Ian Dury - Blockheads Lyrics
You must have seen parties of Blockheads
With blotched and lagered skin
Blockheads with food particles in their teeth
What a horrible state they're in
Shoes like dead pigs' noses
Cornflake packet jacket, catalogue trousers
A mouth what never closes
You must have seen Blockheads in raucous teams
Dressed up after work
Who screw their poor old Eileens
Get sloshed, and go berserk
Rotary accessory watches
A beauty to the bully boys
No lonely vestige clings
Why bother at all about Blockheads?
Why shouldn't they do as they please?
You know if it came to a brainy game
You could baffle a Blockhead with ease
How would you like one puffing and blowing in your ear-hole?
Or pissing in your swimming pool?
Bigger brained Blockheads often acquire
Black and orange cars
Premature ejaculation drivers
Their soft-top's got roll-bars
"Fill her up," they say the Blockheads
"Go on, stick it where it hurts!"
Their shapeless haircuts don't enhance
Their ghastly patterned shirts
Why bother at all about Blockheads?
Superior as you are
You're thoughtful and kind with a well-stocked mind
A Blockhead can't think very far
Imagine finding one in your laundry basket
Banging nails in your big black dog
Why bother at all about Blockheads?
Why should you care what they do?
'Cos after all is said and done
You're all Blockheads too!
Blockheads, Blockheads, Blockheads, Blockheads, Blockheads, Blockheads, Blockheads,
Blockheads, Blockheads, Blockheads, Blockheads, Blockheads, Blockheads, Blockheads,
Blockheads, Blockheads, Blockheads, (Oh Oi!), Blockheads, (Oh Oi!), Blockheads, (Oh Oi!), Blockheads, (Oh Oi!), Blockheads, (Oh Oi!)
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Ian Dury Blockheads Comments
BLOCKHEADS.. .THE LIBERAL LEFT/CULTURAL MARXISTS... LOL
BLOCKHEADS = = = LIBERAL LEFT GLOBLIST CULTURAL MARXIST SO-CALLED POLITICALLY CORRECT SJW LGBT FEMINIST WANKERS...LOL
ABSOLUTE CLASSIC
I am a blockhead too!
I saw them at Ipswich Gaumont in 1979, supported by Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band.
YES!!!!
Have had this song (out of the blue) in my head for the last few days... haven't a clue why. Soooo had to come here an' 'ave a listen. Bugger... I'll have an ear worm for weeks now...
Great memories!
Listening to that earworm in your head actually kills the earworm mate...coz you hear the track enjoy it then forget about it ...LOL
a true block cock head JAMBO 79 DUBLIN Oi Oi
David Hepworth...............thanks.
I remember seeing ian dury & the blockheads in dec 1977 before they were famous at the bath pavilion. A workmate who worked as a DJ at the gig said come & see this guy because he's going to be big. Watching him that night I knew he was right. I met him afterwards at a party after doing a bit of roadie work for them The support band was deke leonards iceberg who I had seen before. A great night.
Andrew Williams I love reading the comments for stories like this. Excellent.
im anuvva
blockheads!!! ummm Trunp ... blockheads!!!! blockheads!!!!!
Fucking ledgend, got his albums. RIP
Natural raw rock!!you cant beat it!! Miss IanR>I>P>Cheers
I stumbled upon this album at a record shop in Middletown about 15 years ago. I bought it because I liked the album cover though I had never heard of Ian Dury at the time. after placing the blue record on my turntable, I was blown away.
As a performer he was out of the top drawer,these make today's efforts tame.
Loved it when I first bought it and love probably even more now. Now all sing together children....blockheads!! blockheads!! Blockheads!
Sadly this has been 'cleaned up' - i.e vandalised - for digital release. On my vinyl copy, before the band starts, Dury shouts: "ARSEHOLES, BARSTARDS, F**KING C**TS AND PRICKS!!"
That's Plaistow Patricia you're thinking of.
