Ian Dury and the Blockheads

"Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" while unnervingly gay and bizaare sounds beautiful. I like Dury's voice, especially when he speaks French or verbally plays with British accents (maybe that's just his regular voice), but I listened to "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll" and "Roll Over and Make Love With Me" and I was not impressed.

Does this band have any other good songs?

Here's a particularly good recording of it:

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What kind of an accent does Dury have? That's not Cockney, but I don't know the names of any other English accents.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
"Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" while unnervingly gay and bizaare sounds beautiful. I like Dury's voice, especially when he speaks French or verbally plays with British accents (maybe that's just his regular voice), but I listened to "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll" and "Roll Over and Make Love With Me" and I was not impressed.

Does this b ...[text shortened]... ry have? That's not Cockney, but I don't know the names of any other English accents.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung

Does this band have any other good songs?

What kind of an accent does Dury have? That's not Cockney, but I don't know the names of any other English accents.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
'Reasons to be Cheerful'. Maybe.

You're better off with Devo.

Ian Dury came from Harrow, went to school in High Wycombe -- isn't that where Sicilian Smaug comes from? -- so I guess it's a Buckinghamshire accent.

He doesn't qualify as cockney.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
I'm not having luck finding [Buckinghamshire accent] on youtube.

I particularly like the way he says "gardens" and "slowly", dragging out the vowels.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
People talk about a 'Bucks' accent:
http://www.livingarchive.org.uk/hidden/docs/accents4.html

But that might be a thing of the past. Hope it works.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
The "Ron Hockley" one sounds just right. So it's a "Bucks" accent then.

EDIT - Not on youtube either.

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I don't know why (too much Biffa Bacon?) but the Geordie accent's probably my favourite:
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I can't find a decent South African one. Boring accent anyway 🙂

The authenticity of many accents on YouTube is disputed ...

Dead. Good riddance.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
You're better off with Devo.

Originally posted by shavixmir
Dead. Good riddance.

Originally posted by darvlay
You don't even know how much I tell myself this.

(See my own Profile for proof)

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
That your epitaph?

Originally posted by shavixmir
You should be a stand up f^cking comedian, dude.