Don't Stand Me Down (The Director's Cut)

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Graff, Gary (28 August 1986). "The Second British Invasion: New wave now an old ripple". Spokane Chronicle. Archived from the original on 24 February 2021 . Retrieved 1 May 2019.

Cooper, Leonie (10 February 2012). "Dexys Midnight Runners to release first new album in 27 years". NME.com. Archived from the original on 29 January 2020 . Retrieved 30 January 2020. Dexys returned to the charts that year with the greatest-hits TV compilation The Very Best of Dexys Midnight Runners, which featured a number of songs that had never been released on CD, reached #12 on the charts, and was certified "Gold". Consequently, Rowland "spent most of my time in rehab" in 1993 and 1994. [8] As part of that, Rowland made plans to reform Dexys together with Big Jim Paterson and Billy Adams, although these plans resulted in little more than a solitary TV performance in 1993. [7] [30] Rowland then went on the dole; as he put it in 1999, "Insanity is no fun, mate. People try to romanticize the idea of the suffering artist. At my lowest ebbs there was no romance to it at all." [8]Some reviewers were highly critical, [4] with Trouser Press characterizing the release as "a torpid snore that denies entertainment on every level", although writing in the Melody Maker, Colin Irwin described it as "quite the most challenging, absorbing, moving, uplifting and ultimately triumphant album of the year". [7] The album is now considered something of a lost treasure: it was featured in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, published in 2006 by Universe, where it was referred to as "a towering achievement... a Pet Sounds for the 1980s". [8] Writing for Uncut in 2007, Paul Moody called it a "neglected masterpiece". [2] Press Office – BBC says fond farewell to Top of the Pops". BBC. 20 June 2006. Archived from the original on 13 November 2019 . Retrieved 30 January 2020. Things You Didn't Know: "Come On Eileen" By Dexys Midnight Runners". WCBS-FM. 29 March 2013. Archived from the original on 4 February 2016 . Retrieved 12 February 2016. In an interview with HitQuarters, saxophonist Gatfield described the recording as a "long drawn out painful process". [1] Gatfield, who did not play on Too-Rye-Ay, felt that the new album marked a telling and troubling shift from it, as unlike that record, which he claimed was made very inexpensively and "had an energy about it", Don't Stand Me Down cost a huge amount of money and, according to Gatfield, "felt uncomfortable and unnatural". [1]

a b c d e f g h i j k l Wilde, Jon (9 November 2012). "Kevin Rowland: Classic Interview (from 1999)". Sabotage Times. Archived from the original on 1 February 2016 . Retrieved 24 January 2016. Reminisce (Part Two)" includes "I'll Say Forever My Love" (James Dean, William Weatherspoon, Stephen Bowden). Curran, Shaun (21 July 2023). "The Feminine Divine: Dexys". Record Collector . Retrieved 1 August 2023.a b c d e f g h i j Reynolds, Simon (2005) Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984, Faber & Faber, ISBN 0-571-21570-X, p. 293–296 Rowland at first refused to issue any singles from the album, comparing Dexys to bands like Led Zeppelin that never released singles. [8] By the time a 3-minute edit of the 12-minute " This Is What She's Like" was released, it was too late to save the album from commercial failure, and the "Coming to Town" tour that followed the album was played before "half-empty theaters". [8] Rowland said, "I felt that we couldn't do anything better than [ Don't Stand Me Down]. It took so much out of me, but the record company threw the towel in. I think they wanted to teach me a lesson." [6] In the aftermath, Rowland started to have issues with drug abuse. [8] However, Dexys returned to the U.K. charts in late 1986 with the single "Because Of You", again written by and featuring the nucleus of Rowland, O'Hara and Adams (and which was used as the theme tune to a British sitcom, Brush Strokes). [7] Dexys disbanded in early 1987. [7] Rowland solo and failed Dexys reunions: 1987–2002 [ edit ] a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag "Dexys Biography". dexysonline.com. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016 . Retrieved 29 January 2016. Dexys announce new album". New Musical Express. 17 March 2016. Archived from the original on 20 March 2016 . Retrieved 19 March 2016. In an interview with HitQuarters Gatfield later described the recording process as "very long and painful", [22] and he left the group after a short tour of France and the UK. The album's most controversial feature was its use of conversational dialogue in the songs; [23] Rowland said, "The idea of a conversation in a song is interesting to me." [24] Commenting on this, O'Hara said that "we had to keep going ahead with what we believed" despite the length of time that the production took. [25] Most contemporaneous reviewers strongly disliked this latest incarnation of Dexys, comparing the new look to "double glazing salesmen" and condemning the album as "a mess" and "truly awful". [21] [26] [27] Only a few reviewers were supportive; for example, writing in the Melody Maker, Colin Irwin described it as "quite the most challenging, absorbing, moving, uplifting and ultimately triumphant album of the year". [28]