Too-Rye-Ay, as it should have sounded

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Staunton, Terry (November 2007). "Dexys Midnight Runners – Too Rye Ay". Record Collector (342) . Retrieved 15 June 2016. For example, Birmingham’s biggest radio station, BRMB apologized after they played ‘Come On Eileen’ for the first time,” Rowland adds. “They said they hoped it didn’t cause offense to anybody, because there had only just been an IRA bomb gone off in London the day before. We had all that to contend with, so I felt I almost had to sneak a bit of Irish culture in. I certainly didn’t want to go all out on playing Irish folk, but it was good to bring a little into our sound. Obviously, Eileen’s an Irish name, and the song was all about growing up with Irish girls, really.” The record’s success Raggett, Ned. "Too-Rye-Ay – Kevin Rowland / Dexys Midnight Runners". AllMusic . Retrieved 15 June 2016. Producer Pete Schwier adds: “All the material on the remix is from the original recordings, nothing new has been added. Some of the arrangements were changed, for example: on “Plan B” we moved the brass to come in earlier and the ‘girl’ talking was replaced with Kevin’s, which he recorded at the time. I’ll Show You, previously superior filler, now sounds like Rowland’s manifesto for Dexys 2.0, ready to storm the gates.

To tie in with the 40th anniversary of their multi-platinum selling second album, Dexy’s Midnight Runners present Too-Rye-Ay “as it should have sounded”: a new edition of the landmark record, which will be out on October 14 through UMC. Top Selling Albums of 1982 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Recorded Music New Zealand . Retrieved 1 February 2022. Completing the boxset is a previously unreleased 1982 live album from London’s Shaftesbury Theatre. At the height of Dexys’ pop mania, they make no allowance for the Smash Hits kids, playing full tilt. It’s utterly magnificent, a band delighted their message is hitting home and grabbing any potential converts into the throng. For Too-Rye-Ay, Rowland rebuilt Dexys from the ground up, changing sound, look, and personnel. After 1981’s stand-alone single “Show Me” stalled at number 16, he took drastic action. “I remember thinking to myself, ‘oh people don’t like brass anymore, we need to change’”.This is the crux of Rowland the artist, a man whose radical commitment to an idea forsakes all else – sometimes even common sense. It’s made him one of pop’s true originals. Listened to on a phone, the new arrangements by Helen O’Hara and long-time Dexys producer Pete Schwier aren’t so different from the original mix by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley which has troubled Kevin Rowland so much for 40 years. All the songs on the album were rearranged to add strings, which caused Dexys to re-record the 1981 singles "Plan B", "Liars A to E", and "Soon". During the rearrangement process, "Soon" was revised into the opening section of "Plan B"; since both songs were written by Rowland and Paterson, the merged songs are credited on the album simply as "Plan B". We regret to inform you that the Dexys show at The London Palladium on …. is no longer going ahead. Christgau, Robert (26 April 1983). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice . Retrieved 15 June 2016.

