I bloody love this song. I was diagnosed with autism and dyspraxia when I was 20, and I remember people at the time (and now in fact) saying things like "but you don't act autistic". And I used think 'What the fuck does that mean? Am I meant to be stimming 24/7 and non-verbal? is that all I can be to be validated by you?" This song is such an anthem for anyone who's ever been judged, patronised, or just generally suffered at the hands of ableism, and it just makes me love Ian Dury even more for writing it.
You know Ian Dury wasn't autistic, right? He wasn't a spastic either. He had Polio. And he liked his speed. But yeah, I love him too, and I'm not autistic, or a spastic, or physically disabled at all. Or gay. But I love me some speed.
As an autistic, I love this song. But I loved this song when I heard it in the 70s, and didn't find out I was autistic until decades later. I still get "but you don't act autistic". And I say, yes I do, I just have to hide it from you to keep my bloody job. And so I have to do the job and also do all the effort to pass as neurotypical to keep it. I'd never want to give up my autistic traits. When they aren't causing meltdowns, they're super powers.
@@complicitytheory My buddy is a proper spastic, with cerebral palsy, and can attest to how the "spasticus" part of this skill-set is quite the opposite of a super power. (Or he would do, if he could type)
Ian’s own words about the song: “I’d written this in the Year Of The Disabled”. I was going to start a band called Spastic & The Autistics, because the word ‘spastic’ is a swear word. There was that girl group Bananarama who used to talk about “Spazz Dancing”. Their ignorance is their own affair. I wanted to do something for the Year Of The Disabled so I wrote ‘Spasticus Autisticus’ knowing it would be unacceptable to the BBC. They banned it as they did ‘Wake Up And Make Love To Me’ and ‘ Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll’. They actually don’t BAN it. They just don’t play it. Apparently you could only play it after dark, with written permission. I did about 140 interviews related to the song that year. It was a war cry for my brothers and sisters who are disabled. Only a spastic could understand that. It’s not describing a condition. It’s just being spirited”
The man was a true genius I saw him when I was sixteen and was deaf for two days after he would fall over on stage and the bouncers would pick him up and what was amazing is nobody laughed and in the early eighties that was unusual xxx
@@marielacey7928 I was lucky enough to see him live a year before he died. Phenomenal. I was due to see him at a festival the next year, but he passed away before the gig.
@@GrilloTheFlightless I'm glad you got to see him as I said a true genius also it's always been said that the blockheads were the greatest backing group ever
In proper English usage, "spastic" is used to describe a jerky, twitchy involuntary movement or "spasm", especially of the arms, legs or neck. Its not even slang. And to be fair, I remember Bananarama dancing from back in the day, and they really did dance like spastics. Unlike Ian, who was neither a spastic, or autistic. Anyway, "spastic" was never used as a perjoritive term or slur for disabled, it was used by able bodied people, as an insult to their able bodied, but possibly clumsier friends. I have many, able bodied friends, many of whom do some monumentally stupid and clumsy shit. For example, when my mate tried cooking with gas in his tent in the rain, and turned the tent into a fireball, and nearly burned all his stupid hippy hair off. It was the single most brain-dead thing I'd ever seen anyone do, which it was, and called him a "stupid fucking retard" because he'd tried to change the gas bottle by candlelight, then fumbled the canister in the tent, which melted in a ball of flame. Now, I know a lot of people will say that I shouldn't have called him a retard. That it was his lack of dexterity that caused the debacle, and therefore, I should have called him a clumsy spastic. But I maintain to this day that you'd *have* to be a stupid fucking retard to fill your candle-lit tent with butane gas. While inside it. Today, he would be applauded for his bravery, for surviving such an awful (yet hilarious) experience, and for being such an inspiration to other victims of other fires. But that's a bunch of horseshit. No-one who does such an irresponsible and retarded thing as that, should ever be lauded for it. Mocked? Yes. Scorned? For sure. But anything else is hardly appropriate. Fucking hippies.
Great song. This was written by Ian Dury in protest at the International Year for Disabled Persons (1981), which he felt was patronising. Dury himself had polio which he was thought to have picked up when he accidentally swallowed infected water in a swimming pool. I personally love this song and listen to it a lot. I think it is wrong to censor something because of fear that people will find it offensive. There are probably a lot of disabled people, or spastics as they used to be commonly called, who love this song.
+Miles Jolly ~ YES. Indeed, so it is, though I miss the "individual call out declarations" that are omitted here. (For those unfamiliar), this recording is cut off short, due to the viddy match up. Being half man half asparagus myself, YES. ....I love this song and consider myself to be a "social spastic" (or "spazzer)" Go forth and enjoy the full five odd minutes... " I am the Omega Man!!" ...Charlton Athletic ? I'd say so, in his day, for sure.... wtf..? heheh.. Topper info MJ, people need to know (:
Our Father, Who art in Hendon Harrow Road be Thy name Thy Kingston come Thy Wimbledon In Erith as it is in Hendon. Give us this day our Berkhampstead And forgive us our Westminsters As we forgive those who Westminster against us. Lead us not into Temple Station And deliver us from Ealing, For thine is the Kingston The Purley and the Crawley, For Iver and Iver Crouch End
I was lucky enough to work stage security at the Roundhouse gig (we weren't needed)and l'll never forget him crying with pain as he came back onstage for a second encore. No,he wouldn't accept help. What a MAN.
