Ian Dury and The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (Official HD Video)
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“Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick” reached number 1 in the UK singles chart in January 1979 as well as being a hit in several other countries. Here’s the original video updated in glorious HD.
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LYRICS:
In the deserts of Sudan
And the gardens of Japan
From Milan to Yucatán
Every woman, every man
Hit me with your rhythm stick
Hit me! Hit me!
Je t'adore, ich liebe dich
Hit me! Hit me! Hit me!
Hit me with your rhythm stick
Hit me slowly, hit me quick
Hit me! Hit me! Hit me!
In the wilds of Borneo
And the vineyards of Bordeaux
Eskimo, Arapaho
Move their body to and fro
Hit me with your rhythm stick
Hit me! Hit me!
Das ist gut, c'est fantastique
Hit me! Hit me! Hit me!
Hit me with your rhythm stick
It's nice to be a lunatic
Hit me! Hit me! Hit mmmeeee!
Hit me! Hit me! Hit me!
In the dock of Tiger Bay
On the road to Mandalay
From Bombay to Santa Fé
Over the hills to Brixton Academy!
Hit me with your rhythm stick
Hit me! Hit me!
C'est si bon, ist es nicht
Hit me! Hit me! Hit me!
Hit me with your rhythm stick
Two fat persons, click, click, click
Hit me! Hit me! Hit me!
Hit me! Hit me! Hit me!
#IanDury #TheBlockheads #HitMeWithYourRhythmStick
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Bass player deserves an award for this one. Awesome.
He was paid by the note : )
The impeccable Norman Watt-Roy.
I was born in 74 and this was one of the first pieces of music I was aware of. I was fascinated by it. Loved the combo of different languages and found it both hilarious, outrageous and brilliant. I must have been 4 or something. Love it so much.
I was born in 1976 and can remember this being played round my nan's with my dad there.
I have never heard of this guy. Add 51 years old I look forward to diving in real deep because this guy is my kind of guy
You've lived under a rock then
Ian never cracked america in the late 70's
Are you kidding me? That’s like saying you’ve never heard of Mozart before.
@@ezeee595 so many good musicians that people somehow never know of. I actually consider myself a seeker of this. Imagine those who don’t even try?
Big in Canada back in the day. Madness, the Clash, English Beat, Orchestral Manouvres in theDark. The The, Jam, Style Council, etc, etc.
a unique and clever band , top musicians and a great front man
Ian Dury should have been made Britain's poet laureate. His lyrics are so sublime and sharp.
After John Cooper Clarke. Maybe.
@@usandthem73 JCC is number one, Ian burnt out after a few years. JCC is superb. But I love this.
Yeh it is good.
Under rated as an actor.
Too sharp for the establishment
Soo good, especially musically, and yet so spit and rough! A brilliant tune that doesn’t care what people think about it! More Punk without being punk is hardly imaginable!
always loved this - a wonderful combination of punk/disco/funk (heavy on the funk side)... ripped by some of the greats - and a bass part that makes me thing he was paid by the note!! Wonderful jam for a Friday night!
how did you bloody knew its friday ??? spooky shit broo
Unfortunately he wasn't hit with it on a regular basis. #mot #ALAW 💙💛💙💛
I remember this as a kid. Never got the lyrics, but it was damn funky
Me too, too young at the time to realise it was about getting jiggy.
I love Black Mirror! :)
This has been a favorite track of mine for decades. That insane bass part… mama, what a workout!
This track never dates, heard it when it first came out, still strong 2024..♥️
Just watching the film Porridge on BBC4 and this came on at the start of the film…September 2024.
This song is brilliant when you just hear it but when you see Dury singing it, it's just something else
A greatly talented Londoner - a poet - and a great band. RIP Sir Ian - how you’re missed.
a great musician... RIP Ian, we still miss you.
Starting off 2020 right!! Now I'm going to listen to Reasons to be cheerful!!
If you are in the UK then i hope you can find away to be cheerful ex Uk patt here thailand 16 years and i grew up in this era of class acts.
How do you like the year untill now?
sorry im a bassist, but normans ace ...ian is a lyrical genius and a one of a kind ....thank you ian ,,, you made me and many others feel normal xx ..your a legend !!!
