What a band !! Changing to keep us interested and giving us new sounds.This was always my favourite even if i had to look up the lyrics.Great front man and really talented
Very true. I wonder why not more bands were obviously influenced by them. Probably because it's next to impossible to create anything that sounds that way. The Rumble Strips are the only band that comes to my mind that at times had a clear Dexys feel whenever brass involved. Still a good band though, not pure copyism. And the lead singer's voice just happened to be very similar as well. Try if you want to. Nowhere near Dexys but I really liked them the short time they existed. Sadly, they were almost unnoticed. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LkmcdD8webQ.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U5wORCu26Xw.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-istThEox5VI.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WDEpySRQxJA.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qwh-gcbQYSU.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Fls1Tg4kQ7M.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wBKIEQf1Z94.html And, with probably most Dexys spirit (apart from the first one): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pRTD-FtSQpI.html And of course I understood you were not looking for soundalikes ;-) Which is the opposite of innovative. BTW, associated act Vincent Vincent and The Villains also went unnoticed, unfortunately. They had Doo Wop, flamenco and Rock n Roll on their debut album. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nO5lj2WOU1I.html And this song was about the Rumble Strips' singer: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_ROphdOttxw.html And you probably did not want to know about all this. Anyway, Searching for the Young Soul Rebels is one of my all-time favourites.
@@elduuude Searching For The Young Soul Rebels was Dexy's best album, the other 2 are good but this was lightning in a bottle. Like John Cougar's early music this was their best, when they're young and hungry before they start incorporating politics and try to be artsy their music is always the best, when they make songs about life, love and where life might take you is always a groups or performer's best music.
I'm going to hunt down the 20 people who disliked this and rip their ears off as they clearly have no use for them in life. Dexys are without doubt the best fucking band ever to have walked the planet and Kevin Rowland is a fucking legend. Lyrics, passion and soul, just the best - thanks for sharing.
Good comment about his indecipherable singing - I loved this when it came out, it sounded so angry, but I was interested to read the lyrics too. A lot of folk in the UK felt pretty angry at that time, I recall. Oh and he has the most appealing "whine" I have ever heard! And always loved the horns in their songs :)
Kevin Rowland should have an Ivor Novello for this. Look up the lyrics and you will not believe what he turned into a Top Ten soul hit. The man is lyrical genius
Every time I hear this I have vivid flashbacks of being young, carefree, music mad and loving life.... I am still the same, just older, carefree and loving life and music still.........
Maybe not. A temporary measure if history illustrates...... It's a feeling. "Robyn, you're always so happy, How'n the hell? You're like a dumbed down down patriot! You're supposed to be so angry, why not fight, let me benefit from your right". The cheek! That's my fave verse from a mainstream song. Love the choreography that comes with it, beautiful!
there's nothing better, Rowland hit the nail on the head with this style, in a way it's good it didn't last and go poo as this is always good to look back on.
HaHa,Rowlands a Wolves fan & was even a football hooligan in the 70's!!! Hes written songs about Wolves (My Time In England) & in the mid to late 80's he was always on the terraces at Wolves games in his baggy gear.
@freqeist I am American and I ain't thick. These Soul Rebels are the real deal. RIGHT ON! Never had no trouble understanding Dexy's and their sound. I LOVE NORTHERN SOUL!
Rowlands was my god growing up, and still is in a kind of sentimental way, i fell out with all my mates who just didn,t get DEXYS, their loss and i was so right, they gave me backbone when i needed it most, how could a YAMYAM/PLASTIC PADDY, give this Brummie so much inspiration fuck knows, but he was good and theres no denying that, god bless Kev.
WELCOME THE NEW SOUL VISION!!! Passion, man, and this has it in bucketloads. I was about 24 when these started, getting a bit jaded with the whole post-punk coldness and nastiness, and along came Dexy's and all that 2Tone stuff, just in time....
i wanna be dressed like them,hung out like them,have a good pure 80s fun,drink like a horse, dance,fall in love and dance to this tune. Top blue eyed soul!
Amazing live performance. Tack så mycket for uploading! I only really discovered them about 15 years ago, when I was 28. That whole album has since become one of my absolute favourites I always get back to. It captures 60s soul spirit, puts it into 1980, with brilliant sound, brilliant songwriting and brilliant lyrics. Perfection!
anyone else notice at 2.06 one of the saxes Geoff or Steve's reed starts to squeak because it's probably getting old. Close up of Kevin's face says it all lol. Fuckin GREAT band
I just listened to The Specials, A Message To You Rudi, and I love it so much! Although I'm not so sure about Ghost Town so I'll listen to a little more of them and see :) also, do you mean Madness or The Madness? x
I seen Dexys perform this in 1980 at a club in Liverpool called Gatsby’s where they performed all their up coming Searching for the Young Soul Rebel material, I loved that gig that much I’ve been slightly disappointed ever since and I’ve seen everyone, Kevin’s haunting soulful voice full of angst and despair echoed millions of youths lost in the cracks of Thatcherism and the horn section was fierce as was the Hammond organ
You are all right. If Rowland had kept this sound & line up for a couple more years, we would all be looking up to him nearly as much as we do with Paul Weller. Instead he's a laughing stock with pissed up auntie's and grandmothers dancing to 'come on eileen' at wedding do's & disco's all over the country. Shame on you Kev.
That fake Celtic phase was just awful, especially in contrast to Young Soul Rebels. COE made Kevin a lot of money, but I just hated that stuff. I was mad at him for decades :-)