Just Ian Dury saying fuck it I am who I am, no big deal..and speaking out for people in the same boat as him..just wanting to be treated the same as everyone else with no special treatment simple as..true genius was the late great Ian Dury,an inspiration for keeping it real.
The performance of “Spasticus Autisticus”, the edgy song by Britain’s most famous Raspberry and polio victim, Ian Dury, at the Paralympics Opening Ceremony was special and emotional.
Wicked bass guitarist, Wilko funkier than ever and everyone is having a ball. Never to be repeated "Super-folk-punk-funk" . Unique. Like an Eastend Captain Beefheart.
As a disabled person I love this song 🎵 it's saying to abled bodied peeps that were just people at the end of the day like them , please DONT patronise us .
Surrounded by so much talent, too: Norman Watt-Roy on bass and Wilko Johnson on guitar. I first heard this song in a big, smoky club in Amsterdam around 1981: the keyboards around 2:45 are still wobbling around in my head.
Will Baker; this is way b4 political correctness. anyhow, now in almost 2020, political correctness, or just plain shut your mouth, you can't speak now, cencoreship , has not caught on at all . you sometimes hear idiots trying in vain to express themselves . a few young ignorant types and NGO's and public servants . That's all . the REAL scum in society . I loved it when he enticed the punters to rip out the seats and throw them aside in the wellington town hall around 79/80, whenever. The new on the scene punks at the time , were astounded when the real rockers obliged Mr Dury . I remember when I brought the fresh off the press "New Boots and Panties," I wasn't exactly sure what I'd brought till I gave it a few spins on the old 1000 watter . Absolute word smith this dude was . Was lucky to see him with Sly and Robbie and that blonde haired rhythm guitarist here, whats his name.
Hey, I don't think you know what this song is about. It's not about making fun of his situation, it's about making fun of people like you. Non disabled "anti sjws" assume it's making fun of disability, bit it's not. It's protesting against the patronisation and censorship of disabled people. People who insist on not actually listening to us. People like you. Listen to the actual lyrics. It's on the side of the "woke left" in their fight against ableism.
@@aftonstan5494 you replied to a comment made during Obama's presidency. You misunderstood his comment and you stereotyped him. Also the video is not making fun of "anti-sjws". That term only came up in like 2017/18. The patronizisation of disabled people as you say was a response to the disabled award. People saying "aww here's your little reward, your cute and child lie, say chess to the camera" and "hey don't say that word because they are unable to fend for themselves because they are weak and can't do anything". Will baker is not one of those people
@@jlall4467 As a disabled person, that is what I was saying. It's him fighting against the patronisation of disabled people. He is allowed to say that word, but non disabled people are not. That is him reclaiming the word. The comment says he "suffered", and at least implies that they're doing this to "make light of a bad situation" which is reductive and misses the entire point of it. It's his disability, he's saying those words because he is making a point about patronisation of disabled people, he' not defending making fun of disabled people.
Proud that my country Australia allowed the blockheads to do this song on it's only music station at the time, especially as it was banned from most countries media. When they did this on Aussie tv, was when they toured here and the time I got to see them live in little old Adelaide South Australia and it was a fuckn' ripping gig
Wikipedia describes the song as being 'denied airplay' by the BBC, in interviews with Ian Dury it was addressed directly as a ban and I remember the ban being a big thing at the time. I don't understand how you can be so confident in your false assertion.
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus I'm spasticus autisticus I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus I'm spasticus autisticus I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus I'm spasticus autisticus I wibble when I piddle Cos my middle is a riddle I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus I'm spasticus autisticus I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus I'm spasticus autisticus I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus I'm spasticus autisticus I dribble when I nibble And I quibble when I scribble Hello to you out there in Normal Land You may not comprehend my tale or understand As I crawl past your window give me lucky looks You can be my body but you'll never read my books I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus I'm spasticus autisticus I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus I'm spasticus autisticus I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus I'm spasticus autisticus I'm knobbled on the cobbles Cos I hobble when I wobble Swim! So place your hard-earned peanuts in my tin And thank the Creator you're not in the state I'm in So long have I been languished on the shelf I must give all proceedings to myself I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus I'm spasticus autisticus I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus I'm spasticus autisticus I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus I'm spasticus autisticus 54 appliances in leather and elastic 100 000 thank yous from 27 spastics Spasticus, spasticus Spasticus autisticus Spasticus, spasticus Spasticus autisticus Spasticus, spasticus Spasticus autisticus Widdling, griddling, skittling, diddling, Fiddling, diddling, widdling, diddling spasticus I'm spasticus, spasticus Spasticus autisticus Spasticus, spasticus Spasticus autisticus Spasticus, spasticus Spasticus autisticus Spasticus, spasticus Spasticus autisticus I'm spasticus! I'm spasticus! I'm spasticus! I'm spasticus! I'm spasticus! I'm spasticus! I'm spasticus! Spasticus!
