oktober 06, 2020

Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels (1980) - €4,99

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Dexys Midnight Runners (currently officially Dexys, their former nickname, styled without an apostrophe are an English pop band with soul influences from Birmingham, who achieved major commercial success in the early to mid-1980s.

Searching for the Young Soul Rebels is the debut studio album by English pop group Dexys Midnight Runners, released on 11 July 1980, through EMI Records. 
Led by Kevin Rowland, the group formed in 1978 in Birmingham, England, and formed a strong live reputation before recording their first material. Recorded during April 1980, the album combines the aggressiveness of punk rock with soul music, particularly influenced by the Northern soul movement.

The album was preceded by and contains the hit-single "Geno", which topped the UK Singles Chart. It also contains two other charting singles: "Dance Stance" (re-recorded as "Burn It Down") and "There, There, My Dear" (which included the lyrics "I've been searching for the young soul rebels" that inspired the album's title). The album reached number 6 on the UK Albums Chart.

The band recorded Searching for the Young Soul Rebels over 12 days at Chipping Norton Recording Studios in Oxfordshire, England. It was produced by Pete Wingfield, who had previously recorded the hit single "Eighteen with a Bullet", of which Rowland was a fan. Organist Andy Leek left the group during the sessions, only appearing on two songs ("Geno", which was previously recorded, and "Thankfully Not Living in Yorkshire It Doesn't Apply"), leading to the return of Pete Saunders. "There, There, My Dear" features Rowland singing the main chorus of Lee Dorsey's "Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky (From Now On)" at the end of the track. 

Searching for the Young Soul Rebels opens with the sound of radio static, from which snippets of "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple, "Holidays in the Sun" by Sex Pistols and "Rat Race" by The Specials can be heard. This is then cut off by shouts by Rowland and "Big" Jim Paterson, which are followed by "Burn It Down", a re-working of the band's earlier song "Dance Stance".

Mojo summed up the sound of the album as "an energetic mix of pop, Northern soul and punkish attitude." The band intended to create a brassy sound mixed with the aggression and intensity of punk rock. The music mainly consists of up-beat soul music ("Tell Me When My Light Turns Green", "Geno", "Seven Days Too Long") inspired by labels such as Motown and Stax, and downbeat blues-jazz tunes ("I'm Just Looking", "I Couldn't Help It If I Tried", "Keep It"). "Seven Days Too Long" is a cover of the "Northern soul classic", originally recorded by Chuck Wood. Rowland's lyrics have been described as "a mixture of punchy bravado, deep disgust and a rather heroic flaunting of his insecurities, sobbed rather than sung," and concern subjects such as ignorance towards Irish people ("Burn It Down"), an open letter to the dishonest music scene ("There, There, My Dear") and a tribute to the soul singer Geno Washington ("Geno"). 


Side A
A1. Burn It Down - 4:07  
A2. Tell Me When My Light Turns Green - 3:42  
A3. The Teams That Meet In Caffs - 4:03  
A4. I'm Just Looking - 4:36  
A5. Geno - 3:25  

Side B
B1. Seven Days Too Long - 2:38  
B2. I Couldn't Help If I Tried - 4:10  
B3. Thankfully Not Living In Yorkshire It Doesn't Apply - 2:54  
B4. Keep It - 3:54  
B5. Love Part One - 1:08  
B6. There, There, My Dear - 3:13  


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Release: 1980
Format:  LP
Genre:  Blue-Eyed Soul
Label:  Late Night Feelings 
Catalog#  1A 062-07319 
Prijs:  €4,99

Vinyl:  Good
Hoes:  VG+

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