Ian Dury/There ain't half been some clever bastards

[markmarktarmann]

does "pencil squeezer" mean what i think it means? ,,,you know,,,,he holds his little.....pencil....and..he..­..squeezes.......you know......

[mattbillinge1]

Its being played at my dads in a couple of days!

[dixiedean10]

if u play it at my funeral ill play it at yours:)

[theporksicle]

I'll be honoured if anyone sees fit to play this at my funeral.

[MYENDLESSPATH]

ooooooHHHHHHHHH yes .......

All Lifes Very Best All The Time.

[SAXONMEON]

oaky dokey! nuff said!

[KazzaArtistKayy]

Mwuahaha, Ian is a clever bastard, the lucky bleeder, hahah.

[TheBaddog666]

BOOTS AN BRACES!!!! nuffin but the bolloks!!!! much love

[bronto6666]

fuckin daddy give me new boots when a was a boy and thats life



[LeeJTurnock]

"When you did a bit of splittinliness...frightened everybody shitless"

[itsallcool100]

'now that we've 'ad some we're told ther eare lots more to come', Great lyrics.

I don't think Ian Dury is replaceable but I hope I can see at least one more in my lifetime x

[tfrlynn]

@donnyab Never seen that before but now every bleeding time I see Thomas Paine I will struggle to not see the resemblance, which given I live in Thetford and there's a statue of him I see every day is going to seriously alter my daily routine :/

[blackoutrus]

lucky bleeders

[ghaladgwaith]

Wasn't this the B-Side to Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick? Awessome stuff :)

[efrem1]

Steve Jobs was a clever bastard. RIP Steve.

[kingharryannis]

We need some clever bastards to sort out the tea leafs in city and on wall street.

[bloodnokian]

6 people aren't clever bastards.

[MrEngelchen]

6 people are stupid knobs.

[LammaDogLover]

Ian Dury was one of the cleverst Bastards if all time

[levanyzzuf]

For a North American unfamiliar with cockney phrases, could someone explain to me why folks say "there ain't half been" something when really they mean the opposite? It's a cool song, but that part confuses me.

[Acidpunk101]

@levanyzzuf There aint half been, means that there have been lots of. Its said in mild sarcasm so though it sounds like there are less than half the real amount , when you say it aloud it means there were lots.

[1gladdis]

@levanyzzuf Look up litotes

[DadgeCity]

@levanyzzuf It means: it's not half-true, it's completely true.

[caerphillykid]

You're about the cleverest bastard of them all, Ian (Well, one of em)

[MrPariah29]

okey dokey....oh! what a bloody genius

[knshinn2]

And nice one on putting Vivian Stanshall in there as well. A genuine Clever Bastard!

[knshinn2]

6 people clearly never got help from their mums.

[billbellart]

Most of whitch we put on a train between 1914-1918 to teach em a final lesson, god help the gene pool

[markmarktarmann]

@billbellart good point. world war 1 one robbed you of your finest and brightest. we did it with a puny little regional conflict (vietnam). luckily many of ours didn't sign up, or resisted the draft as it wasn't a "noble cause in defense of the homeland". they just burned out on drugs instead. hendrix. neil young. (and the other 2) morrison, thousands of others.

[ScipioAfricanus1000]

This used to announce that the Passport Office Workers were in the Geoffrey Chaucer on Westminster Bridge Road in the late 70's. Good memories.  Ian Dury, one clever bastard

[8corporal]

`e`s a bleadin` poet...........but eye fink `e knew it! Bliiiiiiiindin`!

[mark69ok]

awesome song xx



[brucepig]

Dury was a blessed intellect. "Probably got help from their mum" Perfect; by why the shot of Daniel O'Donnell at the beginning?

[sonda1959]

hola

[jasonsharples1]

Ian Dury: Much missed, much needed. Thank you for everything.

[punkinthehead65]

Its Mr Ian Dury, Sir Ian Dury it should av bin 4 services to us all, top wordsmith RIP.

[TheIkaraCult]

1.38 - Thomas Paine - the most clever bastard!

[TheIkaraCult]

1.38 Thomas Paine - youve clicked with my feeling about thing song :)

[PurpleElephantish]

Love it!!!!

Ian Dury really did live to the rules of sex drugs rock and roll!!!

[laconic94]

Oh! Segovia.

[keithoyoung34]

what the fuck...daniel o donnell??

0.36

[angelusmortis1412]

5 ain't clever bastards.

