Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

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a b c Ashman, Neil (22 October 2010). "Album Review: Dexys – Searching for the Young Soul Rebels (30th Anniversary Edition)". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012 . Retrieved 27 September 2012. a b Dimery, Robert, ed. (2009). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Octopus Publishing Group. p.451. ISBN 978-1-84403-624-0. 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.

Wilson, Lois (November 2010). "Dexys Midnight Runners: Searching for the Young Soul Rebels". Mojo. No.204. p.118. 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]After more treatment, Rowland returned once more as a solo performer and signed to Creation Records, although, in his words, "every other record label advised [Creation] against it because I was trouble." [8] In 1997, he released his first project on Creation: a remastered and reprocessed version of Don't Stand Me Down with extensive liner notes, revised credits and titles, and two extra songs, which helped contribute to a significant reversal of opinion with regard to the album, which was now increasingly being re-evaluated and recognized as an unfairly overlooked masterwork. [29] [23] Following this, in 1999 Rowland released a new solo album of interpretations of "classic" songs called My Beauty, which received virtually no publicity or radio airplay and sold poorly but attracted attention for Rowland's cross-dressing cover attire. [8] [29] Rowland limited his pre-release publicity for the album to one interview, and he "auditioned" potential interviewers before selecting Jon Wilde. [8] However, the negative reaction to My Beauty and the demise of Creation Records shortly after its release meant that Rowland's planned follow-up album, which would have featured Dexys performing new material, was never made. The failure caused Rowland more problems; in his own words from 2003, "Four years ago, I was nuts." [29] Later, in March 2010, Rowland said that signing to Creation was "definitely a mistake". [31] Dexys Mark IV: 2003–present [ edit ] Dexys reformed [ edit ] The B-side of debut single Dance Stance, I’m Just Looking is a down-tempo, self-flagellating slice of theatrical soul. The slow-burning, bluesy ballad is central to the album’s emotional spine. Channelling his inner In September 2021, Dexys announced both an upcoming 40th-anniversary remix of Too-Rye-Ay, to be done by Rowland, O'Hara, and longtime Dexys engineer Pete Schwier and tentatively entitled Too-Rye-Ay As It Could Have Sounded, and a September/October 2022 tour to support the reissue. [49] The publicity photo for the tour, which would have played the album in its entirety along with other Dexys material, shows, from left to right, Read, Rowland, O'Hara, and Paterson. [49] [50] Rowland stated, "There is no way on earth I would be doing this tour or even promoting a normal 40th anniversary re-issue, if it wasn't for the opportunity to remix it and present it how it could have sounded. This is like a new album for me." [49] The Too-Rye-Ay 40th anniversary tour was cancelled in March 2022 after Rowland was injured in a motorcycle accident and needed time to recover from this and other health issues. [51] Although the tour would not move forward, the band promised material from the Too-Rye-Ay As It Could Have Sounded project would be performed the next time they tour. [51] The Feminine Divine [ edit ] My first non-'Eileen' encounter with Dexys Midnight Runners came after I dug out a load of old magazines from my uncle’s closet in rural Michigan, among them were dusty copies of Rolling

Although the cover of the album depicts a Catholic schoolboy in the midst of being driven from his neighbourhood in Belfast in 1969, Rowland admits the photo was chosen for aesthetic reasons rather than political ones. Nonetheless album opener ‘Burn It Down’ is pseudo-political in tone, the chorus chants of heavyweight Irish literary figures’ names, from Oscar Wilde to George Bernard Shaw, a fierce rebuttal to insulting condescending attitudes to the Irish. The stabs of brass are like an exclamation mark as Rowland spits the phrase “Shut it”. It also boasts one of the most distinctive album openings ever; snippets of The Sex Pistols, The Specials and Deep Purple are discernible amongst the hiss and squeal of an old radio before Rowland and co interrupt with group chanting and blaring brass.Dexys Midnight Runners: Searching for the Young Soul Rebels". Melody Maker. 6–12 September 2000. p.52. Although Rowland’s later transgressions may make him difficult to respect entirely (the middle-aged man in silk negligee, thong, thigh-highs and comb-over singing 'Concrete and Clay' a b Cashmere, Paul (11 February 2012). "Dexy's Midnight Runners Return After 27 Years". noise11.com . Retrieved 30 January 2020. [ permanent dead link] Although coming four years after the first summer of punk, Searching For The Young Soul Rebels by Birmingham eight-piece Dexys Midnight Runners is probably the truest capturing of the movement's sprit ever released in Britain. Leader Kevin Rowland had indeed seen quite a bit in his "23" years, (as stated on Tell Me When My Light Turns Green – he was actually 27). He'd been in a smash’n’grab band of Birmingham punks; he'd toyed with a look that was to marry glam and safety-pin chic together (that was later half-inched by the new romantics) – recruiting a team of experienced players, he wanted to marry the anger of new wave with the emotion of soul music. Hepworth, David (24 July – 6 August 1980). "Dexys Midnight Runners: Searching for the Young Soul Rebels". Smash Hits. Vol.2, no.15. p.29.

Dexys Midnight Runners – Searching For The Young Soul Rebels (2×CD, Album, Special Edition)". Discogs . Retrieved 6 September 2012. As they entered the studio the band’s previously recorded second single Geno was inexorably stomping its way up the UK Singles Chart, eventually reaching the No.1 spot on 27 April. The album’s second downbeat ballad, I Couldn’t Help It If I Tried sees Rowland play out another overwrought psychodrama (“Cos you drank my blood/ And there’s no more left for you”). The impassioned, hyper-soulful delivery explains why the Dexys’ tour immediately following the album release was called ‘the Intense Emotion Review’. Despite a revolving door policy when it came to band personnel, the group secured a support slot playing alongside The Specials and The Selecter. 2 Tone’s head honcho Jerry Dammers offered the band the opportunity to cut their first vinyl on his label, but the proposal was declined.

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With Paterson and Billingham's departures, the core of Dexys became Rowland, Adams, and O'Hara. In September, touring behind the hit album, Dexys embarked on The Bridge tour. [7] On 10 October 1982, the Dexys performance at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London was recorded by Steve Barron and then released on videodisk and videocassette (and later DVD) as an edited 9-song set also entitled The Bridge. In September 1985, Dexys released their first new album in three years, Don't Stand Me Down. [7] Production was originally credited to Alan Winstanley and Rowland, although reissues also credit Adams and O'Hara. [21] The four remaining members were pictured on the album cover in the band's fourth look, an Ivy League, Brooks Brothers look, [7] wearing ties and pin-striped suits (except for O'Hara, who wore a grey women's business suit), and with neatly combed hair. Rowland described Dexys' new look as "so clean and simple; it's a much more adult approach now". [9] Documentary Nowhere is Home – a Film about Dexys". walesartreview.com. 22 May 2014. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015 . Retrieved 9 November 2015. The instigator of this anticipated new chapter turned out to be post-punk, the innovative movement that followed. The post-punk bands of the late 70s and early 80s were imbued with a fresh spirit of adventure to explore new avenues and create original sounds.