A classic album by a great artist. One of the few English artists who didn't look across the pond for their inspiration. He wrote about England and the English with humour and honesty. If in doubt, sample tracks 1,6,11 and go from there...
Ian Dury never quite fit into anyone's classification system. Too sophisticated to be a punk and too rough edged to be new wave. A shame he didn't leave us more.
A classic. New Boots has aged well, and is likely more engaging to modern ears than it was back in the late 70s. Certainly that is my experience. Well deserving of a download. Whole album, of course; is there any other way?
For three decades plus now, '70s London pub rock has as often as not been vaguely defined — especially by Americans, who were oblivious to it at the time — as a "precursor of punk," ostensibly because it rejected the high-fallutin' prog bombast popular in Me Decade arenas. Yet when the scene first hatched in the early '70s, the British bands involved were way less inspired by, say, the Stooges' destructive din than by mellow-minded… more »
