Too-Rye-Ay

Very ridiculous but very fun

Nicht erwartet, dass ich davon ein Lied kenne bis Come on Eileen. War überrascht. Ganz nett, 3 positive Sternchen

Come on Eileen is the only great song on the album.

800million+ listens to Eileen plus some other songs.

Anyone who says Dexys were a one hit wonder are fools. Great tunes here, and loved the album flow. Bonus tracks I liked quite a bit!

My second from Dexys after Don’t Stand Me Down which I absolutely detested.

It’s a decent enough album. Apart from the singles I hadn’t heard anything from it before. Until I Believe In My Soul was looking like it was going to be the standout for me but it went on a bit too long. The only track I flat out disliked was Jackie Wilson Said.

Top Track - Old

Different style and a good closer. Some forgettable songs but not bad. 3/5

Definitely know Eilieen! But haven't heard anything else. Hearing those violins, it's like they splashed "Celtic" everywhere; like they were trying on every form of pop rock and soul trendy at the time. Still found this record lively and fitting with my music taste

In England, if the DJ doesn't play Come On Eileen at your wedding disco, the marriage isn't legally binding. When this album started with someone saying 'Ladies and gentlemen', I thought they were going to announce that the buffet was open. This is a nice reminder though why it became ubiquitous - it's a great song, and this whole album is a lot of fun.

It’s between this one and the debut for which Dexys album I liked the best. But three is still two too many. This is one with the big hit everyone knows though. The second half of this flows very well. Has someone told them that 25 or 6 to 4 was already made before they just tried to do it again with Let’s Make This Precious? Favorite songs were The Celtic Soul Brothers, All In All, Plan B, Until I Believe In My Soul, and Come On Eileen.

What a closer 😂 Best of the 3 we've had ...

There are some okay elements in this but I just can’t deal with the super affected vocals. It’s kinda like if The Cure only had happy songs and no subtlety. Ugh I still have one more album of these guys in my backlog.

The faster songs on here are the kind of music that are good to hear live in a pub with several pints of beer. Of course there are millions of bar bands like that, so it's not going to be a standout for me. And the slow songs required lots of patience on my part, but that's no surprise.

It closes with their big hit "Come On Eileen," which is fun. (Of course that song always reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/575/)

So, I feel bad not rating it higher since Kevin on the cover there looks so sad, but: 3/5.

Prior to beginning this challenge I listened to Kevin Rowlands’s autobiography and did a lot of listening to Dexys and his solo stuff. So I probably didn’t need the first three LPs to pop up in the first 100 LPs. If you're critical of Dexy's lps rest assured so's Kev! Restlessly searching for perfect never quite finding and not settling when he got pretty close.

I'll be honest, Young Soul Rebels, and post-reformation lps One Day I'm going to Soar and the cover lp Dexys Do Irish and Country Soul would be the three of their lps I'd say you shuld hear before you die.

Once I was at a festival and Elton John (an elderly pop pianist who's Americans will probably be surprised to learn has had more hits than just Goodbye Yellow Brick Road) was banging away doing his poorly enunciated Chas & Dave thing on he main stage. Went to see Dexys in the tent. Beforehand the lad next to me complained about the people only interested in hearing songs they heard before, then spent the whole set calling for Eileen. Which they didn't play because they wanted to play their current album, which was theatrical and had a narrative arc that Eileen didn't fit. That illustrates the contrary nature of Kev.

And testament to the endure power of Eileen. Even here they leave it until the last. Eileen is perhaps a millstone in the public perception. Kevin, normally very dapper, is forever in dungarees in the public imagination. BUT Eilleen still saves misfiring wedding discos 45 years. And consider when it came out, 1982, the fun years of Punk, New Wave, 2 Tone, Post Punk experimentalism were being replaced by regiments of pretentious but vacous - Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet. Yet here was a song by a band that were unassamedly intellectual that you could dance to. A band that were fun and clever. A band that looked to the future whilst acknowledging the music of the past.

I, as I would imagine is the case for most people, have not heard anything from Dexys Midnight Runners other than Come On Eileen. At least not that I know of. That song's a banger though.
So this album is a really fun British new wave with some horns thrown in and it all has a vaguely Celtic tinge. It's probably not going to blow anyone away but it's a really fun album to listen to in the background. Like this would be great to throw on when you have a summer party in the backyard. Suddenly Come On Eileen starts and everyone realizes where they've heard this band and starts to sing as loud as they can before finding that they don't actually know all the words to a song they've heard 9,756 times. I'd buy this in the record shop if I ever saw it. 3.75/5

This is a fun album with plenty of energy. I like the fiddles and I like the brass. Come On Eileen is an epic-tier bop, and should be judged as such, rather than on the basis that people are now tired of it because it's been way over-played.

This is a band whose name I could never conjure up during bar trivia. The rest of the album is ok -- it seems like these guys are on here multiple times, and this is their one album that should probably be on here given come on eileen. Some brass, some fun beats. A solid 3*

Highlights: come on eileen (I legitimately really like this song, it's not just a highlight because I knew it)

Come on Eileen is great

Wow what a surprisingly great album. Everyone knows Come on Eileen of course but lots of other fun and high energy tunes on here.

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