Product Description
On Vinyl Record…
Through Parlophone Records via Warner
Searching for the Young Soul Rebels is the debut studio album by English pop group Dexys Midnight Runners, released on 11 July 1980, originally through EMI Records.
Vinyl Reissue
Cat Number:0825646297016
In their half-decade lifespan Dexys Midnight Runners went through at least four distinct versions, each forged then broken on the ferocious, perfectionist willpower of leader Kevin Rowland. When the version of the band that made debut album Searching for the Young Soul Rebels went on the road, they called it the “Intense Emotions” tour, and the music they made together bore that out. This 30th anniversary reissue comes with a bonus disc covering the entire career of that first Dexys incarnation, from debut single “Dance Stance” to “Plan B”, the first disc cut by Dexys Mark II. Repeated material from radio sessions means there’s a certain amount of fat, especially if you own prior compilations. But if you’re new to the band, this is an album that deserves the extended look.
Dexys thrived in a period of fierce, tribal pop loyalties by radiating and inspiring passion unusual even for the time. “Dance Stance”– reprised on the album as “Burn It Down”– sets out their stall, a brawling kind of soul, the band’s thick, brass-driven sound topped by Rowland’s combative yelp
