dury channelling his inner Noel Coward. Amazing.
@CdEmm502 жыл бұрын
I saw them in the Portsmouth Guildhall, it was 1979 I believe. I joined the RAF the next summer, in 1980.
@MultiAmbivalent2 жыл бұрын
I love this series and the concept behind it. I admire how you are almost archiving musicians and songs which warrant further examination. For a lot of artists there is LITERALLY nothing more to be said about them. They have been studied and analysed from every possible angle that any new book or journal article is merely a re-hash. I'm referring to the Beatles, Dylan, Bowie, Springsteen, Pink Floyd as examples. Any new book written about them is merely being done to sell books, not to explore un-chartered territory. Ian Dury is one who deserves more exposure and I applaud you for this. I have found myself writing drafts in my head for similar Australian songs and bands deserving of more discussion. For many outside Australia (as well as in) Australian bands consist of AC/DC, Nick Cave, The Bee Gees (Brit-Australian, I know, but Barry Gibb still identifies as such), INXS. But there are many artists who have done incredible work and don't even get recognised here. So you might see rip-off of this at some point ha ha. But well done! Keep up the great work.
@jamesgrover20052 жыл бұрын
Thanks, born 1970 i grew up on this madness 💕
@johnpresnell2 жыл бұрын
Because I follow your channel I watched this dutifully, without knowing much about the act. I was so knocked-out that I watched it a couple more times before buying an album and the 2010 biopic. Nothing more fun than discovering great music!
@roxy_muso2 жыл бұрын
What a treat to see this drop on my homepage this evening! Huge fan of the Blockheads and the Kilburn & the High Roads album, Dury's work has such wit and a funny endearing - and enDuring - quality, and he's a fascinating character having transcended incredibly difficult circumstances growing up disabled in the '50s. He also studied art under Peter Blake, and in turn taught Clive Langer who went on to form Deaf School (a wonderful band from that era who still remain largely unknown despite having a very unique sound and approach) and produce Elvis Costello (small world) among others. 'Upminster Kid' is one of my all-time favourite songs, thanks for giving the Kilburns and Blockheads their due recognition. Great video that didn't disappoint, look forward to who'll you cover next in this series.
@TimScottSuiGeneris2 жыл бұрын
I've only recently became familiar with Ian Dury in 2017, what a glorious discovery his group was. The Blockheads were an excellent assembly of musicians, thanks for this video.
@thevirtualtraveler2 жыл бұрын
As an American, I am utterly unfamiliar with Ian Dury, and I've heard 'Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" 3 times in my 45 year life. BUT, so saying, I remember each of those three times. It's a very unique song that always stands out.
@kieranmclaughlin89202 жыл бұрын
Em... listen to stuff not produced by the USA music industry, then. That's what Punk was. Indie afterwards. Now...X factor and stuff. Total shite ! Stay cool. 👊
@thevirtualtraveler2 жыл бұрын
@@kieranmclaughlin8920 Sadly, as a teen in the 90s, one didn't have much opportunity for exposure to stuff not produced by the USA music industry. We listened to what was on the radio and MTv (which was still relevant at the time). But I do my best to correct that now. One reason I love this channel. I've discovered so many new to me favorites. (Side note, Kieran is a really pretty name. Well done your parents!)
@kieranmclaughlin89202 жыл бұрын
@@thevirtualtraveler Aww, hey, thankyou. That's very kind. 🙂 x
@kieranmclaughlin89202 жыл бұрын
@@thevirtualtraveler Em, yeah, well...listen to different stuff. (From other places.) It's better to do so. Stay cool. 😉
@TheBobbymcd2 жыл бұрын
met Ian when i was a roadie at the glasgow apollo...i thought him and the band were the roadies for the blockheads as they looked so unshaven and wearing long coats..kinda cool looking roadies with htese great London geezer accents. I particularly got on really well with the head roadie...so, after speaking to Ian for quite some time ( my fellow mates and roadies were strangely quiet) i asked him, 'so are this mob any good!?' Ian's smile got even bigger as one of my mates said ' bobby ffsake, that IS the band! one of the nicest people i will ever meet in my life....god bless you Ian.
@jxy5662 жыл бұрын
This is a brilliant vid! Bloody love Ian Dury thanks in no small part to my Dad who was a big fan, still playing his earlier stuff in the 80s when I grew up. Still remember the Christmas he slipped on "New Boots and Panties" when my rather straight-laced Grandparents were over and claimed he had forgot about the sweary intro to "Plaistow Patricia" whilst clearly delighted with the shock and outrage it caused in his in-laws!