The lyrics are sublime on all Ian Dury
from black mirror demon 😍😍
OMG - How good is that Bass Line ???
💫💥🔥
You hit it, dude! I love this guy. What a pity he had to leave too soon.
The most brilliant lyricist that ever bolted into our universe - if only Emotional IQ just as valued as educational success - my own interpretation of it anyway. This powerful number also challenged stiff -upper-society, not just the state of attitudes towards mental health, we are all a bit crooked and bent and prone to disability of one sort or another. No one, not even today's generation of kids - bypass this cosmic hit - often and always thinking of ways to shoot a grenade with a flexible ruler
at those quashing our human instincts. Ian, an unrivalled craftsman of his trade, just as Johnny Rotten.
I'M A BIT ROTTEN at the moment so well a shism....!
White Rose the double sax combined with the drum roll is gonna remain in music anthologies seeking immortality
sorry i do not like pink floyd never have, Dire straits were better thats my opinion BTW the song was nothing to do with emotion, rhythm stick meant ,(cock ,dick)
i could not give a fuck what you think,
i know who are and was the best selling bands ETCETERA I had a similar argument with a Canadian guy when i said that BTO ( Bachman Turner Overdrive were the only decent thing that ever came out of Canada )that is my opinion and that is all i am doing stating my opinion i prefer Cher over Madonna but i know the majority will disagree it is just opinion. TC
White Rose Psychedelic my arse, only when Syd Barrett was a major driving force. Became just another (don't say it!!) commercial soft rock band although I loved The Wall and the earlier DSOTM which was still a bit experimental (D&B/Trance in Running man??) Hate their latest stuff, just sound like computer rehashed versions of their previous stuff (Comfortably Numb espesh) Any way best selling isn't always best quality. Now the mighty Zep, good on ya!
A song and Geography lesson all in one.
Priceless
Tremendous bass playing from Norman Watt Roy. He always jokes that he only came up with it because he thought he was going to be payed by the note!
And the drums
Chas Jankel wrote the music so you are wrong.
Chas Jankel came up with the bass line Stephen? Now you're the one that's wrong!
@@ac9110 Hi Andrew. I didn't say Chas Jankel didn't co write this. I know he helped write all their well known songs.
Crazy bass line. Love it!
Saxophone and drums ❤❤❤. Dury. XX.❤❤❤
Bass Guitar 🎸👊
This song is insane good,,,been on it since high school
Thank you Black Mirror for showing me this gem
Spot on!
I loved the song as a kid lots of the boys in school would sing it junior ,but I remember being scared of Ian when seeing him perform on the TV 🤔🤗🤗....I wished I could of watched the blockheads live and I should of but it until these bands have gone that you realise just how brilliant they are/were and Ian showing polio doesn't been the end of dreams...by the way me and most of my little school friends found out what rhythm stick meant from our older brothers🤗😆😆....liked Ian with his martialing stick (military cane)....
Holy smokes i have challenged myself too play this on my bass!!! The rythim stick smashed with the whole tree,of a ecclectic mix of sound,reminds me of being a child of the 70's !!!!!!!!!!
I love him
One of if not the Best singles created. Ian Drury was a brilliant wordsmith and above all a magnificent performer.
A year later and I watched it again. Fuck me, that is the best music video I ever saw..
wow wow wow
I was there in '78, still here in '24, 46 years later. Rock on, Ian, gone but not forgoten
Bass line unfcknbelievable
Norman Watt Roy what a bass player.
Oh hell yeh
Yehbytheway yellow submarine
Yellow submarine
still the best bass line i've ever heard
Brilliant ❤
Beautiful 🎉rest in peace ✌️ lo
Playing hit me 💪❤
I saw Ian Drury and the Blockheads at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic in 1978(?). At that time the Poly had a student exchange scheme with students from the University of Wisconsin(?). The Student Union Concert Hall was packed, and the Blockheads performed an amazing set. Although the Americans seemed to love it (perhaps not wanting to appear to offend their hosts), they had never heard music like it before. I think they thought that all of us Brits were slightly mad.
