"This Is What She's Like," doomed to become the band's first non-charting single since "Liars A to E," is an absolute corker once you give it a chance to sink into your skull and, track by track, Don't Stand Me Down unfolds to become not the ugly duckling of Dexy's Midnight Runners ' hit-packed catalog, but the new dawn that could -- should -- have finally exorcised "Eileen" and 8/

Don't stand me down for no reason Don't make me feel that I wanna forget you Don't play me on like you're teasing Don't make me wish that I never had met you.

Jan 09,  · referencing Don't Stand Me Down, LP, Album, MERH 56 There had been elements of theatricality in Dexy's music from the start but it exploded across this record with Kevin and other band members seeming having casual conversations from which the songs emerge and back into which they can also retreat/5().

Jan 09,  · View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the Vinyl release of Don't Stand Me Down on Discogs/5(77).

Don’t Stand Me Down entered the UK charts at a lowly 22, three years after the release of Too-Rye-Ay. It would take many years before it was recognised as being one of the greatest albums of the eighties. In the end, what is humanity missing out on? Practically one of the largest collections of astuteness ever put onto a disc/5.

‘Don’t Stand Me Down’ is a stellar alternative-pop record combining components of funk, soul, folk, art-pop and what we now refer to as indie rock.

”Don’t Stand Me Down’ is an album that takes us straight into the mind of the artist at that time, and blends melodies, lyrics and outstanding musicianship to deliver what is, to date, Dexys finest work. We wait with anticipation the release of ”One Day I’m Going To Soar’, to see which direction Rowland and his band will take us.

Meme si le succès planétaire de Too-Rye-ae a peut-etre éclipsé la reconnaissance, par la presse, de ce Don't Stand Me Down. Ce sympathique groupe irlandais, connu entre autres pour les superbes compositions ou reprises Jackie Wilson Said, Until I Believe In My Soul et Respect, est un de ces groupes festifs privilégiant les élans mélodieux à la baston/5(46).

Nov 10,  · On Don't Stand Me Down, Kevin Rowland came closest to giving his impossible dream form, a funny, flawed work of absolute protest against the mundane and the average. dexy's midnight runners don't Author: Roger Holland.