@davidsoule84012 жыл бұрын
From someone who was never a fan, I’m glad you did this. Always happy to have a history lesson and remind myself I’m NOT the last authority on music. Thanks again.
@kevintyerman19062 жыл бұрын
I liked Ian Dury and the Block Heads, but I have certainly enjoyed some Trash Theory doco's on bands that I would otherwise take no interest in. There is no other presenter I would listen to an essay / documentary on The Spice Girls, but I would (and did) when Trash Theory did his on them.
@davidsoule84012 жыл бұрын
@@kevintyerman1906 I watched the Spice Girls one too. And yeah, Trash Theory is just all around awesome. : )
@briteness2 жыл бұрын
The only thing I ever knew of Ian Dury when I was a kid was a live version of Hit Me on a charity benefit album. I liked the song, but he was just completely off the radar for most of us in the US. Seems like his music and story have aged well. Thank you for this.
@laurieharper15262 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this. Always had a soft spot for My Old Man and Clever Trever, off New Boots & Panties. I was living in Peckham at the time and had a pal who was an engineer at the Workhouse studio on the Old Kent Road. We were at his flat one evening and he played us rough mixes of some of the songs on NB&P before it came out. We were blown away by them.
@MichaelDembinski2 жыл бұрын
Marvellous. I was fortunate enough to have caught the Stiff Live Stiffs tour in late 1977 - hadn't seen Ian Dury before; he opened the set with Billericay Dickie and I was immediately entranced by this eclectic mixture of fairground Cockney wideboy and rock'n'roll. Incidentally, Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll - nothing more than the phrase 'Wine, Women and Song' in a late 20th century context.
@JackJack-sv3ip2 жыл бұрын
Sadly missed and never replaced, I miss his, on the ball and frank lyrics...."what a jolly bad show If all you ever do is business you don't like" is so true to life... I saw him play a festival at Wollaton hall in Nottingham in summer 1998, he was near the end of his life but his perfomance is still one of my favorites, thank you Ian.
@euge12102 жыл бұрын
Congrats for this excelent video! Will share with all my friends woho also love ID & The Blockheads!
@floydfanTN2 жыл бұрын
As an American. If you told me to answer the question "Whose the most quintessential British Musican of all Time" I'd say Ian Dury
@terrytube52472 жыл бұрын
Thanks for these great videos. They fill in the gaps of my middle-aged music knowledge, but they are also great for showing to kids who've heard an old song, like it, but want to consume the music as a meal, not as a snack. I'm in Canada, my kid is 19, and he is all-in for rap and hip hop -- as kids are these days. But, through me, he grew up with BB King, Ray Charles, soul, funk, funk-based disco, and a lot of new wave-era stuff (Gary Numan is a huge fave for my kid -- even the recent industrial stuff that I find harsh). Yet...my kid has asked me to buy him doo-wop, the Ventures, the Shadows...music from before my time, of which I had none on disc. We recently watched an hour-long doc about the Ventures! And we're going to watch a bunch of your videos once baseball season is over. So thanks again for this wonderful education.
@TrulyMadlyShallowly2 жыл бұрын
I never before heard the echoes of Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n Roll before in Blur but my goodness, how could I have misses that
@beaksofeagles2 жыл бұрын
How refreshing to have a rockumentary free from washed-up talking heads! Excellent! Top Notch! Densely packed with material and references. No filler.
@TimmyTickle2 жыл бұрын
You should check out the other “New British Canon” videos, as they all follow the same format
@beaksofeagles2 жыл бұрын
@@TimmyTickle Yes, thanks. Been checking some out.
@Stepherner2 жыл бұрын
being a fourteen year old kid (living in Germany) at the time the song was played on the radio, i bought the single in a record store from my pocket money. three years later i got my first money to buy a record player (until then, i got a cassette player). it was my first single to play and with every play i recognized how complex this masterpiece was. after playing it again & again, even my mum sung the rhyme in the kitchen (she never learned english). I kept the original single until today. Thank you, Ian.
@taniacummings9207 Жыл бұрын
I've still got mine. It was one of the few records I brought with me to Australia in '86. Still give it a whirl occasionally.
@jaschul2 жыл бұрын
Bless you for this one. What a great band. I wish they'd "made it" here in the US. What other band sounded like the Blockheads in the 70s? Not a one.
@DUNKIN_DEAN9 ай бұрын
I remember hearing some of New Boots…in NYC. I really enjoyed it. I used to pour over the pages of NME or Trouser Press, looking for info on him and his band. I was totally blown away by its followup, Do It Yourself, with the wallpaper cover art. My all-time favorite Dury song was (and still is) “Inbetweenies”. Cockney accent aside, I could never understand why Ian Dury wasn’t bigger here in the U.S. I miss Lord Upminster all the time.