@anonUK And how is it, that a disabled singer like Ian Jury, gets slagged for singing about his own experiences? He was raised in a special school, 'where they let you lie down if you fell down' , according to his own words. This song is about saying something truthful about being disabled, and not sweeping it under the carpet. Or allowing it on Blue Peter once a year.
Ian´s transfoms personal experiences with handicap into a positive self-image by using creativity in writing and making music. He is the pioneer of punk. He is unique and a lyric voice for all of us. We are great fans since 1978.
He wasn't working class though. He was from some kind of Irish Aristo background. Most of the 70s-80s post punk "edgy" crowd were middle class/upper middle class kids, rebelling against their parents opulent lifestyles.
got this tune from day one...the ban clearly exposed pc for all its ridiculous outcomes, namely, the more division and segregation, in all things not just disabilities...then 4 years ago the most beautiful baby daughter was born to me, she has Downs syndrome. .and this song revealed itself in a whole new light...I love it more now than when I was just a blockhead fan...I go to groups..and see all forms of serious disabilities in young children...Ian Dury writes from the heart of these kids..who (mentally) seem to be the least affected guys in the room...there's a 10 year old with CP who insists we play this every week...and to watch them all dancing, regardless of ability is truly stunningly uplifting..thankyou Ian...for doing more than most in regarding the disabled being treated as equals...thankyou so, so much.... mind you, being a blockhead...if anyone looks at my little avalon the wrong way...then it's a good old fat lip, clip round ear...tends to make people rather thoughtful, does a ringing ear.... 😤
One of many unknown classics along with John Entwistle's Talk Dirty. Oh and guess what i found out Dury and Norman-Watt both played on Roger Daltrey's solo album Parting Should Be Painless (in 1984).
This is the vid i'd show anyone who doesn't know of the blockheads as an introduction. It shows off Ian's great sense of style, live presence and performance
Yesterday they featured songs that had been banned by the BBC over the years. I'm surprised this one didn't get a mention. Could it be that after all these years they still won't play it?
This is a protest against ableism and patronisation. It ways played at the Paralympics. It's a left wing message. It was censored by right wing/neoliberal dipshits who insisted on treating disabled people like freakshows and pity parties. I suggest you listen to the lyrics before you post shit like this.
Speaking as someone who has Asperger's and happened to be associated with one of those so-called "special needs" sections at school, I can safely say that this song demonstrates a point. It would give me pleasure to see the speech and language centres closed down for their patronism and over-protectiveness. If there's someone campaigning for that to happen, I would support it and this song I think would make an excellent campaign anthem.
Exactly. Ian Dury is talking from his own personal experience here as he contracted Polio as a child and it left him disabled and given the attitude of the time, and it still lingers now, he knows what he is talking about. The Polio vaccine didn't exist when he was a kid.
I’m autistic. Part of the disability community mentally but admittedly not physically, but I feel proud being represented in this song. Because anyone with disabilities has difficulty and I want a rocker saying see us and be proud 🎉
Yeah I have Asperger’s and I’ve noticed these woke twats who don’t have any mental and physical disabilities and get offended on my behalf even though I call myself a spaz… My friend also has Asperger’s and we call each other c*nt as a joke nickname like I’d say “What’s up c*nt” when I see him and he replies “nothing much c*nt”
@@gibby8179 Nah, If you knew who you were talking with you would know very well that I hate most mainstream music. I recommend checking my playlist, you might learn a thing or two 👍
@@OffendEveryoneImmediately i mean i did specifically say NOT the radio mainstream stuff. From your first comment I kinda imagined that you would hate that. My whole point was, and still is, that there are plenty of great artists/bands that aren't popstar level famous. Also I took a look at your playlist. Your comment about genius and musicianship is kinda ironic since that playlist is chock full of punk, hardcore and emo it seems. Not a slight to those genres, but they're aren't exactly known for their musicianship or genius compared to other genres.
I have the best memories listening to Ian and his Blockheads in the 80's. Today, I give support to people with ASD, go figure. Feels a bit full circle... This is a Countdown memory for sure!
It's a song for anyone who is disabled and has been bullied, harassed, treated exceptionally badly, or even seen by some as subhuman, because of it. If these apply to you, then this song is for you.
What a legend. There aren't any rock stars like this any more - most music now is homogenised, sanitised, regurgitated shite that's been done a million times before and all the front men are too scared to have any controversial opinions because WOKE culture will ruin their careers.
my dad who at the time was a support worker showed me this when I was 10 with my autistic best friend and from that moment onward this was the poor kids theme song
Back when these guys were popular, I only saw Ian in videos like this, standing at a microphone. It wasn't till a few years ago that I saw him being interviewed on a talk show and saw him walk in from offstage to have a seat with the interviewer, in the '80s, that the level of his disabilities was really evident. I knew he'd was like that but had no idea how pronounced it was.