Aw…loved this when I was a little girl.
LOVE
Loved this - some humour and psychedelic imaginations(when we were at various jobs to pay our way or drop out and starve or be ejected sometimes from home!(our parents needed wage support from us kids ( England) in 70’s)was ‘normal’ as still is in 2023!!Had a brill little Transistor Radio for Birthday- Loved my kind parents and Radio Luxembourg - 🤪🎇
F'n Brilliant!!
There seems to be another language ❤
Class
The one and other hits good on ya ian
La scomparsa di Dury è stata un'altra grave e prematura perdita di un talento geniale, spiritoso ed irripetibile.
He was in Sweden Malmö in peoples park was very fantastic concert in the 80tis ❤️🇸🇪
First time i heard this i was what the f?
I still feel that way.
And that's a good thing.
I love warming up to this! Brilliant Norman, thank you Sir!
As a bass player (at least in my mind) I am always mesmorised by NWR's bass line. But Ian Dury is the true star
Saw them live at Finsbury Park, up until they came on people had been standing on stage making noise, when these guys came on they just owned the crowd and rocked that entire park, up to that point in my life I not fully understood the phrase 'rocked'.
I met my soldier boyfriend 30 years later still great
Blockheads were vastly underrated as musicians. 'Pop' music never really covered it.
Fuck it, why not play two saxophones?
yayxx
+Megafayce I heard that they had a few alternative sax solo's but evetually - and fortunately - chose to go with the roughest version.
Check out Dick Heckstall-Smith, and of course... Roland Kirk :)
geoff N NO
Ah the great Davey Payne. Genius.
It's one. J.❤❤❤😊
ART...Iran Dury is a beautiful man...
Genius
Love the lyrics to this old classic don't make them like this anymore 😊
I thank all those R&D people back in the 70s to early 90s for finding music.
Exactly 20 years before Hit me baby one more time
We should win as Tufnell ain't playing. He's just scoring
Absolute classic. I remember this being in the UK charts. Being 'old' does have some benefits! 😂
@kyfaydfsoab What?! Your mum and dad are on here, too! Cool!
epic
of course I will
Das ist gut
Y vuelta al rock!!😅
He made his mark...
Hit me with
Great band of musicians
No words..This geezer is and forever will be a genius.
Sax bloody brilliant.
A lovely GEEZER
There's a fine line between genius and insanity...
why were there 2 saxes though
Even though i am an old git of 81 it reminds me to get old disgracefully. Rock on Ian 😇😈❤❤
😘😘😘
Pure Proppa 🏴
Never too old bless you!!!!
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
My Dad made it to 78 miss him every fucken minute. He loved few "pop" songs this was one of em. I did not not grow up in London or England even but that vernacular "Git" is part of my vocabulary. Thank you Chris.
Top s you to 👍🦉🏴🥷🏿🏴☠️💙
Ian Dury and the blockheads were a great band in the 70s
Rest in peace ian Dury 🙏 😔 💔
Here, here. A lovely sentiment to a genius, no longer with us.
Thanks for your comment.
💗💗💗💗💗👍👍👍👍👍🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
British at it's very finest. Mad, accentric and funky as heck. Was a young child and loved it then, love it now
@baxterdury
Saxentric
Ian Dury has a chair. In Hyde Park. Google it.🥰
@rumbottom
Yawn, bore off!!
@rumbottom According to Wikipedia (it's not the most scientific but still), Ian Dury was born in Harrow and spent some of his childhood in Cornwall. He moved to Essex at the age of 7 after a short sorjourn in Switzerland. Don't think that makes him Cornish. His heart and soul was of an Essex lad.
I can remember my parents taking me & my brother to see Ian Dury & The Blockheads play live at Crystal Palace park U.K as little kids we must have only been 5 & 4 years old they couldn’t get a babysitter that night so took us with them ! The crowd having a great time laughing at seeing these two little kids me & my bro sat high on our parents shoulders going crazy at this song ! Still a favourite song of ours to this day now in our late 40’s - great memory to have 😊
It will be with you , the rest of your life !!!!
