Beaumont, Mark (20 September 2007). "Dexys Midnight Runners: Too Rye Ay". NME. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016 . Retrieved 15 June 2016. O’Hara and Schwier have made Too-Rye-Ay warmer and crisper. Rowland’s lyrics are clearer without losing his passion, the fiddles bathe rather than assault the listener and the brass swings that bit more righteously. The deluxe sets also include non-album B-sides, “Soon”, “…And Yes We Must Remain The Wildhearted Outsiders, Love (Part 2)”, “Dubious” and non-album single “Let’s Get This Straight From The Start”. Charts.nz – Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners – Too-Rye-Ay". Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 February 2022.

Raggett, Ned. "Too-Rye-Ay – Kevin Rowland / Dexys Midnight Runners". AllMusic . Retrieved 15 June 2016. Swedishcharts.com – Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners – Too-Rye-Ay". Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 February 2022. Christgau, Robert (26 April 1983). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice . Retrieved 15 June 2016. Completing the boxset is a previously unreleased 1982 live album from London’s Shaftesbury Theatre. At the height of Dexys’ pop mania, they make no allowance for the Smash Hits kids, playing full tilt. I was feeling vindicated,” Kevin Rowland says. Not only had the bandleader fought to get “Come On Eileen” released as a single (“even my manager said ‘that song is trying too hard’”) but all this came after the fraught dissolution of the group’s first incarnation – which had a number one hit in 1980 with “Geno” before the other members, tired of Rowland’s infamously demanding ways, walked out and tried to take the Dexys name with them. Now, at last, Rowland had what he always craved: huge success without the enemy of compromise.Already a touchstone, celebrate that Rowland finally knows Too-Rye-Ay was brilliant, too – and it’s now delivered without compromise. Revisiting and refining can also be an emotional pursuit, because you may also be revisiting and refining memories. That emotional punch is present here too, and with the clean-up of various pops and noises (thanks to technological advances) it allows that aspect to come to the fore. A major difference is that a remixed radio edit of ‘Old’ will be released as a single (which it wasn’t originally) and there are some previously unreleased outtakes, B-sides, and a full rendering of the 1982 Shaftesbury Theatre concert. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.88. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. I’ll Show You, previously superior filler, now sounds like Rowland’s manifesto for Dexys 2.0, ready to storm the gates. Kevin Rowland was never happy with the final mix of the album, which was first released by Mercury Records in July 1982, despite its huge commercial success. So with Helen O’Hara, and Pete Schwier they decided to mix it again.

Top Selling Albums of 1982 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Recorded Music New Zealand . Retrieved 1 February 2022. Staunton, Terry (November 2007). "Dexys Midnight Runners – Too Rye Ay". Record Collector (342) . Retrieved 15 June 2016. We did consider postponing the tour until next year, but we already have plans for 2023, and we promise that when we next tour, and, it won’t be long, we will do plenty of material from ‘Too Rye Ay as it should have sounded’. I’m so into doing this album, that we are doing shows to promote it, next year, where we will play the whole of the album from start to finish, as well as other Dexys favourites.The three outtakes, rare allowances from Rowland that his music didn’t just arrive like commandments from on high, are thrilling, especially Smoke Your Own – an early version of Liars A To E which starts with an a capella verse resembling Happy Days with menaces. a b c Huey, Steve. "Dexys Midnight Runners – Artist Biography". AllMusic. All Media Network . Retrieved 28 July 2013. "Come on Eileen," a distinctive fusion of '80s pop, Celtic folk, and blue-eyed soul.

She was really good when it came to correcting the balance of the strings on stuff like Liars A To E, turning the organ down so that the violins came to life more. Basically, she helped rectify my mistakes. This speaks to something more philosophical, more fundamental – is anything ever truly finished? Is a song ever really finite? Having had forty years to muse on it, surely Too-Rye-Ay As It Should Have Sounded is the definitive statement of Rowland’s and Dexys’ original vision? To make Too-Rye-Ay sound as it should, Dexys turned to a close associate, their long-time producer/engineer Pete Schwier who re-evaluated all the songs and made some cogent suggestions for sonic improvements. And of course, the irony was, it was by far our most successful Dexys album, because of the worldwide success of ‘Come On Eileen’. Platinum and Gold Singles 1982". Kent Music Report. 28 February 1983 . Retrieved 10 November 2021– via Imgur.Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Offiziellecharts.de – Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners – Too-Rye-Ay" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 1 February 2022.

It’s utterly magnificent, a band delighted their message is hitting home and grabbing any potential converts into the throng. Dutchcharts.nl – Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners – Too-Rye-Ay" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 February 2022. You suggest that it sounds punchier now – but that’s only half the story, as it has a lot more dynamics and a lot more emotional depth. It sounds a lot more pure for want of a better term,” he says. “It’s a very musical mix. It lets the vocals breathe, and also we were able to deal with a few of the studio treatments and production techniques. They were of their time, but I didn’t like them, and they didn’t reflect the dynamic range of the music.”

So I started to get a bit disillusioned after that,” he furthers. “Dexys was already 24-7 for me anyway, but when we went to America and the itinerary meant I was doing ten interviews every day and all that sort of stuff, I soon started to feel like I was on a treadmill.” After ‘Too-Rye-Ay’