pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

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
--for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine)

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

Dexies rule.

"Come On Eileen" is an ok song, as are the other 3 I noted earlier. But a few of you are misunderstanding that I'm happy the list doesn't include these, which IMO were all kinda oddly canonized throughout the '90s and '00s.

Eileen may be "played" (lol is it just me or does "played" sound terribly nonchalant?) but it's a great song

tell me when my light turns green rules

i love "come on eileen"

count me in on the pro-Dexys faction

dexys are cool, they're like The Cure with trombones

Then one May morning the unthinkable happened: Chinx was killed as shots were fired at his car outside of a venue he’d just performed.

in the context of the rest of the review, "unthinkable" seems a bit of a stretch

An asian-american reclaiming the epithet, I presume?

no not asian american

homie, matter fact...

I don't know exactly why it bugs me so much but I could do without ever seeing another album described as a victory lap.

Would prefer an album declared a band's walk of shame.