Dexys Midnight Runners "Come On Eileen"

There were, most certainly, many "pop" and "new wave" bands from that era which fit the "prog" bill - XTC, Wire, Ultravox, Devo, Pere Ubu, Tears For Fears, OMD, Talk Talk. Don't know if Dexy's were very progressive. Hell even Haircut 100 was more Prog than DMR's. That said, "Come On Eileen" was a great song.

On one of the rare occasions in the 1980s when I watched “American Bandstand,” Come on Eileen was featured on Rate-a-Record, where two audience members were asked to do the rating.  This one kid gave it a low rating because he thought it sounded too much like ELO, apparently solely because of the violin part.  I knew right off that that was way off base, since it otherwise sounded nothing like ELO, either before or after their music had become crapola.

 

I didn’t hate the song, though, and still don’t, though I wouldn’t class it as prog either.

Edited by AreYouHuman - September 30 2018 at 22:27

A horrible party song. Always gets played at every party I go to a smashy and nicey poptastic heap of steaming Scottish wildcat poo!

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Nope not prog but a very fun tune that I remember fondly. This was a big hit around 1983 and I think "sunday bloody sunday" by U2 was the only other radio song at the time to feature a violin. Interestingly though not too long ago I was researching this song and DMR in general and the album it's from is rated rather well on wikipedia. I listened to one or two other songs out of curiosity and they sounded pretty good as well. Anyway, I'll be patiently waiting for the thread title that says "Men at Work- Down under is it prog?" Of course because a song has a flute solo in it(or violin for that matter)people will think it's possible it could be prog. 

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - September 24 2018 at 15:10

Nik Kershaw is my favourite 80s musician.

My pants smell like formaldehyde.

micky wrote: ^ what of it...  I'll ace them with Madonna who was light years more creative and competent.. prog is not the sole domain of the competent and creative

^ yeah, but RHCP are far more creative and competent than Dexy's... ever were.