Monday, June 27, 2022

Dexys Midnight Runners - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1981-1983

Here's the second of three volumes of BBC sessions by Dexys Midnight Runners. Like this first one, this mainly consists of studio sessions.

The first seven performances have been officially released. Those come from three different sources, as bonus tracks for the studio albums "Searching for the Young Soul Rebels" and "Too-Rye-Ay"), plus the album "Radio 1 Sessions."

The last four songs are unreleased. Surprisingly, the band's signature song "Come On Eileen" doesn't seem to have been performed in a BBC studio session. But it was done live for a British TV show aimed at children called "No. 73." So I used that. "Kevin Rowland's 13th Crime" is basically the song "Kevin Rowland's Band," which would appear on the band's 1985 album "Don't Stand Me Down." But it has some differences, including being played at a different tempo.

The last two songs come from a 1983 BBC concert. I've included them because they didn't appear on any of the previous sources here. I'm not going to post the full concert those are from, because I do plan on posting a 1982 BBC concert with a very similar song list.

This album is 44 minutes long. 

01 Let's Make This Precious (Dexys Midnight Runners)
02 Dubious [Outlook] (Dexys Midnight Runners)
03 Your Own [Early Version of Liars A to E] (Dexys Midnight Runners)
04 Until I Believe in My Soul (Dexys Midnight Runners)
05 Jackie Wilson Said [I'm in Heaven When You Smile] (Dexys Midnight Runners)
06 All in All [This One Last Wild Waltz] (Dexys Midnight Runners)
07 Old (Dexys Midnight Runners)
08 Come On Eileen (Dexys Midnight Runners)
09 Kevin Rowland's 13th Crime [Kevin Rowland's Band] (Dexys Midnight Runners)
10 Let's Get This Straight [From the Start] (Dexys Midnight Runners)
11 The Celtic Soul Brothers [More, Please, Thank You] (Dexys Midnight Runners)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15110262/DexysMR_1981-1983_BBSessionsVolume2_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is a promo photo from 1982.

1 comment:

  1. Where did you get the BBC recordings for the last 2 songs?

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