❣That is so great!!!!!!!❣Thank you for sharing your wonderful memory❣
This is awesome!! HIT ME WITH YOUR RYTHM STICK!!!
I'm envious of that. Got into Ian Dury too late to see him live. Treasure these memories!
Ian Dury - the people's bard. A true original.
A standout in a crowd of poets. He tangled words and rhythms into our being and I thank him for it.
Hit hit me with you rhythm stick
Hit me hit me Hit meeee!! I literally just played and punk funkd out!! For REALLLLL!! Brings me wayyy back!! ✌️🥰💃
I'm embarrassingly late. Why didn’t I hear a genius back in the day? I was into wham 🙄 Unforgettable. I'll hang my head in shame now.
I adore Ian Dury and the Blockheads. My mum had polio (my dad did too, but he recovered fully). My mum lived life from the age of four with a withered leg and arm due to polio, she still gave birth to me and my sister, and at one point she was the biggest employer in Stourbridge. She always held up Ian Dury as a role model for people living with polio, and I love him because he was a great singer! And obviously, he reminds me of my lovely Mum.
Great story.xx
Polio or not.. they rocked my world before i knew! I wish pop music would be as good today as then.
wonderfu; story amy
Great roll model,fair play loved the block heads,
Just checking in. Hope you are ok.
RIP Ian Dury (May 12, 1942 - March 27, 2000), age 57
You will be remembered as a legend
ian has a bench in some park a bit near london. google it.
The bass is sick in this song !
Norman Watt-Roy.
I always sing this and do the dance when performing on Karaoke as it normally goes down a storm. What a brilliant wordsmith Ian Dury so sadly missed.
Bless you Sir. Ian Dury (and the Block Heads). A talent gone, and so sadly missed.
❤️❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍👍👍🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
I'm 67 and it still gets me up dancing and the old foot tapping, what a blast! 💥
That is good fantastic 👌😊
I'm 64 and LOVE this song loved it since it came out 😁🏌🎶🎶
Same here.
Greetz from a dutchie.
Me too!
I'm with you! Listen to this fucking nice piano!
Who's here 2024 ?
Nope 2036
fucking right I am Pauly
Right here
hit me!!
Hit Me! Yes A College Favorite at SUNY New Paltz, NY..
Real musicians with Real talent playing Real analog instruments !! No digital crap !!!!
The Blockheads were the best
Wow, I feel sorry for you if that's what you think of music. What a sheltered life you must live.
@@HullzOSRS what the f@*k are you on about?
@@Strublet-e7k Still are.
@@Strublet-e7k probably that it doesn't matter too much these days if you use analog or digital for music production.
That bass line!! Norman Watt-Roy is a bass playing genius!
My favourite x
Genau! Und nicht diese ganzen anderen Bass-Idioten, wo viele immer denken: Oh! Ist das toll....
A man named Norman Watt-Roy must grow up to be an epic bass player.
Like all men named Bernard
👍
Hard to believe this was all over the airwaves in the late70s and 80s, its like a forgotten world, compare this with the trash that passes for pop music today.
They didn’t hit him with their rhythm stick so he made their music garbage
Everything was better then. ... Everything.
Yep, like comparing a real work of art to a scrawl with a crayon.
@@particleboy3584 There was plenty of crap music back then, as well. This song didn't even chart in the U.S., but somehow I got to know it during summer camp dances. We had a hella-cool DJ, I guess.
I'm 57 and this is a common misconception. There is some good music being created now, you just have to look for it, as it generally doesn't make the Spotify top 20!!
fucking incredible performer and artist and band. despite his disease he made this happen. the voice of defiance and courage right here. makes a glass eye weep.
I saw him many times. On several he actually fell off stage. OK it might have been stunted but jings a 12 foot drop into the orchestra pit? Some boy
BOOM!!!!
Oi, oi! Fucking right, mate! I love and miss this gritty bastard. God save him but not so much the queen or king or whomever so identifies as the him/her/it of a random birth.
