Dexy's Midnight Runners : Come On Eileen

DerekJohnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbpnAGajyMc

LebamDawg

love that song - not when it came out but do now

alumni94

I find it amazing how songs with dirty lyrics became so popular.

Of course they are not as bad as current songs.


Cardi B. "Up"

Tatt'ed on my ass 'cause I really like the pain (ah)
He nutted on my butt, I said, "I'm glad that you came"
If that nigga had a twin, I would let 'em run a train, woo (skrrt)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCiBgLOcuKU

PurpleThrobber

LebamDawg said:

love that song - not when it came out but do now

Now, yes - but they played the shit out of it on MTV/radio back then. Annoyance level high at the time.

LebamDawg

alumni94 said:

I find it amazing how songs with dirty lyrics became so popular.

Of course they are not as bad as current songs.


Cardi B. "Up"

Tatt'ed on my ass 'cause I really like the pain (ah)
He nutted on my butt, I said, "I'm glad that you came"
If that nigga had a twin, I would let 'em run a train, woo (skrrt)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCiBgLOcuKU

that is not what she sings - too much English in those lyrics

alumni94

PurpleThrobber said:

LebamDawg said:

love that song - not when it came out but do now

Now, yes - but they played the shit out of it on MTV/radio back then. Annoyance level high at the time.

My friend and myself were "nerds" during middle school. For a month we kept track how often a song was played on MTV. Come On Eileen was the winner by a long shot. Record Company must have been getting a lot of them.

YellowSnow

One of the catchiest singles of the early 80's rather easily.

Laocoön

One of the top ‘one hit wonders’ of the ‘80s.

DerekJohnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDt1VLn58e8

PurpleThrobber

YellowSnow said:

One of the catchiest singles of the early 80's rather easily.

I liked it because I’m fairly certain Eileen was going commando beneath those overalls.

LebamDawg

I don't think Dexys aged very well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck9sl_yM9_U

Fishpo31

It plays in our house because I'm married to Eileen (NOT the one in the video, and NO pics)...

Fishpo31

alumni94 said:

PurpleThrobber said:

LebamDawg said:

love that song - not when it came out but do now

Now, yes - but they played the shit out of it on MTV/radio back then. Annoyance level high at the time.

My friend and myself were "nerds" during middle school. For a month we kept track how often a song was played on MTV. Come On Eileen was the winner by a long shot. Record Company must have been getting a lot of them.

Don't know if youse guys remember Video Jukebox, it was a request type thing...as a young man with roommates, we would bet on video counts, and there were days that the only three videos they played, for hours, were Mother, Compton City G's, and Put 'em on the Glass...csb

EDIT: One of said former roommates calls me, to this day, and leaves vm of Mother, at full volume, every time he hears it on radio...

chuck

Fishpo31 said:

It plays in our house because I'm married to Eileen (NOT the one in the video, and NO pics)...

Nobody here would ask for pics of your wife. What kind of unethical, immoral, cesspool do you take this for?

Show us your boobs instead. That's the HH that Stalin and Swaye have created.

YellowSnow

If I was to make a playlist of celtic folk chinspired 80s pop both Come on Eileen and this classic would be included...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJuyn0WAYNI&list=RDMM&start_radio=1

dnc

YellowSnow said:

If I was to make a playlist of celtic folk chinspired 80s pop both Come on Eileen and this classic would be included...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJuyn0WAYNI&list=RDMM&start_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYpSniiZhpg

alumni94

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=657TZDHZqj4

I actually saw these guys at some KXRX $5 show (or something like that). A few bands but I think they were the headliner.

PurpleThrobber

YellowSnow said:

If I was to make a playlist of celtic folk chinspired 80s pop both Come on Eileen and this classic would be included...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJuyn0WAYNI&list=RDMM&start_radio=1

The more you know:

The Proclaimers recorded a demo album with the assistance of Kevin Rowland of Dexys Midnight Runners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Proclaimers