#giorgio kilkenny

[rainingmusic]

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen 

[nofatclips]

Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners - Director: Julien Temple

[mitjalovse]

I propose a strange definition for the unfashionable musicians or whatever you want to call them – they are those that succeeded with something so out of the ordinary they can't continue easily. Dexys Midnight Runners, for instance, are more than their biggest hit – I think some are learning this fact lately –, yet think about the latter as well, since the piece ends up on many 80's compilations thanks to the tune being popular then, but remind yourself how out of place the composition sounds on most of them. I keep thinking the song feels closer to the Celtic pop revival from the early 90's than anything from the 80's. Moreover, one cannot be surprised over the triumph of this, the entire enterprise is a ramshackle drunk singalong that contains a deeply buried melancholy.