pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

4) talk about how the song functioned in a film which may or may not have actually been made in the 80s, or talk about the MTV video.

5) display results of whosampled.com search.

That Salon article is so useless.

there are really only so many ways to write a blurb like this for something other than your personal blog

I don't agree. I'm not sure why that's any different from saying that there are only so many ways to write a song or do some other creative act. And why writing for Pitchfork, in particular, necessitates these things is something I'm also unclear about.

(or some other venue that's something other than a blog)

I just realized they snubbed Peter Schilling - Major Tom it would have been a better addition than those two Bowie songs. It's kind of the unofficial sequel to Ashes to Ashes and Space Oddity.

Or if you're going to have a Bowie single from the 80's Ashes to Ashes is the right one.

re: Salon; there are a lot of things to say about how weird some of the list choices are, but "WHERE IS UNCLE TUPELO?" is definitely not something that would come to mind

Damn, the 80s were great. You could totally make a Top 10,000 Songs of the 80s list and it would all be great stuff. I don't think you could do that for any other decade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3MXiTeH_Pg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p00Cf1-tABo

1982 version superior for inclusion of the word "hobo" in the chorus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU

HOW IS THIS NOT ON THE LIST?

srsly!

ha I'm skimming through their 90s list and found the answer to "Where's George Michael?"

still discussing the '80s list...

Another two notable "re-writing of canon" omissions that would have been included 10-20 years ago are "Take On Me" and "Don't You Forget About Me."

seems like a lot of big well respected MTV staples missed out. i mean, "Come On Eileen," shit.

Yeah, that was the other one that surprised me earlier along with "Don't Stop Believing."

They probably could've dumped something in favor of one of the singles from Pyromania or Hysteria. Even one of the GNR placements.

as someone who wasn't around for "Come On Eileen" the fact that anyone thinks it's anything but utter and complete shit is mind-boggling

like, I'm half-convinced everyone is collectively trolling, that's how bad it is

as someone who wasn't around for "Come On Eileen" the fact that anyone thinks it's anything but utter and complete shit is mind-boggling
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I like "Come on Eileen," but it's a real dumb pole to hang your "but white people made music too flag on"

Dexys were a fine band, and Come on Eileen was a pretty good single, but the way some people ride or die for them doesn't make any sense to me.

Like at least start with the lack of Police and Devo before working your way down to DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS TURALORLALALAY

overreacting to the supposed overreaction nobody actually had is so fun

is the veneration of Dexys/Kevin Rowland as a godlike genius mostly a UK thing? I get the impression that they are largely seen a one hit wonder in North America?

I'd venture a guess that most people in the US who know Come on Eileen don't even know the name of the band who recorded it.

the veneration of Dexys hasn't got much to do with "Come On Eileen"

Fuck The Police

Save Ferris, duh

Tom Ewing gave "Come On Eileen" a rare perfect ten in that review-every-number-one-single-ever blog.

there are about 20 B-52s songs i would put on a list before come on eileen. and i liked come on eileen! i even bought the 45 when it came out. it began and ended my interest in that band. i'd vote for safety dance over come on eileen too.

Searching For the Young Soul Rebels rules u yank wankers

we know brits love that one. it's okay. we have actual soul music here though...

we gave lots of money to brits when they honored our aretha franklin and smokey robinson though. we really appreciated that. and of course our beloved johnny ray.

(psst skot i know i'm from the usa, the real usa too not the east coast)
i still think it's a good new wave soul record, not everything has to be authentic

i mean i'm sure out there u guys are like "dexy's? pish posh, someone have my butler send a sternly worded telegram to the great gatsby, i'll be in my drawing room smoking a pipe" but out here we like em

as someone who wasn't around for "Come On Eileen" the fact that anyone thinks it's anything but utter and complete shit is mind-boggling

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like, I'm half-convinced everyone is collectively trolling, that's how bad it is

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yea I am with you, that song is total garbage

people ask me for pogues records a lot.

its nice to know that uh the heartland or wherever loves dexys midnight runners though. i guess.

actually nobody does except come on eileen

i am a fan of "jackie wilson said" anyway. by van. the man.

Love the Pogues, but a good example of a band that released several great records in the '80s but prolly didn't need a song on the list, save maybe "Fairytale," and even then, I'd put lots of second or third songs from represented bands on the list before that one. I assume no one under 30 listens to the Pogues.

Have the Arcade Fire covered Come on Eileen? Because even if they didn't they probably did.

Dexys Midnight Runners are one of my favourite groups ever. I'm British but I now live in Minnesota. A few years back I put Searching For The Young Soul Rebels on at a party here it not go down well with a bunch of bluegrass fans. It got turned off so people could have a jam instead with several people saying "Let's turn this shit off and get some real music on"

If there are people that have only heard Come On Eileen by them I'd imagine songs like Let's Make This Precious or This Is What She's Like (The full 13 minute version) might comes as a bit of a surprise. They certainly were for me when I first heard them.

i still think it's a good new wave soul record, not everything has to be authentic

I don't know what soul records "Come on Eileen" even barely resembles. I think DMR were innovative, although I guess you could put it in a genre category with "Our House" and "Just Got Lucky" and maybe some other things of that time.

Eh, Madness was much more than "Our House." In many ways they were essentially the (a) blueprint for stuff like Blur.

"come on eileen" is a slammer

i love just got lucky! hey, i was a roman holiday fan in the 80's. authenticity not big on my list of essentials.

"fake" soul and r&b some of my all-time favorite 80's moments. Modern Romance are in my canon in a big way.

genre tags for Modern Romance on wiki: Pop, salsa, dance, R&B, mambo, electronic, new wave, Afro-Cuban, blues, soul, disco