Simultaneously, this very personal process is framed by uniquely beautiful music that accomplishes the very, very difficult trick of being both understated (some of it is virtually drawn in the lightest charcoal) and deeply robust.Listen: If you buy only one standards album this year, this is the one. Dexys will release their new album ‘Let The Record Show DEXYS DO IRISH AND COUNTRY SOUL’ on June 3rd. Their megahit “Come On Eileen” is one of the eternal dancefloor fillers.
In the last 5 years, we went from a few friends running together to one of the largest urban running collectives worldwide spanning 4 continents, 5 languages and 11 global cities.It’s been quite a run and we don’t intend to stop there.
This poignant and delicate breath of an album may be the best record of 2016. The 1982 music video was filmed in the inner south London suburb of Kennington in the vicinity of the corner of Brook Drive and Hayles Street.
Dozens of artists have taken a shot at this song (including I think Rowland achieves this—and other intensely emotive vocal triumphs on As a result, Kevin Rowland sounds like he’s been chewed up on the inside by these songs, as if he’s angry and sad at what these songs reveal about him.He doesn’t seem to be singing these familiar songs to entertain us; he seems to be doing it in order to come to terms with something about his personal relationship to a lifetime of listening to and making music. Both lyrically and socioculturally, “Come On Eileen” was a far more complex track than almost every other “new wave” hit of the early 1980s, so it comes as no surprise that it was the work of a very deep band: two years prior to “Eileen,” Dexys had made In the years since, Dexys (which basically boils down to vocalist/conceptualist Kevin Rowland and a variable crew of remarkable and well-chosen sidemen) have made some conceptually challenging and artistically remarkable music.
MIDNIGHT RUNNERS is the friendliest global running club and fitness community, powered by Reebok. Lit by nothing but stars and streetlights, and soundtracked by sick beats and the pummeling of our feet on the tarmac, we’re taking the streets back. But I have waited over a third of a century for Rowland and Dexys to make an album I loved almost as much as I loved I didn’t think it was possible that anyone could release a better ‘standards’ album in 2016 than Heartbreaking, self-lacerating, bitter and powerful, with an emotional uneasiness that stands in stark and effective contrast to the subtle but assertive arrangements, On every track, Dexys sound as hushed and intense as the inhalation before a crucial announcement.If you buy only one standards album this year, this is the one.Even songs I might have dismissed in the past—for instance, “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” or “Both Sides Now”—resonate with a gentle, subtle power that would make Penguin Café Orchestra or Durutti Column proud (while sounding nothing like either).“Carrickfergus,” which closes the album, is a stone-cold showstopper.
With Dexys Midnight Runners, Kevin Archer, Máire Fahey, Kevin Rowland. "Come On Eileen" is a song by English group Dexys Midnight Runners (credited to Dexys Midnight Runners and the Emerald Express), released in the United Kingdom on 25 June 1982 as a single from their album Too-Rye-Ay. www.dexysonline.com What are you waiting for? Dark stuff ahead, perhaps with gunplay!’ ”But the very best British TV themes are something wholly different.
As Americans, we are used to sitcom theme songs that are goofy, hopping, lyric-driven descriptions of the moronic proceedings that are about to unfold; and if the program is a drama or a cop show, the accompanying theme is likely an overwrought, grunting, academic exercise in sub-Bondism, as if some Berklee sophomore got the assignment: “Write something that announces, ‘Hey, hydrocephalics!