Hello I am from Argentina. I have no idea why I remembered this song, nor where I heard it 😁 what I do know is that I can't get it out of my head 😁 can someone tell me something about this topic? if it is in Spanish better...thank you kisses.
I've been an Ian Dury fan since NB&P. I have a few health probs myself (there is always someone worse off than you), but this as the "Anthem" of the "Paras" was awesome. I don't have the problems that some of our paras have but this song from Ian speaks volumes for them (and maybe a lttle for me) - thx Ian R.I.P
So funny he actually owns the word like N. Lizzie and Beyonce changed the word through pressure but Ian pit a positive slant on it If you got it flaunt it!
Neither of you understand. This would be accepted by the woke left because it's written by disabled people for disabled people, it's a protest song. Of course saying shit like this to make fun of disabled people would be cancelled, but this wouldn't because it is literally a pro-disability protest song.
@HOMEnHIGH If you don't like his lyrics then you haven't been paying attention. He was brilliant and wryness incarnate. Thank G-d he decided to give up on his (rather successful) career as an art professor and make the music he heard in his head. Top "O" levels at 16 and recognition as a prodigy even in his own time. Remember, he was punk/new wave/avant garde before any of 'em. Brill!
I bloody love this song. I was diagnosed with autism and dyspraxia when I was 20, and I remember people at the time (and now in fact) saying things like "but you don't act autistic". And I used think 'What the fuck does that mean? Am I meant to be stimming 24/7 and non-verbal? is that all I can be to be validated by you?"
This song is such an anthem for anyone who's ever been judged, patronised, or just generally suffered at the hands of ableism, and it just makes me love Ian Dury even more for writing it.
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You know Ian Dury wasn't autistic, right? He wasn't a spastic either. He had Polio. And he liked his speed. But yeah, I love him too, and I'm not autistic, or a spastic, or physically disabled at all. Or gay. But I love me some speed.
@Conan I say ableism. Don't say tard. And I'm autistic. And I'm hoping you're not an actual 'tard.
As an autistic, I love this song. But I loved this song when I heard it in the 70s, and didn't find out I was autistic until decades later. I still get "but you don't act autistic". And I say, yes I do, I just have to hide it from you to keep my bloody job. And so I have to do the job and also do all the effort to pass as neurotypical to keep it. I'd never want to give up my autistic traits. When they aren't causing meltdowns, they're super powers.
@@complicitytheory My buddy is a proper spastic, with cerebral palsy, and can attest to how the "spasticus" part of this skill-set is quite the opposite of a super power. (Or he would do, if he could type)
Ian’s own words about the song:
“I’d written this in the Year Of The Disabled”. I was going to start a band called Spastic & The Autistics, because the word ‘spastic’ is a swear word. There was that girl group Bananarama who used to talk about “Spazz Dancing”. Their ignorance is their own affair. I wanted to do something for the Year Of The Disabled so I wrote ‘Spasticus Autisticus’ knowing it would be unacceptable to the BBC. They banned it as they did ‘Wake Up And Make Love To Me’ and ‘ Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll’. They actually don’t BAN it. They just don’t play it. Apparently you could only play it after dark, with written permission. I did about 140 interviews related to the song that year. It was a war cry for my brothers and sisters who are disabled. Only a spastic could understand that. It’s not describing a condition. It’s just being spirited”
The man was a true genius I saw him when I was sixteen and was deaf for two days after he would fall over on stage and the bouncers would pick him up and what was amazing is nobody laughed and in the early eighties that was unusual xxx
@@marielacey7928 I was lucky enough to see him live a year before he died. Phenomenal. I was due to see him at a festival the next year, but he passed away before the gig.
@@GrilloTheFlightless I'm glad you got to see him as I said a true genius also it's always been said that the blockheads were the greatest backing group ever
In proper English usage, "spastic" is used to describe a jerky, twitchy involuntary movement or "spasm", especially of the arms, legs or neck. Its not even slang. And to be fair, I remember Bananarama dancing from back in the day, and they really did dance like spastics. Unlike Ian, who was neither a spastic, or autistic. Anyway, "spastic" was never used as a perjoritive term or slur for disabled, it was used by able bodied people, as an insult to their able bodied, but possibly clumsier friends. I have many, able bodied friends, many of whom do some monumentally stupid and clumsy shit. For example, when my mate tried cooking with gas in his tent in the rain, and turned the tent into a fireball, and nearly burned all his stupid hippy hair off. It was the single most brain-dead thing I'd ever seen anyone do, which it was, and called him a "stupid fucking retard" because he'd tried to change the gas bottle by candlelight, then fumbled the canister in the tent, which melted in a ball of flame. Now, I know a lot of people will say that I shouldn't have called him a retard. That it was his lack of dexterity that caused the debacle, and therefore, I should have called him a clumsy spastic. But I maintain to this day that you'd *have* to be a stupid fucking retard to fill your candle-lit tent with butane gas. While inside it. Today, he would be applauded for his bravery, for surviving such an awful (yet hilarious) experience, and for being such an inspiration to other victims of other fires. But that's a bunch of horseshit. No-one who does such an irresponsible and retarded thing as that, should ever be lauded for it. Mocked? Yes. Scorned? For sure. But anything else is hardly appropriate. Fucking hippies.
but he used to take it up the ass and got the colon cancer.
