Consumer Guide Album

Ian Dury & the Blockheads: Laughter [Stiff/Epic, 1980]
I feel like a stick-in-the-mud pointing this out, but he could do with more tunes and less talkover. Honorable as it is to devote an entire album to crackpots and the vulgar tongue--only a prig could complain about a lyric like "You call me a ninny/You're a stupid twat"--the invective does tend to blur into itself. "Superman's Big Sister" having somehow failed to storm the charts Stateside, I don't have much hope for its only competition melodywise, string section notwithstanding. "Fucking Ada," it's called. B+