Rappers React To Dexys Midnight Runners "Come On Eileen"!!!

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  • @NeverTrustGhost
    @NeverTrustGhost 8 місяців тому +64

    Fun Fact: When this hit #1 in the US, it knocked Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" off the top spot.

    • @mattgarfinkle978
      @mattgarfinkle978 8 місяців тому +10

      And was replaced the very next week by Beat It.

    • @stephaniegeer1691
      @stephaniegeer1691 8 місяців тому +1

      Michael was like that back then...always in the top if the charts for one song or another it seemed,lol. The fact that this song overtook Billie Jean was a HUGE deal at the time.Michael Jackson was everywhere!!! Lol🎶❤✌

    • @TheBlackQueen
      @TheBlackQueen 8 місяців тому +1

      To be fair, Billie Jean was reigning for 7 weeks, so something was bound to overtake it....only for him to come back the next week with Beat It LMAO!

    • @GalacticCenterOG
      @GalacticCenterOG 6 місяців тому

      @@TheBlackQueento be fair, #1 is always on the verge of being knocked off, lol. 🤦🏻‍♂️

  • @laurakali6522
    @laurakali6522 8 місяців тому +45

    Pure 80’s perfection. Like Kajagoogoo’s Too Shy.

    • @maryreilly5092
      @maryreilly5092 8 місяців тому +1

      I agree 💯

    • @jojeffrie962
      @jojeffrie962 8 місяців тому

      Love that song 😂

    • @laurakali6522
      @laurakali6522 8 місяців тому

      @@jojeffrie962 last year, the bass player or guitarist (can’t recall which one), was out on the road with Howard Jones, and they played it in the middle of the set. Sounded so good.

    • @alanoneill3065
      @alanoneill3065 6 днів тому

      Too Shy is not in the sameleague...lame

  • @happymethehappyone8300
    @happymethehappyone8300 8 місяців тому +31

    It hits different when you watch the Official Music Video🔥

  • @pozipoz
    @pozipoz 8 місяців тому +6

    Played this at my wedding disco, 31years ago, everyone, from young to old were on the dancefloor😁

  • @heighleybaily8037
    @heighleybaily8037 8 місяців тому +16

    Such a feelgood song, always cheers me up

  • @CharCanuck14
    @CharCanuck14 8 місяців тому +13

    Love you two as you always make this 70 year old lady laugh, get my feet tapping & head a-bopping!
    I remember watching Live Aid on TV when it was happening. Phil Collins hopped on the Concorde after performing in London to get to the States. The flight took less than 3 hours!
    I tend to live up to the Canadian stereotype......eh??

  • @DMB088
    @DMB088 8 місяців тому +10

    I loved everything about this song when it came out, from the first note to the last! I still do! I didn't know what most of the words were, but I didn't care. It's so fun and catchy!

  • @gabe8390
    @gabe8390 8 місяців тому +2

    This music has brought so much lightness into life. Thank you from Germany.

  • @mikefetterman6782
    @mikefetterman6782 8 місяців тому +8

    1983 was an awesome year to be 13 and listening to the radio.

    • @jayconant3816
      @jayconant3816 8 місяців тому +1

      Yep 83 to 87 golden age of mtv

    • @pozipoz
      @pozipoz 8 місяців тому +1

      Totally agree, I was 13, 80s music, is awesome.

  • @robertbrown5876
    @robertbrown5876 8 місяців тому +24

    Aww man you needed to react to the official music video.

  • @barr790
    @barr790 8 місяців тому +10

    Geno is my fave by Dexys but this is practically a British Anthem, its still played most places. Nice reaction chaps! Much love to yous ❤

    • @austinwiththehat
      @austinwiththehat 8 місяців тому +1

      My favourite is Jackie Wilson says, but Geno is epic

    • @barr790
      @barr790 8 місяців тому

      @austinfallen Yeah that one is great too!

    • @chairmanofthebored6860
      @chairmanofthebored6860 8 місяців тому

      Interesting that it's a British anthem since these guys are Danish

    • @austinwiththehat
      @austinwiththehat 8 місяців тому

      @@chairmanofthebored6860 isn’t Kevin from Wolverhampton?

    • @barr790
      @barr790 8 місяців тому

      @chairmanofthebored6860 They're from Birmingham England, who told you they're from Denmark?! There's a universal tool called Google... maybe use it?

  • @ogazm1865
    @ogazm1865 8 місяців тому +14

    Birmingham's finest DMRs!

  • @Ann-fi6ep
    @Ann-fi6ep 8 місяців тому +3

    played this at my daughters wedding reception everyone danced

  • @SJ19_998
    @SJ19_998 8 місяців тому +2

    Cannot get through a brit party without this song, we LOVE it

  • @EclecticInstinct
    @EclecticInstinct 8 місяців тому +6

    Shortly after that charted in the UK, one would sometimes see the odd chap sporting a teeshirt with “I Came On Eileen” written across the chest.

