Too-Rye-Ay
by Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners
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Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners bestography
Too-Rye-Ay is ranked 2nd best out of 9 albums by Dexys Midnight Runners on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Dexys Midnight Runners is Searching For The Young Soul Rebels which is ranked number 1170 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,489.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 12/20/2025 18:48 | Olli | 7,739 | 62/100 |
| ! | 12/15/2025 05:24 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,336 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/15/2025 04:03 |  AAL2014 | 4,132 | 75/100 |
| ! | 12/09/2025 21:16 | Jakor | 5,437 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 23:17 | NYAndreas | 1,433 | 44/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 16% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.0/100, a mean average of 72.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.8.
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Featuring four Top 20 hits and their second Number 1 hit single, the magical blend of Northern Soul and Pop continues on from their marvellous debut album. No fillers here.
Only ten years after British Beat had ruled the international Rock waves, there was again a lot of very good British Rock Music around in the 1980s and 90s. In this context, Kevin Rowland and Dexys Midnight Runners might be viewed as very commercially successsful also-rans, but the quantity of great songs they left us, suggests otherwise.
This is one of their finest album releases.
The first 4 songs are incredibly fun and then it goes a little bit downhill until brilliant Come On Eileen comes on, overall good album. They sound like hybrid between Queen and Bruce Springsteen.
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Favorite Tracks:The Celtic Soul Brothers, Plan B, Until I Believe In My Soul
Sandrof1969 02/17/2018 15:03 | #208555
"Too-Rye-Aye" è un buon disco fatto di tanti ingredienti apparentemente diversi: una fisicità rock, strumenti più legati al folk, un certo nervosismo new wave, una voce che lontanamente ricorda il Robert Smith più pop, Van Morrison, di cui riprendono ottimamente "Jackie Wilson said". Fresco e con almeno una grande canzone: "Come on Eileen".
flamingyesdept 08/22/2016 09:30 | #173232
Brilliant album, stupidly underrated
You just can't go wrong with this album. A brilliant record full of great songs. It flows amazingly well considering it was a sort of compilation album, because it certainly feels like it's all part of a plan. Lovely songs in, old, liars A-E, and, until I believe in my soul. The obvious highlight though is the wonderful, come on Eileen, simply one of the best singles of the eighties. Good stuff.
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timtooky 03/31/2014 18:21 | #108192
the soul rebels is imo one of the best records of the year 1980. it still sounds fresh and ebulliant to me. its succesor is also a good record. it has conserved some of the energy and the zest for life and music of sftysr - but it seems a bit more mellowed and intendedly. kevin tries best, but he just doesn't reach the same unconcern and youthfulness of the predecessor.
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