Great song. This was written by Ian Dury in protest at the International Year for Disabled Persons (1981), which he felt was patronising. Dury himself had polio which he was thought to have picked up when he accidentally swallowed infected water in a swimming pool. I personally love this song and listen to it a lot. I think it is wrong to censor something because of fear that people will find it offensive. There are probably a lot of disabled people, or spastics as they used to be commonly called, who love this song.
+Miles Jolly ~ YES. Indeed, so it is, though I miss the "individual call out declarations" that are omitted here. (For those unfamiliar), this recording is cut off short, due to the viddy match up. Being half man half asparagus myself, YES.
....I love this song and consider myself to be a "social spastic" (or "spazzer)"
Go forth and enjoy the full five odd minutes... " I am the Omega Man!!" ...Charlton Athletic ? I'd say so, in his day, for sure.... wtf..? heheh..
Topper info MJ, people need to know (:
+ELGROOVER have you seen the video where Ian Dury talks about the song and does the Bus Driver's Prayer? that's quite good.
couldnt say better
Our Father,
Who art in Hendon
Harrow Road be Thy name
Thy Kingston come
Thy Wimbledon
In Erith as it is in Hendon.
Give us this day our Berkhampstead
And forgive us our Westminsters
As we forgive those who Westminster against us.
Lead us not into Temple Station
And deliver us from Ealing,
For thine is the Kingston
The Purley and the Crawley,
For Iver and Iver
Crouch End
Haha that's really good - does it go hand-in-hand with Flanders & Swann's "A Transport of Delight"?
Dury's throat control is awesome, those little higher pitched yelps he does when he says 'spasticus' are perfect.
an anthem for spazzers everywhere. I am one and it crack me up every time,
Me to, we are all Spasticus!
I was lucky enough to work stage security at the Roundhouse gig (we weren't needed)and l'll never forget him crying with pain as he came back onstage for a second encore. No,he wouldn't accept help. What a MAN.
Agreed 100bper cent....he was no idiot....just grave and real
Brave not grave
The music speaks for itself, what a hero of the first order. more precious as the years pass.
Blimey, amazing story. An amazing man, no doubt.
Just Ian Dury saying fuck it I am who I am, no big deal..and speaking out for people in the same boat as him..just wanting to be treated the same as everyone else with no special treatment simple as..true genius was the late great Ian Dury,an inspiration for keeping it real.
what a master of creativity of a play on words. A punk alternative Shakespeare was he...
UnPC
I couldn't said it better myself.
This man and the band should be far higher up in our music conscience. A master.
Couldn’t agree more
Absolutely ❤
Never a truer word spoken.👍
It is
Whoever knew funk and punk would be such a brilliant mix!
Ian did.
I am an epilepticus and I know it is not the same but this song is amazing for me
+ninaaa Dury had Parkinson's; it's an anthem for the whole disabled community. Rock on.
+ninaaa Sorry, Polio as a child (thanks to commenter +Schlafwandler65 below).
ian dury did not have Parkinsons he contracted polio
@@JamesLivesInBuffalo Ian Dury Clever with words, like clever trever very clever bloke and the group
He was singing it for all people with disabilities. He was saying quit your feel good patronisation of us. It was brilliant. Delia Morris
The performance of “Spasticus Autisticus”, the edgy song by Britain’s most famous Raspberry and polio victim, Ian Dury, at the Paralympics Opening Ceremony was special and emotional.
I hope some day this man gets recognized for his genius !
Not in the UK
He had such energy on-stage, it was just infectious.
Wicked bass guitarist, Wilko funkier than ever and everyone is having a ball. Never to be repeated "Super-folk-punk-funk" . Unique. Like an Eastend Captain Beefheart.
Hello to you out there in normal land...what a great line, Ian you were a genius and sorely missed, nobody could ever replace a one off like you
I have Asperger's Syndrome. This is going to be my favourite song.
As a disabled person I love this song 🎵 it's saying to abled bodied peeps that were just people at the end of the day like them , please DONT patronise us .
Surrounded by so much talent, too: Norman Watt-Roy on bass and Wilko Johnson on guitar. I first heard this song in a big, smoky club in Amsterdam around 1981: the keyboards around 2:45 are still wobbling around in my head.
Ian dury.. A true original. I love that not everyone 'gets' him. Ian was special! Love it x
I wish my friend never sent me this. Once you listen to it you can't get it out of your head.
