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My mate got the cd. Some of it's pretty good. The 1st song doesn't soun d like dexys but some of the other stuff does. The album is from 88 but there's early demos added on at the end which are the ones Rowland heard and formed Dexys part 2.
Obviously not as good as Dexys but well worth checking out.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 28 June 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Certain folks esteem them highly, though, so once upon a time, I bought a $3 used copy of Searching for the Young Soul Rebels. It was ... not bad. Not great. A blurry appropriation of the idea of soul. Without much actual soul (whatever that means, and no, I don't wanna talk about it).
The song "Tell Me When My Light Turns Green", however, is/was great. Loved it the first time I heard it, and I love it still. The only song on the album with hooks, grit and fire.
Don't agree with the overall assessment of SftYSR which I like throughout, but I agree that "Tell Me When My Light Turns Green" is the standout track here. Most gloriously giddy falsetto to appear outside a Housemartins record (and equalled by the HMs only in "The World's On Fire," I think) But gloriously giddy falsetto is locked in by the perfect horns here and thus doesn't sound frivolous, just uplifting. (For the Housemartins I think the rigidity of the rhythm guitar plays the same kind of role, and equally successfully.)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 29 June 2009 01:14 (fourteen years ago) link
four years pass...
Which thread to put that on? I choose this one because, although it has the traditional incorrect apostrophe, at least it is in an original position.
Anyway, I look forward to the film very much.
― Tim, Friday, 14 February 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
two years pass...
six years pass...
eight months pass...
oh nice interview
I really wasn't sure about Let The Record Show - never really found a way in despite it being theoretical catnip to me as 2nd-gen diaspora dexy's fan.
Been cautiously interested in this one - did not love the production of Coming Home, but that elated 'coming home to nothing at all' is A++ Rowland. And then hadn't followed the press around the My Beauty re-release, so was startled to see him back in a dress for the My Submission video. From the interview seems good that he's found his way back to that part of himself.
Also did not realise that there's a new version of Manhood on the album. I think that's the last Dexy's moment I truly truly love.
― woof, Monday, 24 July 2023 11:31 (nine months ago) link