From the same album New Boots and Panties.
ok tried to listen to it, thought the lyrics were crap, liked the instruments.
Insane. The lyrics are absolute genius.
You obviously didn't grow up in Essex.
No I grew up in New York
There ok ,I would rather listen to the cramps, misfits , fear ,the exploited, and the dead Kennedys, sorry blockheads just aren't my cup of tea.
Martin Joyski you tried to insult me because I don't share the same opinion about this music, ha ! and you used British slang, what do you insult everyone that has a different opinion than you,
@Martin Joyski well you are a sheeple , ha you won't find that definition in the dictionary
Did anyone ask your opinion?
Quite liked all of them - except the exploited - they were just shit - although the only one who has anything like the musical ability and lyrical genius of the Blockheads was the DKs
I love those bands, but if you can't recognize Ian as a kindred spirit, you're a jackoff.
worst crap I have ever heard kind of like it.
Listen to the lyrics. They are Shakespearean in their use of language & imagery. The depiction of a whole sub-class of the despised (&, thus despising themselves, can but reject the rest of us) is masterful in its poetry.
I'm not joking.
Oi Oi!
I'm not a big fan of Shakespeare's work (if he even did write those plays) I am more of a Chaucer fan, sorry.
... and you are now sailed into the north of my lady’s opinion, where you will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman’s beard!
What? " Whatever your on ,I will take two man" Leo (Chong). Don't get me wrong I like punk, but I was more of a Gothic, and industrial kind of guy, l would rather listen to old Skinny Puppy than the Sex pistols.
it's rock and roll...sadly lacking today....
Looking forward to seeing who I can offend by playing this loudly in their vicinity :-D
I agree.
Hey Duke, check J.D. McPherson out mate :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QGE2xjhEY0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZGn4LncY0g
Fuck I miss you. xx
I'm a Blockhead
Me too...
Fuck yeah
Shoes like dead pigs' noses!
dead FISH noses...
@Jody Overland I think it's 'pigs'.
great poet!
Parties of blockheads with blotched and lagered skin? Blimey, Ian must have spent some time in my neighbourhood!
It reminds me somewhat of "The Bongaloo" by Spike Milligan, both in its rhythm, and in the comical way each work describes its subject. I tried singing the Bongaloo to the tune of Blockheads, and it works.
still paying for my ring
excellent stereo farts in car cd players!
The verses of this track don't arf remind me of Elton John's "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting". BOTH are superb tracks. Oi oi!
Just heard Motorheads "Get Back in Line" and it was bugging me what it reminded me of....
BOTH BRILLIANT TRACKS
King Great...
very very cool tune.............."premature ejaculation drivers"
mr turkeypants
your dedication and unswerving duryness deserves an honorary blockhead .. gawd bless ya ... forever and ever crouch end :o}
My first bought record. Wow what a memory. Waht music in comarison to nowaday. Ok, I am older now, but...........
2:21 LMAO!!!! bloody hell, Ian Dury was the TRUE poet of rockn'roll!!
they got womanly breasts, classic dury!
this guy was it ....................
yeh man
@trifelgeputinage LOL....indeed!
Imagine finding one in your comments section!
Imagine findin one in your londry basket / ERP!
plankerfest.. that's exactly what I thought when I heard Motorhead's Get Back In Line!
Blockheads!
Blockheads!
Blockheads!
Blockheads!
Blockheads!
OI OI!!!!!
have you heard the new motorhead single? get back in line i think its called.. but anyway. its completely ripped this off almost note for note...
'OW MANY OF THEM BLOCKHEADS AV YOU MET? Ive met shed loads lol
fuckin belter
Cheers mate, fucking awesome track.
some of you guys know the intro song form Ken Park?
amazing song ian dury was a legend
what clever bostin song!!! immense!! :D
or pissing in your swimming pool
Does haroldturkey pants have a job?
Imagine one puffing and blowing in your earhole.