iIN DRURY VS LOO REED

Benny Bunter

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I really like Ian Dury the man and voice, but the main thing that spoils a lot of his records is the awful saxaphone solos. The records would have been much better as minimal pub rock chug 'n' funk cos the rhythm section are actually shit hot.
 
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Simon silverdollarcircle

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Lou Reed was a cunt I'm sure but he never would have rewritten the lyrics of his most famous song at the Hay on Wye literature festival and included a reference to "lovely Hay"


Jools Holland radio 4 national treasure observer music magazine pile of total fucking shit
 

martin

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Don’t really get Ian Dury’s ‘genius’ status. He was good at rhyming. He used to teach art at Barnfield College in Luton before he got into the music biz. The only person I ever knew who owned an Ian Dury album was really annoying.

Lou Reed was a bad-mannered midget who looked like a hedge fund manager on dress-down Friday. His records are all crap – just Springsteen for smackheads – and he used to hit his wife whenever David Bowie was higher than him in the charts…which was frequently, as nobody really liked Lou Reed. “Metal Machine Music” isn’t even a good noise album – though it is funny how he looks such a cock on the cover.
 

william_kent

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I have a, possibly false, memory of Ian Dury on the the South Bank Show, and the bit I remember is when he produced a "rhyming dictionary" from his pocket - which probably accounts for the "good at rhyming" part - I'm sure he said that it was his essential companion or something to that effect.. but he still came across as a "diamond geezer" who had successfully overcome his "differently abled" status...

this is probably an example of the rhyming dictionary in full effect:

Einstein can't be classed as witless
He claimed atoms were the littlest
When you did a bit of splitting-em-ness
Frightened everybody shitless
 

blissblogger

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Davey Payne's sax playing is great (and I don't even care for the saxophone much)

roland kirk-style playing two horns at once in the middle of 'hit me with your rhythm stick'

freeform howls in 'dance of the screamers'
 

luka

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i think that is interesting because its pathetic and purposely weak limp defeated
 

luka

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My favourite Lester Bangs' articles are the ones where he interviews Lou and he is so disappointed in his idol that it turns into a battle of words...
have you seen those gawky ones where hes talking to burroughs sounding like a spack
 
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