Where Is the Love for Dexy's Midnight Runners and Kevin Rowland???

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There needs to be more of this on ILM. the guy was a genius of sorts. plus, he sounded a bit like robert smith if he was trying to be a soul singer.

― rock, Thursday, 19 May 2005 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/eileen.html

A lot of old school ILMers love him, me included.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 19 May 2005 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I worship Kevin beyond all reasonableness. But the words "damning with faint praise" spring to mind re: your original post, rock.

― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 19 May 2005 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

that FT article is even better than I remember, and probably more valuable as a (humanist? non-rockcritist?) investigation of rockism than any of the head-on essays of late. this is particulary eloquent: To talk about pop the way the investors do - to say that these records are valuable, and that these are less so - is to see pop as a kind of linguaphone course in Taste. A rich and enjoyable course to be sure, one that takes a lifetime, but still a process of learning. To talk about pop the way the wastrels do is to see pop as a journey without a map - a drift, along which you stumble on remarkable beauties, which thrill you and maybe change you but which you always pass by. The way almost all of us see pop is a mixture of both, maybe.

― jermaine (jnoble), Thursday, 19 May 2005 11:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"Tell me when my light turns green" is stone classic and the apotheosis of yelpy singing for all time.

― Guayaquil, Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

searching... is probably my second fave album ever.

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

In Uncut a few years back, a letter mentioned this great exchange between Chris Roberts and Kevin Rowland. Does anyone remember it by chance? It was absolutely brilliant.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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