[3belgarath]

Ian u was one of em,for those who don't know. He Taught FINE ART at Canterbury art colledge.in Kent. Brilliant live show Gravesend . Sadly missed . R.I.P. XXXXX

[ScowlingWolf]

love it



[jonnyevsky]

All I want for my birthday is another birthday."

— Ian Dury

Happy Birthday Ian, a true original, much loved.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die

[firestartertwistedfi]

Splitting the atom was Rutherford, wasn't it?

[heehawluck1]

@firestartertwistedfi and splitting hairs !! .... wasn't that f'n STUPID ??? Merchant Banker !!

[MsLittletimmy]

Pommies whining, winging, whankers. On ya Ian where ever you are. I miss what could have been.

[MrCFCarePOO]

@MsLittletimmy Perhap's you should listen to Pommie Ian's paean to 'England's Glory'? That Ashes tonking ain't half made you bitter,ms timmy.

[MDProgger]

nice video.

[happyenjoytime]

Not a bleedin thicky himself either - brill wordsmif and ability to larf at himself - sadly missed

[upstatelugh]

A great man :)))

[sseexymf]

the description is EPIC:D:D:D:D

[choclatesaltyballz]

beast of a song writer. especially with his condition

[happyenjoytime]

A wise gent ... enjoyed his art. He might be " a specially talented spastic" nowadays in the UK from what I've heard ... wot a loada bollox UK is

[ferryrats]

absolute classic  ......

[MrNowYouSeeMe]

11 years ago today, R.I.P. Ian Dury, a true clever bastard.

[eisemanrenyardjake]

I was going to add this to my Youtube list of "likes" before Shakespeare's face came up! Sorry, it's a great song, but having been forced to study Shakespeare in school I think, so far from being the best writer of all time, he's actually the most over-rated. Couldn't schoolkids at least have more of a choice of writers to study?

[firestartertwistedfi]

@eisemanrenyardjake well that's your personal prejudice - mine, for what it's worth (virtually nothing) is that he was a pretty great writer, not quite so good as a dramatist. i'd personally rather go see a chekhov play than almost any shakespeare.

[subzerothought]

That's Isaac Newton .... 'E was a proper clever barsterd .....!!!

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Can anyone tell me who that is a picture of at 2:01? Thanks

[mrbusker1]

Probably got help from their mum.....

[fretboardyoda]

Who could not LOVE this man!

[choclatesaltyballz]

boss tune

[baldy1]

class chanter,,miss you wee-man

[danielthomasslade]

i went to a church school i the 70s(anglican) & got caught with the 7" of hit me c/w this tune & got hit. ironic?

[billyboy023]

Mr dury ure the greatest since sliced bread. Fact.

[Mancuso64]

daniel o'donnel! what the fuck is he doing on here?

[strummerocks]

@Mancuso64 He is a clever bastard. Can't sing, but he found a lucrative market with the fucking grannies

[rubbishycrap]

okeydokey!

[Kilchattan7]

a little piece of genius, my Iraqi mate falls of his chair laughing at this, it transcends pomposity.

[potstillbill]

Four not-so-clever bastards disliked this. Hmmmf.

[interthenan]

Probably had help from their mum, who had help from their mum..

[lennydylan]

lennydylan was a clever bastard

[SRPMITCHTUBE]

Ian Dury failed to Rhyme with crime but he did rhyme with Brewery if you twisted your mouth. What a cunt. A clever cunt denying clever bastards their natural born credit. He had Clarkes shoes and his own television set. (a set of two).

[donnyab]

@SRPMITCHTUBE lol.....what......are you saying he stole other peoples' songs ?

[donnyab]

is that Tery Venables in fancy dress at 01:35 and if not who the hell is it ?

[ddocg]

@donnyab No, not Venables, it's Thomas Paine

[bazzatheblue]

@ddocg ,maybe Terry Paine who used to play for Southampton?!

[AndyMattey]

@ddocg ----you are a clever bastard ;)

[2bsom1]

@donnyab its not venables,although he did invent the thingamewig

[AndyMattey]

@donnyab Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart!?

[donnyab]

@AndyMattey no Thomas Paine

[AndyMattey]

@donnyab - you are a clever bastard ;)

[cjknotty]

@donnyab Thomas Paine, English 18th century radical writer who supported the Americans in the war of independance and the French revolutionaries a few years later.

[tigerhorsefield]

there aint half been some clever barstards...unfortunately that does not apply to our government.

