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[CRAZY-HORSE]

IAN DURY "new boots and panties" cd, 1977

debut album by a most unlikely artist...ugly as heck,couldnt really sing, and crippled by polio in his childhood...
yet, Ian overcame the odds to be one of the UK's leading artists of the late nineteen seventies punk/new wave era...
this one reached #5 on the UK charts and only one single was released off it in "sweet gene vincent"...a tribute to his idol...
NME(uk music mag) has the track "plaistow patricia" at #1 on their list of the "most in your face opening lines of a song"...and with the line "arse#oles,Bastards, fu##ing c#nts and pricks" its no wonder...!
look, you either like or loathe the crude,brash nature of Dury with his mostly cockney rhyming slang songs, but either way, you cant dismiss the impact he had on UK music and youth culture in that period of musical chaos!...
Dury died aged 57 in 2000 after a long battle with liver cancer and often stated that THC helped relieve the pain in those final years whereas conventional medicine didnt help him...RIP Ian!

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track:if i was with a woman
best track: billericay dickie

tracks:

1. wake up and make love with me **
2. sweet gene vincent ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCOym2yutD0 audio
3. im partial to your abracadabra **
4. my old man **
5. billericay dickie ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KC7kO6Nwsw audio
6. clever trevor **
7. if i was with a woman *
8. blockheads *
9. plaistow patricia **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtuVBPwzstM audio
10.blackmail man **

3s=2
2s=6
1s=2

rating: 2.0