Too Rye Ay

How does ONE popular song get anyone on this list?? Does that mean " One Hit Wonders" are making it as well? Very mediocre band at best.

Nails in a chalkboard warbling. Just terrible

Pints raised, shirts off, veins popping. Folk for lads who never liked folk. Everyone bought it for Come On Eileen, then quietly shelved it. Rightly so. It’s provocatively bad.

ANOTHER album by them?! ...but why. Nothing standout except their classic but what did we EXPECT. Gave up after I'll Show You

I never knew the name of the band that did Come On Eileen, and now I know why. Outside that song, they suck.

Fav song: Dubious- maybe? This was something. Glad I now might remember the band of the, in the US, one-hit wonder, Come On Eileen. Maybe... Time will tell. Everything here feels so British. I like the relentless upbeatness but it also wears you out. I'm dismayed to read from other reviewers this band is on the list 2 more times! If true, amazing. I don't know how that can be justified but we shall see. If I were British it would be more obvious whether this album should be on the list. But as a Yank, a one-hit wonder album strains credulity.

Poor Eileen...

One of the peak mom-core records of our time. Again, I ask - why this above all the other great music that’s been left off this list?

Great 80s record, can't listen to it now

p490. 1982. 1 star. Straight up, let me say that I cannot be doing with Kevin Rowland's voice. He has the worst articulation of ANY singer, I can't tell WTF he is singing. And why bother with this mutated horror of Irish fiddles and horns when you can listen to Van Morrison? It just sounds and feels derivative, down to the pretentious album cover.

Meh

Not for me

A band this unremarkable should not have their whole catalogue in this list holy shit

Bad, couldn't finish it

Tentativa de parecer uma mistura do The Cure com Bowie. Apenas incomodou, e passa.

Really hard to get through this one...Not a fan of the 80s vibe and the singer reminds me of a drunk Freddie Mercury.... Crazy how Come on Eileen felt like a bright spot

I found most of these songs forgettable. Many sounded like less interesting Cure songs. I’m not a huge Cure fan and I am even less of a Dexys fan. Best song is Come on Eileen by a country mile and that’s so overplayed that I didn’t get any enjoyment out of listening to it again. The Jackie Wilson song sounded familiar and had a catchy bit and then I realized it was a Van Morrison rip off. Van did it much better. Overall the musicianship isn’t bad but Kevin Rowland’s voice just gets old. Also don’t bother with the bonus tracks. Come On Eileen was originally the last track but later releases tacked on 4 or 5 more and they are mostly bullshit.

Come on Eileen isn't even a good song, but I've heard it 1000s of times for some unknown reason. The horns are good but everything else is really annoying. This guy's voice is unbearable, thin, nasal, and weak but not in an endearing way. They're not fun enough to be a ska band, too schmaltzy and sentimental to be post-punk, too slow and old-fashioned to be new-wave, too over-produced to be soul, it's just a big mash of nothing. If there's a quota of 1980s Birmingham to fill, replace this with the Au Pairs' Playing with a Different Sex.

Pretty shit. Horrid vocals and not a good album

I would have had more patience for this album if it wasn't my 3rd(!!!) by Dexy. It maybe doesn't deserve one star but that's what's happening.

Unbearable

Absolute dogshit

Meh, ok I guess nothing stood out to me except for the wildly overplayed Come on Eileen

Don’t know how this made the list

It never even once occurred to me to listen to the album that has Come On Eileen on it. Now I know that I should have kept it that way. I'll never listen again. There's no reason to listen in the first place. Also, I now don't care if I ever hear Come On Eileen ever again.

I don't understand how this band has three albums on this list. They're terrible. Come On Eileen is their only hit and it's an alright song, but also very messy with the nonsense. The rest of the album sounds like it's trying to make messier versions of Come On Eileen to lesser degrees of success while also trying to sing like Freddie Mercury. Stop trying to make this band happen.

A voice that sounds like he's constantly mid-yawn, and a track list that only produced a couple of booze fuelled sing alongs from the eighties, I’m afraid it's a thumbs down from me.

How are there two DMR albums here.

Awful, whiny shit. No. Admittedly, I did not make it through the whole album. I just could not do it.

i guess it's fine, if you're into this sort of thing...

Disclosure: I came into this already hating "Come On Eileen". I really have trouble with this lead singer's voice. The way he uses his vibrato gives me the ick and I don't like his tone, especially how he transitions from falsetto to chest voice the way you'd go from talking to shouting. The track "Plan B" had an especially intolerable vocal performance. I liked the violin solo on the opening track. I hate the hokey claps and brass section on "Let's Make This Precious" and his Elvis-ass vocal inflections. And it doesn't get better for me. It just got more grating as the album continued. I heard the introduction to "Jackie Wilson Said" and actually gritted my teeth, bracing myself for the songs to follow. This is an over-produced, over-sung, overstuffed but uninteresting record that annoyed me start to finish.

Hey 1001, albums that have 1 memorable song and a bunch of forgettable ones isn't an album you have to listen to. Thank you.

Besides for Come on Eileen, this is not good.

I decided to be brutally honest on this one. I totally hated it. I get why some people might enjoy it but I just can't. I found almost everything either boring or annoying.

