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Too Rye Ay [Enhanced]

~ Dexy's Midnight Runners
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  • Audio CD (28 Aug 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Enhanced
  • Label: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
  • ASIN: B00004XP5D
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 85,289 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Celtic Soul Brothers
2. Let's Make This Precious
3. All In All (This One Last Wild Waltz)
4. Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)
5. Old
6. Plan B
7. I'll Show You
8. Liars A To E
9. Until I Believe In My Soul
10. Come On Eileen
11. Celtic Soul Brothers
12. Come On Eileen

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Thought of as one-hit wonders in the US for "Come on Eileen," Dexy's Midnight Runners were already stars in Europe (especially their homeland, Britain) before that 1982 single topped charts worldwide. Their influential 1980 debut, SEARCHING FOR THE YOUNG SOUL REBELS, was an uncommonly heartfelt blend of punk and soul sensibilities. However, disagreement over musical direction led to the departure of much of the band, leaving only vocalist Kevin Rowland and trombonist Big JimPaterson. The duo carried on with new recruits, and the result was TOO-RYE-AY, an album that infuses the group's prior sound with Celtic elements, creating a working-class vibe made explicit by the ensemble's Depression-era street-urchin clothes. Musically, the record shows an obvious maturation, with songs that demonstrate less concern with urgency and anger than romance and nostalgia. "Come on Eileen," a joyous evocation of adolescent lust, became the band's signature song, but the other riches here are plentiful. The rollicking opener, "The Celtic Soul Brothers," is essentially an explanation of their new image, while "Let's Make This Precious" could be seen as a statement of purpose. They even pump considerable fire into Van Morrison's ebullient "Jackie Wilson Said." This strong, career-defining album would remain one of the key statements in 1980s pop music.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Another classic album from Dexy's Midnight Runners., 19 Sep 2000
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"Searching For The Young Soul Rebels",was the first classic album of the 1980s.The second album,"Too-Rye-Ay",is no less of a classic,but it is rather futile comparing the two.This incarnation of Dexy's sees only two original members from the first incarnation,Kevin Rowland and Jim Paterson,and added to the stabbing Northern Soul horns are strings,played in a traditional Irish style.The join is easily identifiable,from the wonderful soul of "Plan B" and "Let's Make This Precious" to the fiddle led funk of "The Celtic Soul Brothers" and finally to full on folk-pop on "Come On Eileen".Every song has a life of it's own and nothing here has aged at all.Rowland sings with every emotion imaginable,it is hard to think of a more impassioned seven minutes than "Until I Believe In My Soul" in any genre of music.These songs are timeless and testament to Kevin Rowland's fractured genius."Searching For The Soul Rebels",a better album?No,just a different one.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Halleluja!, 6 Oct 2005
By A Customer
On Dexys debut - 'Searching For The Young Soul Rebels' we were asked to welcome in a new soul vision. This time round, the great man Kevin Rowland, and he is a great, great man, asks us to make this pure and precious, he's even prepared to punish his body until he believes in his soul (a bit extreme! - don't do it to yourself), still who are we to argue with the man?

On this - the second album, it has been yet another bountiful harvest with such gems as: 'Celtic Soul Brothers', 'Let's Make This Precious', the achingly melancholy 'Old', 'Plan B', 'Liars A To E' and 'Until I Believe In My Soul'. The fact that I haven't even mentioned the two most obvious hit singles is testamount to how strong and moving the material is on this. To give this any less than 5 stars would be a sin.

Let's rejoice!

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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The second classic Dexys' album, 20 Aug 2006
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews
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Following the classic debut 'Searching for the Young Soul Rebels', the original line-up of Dexys disintegrated. A BBC2 documentary a few years ago suggested that Kevin Archer hit upon the idea of adding a Van Morrison-inflected style of Caledonian soul folk to the bands' potent soul sound (though to be fair, Kevin Rowland rarely gives an interview without nodding to the epiphany he appears to have had listening to Van Morrison's "...It's Too Late to Stop Now..."). Rowland was left with sole original member Big Jimmy Paterson and decided to rebuild Dexys', though on this album they became known as Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners - uber hit 'Come on Eileen' would be credited to Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners and the Emerald Express. Ah, Proustian flashbacks to a Devon campsite in 1982...

Like the 2000-reissue of '...Soul Rebels', this removes the bonus tracks from the 1996 compilation (Dexys' need another compilation to take in things like 'The Bridge' recordings, or 'Show Me', or the b-sides...all in one place!), but adds the promos to 'The Celtic Soul Brothers' & 'Eileen.' Rowland had been baiting the press through media statements the prior year, deciding not to give interviews and being generally odd. Now he seemed happy to play the game again, and wanted to have hit singles - which is ironic when first single, the wonderful 'The Celtic Soul Brothers' flopped! (For anyone interested, this song was woefully used in Jim McBride's version of Godard's 'Breathless'!). How could 'The Celtic Soul Brothers' have flopped? - it was easily as great as anything on the debut and now had a Van-the-Man vibe worthy of 'Moondance.'

Rowland's favourite song, later to become the title of a Dexys-compilation, appears to be 'Let's Make This Precious' - which seems to be an artistic statement of authenticity and honesty, as well as sounding like it could have been on the previous album (which seems to get better reviews as the other two Dexys' albums are given less coverage). Of course, this version of Dexys' had hit singles, the cover of Van's 'Jackie Wilson Said' arguably better than the original, though nailed to the image of Jocky Wilson on Top of the Pops, and 'Come on Eileen' - which doesn't require an introduction, and remains one of the great pop singles regardless (the Barber Shop episode of The Simpsons contains an accurate and slightly cruel reference to Dexys', who were one-hit wonders in the States with 'Eileen').

It's notable that many of these songs were played when Dexys' reformed a few years ago - 'Old' advances on the sound of the debut, though the epic 'Until I Believe In My Soul' is the one, Rowland scathingly singing "You must be ****ing joking!!!" at the top of his game. That line pops in my head everytime I hear some awful act like Coldplay or Oasis or Kelly Clarkson or [insert name here]. At least Rowland meant it...

The band were associated with Two Tone, who they later rejected as "a joke" - but a Specials-style sound is detected on the epic 'Plan B'/'I'll Show You' - which flow together. 'Plan B' is another piano-lead soul-epic with the attention to detail of 'Sgt Pepper', the first half finding Rowland and piano, before the latter section kicks in with those timeless Dexys' chants that influenced Jack's 1998 classic 'The Jazz Age' (check out 'Steamin' or 'Pablo'). 'I'll Show You' comes straight out of 'Plan B', and is a re-write of the caustic one-off single 'Show Me', a scathing put-down/settling of the schoolyard that reminds me of the classroom scene in 'Annie Hall' ("I'm into leather") and Luke Haines. Like Lydon's early work with Public Image Ltd 'Memories', Rowland re-wrote a song when he had a change in perspective. Finally, there is the fantastic 'Liars A to E', which features great soulful backing vocals call/response that I think influenced The Charlatans and 'Screamadelica.'

'Too-Rye-Ay' is as great as its predecessor, though it would be 1985's 'Don't Stand Me Down' that would be Dexys' most complete masterpiece. They certainly made it precious...
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