The album has been masterfully reworked and remixed by Kevin Rowland, Pete Schwier and original violinist Helen O’ Hara. The album will be released in this brand new way and sound next year via Universal on various formats and the band will head out on the road to perform the album in full with other Dexys favourites live at a venue near you.So Rowland is – literally – correcting the record. Too-Rye-Ay, As It Should Have Sounded remixes the original recordings to present a more organic, purer version of the album’s string-led Celtic-soul sound. It’s not a radical overhaul – “one or two people said to me they can’t hear any difference”, he says, the inverse of his problem in 1982 when many didn’t hear much wrong with the original. Rather, it’s a subtle and nuanced refreshing that brings increased clarity and depth, Rowland’s impassioned vocals – a classic soul singer’s take on Bryan Ferry’s affectations – noticeably cleaner and clearer. “We’re not trying to make it sound ‘2022’. We’re still being true to what it was, letting the music speak for itself.” One Too-Rye-Ay song that Kevin Rowland could live with, however, was the album’s worldwide smash, “ Come On Eileen.” The story of how Dexys were transformed from the gritty, soul-tinged post-punk outfit of their debut album, Searching For The Young Soul Rebels to the more rustic-sounding, dungaree-clad stars of Too-Rye-Ay has already been well-documented elsewhere, but the process begs the question of how much Rowland’s own Irish heritage influenced the album’s overall sound. In many instances, it’s merely a case of turning down the volume of one instrument to give another space to breathe, and it’s heartening to see the return of Helen O’Hara, credited alongside Rowland and remix producer Pete Schwier, to ensure her violin parts are treated more sympathetically. Elsewhere, the penny whistle intro to Until I Believe In My Soul has been ditched in favour of the same passage played by trombonist Jim Paterson, a more atmospheric, mournful preface to the song’s introspective testifying. Beaumont, Mark (20 September 2007). "Dexys Midnight Runners: Too Rye Ay". NME. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016 . Retrieved 15 June 2016. Big” Jim Paterson has previously talked of Dexys line-ups never lasting more than a year, because Rowland was always thinking where to take things next. Equally, however, it is because Rowland embodies Dexys, and not just the Dexys “sound”, but in how that sound can be applied elsewhere. On 2016’s Let The Record Show: Dexys Do Irish And Country Soul – we were taken on a root through songs as diverse as Seán Ó Riada’s ‘Women of Ireland’, Diane Warren’s ‘How Do I Live’, Johnny Cash’s ‘Forty Shades Of Green’, and Joni Mitchell’s ‘Both Sides Now’ – it resembled a dialogue of sorts, a conversation worth listening to.

The 2002 US CD reissue features the single version of "Come On Eileen" instead of the album version (which removes the fiddle intro).

Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.88. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

Platinum and Gold Singles 1982". Kent Music Report. 28 February 1983 . Retrieved 10 November 2021– via Imgur. Since 1982 there have been a few different versions of the record. In 1996 it featured eight bonus songs, and in 2007, when a 25 year anniversary record was released, it included a 14-song live performance at the BBC. ‘Come On Eileen’ itself exists in many versions, some feature the solo fiddle playing the first line of the folk song ‘Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms’, and some begin with that inimitable bassline. Even the fact that these versions exist suggest Rowland couldn’t let it go. “The songs and performances are great, but I always felt the mixes could be better. It's my most successful album, but it doesn't sound as good as the others,” he told Retro Pop magazine. None of this would matter if the songwriting wasn’t there, of course. You can’t blame Langer & Winstanley – producers of so many classic singles – for thinking Too-Rye-Ay wasn’t already good enough. Any album containing the incendiary Plan B and beautiful Let’s Make This Precious is onto a winner. This impulse to revisit has always existed across many disciplines, but song is such a flexible form that it can breathe and shapeshift unlike many others. It is there in the different versions of, for example, folk songs, and it is there in an album like Kate Bush’s Director’s Cut in 2011, where she remixed and sometimes re-recorded songs from earlier albums The Sensual World and The Red Shoes. For Bush, it was about returning to an original idea that was in some way thwarted first time around, and for Rowland, there seems to be the same impulse, not only to execute his original vision, but return it to the audience.However, Too-Rye-Ay wowed the critics (“On this record, Rowland does the impossible – makes me believe he’s found some young soul rebels,” gushed The Village Voice’s Robert Christgau) and it tore up the charts – peaking at No. 2 in the UK and No. 14 on the Billboard 200, with platinum discs to follow. In fact, in 1982, you’d have been hard-pressed to find anyone who wasn’t deliriously happy with Too-Rye-Ay – except for Kevin Rowland himself. The deluxe sets also include non-album B-sides, “Soon”, “…And Yes We Must Remain The Wildhearted Outsiders, Love (Part 2)”, “Dubious” and non-album single “Let’s Get This Straight From The Start”. Norwegiancharts.com – Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners – Too-Rye-Ay". Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 February 2022. So I started to get a bit disillusioned after that,” he furthers. “Dexys was already 24-7 for me anyway, but when we went to America and the itinerary meant I was doing ten interviews every day and all that sort of stuff, I soon started to feel like I was on a treadmill.” After ‘Too-Rye-Ay’ The brief was to create an alternative mix, keeping the spirit of the original recordings and shed new light on some of these great songs. I hope this has been achieved.”