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Lee Newman said:
4/2/24

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Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels



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Searching for the Young Soul Rebels by Dexys Midnight Runners released in 1980. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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The Dexy's album I usually reach for when I'm in the mood for soulfolkpopindiepunk (which happens more often than you might think). 5 stars.
 
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Oh, and just a quick little bonus track in the Meat Loaf discussion. This is my favourite Jim Steinman track. It's not Meat Loaf, but from the (awesome) movie "Streets of Fire". I love how this song just builds and builds and just when you think it has reached it's peak and chorus, it just throws you into a crescendo that's a mix of Motown, Born to Run and every power ballad you've ever heard. And yes this is cheesy, but we're talking a world class camenbert cheese with truffel butter here.

EDIT: And if you haven't seen the movie, do so! It is a classic "boy rescues girl"-fable set in a neon drenched, rain soaked, neo noir hellscape, has Willem Dafoe as one of the best bad guys in 80s cinema, and ends with a sledgehammer fight. Yes, that's an actual duel with sledgehammers. And it's just as crazy and fun as it sounds.

 
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I don’t like this one as much as Too-Rye-Ay but I like it, a lot. Seems to lean a bit more towards Ska territory. His voice is so great.
 
Lee Newman said:
4/3//4
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Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music from the Penguin Cafe



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Music From the Penguin Cafe by Penguin Cafe Orchestra released in 1976. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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I am not overly familiar with Penguin Cafe Orchestra. The main song I am familiar with, “Perpetuum Mobile” isn’t on this record. I bet most know that song. It was in like every late 1980s yuppy drama and many bank commercials.
 
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I am not overly familiar with Penguin Cafe Orchestra. The main song I am familiar with, “Perpetuum Mobile” isn’t on this record. I bet most know that song. It was in like every late 1980s yuppy drama and many bank commercials.
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I'm also mostly familiar with this group through movies. Their stuff tend to pop up in either quirky indie dramacomedies from the 00s or 80s drama/thrillers. They get sampled a lot too, I think?
 
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