[danielchilds1]

@tigerhorsefield Out standing coment by the way. Stay red

[numberonesonneil]

@tigerhorsefield

Politics = BOLLOTICS

[fatskin1]

@tigerhorsefield No - nor the twats young and old that voted them in!

[tjmacjee]

Danie O'Donnell - what a clever twat!

[Longniddrie]

@snodds88 Bad Manners nah. Write me a dissertation on why Bad Manners should ever be included in any category of good music? I bet you cant get beyond referencing every other band of the same era and actually discover that Bad Manners achieved absolutely fuck all. Musically speaking.

[danielchilds1]

@Longniddrie Ya dead right mate. Mr Dury is in a class of his owen

[lovethemick]

What a guy! Jimbo

[indio77777]

The Governor.

[wiltner]

Whats Daniel O'Donnell doing in among that lot?

[planetpie]

@wiltner I noticed that! WTF?!!!!

[snodds88]

They remind me of Bad Manners a bit, Great Stuff...

[JoeStunner]

"…That was an Italian geezer".

What a lyric!

[GaryNull]

@JoeStunner lol . . he must have been a pencil squeezer

[addioalre]

noʎ ʎǝɥ....grande Mr. IAN!!

[jw2327]

I like 'probably got help from their mum, who had help from their mum' ^_^

[lovingsly]

Rest in peace Ian ya nutty bleeda..!

[slaveboy92]

this man is a legend

[rrosemary7]

My Hero! I loved this man....x

[completelycrazed]

I love this...when we were kids we thought he was singing "fucking penis"...then, after a while we realised it was "lucky penis"...and finally...someone asked someone at the pub and we found out, much to our disappointment it was "lucky bleeders"...oh well...had fund and laughs for a while

[IanDuryVideos]

Great tune

[madg66]

love this song and he wrote some brilliant songs

[madg66]

he wrote some great tunes , clever man

[allblue3]

This is such a great song, he must have had some help from his mum, or maybe from that Italian geezer...

[RICHIEPRASOL]

bastards...................

[kernowgreyx70]

The wordsmith at his finest!

[rocktastic2]

einstein can't be classed as witless, he claimed atoms were the littlest,..... pure poetry

[happyenjoytime]

So why dd u leave us soon then, eh? U selfish bleeder!

[willumbt]

what great tune and a great man

[bunnysss]

Mr Dury you clever B'stard!

[ROBdudda]

this song always cheers me up...I should play it more often :D

[MOONST0MP]

Ian Dury's records dont half cheer me up!!! He wrote some fine lyrics, what a top bloke he was!!!

[echo680]

LUCKY BLEEDERS LUCKY BLEEDERS !!!!

[madg66]

Legend x

[donnyab]

@ 01:36 EL TEL !!

[gojira2006]

Very clever . . . !

[gilboandco27]

He was a great man! Who never allowed  polio stop him from becoming a success in the music world. RIP.

[Digflatline59]

Ian was one of them, love the vid.

[dovie2blue]

One of the few Ian Dury songs I can tolerate. Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders!

[2HB2HB]

I'd agree there, a total genius. What a waste!

[VishnusLittleHelper]

Is this Spike Jones?

[GameBoyz2]

Yes！Yes！Yes！

[malthuswasright]

Not quite a genius (much overused word), but Ian was certainly a clever bastard... Excellent

[dangerousdaveT]

I always thought a genius was a clever bastard...

[chimpsinsuits]

Dury was a genius. nuff said.

Brits if you fancy hearing some punk hip-hop outta birmingham please check my videos out...

[danielchilds1]

like ya stile 1020

[DavidChrisMartyn]

Thanks for doing this, brought back many memories of my college days when I used to listen to this and many other of Ian's songs. They were just plain simple and, to me, simply cheerful. Will see if I have any clips of him on old videos. Thanks again. (Currently reading Noel Cowerd - Present Indicative ... a bit of a coincidence!)

[AbsintheGirl27]

F*****g A!!

[playgirlc]

daniel o'donnell?  lmfao :o)

[TheBitterWeed]

Bastards.

[TrollCatcher2010]

clever bastard an an alf nmaqte

[ChapmanBertelli]

Ian Dury, you're a clever barstard!

[TrollCatcher2010]

@ChapmanBertelli he was a cunt mate - another manic depressice fucking whatever - tonnes o cunts like him

[2HB2HB]

You are such a wanker, he was a star!

