In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No22 Hit Me With You Rhythm Stick by Ian Dury and The Blockheads
A genuine undisputed classic from the late, great Ian Dury and his wonderfully talented backing band.
I was about eight-years-old when I first heard this record and even though I didn’t really understand the lyrics then – it’s always resonated with me.
Released in late 1978, it’s one of those rare cases when the general public recognised the brilliance of an independent (Stiff Records) release and sent it all the way to No1 in January 1979.
Set to a great bass line and insistent piano riff, courtesy of Dury’s writing partner Chaz Jankel, it’s suggestive lyrics show Dury’s talent for slipping the salacious and outrageous into a commercial pop single.
There can’t be many chart-topping singles that rhyme Sudan with Yucatan and Borneo with Bordeaux, Eskimo and Arapaho.
Classic wordplay from one of punk/new wave’s sharpest and most original lyricists.
