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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