Just been listening to some CDs and I've decided that the greatest lyrical genius of the 20th century wasn't Dylan or Gershwin or Half Man Half Biscuit, it was clearly Ian Dury. And the music's dead funky too.
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"Van Gogh did some eyeball pleasers.
He must have been a pencil squeezer.
He didn't do the Mona Lisa,
That was an Italian geezer.
Einstein can't be classed as witless.
He claimed atoms were the littlest.
When you did a bit of splittingness,
Frighten everybody shitless.
There ain't 'alf been some clever bastards (Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)"
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"Sex and drugs and rock and roll is very good indeed"
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"Just cos I ain't never 'ad no nothing worth 'aving never ever never... ever.
You ain't got no call not to think I wouldn't fall into thinking that I ain't too... clever.
And it ain't not 'aving one thing nor not another either neither is it anythink... whatever.
And it's not not knowing that there ain't nothing showing and I answer to the name of Trevor... however,
Knock me down with a feather, clever Trevor"
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"40 year old housewife Mrs Elizabeth Walker of Lambeth Walk,
Had a husband who was jubblified with only half a stalk,
So she had a milk of magnesia and curry powder sandwich and half a pound of uncut pork,
Took an overdose of Omo, this made the neighbours talk"
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Too much funk - not enough melody. But he did feature on a Carter USM album and HMHB have released "Reasons To Be Miserable, Part 10"
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