@johnmeehan11242 жыл бұрын
I loved this video. Got all his albums and saw him back in the day in Finsbury Park. Sadly miss his wonderful sense of humour!!
@elliottmcpeek7443 Жыл бұрын
Just recently got into some dury and the blockheads, awesome to see them getting recognized! Rhythm stick has such an infectious groove, probably listened to it about 20 times within the first few days of discovering it 😅
@taniacummings9207 Жыл бұрын
Sometimes it gets into my head like a hunger and I have to go and haul out my old 45 single and play it really loud.
@OutOfAmmoOutOfTime2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this. A wonderful video essay of an under appreciated British artist. Funnily enough i first encountered Dury’s whit on a TOTP compilation record, a single entitled “I wanna be straight”…….as a teenager the irony of this song was totally lost on me….wonderful stuff….
@illustratievormgevinglivet57702 жыл бұрын
he is/was brilliant, a real original artist, great legacy
@Sternodox2 жыл бұрын
This was quite brilliant. I love Ian Dury's music. Thanks very much for this.
@dylano01262 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you cover this amazing tight band, I feel as if they've been much forgotten about. They were an amazing band whom revolutionised UK music, and style
@robswystun27662 жыл бұрын
Andy Serkis does a great job playing Ian in the biopic that I don't remember the title of.
@jon-paulfilkins78202 жыл бұрын
"Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" is the title of the film, fittingly.
@davidellis51412 жыл бұрын
He had 3 incredible hits on KROQ in Los Angeles - Wake Up & Make Love With Me , Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll & the classic Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick ! - From Bombay to Santa Fe 😎
@yensid42942 жыл бұрын
Those are the 3 I heard on the radio living in the SF Bay Area as well. But not very often & usually late at night
@mobiditch68482 жыл бұрын
@@yensid4294 Richard Gosset on KSAN played Ian Dury.
@realhorrorshow85472 жыл бұрын
I can't pick a favourite Dury song. I've always had a preference for good lyrics and he stood out and still does.
@brokl262 жыл бұрын
Everything with Ian Dury is fantastic. I may be a bit off my normal empathetic rocker, but I truly dig Spasticus Autisticus. I enjoy the fact Dury used the song as an anthem to speak out against the International Year of Disabled Persons. Dury didn’t like the condescending message of the nature of the year. Being one of the coolest cats of his generation, he wrote a tune. And a a damn fine one at that.
@Alanoffer2 жыл бұрын
Used to see the blockheads at dingwalls in Camden before the became big ,you couldn’t take your eyes off him , he was brilliant
@VONCEIL1 Жыл бұрын
Yep
@robertoc24852 жыл бұрын
Great documentary. I enjoyed it! Thank you 👍👌♥️
@lankestermerrin2672 жыл бұрын
Nice tribute to a brilliant and underrated artist.
@jonathanreich63602 жыл бұрын
I've been a big Dury fan from the beginning. Thanks for the refresher.
@Darrylizer12 жыл бұрын
My friends and I loved Ian Dury in the old days of punk rock. Being Americans tho we never got a chance to see him. What a shame he didn't get popular in America, he deserved it.
@weehudyy2 жыл бұрын
Saw them at the old Capitol Theatre in Sydney , the Blockheads were c'est fantastique ... Dury was wonderful , but Charlie Charles and Norman Watt-Roy were a revelation live . A great great live act .
@seaoftranquility72282 жыл бұрын
I got into Dury late. Late eighties or early nineties a friend had a compilation called Jukebox Dury. I couldn’t believe how great ALL the songs were. Still can’t. Excellent vid.
@stephenryan769810 ай бұрын
Well done good job, have to say Ian was the real father of Punk and I was a Punk in 1976 what a great time the best Punk band I saw was Poly Styrene of X Ray Spex.
@megarural30002 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy your work, especially the New British Canon series. An individual dive into artists I may know but not know so much about. Keep up the good work.
@scapegoat422 жыл бұрын
Nothing to add to the video, just wanted to say that I really enjoyed all of it. Thanks!
@b1merio2 жыл бұрын
Fuck yeah! Just recently discovered this band after finding out Baxter Dury is Ian's son. Blown away by Ian & The Blockheads.
@mattmunn712 жыл бұрын
I remember the song as a kid in Australia the 70s and lived in London when Ian died in 2000 and discovered his back catalog. Fantastic stuff.