AMG Review of Bus Driver's Prayer & Other Stories [Bonus Disc]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine
All Music Guide

Picking up where Apples left off -- it even includes that record's "The Bus Driver's Prayer," a clever cockney rewrite of the Lord's Prayer, as the title track -- The Bus Driver's Prayer and Other Stories is an engaging collection of character sketches and stories from Ian Dury. The album may lack strong hooks and melodies, yet Dury diehards will find that his wry observations are just as subtle and humorous as ever. [JVC Japan issued a two-disc edition in 2008.]