I'm a 42 year-old Brighton-based man, with modernist leanings. Loads of interests - Too many to list...
I'm a 42 year-old Brighton-based man, with modernist leanings. Loads of interests - Too many to list. Read my reviews to find out more.
Member since:04.10.2005
Reviews:11
We've had twenty odd years of dancing at weddings to Come On Eileen, so it's easy for the general public to reduce Kevin Rowland's ever-changing group to the role of perennial one-hit wonders!
But that certainly was not the case!
When Dexy's Midnight Runners hit the top spot with Geno it was like a breath of fresh air. Punchy horns and impassioned vocals were not the norm at a time when punk was king and Two-Tone was the prince.
But Geno wasn't their first single. Dance Stance, renamed Burn It Down on this album, was a celebration of Irishness long before Too Rye Aye. Name-checking a host of writers, philosophers and poets to the sound of a fat horn riff, it should have been their first Number One.
Tell Me When My Light Turns Green is another slice of horn-led brilliance, whilst The Teams That Meet In Caffs is an intrumental worthy of the great days of Stax.
Kevin's vocals are passionate and very distinctive on I'm Just Looking, lulling us into a false sense of security before slapping us around the face with the utterly brilliant Geno.
Chuck Jackson's Northern Soul classic, Seven Days Too Long, gets the full Dexy's treatment, and is the only cover version on the album.
I Couln't Help If I Tried, Keep It and Love Part One remind us that Kevin Rowland's song writing was of the highest level, and Thankfully Not Living In Yorkshire never fails to leave me breathless. How on Earth does he manage to sing so fast?
There There My Dear is, arguably, the best track on the album. Written and sung in the form of a letter, it fairly crackles with anger.
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels deserves to be rediscovered. In my opinion, it's a far better album than it's more famous successor inasmuch as it is less contrived and less image driven.
It's the true sound of Midlands soul!
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There,there, My Dear is definetely the standout track on this somewhat underrated album, another informative review too........Roy
Miles13 13.10.2005 12:56
Well written review of a under-rated band thanx for sharing- Milt
oldgoth 13.10.2005 10:21
It's a shame that dexy's didn't produce more songs and get the credit they deserve. I have got this in my collection and it still sounds great when played.
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