Anybody Remembers Them??

 

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I Looove "Come On Eileen" that son g is a classic :D

 

 

they released far better songs than Come on Eileen.... Geno was probably their pinnacle.

geno was good but "Come Eileen" i just can stop listening to it

"come on eileen" was just sell out cheesy pop.

 

"searching for the young soul rebels" was and still is a critically acclaimed album, easily their best work spawning singles like 'dance stance' (my fav), 'geno', 'there there my dear'.

 

i saw them in '81, and they put on a pretencious, but most enjoyable set.

but Come On Eileen give them their biggest

selling single didn´t it sell like 1 million copies???

 

do they still perfrom it????

"come on eileen" was just sell out cheesy pop.

 

"searching for the young soul rebels" was and still is a critically acclaimed album, easily their best work spawning singles like 'dance stance' (my fav), 'geno', 'there there my dear'.

 

i saw them in '81, and they put on a pretencious, but most enjoyable set.

 

 

wow you saw them in 81 damn wi wasn´t even born yet

damn why couldn´t i be born earlier???

All 3 of their albums are classics. People forget the 3rd album "Don't Stand Me Down". It's one of the weirdest, least commercial albums from a major act. Creation reissued it but stuffed up the sound so EMI had a go, added a Bside and a DVD and changed the cover. Vincent Crane from The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster plays organ on it. Buy it now.

 

Kevin Rowland's 2nd solo album My Beauty is also worth picking up if you can get passed the OTT cover. (Kevin in ladies underwear!!!!)

i really really really hate this song soooooooooooo much

'Come On Eileen' is bloody awful. :lol:

 

It's the sort of song I'd only happily listen to whilst drunk at a houseparty. :P

i hate it cos i heard it soooooooo many times when i was a student at uni

All 3 of their albums are classics. People forget the 3rd album "Don't Stand Me Down". It's one of the weirdest, least commercial albums from a major act. Creation reissued it but stuffed up the sound so EMI had a go, added a Bside and a DVD and changed the cover. Vincent Crane from The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster plays organ on it. Buy it now.

 

Kevin Rowland's 2nd solo album My Beauty is also worth picking up if you can get passed the OTT cover. (Kevin in ladies underwear!!!!)

 

 

i didnt like 'too rye ay'

Too-Rye-Aye is THE most subversive album ever to get to number 1. Listen to the lyrics, Rowlands obviously has an agenda. He clearly thinks outside the square. The second side is one of the most OTT suites of music in pop history, check out the CD from Plan B onwards. Come On Eileen sounds a lot better in the context of the album. The only reason they're not mentioned in the same breath as The Clash and U2 is that Homer Simpson made a joke about them. lol

Edited July 31, 200618 yr by findingout

Interview with the Holloways on todays teletext. they are produced by clive clanger and alan winstanly and are supposed to be the new Dexys midnight runners.

Kevin Rowlands in the closest thing we've got left to Syd Barrett. My Beauty is the equivilant of Opal. Searching For The Young Soul Rebels is his Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. A man out of time.

its rowland m8, not rowlands :)

 

not so sure id herald him that highly though..... he really isnt that good. (speaking as a dexys fan)

its rowland m8, not rowlands :)

 

not so sure id herald him that highly though..... he really isnt that good. (speaking as a dexys fan)

Rowland, yeah you're right how embarrassing. Especially when I'm praising the guy. I remember he played the guy from Creation Records all these amazing songs and got signed to the label and delivered a karaoke album with versions of The Greatest Love and The Long And Winding Road. You've got to admire the guy for that. And Bruce Springsteen was so offended with his version of Thunder Road it was only on the promo. The guy had style.

 

Ever hear Don't Stand Me Down??? A pretty strange way to follow up a million selling album don't you think???All that dialogue mid-song. I don't expect The Artic Monkeys to replicate that on their next album.

 

Oh yeah, buy the US reissue of Too-Rye-Aye (different bonus tracks)

I have "The Very Best Of" Dexy's Midnight Runners from 1991.

 

This is my personal DMR favourite...

 

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THERE, THERE, MY DEAR video (1980)

Rowland, yeah you're right how embarrassing. Especially when I'm praising the guy. I remember he played the guy from Creation Records all these amazing songs and got signed to the label and delivered a karaoke album with versions of The Greatest Love and The Long And Winding Road. You've got to admire the guy for that. And Bruce Springsteen was so offended with his version of Thunder Road it was only on the promo. The guy had style.

 

Ever hear Don't Stand Me Down??? A pretty strange way to follow up a million selling album don't you think???All that dialogue mid-song. I don't expect The Artic Monkeys to replicate that on their next album.

 

Oh yeah, buy the US reissue of Too-Rye-Aye (different bonus tracks)

 

 

tbh i lost interest in dexys when they went all 'gypo'... 'too rye ay' onwards was not my cuppa. i much prefered the classic soul sound of their earliest material.