[TrollCatcher2010]

i am such a wanker, yes, he was a star, yes - i agree - call me a troll, it aint quite that, i'm working for the billy goats gruff - embarassing, quite hard to explain this, check my ian dury playlist and see my other comments on his other songs, i love the guy too bits, more than a love you you fuckin wanker and a half, ok? ian dury to the fucking UNIVERSE, WHO JAH BLESS no one curse, so i'll let you off this time, innit, w...

[TrollCatcher2010]

i am a manic depressive in a hypo manic paranoid psychotic episode, literally, on her majesty's mental health services, ok? ian dury soothes my anger - the song i repeat over and over is "blackmail man" go listen to it a few times and THEN lets trade insults ok? you charlie ronse, for a start...

[mugwamp4]

manic depression ,,manis depression

[computerrage]

@TrollCatcher2010 Just listened to it.  ...Your turn!

[TrollCatcher2010]

@ChapmanBertelli and he's dead to top it off - past tense please you cunt wat about your fuckin gramma den mate? your mum drag u up or were u brought up proper?

[dizzyegg]

@TrollCatcher2010

Your an idiot. Period. If you want a debate, i will have a word with u 2morra, but for now, just got in and fancied a bit of dury, would love to put shut a fucking dumb cunt up tomorra tho, when i get up. Silly bastard. Even if dury was a cunt. hes done more than a sorry ass like u will ever do in life.

[TrollCatcher2010]

ha ha, love u, nyone who defend dury's a friend o mine

[TrollCatcher2010]

@dizzyegg wanna fight????

[dizzyegg]

haha, i was wasted when i wrote that, just got in from a heavy night out and fancied listening to ian dury to read you calling him a cunt. haha

c'mon then (pushing you in the chest)

[TrollCatcher2010]

ooh shit better not, broken ribs from brighton, hedache and an alf from last nite....

called me bluff didncha?

bur'i'll'get'ya'nex time aint it

[ICE420]

@ChapmanBertelli Spot on.

[a217andy]

This song was made well.

[downhillspill]

B-Side Of the first ever 7 inch single i ever bought which was hit me with your rythm stik HAPPY DAYS INDEED me and my brother playing this track real quiet so mum wouldnt hear it.Ian Dury RIP Mate

[WABags]

@lecerfagile

Me too geezer, the very 1st 7in vinyl i brought, think i remember some kind of puppet dog design on the front cover, crazy and damed good

[KTID32]

@downhillspill

DITTO! Remember it well.......

[robtherub]

Hang Ian dury? you mus be feckin jokin sunshine! have a listen to blackmail man! he'd be more likely to hang you, ha ha, listen dat track and ian dury "fuckin ada", ha ha, u cant sing that in london without runup against some trouble, certain man'll nail you upside down to a tree

couldn't hang Ian Dury, nah time at all, Ian Dury to the Universe!! Who Jah Bless noone curse, innit tho?

[robtherub]

my dad's first wife shagged Einstein

her verdict?

"he was very good in bed but he wasn't very intelligent"

ha ha ha ha....

[firestartertwistedfi]

lol

[willgonow]

a top vid 2 go with great song, cheers

[firestartertwistedfi]

agreed - love the van gogh mona lisa

[TheGodParticle]

Who the hell was that at 1.54?

[bigbootband]

Ben Turpin silent movie star LOL

[khargushoghli]

@TheGodParticle Yeah. Who *was* that?!

[TheGodParticle]

I think he was the man they couldn't hang. if you get my drift...

[teamboy19]

i hope the new biopic with andy serkis is as good as the man, mad bad and also one clever bastard.talent among the dross of punk wannabees.

[MsBkirk]

@teamboy19 I've seen it and I didn't realise he'd been married so many times (Dury, not Serkis)!

[boydegg]

Hats off to the film maker - a great collection of images that go well with this timeless classic. Thanks for including a pic of brazen scoundrel, Terry Thomas.

[beachcomberbob]

Got to agree...seen my 'Reasons' video? Same sort of thing.

[HELLO2YOU3]

This was the B side to hit me with your rivumstick

[MusicGuruMe]

New CD collection called

'Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll' coming out in January (2010)

[x42brown]

Thank you for the heads up. I'll watch for it.

[deadbug2u]

I D was clever bastard himself - what poet

[donnyab]

what a beautifully simple song

[SunDriedLemon]

I first Saw Ian in 1980, I was 7, and stood there waving my "Fucking Ada" scarf. Great video, Nice Work