Seriously been in my head on and off for 40 years, and back again :))))
What a talented artist!!!!!!!!!!! - his lyrics are well before his time and totally in touch with raw life experiences - just AMAZING
a great song from someone who actually suffered, not someone who finds it offensive because its PC. Brilliant
Will Baker; this is way b4 political correctness. anyhow, now in almost 2020, political correctness, or just plain shut your mouth, you can't speak now, cencoreship , has not caught on at all . you sometimes hear idiots trying in vain to express themselves . a few young ignorant types and NGO's and public servants . That's all . the REAL scum in society . I loved it when he enticed the punters to rip out the seats and throw them aside in the wellington town hall around 79/80, whenever. The new on the scene punks at the time , were astounded when the real rockers obliged Mr Dury . I remember when I brought the fresh off the press "New Boots and Panties," I wasn't exactly sure what I'd brought till I gave it a few spins on the old 1000 watter . Absolute word smith this dude was . Was lucky to see him with Sly and Robbie and that blonde haired rhythm guitarist here, whats his name.
Hey, I don't think you know what this song is about. It's not about making fun of his situation, it's about making fun of people like you.
Non disabled "anti sjws" assume it's making fun of disability, bit it's not. It's protesting against the patronisation and censorship of disabled people. People who insist on not actually listening to us. People like you.
Listen to the actual lyrics. It's on the side of the "woke left" in their fight against ableism.
@@aftonstan5494 you replied to a comment made during Obama's presidency. You misunderstood his comment and you stereotyped him.
Also the video is not making fun of "anti-sjws". That term only came up in like 2017/18. The patronizisation of disabled people as you say was a response to the disabled award. People saying "aww here's your little reward, your cute and child lie, say chess to the camera" and "hey don't say that word because they are unable to fend for themselves because they are weak and can't do anything". Will baker is not one of those people
@@jlall4467 As a disabled person, that is what I was saying. It's him fighting against the patronisation of disabled people. He is allowed to say that word, but non disabled people are not. That is him reclaiming the word. The comment says he "suffered", and at least implies that they're doing this to "make light of a bad situation" which is reductive and misses the entire point of it. It's his disability, he's saying those words because he is making a point about patronisation of disabled people, he' not defending making fun of disabled people.
See DEVO's Mongoloid.
Proud that my country Australia allowed the blockheads to do this song on it's only music station at the time, especially as it was banned from most countries media. When they did this on Aussie tv, was when they toured here and the time I got to see them live in little old Adelaide South Australia and it was a fuckn' ripping gig
If I knew about this when I was in school I would have been expelled a million times 😂
Ps I went to a special needs school run by nuns
banned by the BBC, the frank and ironic lyrics will challenge your sensibilities but the relentless funky rhythms command you to dance.
It wasn't you pillock.
Wikipedia describes the song as being 'denied airplay' by the BBC, in interviews with Ian Dury it was addressed directly as a ban and I remember the ban being a big thing at the time. I don't understand how you can be so confident in your false assertion.
saw Ian Dury and the Blockheads back in the day. Gods of dance. Love, light and great respect to all Blockheads
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
I wibble when I piddle
Cos my middle is a riddle
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
I dribble when I nibble
And I quibble when I scribble
Hello to you out there in Normal Land
You may not comprehend my tale or understand
As I crawl past your window give me lucky looks
You can be my body but you'll never read my books
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
I'm knobbled on the cobbles
Cos I hobble when I wobble
Swim!
So place your hard-earned peanuts in my tin
And thank the Creator you're not in the state I'm in
So long have I been languished on the shelf
I must give all proceedings to myself
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus
I'm spasticus autisticus
54 appliances in leather and elastic
100 000 thank yous from 27 spastics
Spasticus, spasticus
Spasticus autisticus
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Spasticus autisticus
Spasticus, spasticus
Spasticus autisticus
Widdling, griddling, skittling, diddling,
Fiddling, diddling, widdling, diddling spasticus
I'm spasticus, spasticus
Spasticus autisticus
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Spasticus autisticus
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Spasticus autisticus
I'm spasticus!
I'm spasticus!
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Spasticus!
. THANK YOU!!
I'm Spasticus too..Great Music from a talented performer
@anonUK And how is it, that a disabled singer like Ian Jury, gets slagged for singing about his own experiences? He was raised in a special school, 'where they let you lie down if you fell down' , according to his own words. This song is about saying something truthful about being disabled, and not sweeping it under the carpet. Or allowing it on Blue Peter once a year.
Ian´s transfoms personal experiences with handicap into a positive self-image by using creativity in writing and making music. He is the pioneer of punk. He is unique and a lyric voice for all of us. We are great fans since 1978.
Dury was a working class hero for real.
He wasn't working class though. He was from some kind of Irish Aristo background. Most of the 70s-80s post punk "edgy" crowd were middle class/upper middle class kids, rebelling against their parents opulent lifestyles.
