Re: Ian Dury ‎– New Boots And Panties!! (1977)

by Guest Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:34 pm

On my little dansette in 1992, it didn't sounds so much like the Boomtown Rats rocking out.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:34 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:35 pm

Last track - Blackmail Man.

by Guest Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:36 pm

Sorry, I didn't quite catch that.

by Nightjar Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:36 pm

The album's replete with portraits of occasionally frightening London/Home Counties grotesques.

None of them based in fantasy, but in scurvy fact.

by Nightjar Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:37 pm

by Nightjar Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:37 pm

It's a real descent into darkness this.

by Nightjar Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:38 pm

The

smiley falls short in this circumstance.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:38 pm

It is over.

It started out well but, by the end, it was all falling apart a bit, even though the later tracks suited his vocal limitations better.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:39 pm

I shall give it 3 stars.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:40 pm

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:Slower than Macca's version.

Explain, further…

by Guest Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:43 pm

Hmm..

I was thinking this was going to be a solid ★★★★★, but having heard it, the session Musicians going punk and well, being muso over everything, combined with one of the ~~nastiest~~ ~~petty~~ most un-nice lyrics, hmm...

by Nightjar Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:47 pm

A psycho-geographically and culturally important album.

I was born grew up in London and it captures and mirrors something at the edges of my youth.

I maintain that the way the album suddenly switches 2/3rds of the way through from groovy, elegiac, gentle, wistful to raucously noisome and lyrically viciously misanthropic is actually brilliant.

by Nightjar Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:52 pm

BTW, I went to lunch with Ian Dury in his flat by Hammersmith Bridge when I was 19.

He later said something very complimentary about me.

Please let me know if I've told this story before.

by Guest Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:54 pm

I think Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick is the earliest song I can actually remember, from anything like the time it was new, so to speak.

It seem so raucous. As the time. well, it was over 40 years ago, lol.

I went ★★★★.

by Nightjar Sat Sep 12, 2020 9:59 pm

Nightjar wrote:BTW, I went to lunch with Ian Dury in his flat by Hammersmith Bridge when I was 19.

He later said something very complimentary about me.

Please let me know if I've told this story before.

Gosh, please do.

by Guest Sat Sep 12, 2020 10:15 pm

Okey, you haven't told us this story.

Would you like to tell us this story?

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