Yes, brilliant performer and didn't let his disability stop him.
good music ALWAYS comes from hard times, dreaming about , singing about good times , good people and Good sex ....Always ... There are obviously songs that are great about not good times but those need to be cherry picked ....The exception to the rule one would say not the norm .....Bog Geldofs Boomtownrats Mondays comes to mind .
Played this for my 15 year old son today ...he loved it....he then said "music from the 70s and 80s is so good"...being an old codger myself, I simply smiled and nodded.!!☺️☺️
The Blockheads were all fantastic musicians- unmatched as a band. And Ian Dury- fabulous lyricist and beyond cool. Gorgeous man xx
How he ever managed to assemble such a wealth of talent in one band, I’ll never know.
Charisma mate.
@@waggafletcher That would be it ;)
Right on brother, took the words straight outta my mouth
Norf London for you mate,
@Scott Alexander Chaz Jankel had a succesfull career. And (although it's not one of his most remembered songs) I think "Now you're dancing" is a spirit successor to this.
Norman Watt Roy is exceptional on this track. The whole band were and are as incredible as they are unique. saw them loads live and they are super tight.
One of the hardest basslines to learn and play. Has even professional bass player's spitting feathers!
Punk, funk, disco, and pop all rolled up in a brilliant late-70s burrito. This song and Blondie's "Rapture" are planets orbiting the same sun.
I'm 62 and LOVE Ian Dury!
65❤
I'm 63 and absolutely don't give a fuck about what you like or dislike.
@@TheOBOM Idiot!
Well i like shame on you.
@@TheOBOM I'm 25 and like to hear about mutual loves of music because enjoying music collectively brings me great joy. you moody git
That bass line is a serious finger-tangler. Fantastique indeed.
The blockheads were a fantastic band.
I use this line to practice with. It really limbers up the fingers. But then when I try to play along with the original, it's actually 25% faster than I was expecting. I can't believe how the bass player is able to keep playing that many notes at that speed for five minutes. And I see live versions where he plays faster and for longer while they stretch out the song. Point being, the more you know about bass, the more you realize how amazing this bass line is.
@@colinjennings3661 Oh Yez Thay weir
Yeah, it’s a proper fucker to play, but bloody inspired! Talent….
@@aquamarine99911 Before I quit bass I found using three fingers instead of two tho pluck made it easier (in a way) to play smoothly. I was surprised to find that Norman Watt Roy played it with the standard two fingers
75 year old here, still listening in 2024, who else ⁉🎶
me..
@@leonardyuhas9927 i want you Leonard
Hit me
@@franklinrussell3042 wow....... words that never grow old🎶
absolute completely f*cking brilliance. still as amazing over 40 years on as the day I first heard it.
Same here ..
you that old bag
Absolutely agree!!
3.23 coolness personified 😎
Well said 👍
The Blockheads, quite easily the most musically accomplished band of that whole era and widely recognised by their peers as such.
They couldn't play for toffee, I've never heard such amateurish codswallop. Still, if that's what floats your boat I can understand why your wife's tooling the milkman.
Sir Ian, the greatest
The most musically accomplished band,where did you get that nonsense from ? Your personal favourite band I can except, but easily the most musically accomplished band is pure bollocks
@@davidmellish3295 XTC was, player for player, better.
@@GilbertNeal erm re read my comments mate,I was disagreeing with the original comment, I don't think they were the most musically accomplished band,I said that was bollocks
Probably one of the most underated artists of our time. Plus, the difficultes that he had with polio. Well, what a fabulous artist and despite what he had to face, day to day, he did this with great humility and dignity. That's why he'll always be great. . He's a gent, a great musical artist, and frankly, a gentlemen .
Nope ...never was or will ever be "underrated
@@rippi37 Exactly. He was universally celebrated.
Not yet... Its nice to be a lunatic... Sax a my phone 🎤🎼💖🎶Tigress Bay??????
Totally agree
@@rippi37 vastly underrated at the time
There's been nothing like this brilliant song since. A wonderful mix of rock, punk, jazz and skiffle.
Such a shame we lost Ian D so young.
Pero si no murió joven...
Don't forget that funk
more funk rock and jaz then skilful or punk do me a favour
the base line is basically funk rift
@@chrisbennett6260
Yes, magic funk base.