As a 16 y/o bloke with autism this means a lot to me
got this tune from day one...the ban clearly exposed pc for all its ridiculous outcomes, namely, the more division and segregation, in all things not just disabilities...then 4 years ago the most beautiful baby daughter was born to me, she has Downs syndrome. .and this song revealed itself in a whole new light...I love it more now than when I was just a blockhead fan...I go to groups..and see all forms of serious disabilities in young children...Ian Dury writes from the heart of these kids..who (mentally) seem to be the least affected guys in the room...there's a 10 year old with CP who insists we play this every week...and to watch them all dancing, regardless of ability is truly stunningly uplifting..thankyou Ian...for doing more than most in regarding the disabled being treated as equals...thankyou so, so much.... mind you, being a blockhead...if anyone looks at my little avalon the wrong way...then it's a good old fat lip, clip round ear...tends to make people rather thoughtful, does a ringing ear.... 😤
right on 👍
It wouldn't get read out loud now by the pc dick heads
saw the film couple days back fantastic song it a blood shame he dead who will be listening in 2019
James Campbell Is it good?
James Campbell yeh i am
I'm listening!!
its slowly dawns on me that he is one of the greats!
As an autisticus myself, I feel so represented rn 🤌🙌
Man! I love this man! A legend!
simply brilliant song...from a truly amazing fella. Touches parts others CANNOT REACH. Great musicians. Masterpiece
He was great: brilliant songs, hilarious lyrics and performance: a true original.
I'm Spasticus, and so's my wife. LOL
RIP Mr Dury.
Rest in Power. You're sorely missed.
Real music
These are the songs I would like to dance to at a wedding, graduation, etc., always the same hahah love you ian dury
which one are you?
One of many unknown classics along with John Entwistle's Talk Dirty. Oh and guess what i found out Dury and Norman-Watt both played on Roger Daltrey's solo album Parting Should Be Painless (in 1984).
This is the vid i'd show anyone who doesn't know of the blockheads as an introduction. It shows off Ian's great sense of style, live presence and performance
The Soonicus you understandicus the bettercus. Thank you Ian
Genius song and lyrics from the master. RIP, Ian.
Yesterday they featured songs that had been banned by the BBC over the years. I'm surprised this one didn't get a mention. Could it be that after all these years they still won't play it?
have to give a lot of credit for his Demena,.voice and musicianship --really good talent..thanks for posting and his biography
Ian Dury and The Blockheads rocked- (what a bloody band!) I'm Spasticus Asperger's. Does that qualify as Spasticus Autisticus?
Yes. Hey you're on Wrong Planet with the same name, right?
who listening now 2024🐺🦝🦊
When musicians could speak their minds and not be censored.
This song was banned by the BBC at the time.
This is a protest against ableism and patronisation. It ways played at the Paralympics. It's a left wing message. It was censored by right wing/neoliberal dipshits who insisted on treating disabled people like freakshows and pity parties. I suggest you listen to the lyrics before you post shit like this.
Anyone else notice that the guy playing the guitar is the guitarist for Dr Feelgood? Good old Wilko Johnson :)
Che geniaccio....fantastico!
Senti che ritmo , senti che brivido!
Ian was fab. Also the incredible N W R bass. Just Doss.
Norman: brilliant bass player. Criminally underrated.
Pure class from a top class man
seen these on Glastonbury main stage 1985 one of the best gigs i was ever at. great musicians
Speaking as someone who has Asperger's and happened to be associated with one of those so-called "special needs" sections at school, I can safely say that this song demonstrates a point.
It would give me pleasure to see the speech and language centres closed down for their patronism and over-protectiveness. If there's someone campaigning for that to happen, I would support it and this song I think would make an excellent campaign anthem.
Exactly. Ian Dury is talking from his own personal experience here as he contracted Polio as a child and it left him disabled and given the attitude of the time, and it still lingers now, he knows what he is talking about. The Polio vaccine didn't exist when he was a kid.
Sadly missed RIP Ian Dury xx
What a legend..hated him in the 80s as a kid...didn't realise then what a complete maverick he was. Iconic.
I am disabled and so is my sister. We just laughed our arses off at this, it's epic!
❤
Ian Dury made being disabled cool
Can,t forget the rest off the group the blockheads they got talent too
@@seansands424 The Blockheads were always a solid, quality band.
Ian ,you were a Rock Dreams true Blue ,I'm Pisstacussed that Your Not Here Now, miss yu Brother.. PissedaKissed raw Talent.
I’m autistic. Part of the disability community mentally but admittedly not physically, but I feel proud being represented in this song. Because anyone with disabilities has difficulty and I want a rocker saying see us and be proud 🎉
Yeah I have Asperger’s and I’ve noticed these woke twats who don’t have any mental and physical disabilities and get offended on my behalf even though I call myself a spaz…
My friend also has Asperger’s and we call each other c*nt as a joke nickname like I’d say “What’s up c*nt” when I see him and he replies “nothing much c*nt”
He was and his band were outstanding
One of the very few performances on Countdown that were actually live and not lip synced...and certainly one of the very best.
They are miming to the backing track?