Come on eileen is zo'n kutnummer, rest nog net ok. 1.25

Only half way decent song was the cover of Van Morrisons “ Jackie Wilson Said”

1,5

This album is a nonstop slog of music with way to much going on, there are times when it sounds great but the band doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. If it weren't for cum on eileen this would have been a skip for me.

JAHAS SELLAISTA MUSIIKKIA ETTÄ VOISIN SUUNI AVATA TAAS JÄLLEEN!!!! 80-luvun poppia, joka ei ole kiinni 80-luvussa, ei siis kuullosta nasevalta! Tämmöinen musiikki on helppo sivuuttaa mitäänsanomattomana... minkä olenkin jöörennannut... TEHNYT... göra göra jöörä..tänään kahvilassa... ruotsealta kuulovyören syöden suomea puhelevat.. sekottana päänahkaisen sisälmyksen keiton.. tämä mitä kirjotan tässä on yhtä tärkeää kuin tämä musiikkialbumi oli ihmiskunnalle.. ei kovin tärkeää, mutta tarpeeksi tärkeää että se löytyy internetistä... Harmillisesti siis koko albumi oli spotifyssä... EKSTROJEN KERA!! en ekstroja kuunnellut, kun ei alkuperäisessä.. levyssä.. jos olis... niin olisin kuunellut..tässä kun ne biisit ensimmäisesti viimeiseen vierii... ja kesken alko... ja loppui.. ja alkoi.. ALKOI VITTU VIIMESEKUNNEILLA VIELÄ VIIMEISET 30 SEKUNTIA BIISIÄ JA ERI PIMPUTUSTA LOPPUUN PRRKELEEN FAIDIN JÄLKEEN!!! keskipitkön faden... eli 7,6 sec faden jälkeen.. sitten siihen saman biisen nimen alle joku xtra pömpötys.. Liittymätön!.. sanoo meikä herra- Pömpötyksiä oli kuitenkin luikaltu kuin PF:n musta kuu(;;hyvä ettei kyy, tai siis huono, kirjsaastoon ja lainaan mustakyy dvd.. herra bean mr bean päämiehen roolissa samoina 1980-luvilla tehty..;;) albumissa peräjälkeen soiviksi.. kuin Time ja mahtikuoro taivaassa... Clare H. Torry.. sepä hyvä... hahhahhah..... hah... No ei ollu hyvä että keskinkertaista pitkäsoittona... jaksotuksella saksilla.. olis eristys - tyylikeinona tietävämpi yrittää 3 sec musiikillisesti merkittävän asian leikata.. Löytyiskö... hehe... albumin parhaat 3 sec... hehe.... Mutta ei! Silloinkin pistelisin yhtä tähteä! Näen potentiaalin, tällä kerralla sivuutus! Paskaa ja kusta! Korkea potentiaali! 200 Newtonia hennolla massattomalla paskalla! Uskomaton liike-energia ehkä kohta?

Sound like queen and I don’t care much 1

No wonder they were only famous for come on Eileen.

Just a bit Meh.

Alussa ihan jees, mutta kylläpä alkoi rasauttamaan lopulta.

Hmm an entire album devoid of flavour and all building up to one song. I had high hopes of a misunderstood one hit wonder band - but no - they wrote a brilliant song and sapped colour from every other filler track on this album.

Cheese

Le gars chante comme Bootsie Collins, c’est insupportable. Le violon est super faux, le band est croche, pis dans c’temps-là, tu fais pas des cover comme T.S.O.P. ou Dubious. Ça groove zéro. Comme on Eileen est considéré comme du new wave et comme la plupart des band de new wave, les toune qu’on ne connait pas, c’est d’la marde.

a lot of chaff, come on eileen, more chaff no thanks

2 Platten von den Dexys Midnight Runners in dieser Liste sind 2 zu viel. Am liebsten -1 Stern

not my cup of tea

Kolejne wyspiarskie grania w klimacie okolo rokowym, nazwa nic mi nie mowila kolejne songi takze, az do come on eileen czyli numer 10 z 15, jestem pewien ze slyszalem to w niejednej reklamie lub filmie, ale jakim nie przychodzi mi do glowy, po pierwszym traku i zobaczeniu okladki, na ktorej prawdopodobnie jest frontmen i lider landy Kevin Rowland, troche dziwne, ze sotifaj i doscog podaje go jako osobny byt ktory tworzyl ten album, a Dexys Midnight Runners osobony, do glowy przychodzi co to za szkockie country, ale nastepne kawalki to bardziej wariacja na temat funkowego soula, najgorszy w tym jest natlok instrumentali jakim caly czas albumik atakuje, personel to okolo 20 osob, wiec nawet nie bede wymienail co tam bylo grane, ale jesli nawet banjo bylo uzyte, a nawet dzwonki krowie, to bylo prawie wszystko i jeszcze na dobitke ciagle chorkowanie i to nie takie jak w czarnym soulu czyli z kobiecym wokalem, ale meskie wokale overduby i jeszcze wiecej overdubow, troche wymeczony odsluch, wiec na plejke leci jedynie come on eilee