Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels (20th Anniversary Enhanced Remaster) [ECD] (CD 2000)

One of the all time classic bands great album makes me feel alive and ready for a good night out , i love listening to the all time classics.

What the UK music press said - 'Sometimes it's difficult to separate a group from its music - they both mean the same thing. Not so with Dexy's (sic) Midnight Runners. Their songs are warm, rousing and emotional while they as people are cold and arrogant verging on the pretentious.



A 20th anniversary remastered and enhanced CD was released on EMI, catalogue no. - 525 6000 in 2000. It contains the videos for Geno and There There My Dear as extras. The CD booklet and rear sleeve contain biography info and cool previously unseen photos. The disc itself has a green tinted picture of Kevin Rowland.

1. Burn It Down 2. Tell Me When My Light Turns Green 3. The Teams That Meet In Caffs 4. I'm Just Looking 5. Geno 6. Seven Days Too Long 7. I Couldn't Help If I Tried 8. Thankfully Not Living In Yorkshire It Doesn't Apply 9. Keep It 10. Love Part One 11. There, There, My Dear

I was listening to Radio 4 Fi Glover's prog one Saturday morning and she was chatting to a man from N Ireland. His claim to fame was that (unknown to him) his picture was used on the cover of the CD for Dexy's "Searching for the Young Soul Rebels". The picture was lifted from an article in "The Evening Standard" about catholics being burnt out of their houses in the Ardoyne area in Belfast. He was photographed walking (where)with a hurriedly packed suitcase N Ireland in the 60's 70's was a lot darker than it is now. Memories of difficult and sad times in Belfast but the vibrant and the alive sound of Dexy and his band is quite a contrast.