As a young person I find this incredible. Modern ‘music’ will never attain the same genius and musicianship of these guys.
i dunno mate, there's more than plenty of solid music still out there today, just sounds like you haven't gone deeper than the radio stuff
@@gibby8179 Nah, If you knew who you were talking with you would know very well that I hate most mainstream music. I recommend checking my playlist, you might learn a thing or two 👍
@@OffendEveryoneImmediately i mean i did specifically say NOT the radio mainstream stuff. From your first comment I kinda imagined that you would hate that. My whole point was, and still is, that there are plenty of great artists/bands that aren't popstar level famous.
Also I took a look at your playlist. Your comment about genius and musicianship is kinda ironic since that playlist is chock full of punk, hardcore and emo it seems. Not a slight to those genres, but they're aren't exactly known for their musicianship or genius compared to other genres.
It was great to see and listen it in Nottingham.
Classic tune from a pure legend of a top man
I have the best memories listening to Ian and his Blockheads in the 80's. Today, I give support to people with ASD, go figure.
Feels a bit full circle... This is a Countdown memory for sure!
'So place your hard-earned peanuts in my tin, and thank the creator that youre not in the state im in....." 🇬🇧✅✅👌👌What super lyrics
It's a song for anyone who is disabled and has been bullied, harassed, treated exceptionally badly, or even seen by some as subhuman, because of it. If these apply to you, then this song is for you.
It,s a song for everyone
You were the bomb Ian
Rip legend
What a legend. There aren't any rock stars like this any more - most music now is homogenised, sanitised, regurgitated shite that's been done a million times before and all the front men are too scared to have any controversial opinions because WOKE culture will ruin their careers.
This is how you respond to awareness days, sensitivity campigns and toxic compassion. Take notes.
Serio.
Z needs a kick from the O. G.z!
I'm glad we had ian dury and the blockheads when we did because the world couldn't handle them now
Wilkos guitar playing took this song to the next level
Uno de los artistas más grandes del Reino Unido, ó Gran Bretaña sin lugar a dudas es el desaparecido Ian Dury un fenómeno 🎼🎸🎼👌🏽🇺🇾
Just noticed Wilco Johnson. Hadn't realised he played with Ian Dury.
I’m Spastucus Dyslexicus!
awesome song long live his songs
my dad who at the time was a support worker showed me this when I was 10 with my autistic best friend and from that moment onward this was the poor kids theme song
I think that is one of the funkiest bass players I've ever seen!
Back when these guys were popular, I only saw Ian in videos like this, standing at a microphone. It wasn't till a few years ago that I saw him being interviewed on a talk show and saw him walk in from offstage to have a seat with the interviewer, in the '80s, that the level of his disabilities was really evident. I knew he'd was like that but had no idea how pronounced it was.
Yes - powerful. Lifts the boundaries and raises perceptions now as then.
On Countdown. A classic from that era
Hello I am from Argentina. I have no idea why I remembered this song, nor where I heard it 😁 what I do know is that I can't get it out of my head 😁 can someone tell me something about this topic? if it is in Spanish better...thank you kisses.
Miss u mr dury they don't make them like anymore....this should be boris Johnson theme tune
No it's not for Boris it's for us
Ian Drury was an amazing song writer. No frills
I've been an Ian Dury fan since NB&P. I have a few health probs myself (there is always someone worse off than you), but this as the "Anthem" of the "Paras" was awesome. I don't have the problems that some of our paras have but this song from Ian speaks volumes for them (and maybe a lttle for me) - thx Ian R.I.P
I miss you lovexxx💕💕💕💕🙏🙏🙏🎵🎵🎵
Tune👌2023
So funny he actually owns the word like N. Lizzie and Beyonce changed the word through pressure but Ian pit a positive slant on it
If you got it flaunt it!
Authentic, over all saxo...Great song, artistic!!!
You'd never get away with a bloody song like this, in this day and age- (never in a month of Sundays!) :/
Get rid of PC
Neither of you understand. This would be accepted by the woke left because it's written by disabled people for disabled people, it's a protest song. Of course saying shit like this to make fun of disabled people would be cancelled, but this wouldn't because it is literally a pro-disability protest song.
@@aftonstan5494 Define ‘woke’, bet you can’t.
@@chris6559 woke /wəʊk/ adjectiveINFORMAL alert to injustice in society, especially racism. "we need to stay angry, and stay woke"
@@chris6559 Lol
As an autistic musician I fuckin love this track, great message.
this song is siccccccccccccccckkkkkkkk i love it!!!
@nearlyoutofideas Wow, great job synching the audio and the video.
This guy was. Disabled. No shit.
Good on him. Love this music
'couse my middle is a riddle
Ian, Norman, Wilko…. What’s not to like. ❤
@HOMEnHIGH If you don't like his lyrics then you haven't been paying attention. He was brilliant and wryness incarnate. Thank G-d he decided to give up on his (rather successful) career as an art professor and make the music he heard in his head. Top "O" levels at 16 and recognition as a prodigy even in his own time. Remember, he was punk/new wave/avant garde before any of 'em. Brill!