    • @mcscas68
      @mcscas68 7 місяців тому +2

      You reminded me of an old joke someone told me
      I was in a club, and they played the twist, so I did the twist, and then they played the locomotion, so I did the locomotion. Then they played come on Eileen and I got arrested!

  • @floki1503
    @floki1503 8 місяців тому +14

    You have to do "Geno" after this.. A true classic. Watch the TOTP 1980 video if you react to it .

  • @leoniestalenburg98
    @leoniestalenburg98 8 місяців тому +3

    Yess love this song! So excited to see what you think of it

  • @andrewguthlein5095
    @andrewguthlein5095 8 місяців тому +2

    Easily my favorite reaction ever on this channel. Thank you sirs

  • @susiek8475
    @susiek8475 8 місяців тому +4

    OMG I busted out laughing when Smoke said Sean Connery

    • @Dooklawz
      @Dooklawz 8 місяців тому +1

      lol.... me too! Got a ridiculously funny image in my head 🤣

  • @dogstar75
    @dogstar75 8 місяців тому +1

    The phrase 'Dexys Midnight Runners' was a kind of a nickname for some of the fans of Northern Soul in the 70s UK. they took the drug Dexedrine, a brand of dextroamphetamine used as a recreational drug among Northern soul fans to give them energy to dance all night.

  • @carolmillins9199
    @carolmillins9199 8 місяців тому +3

    Camt wait for this one!

  • @TheClayCoKid
    @TheClayCoKid 8 місяців тому +4

    Toora loora was sung by Bing Crosby. I think its a version of a much older Irish folk song

  • @lucax2300
    @lucax2300 8 місяців тому

    A former co-worker of mine got me into this song. Whenever we were in the company vehicle, over half the time, we'd both be listening to music and singing along. Lol the chemistry.

  • @PeeWeeGerman1313
    @PeeWeeGerman1313 8 місяців тому +1

    I love when this song is featured in The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. I heard it a million times before that but never got into it until that point

  • @judgedino
    @judgedino 8 місяців тому +10

    In the early days.... a dexy was amphetamine!
    In England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
    Funny old thing across the pond slang!
    😂😂😂
    Might change ya mind.....

    • @dogstar75
      @dogstar75 8 місяців тому

      Short for Dexedrine

  • @MrShowbound
    @MrShowbound 8 місяців тому +1

    Classic song, Save Ferris did a sweet cover of it with horns... very 90's No Doubt style band. Keep having fun fellas, dig the reactions.

  • @marlenepettiford3731
    @marlenepettiford3731 8 місяців тому +1

    Great reaction!

  • @SnowDogisVictorious
    @SnowDogisVictorious 8 місяців тому +6

    "Dexy" was a reference to Dextroamphetamine, which is one of the two mainline treatments for ADHD.
    Back in the 60's, it was widely prescribed as a diet pill, as appetite loss is one of its common side effects.
    Speaking of which, have you ever heard the Stones' "Mother's Little Helper"? The subject of the song was ... you guessed it... Dextroamphetamine!

    • @immenseorg
      @immenseorg 6 місяців тому

      Mothers little helper was Valium

  • @SnakeEyes0090
    @SnakeEyes0090 8 місяців тому

    First time I remember hearing this song was in the movie Tommy Boy, when Richard and Tommy are driving along in Richard's beat up convertible. Sick Rammstein shirt btw 🤘🏻

  • @jamiemacdonald436
    @jamiemacdonald436 8 місяців тому +4

    Phil Collins is a Brit. Born in London.

  • @chuckgraf8141
    @chuckgraf8141 8 місяців тому

    I was in high school when this came out. I still like it a lot

  • @shanedesselle2590
    @shanedesselle2590 8 місяців тому +4

    Missed a good video. Eileen’s a cutie.

  • @NikkieTwix
    @NikkieTwix 8 місяців тому

    This song is still so big in the UK, you’ll hear it on every night out 🤣

  • @mattbaker1453
    @mattbaker1453 8 місяців тому

    Love you guys

  • @BerniSutton
    @BerniSutton 8 місяців тому +1

    The video to this song was filmed in the street my husband lived he remembers it so well also if I ever do a video on UB40 many rivers to cross I was in that video it was a pukka day we was let out from school after lunch so no school for the rest of the day happy days X

  • @marccurcio1
    @marccurcio1 4 місяці тому

    He's singing about the Sexual repression he experienced, growing up in Ireland. "And we can sing just like our fathers" is a reference that prior generations experienced the same

  • @roydownes2458
    @roydownes2458 8 місяців тому

    this is the first time ive seen the full lyrics written out where i could understand them. this is actually a fairly lusty little tune. (the band is from birmingham, england.)

  • @maryreilly5092
    @maryreilly5092 8 місяців тому

    We all laughed when this video first came out on MTV trying not to like it BUT our crew ended up loving it!!

  • @M_J_Hammer
    @M_J_Hammer 8 місяців тому

    Dexys are one of my favourite bands and as good as 'Eileen' is, there is so much more to them. They are from Birmingham UK. Their 1980 debut album - 'Searching for the young soul rebels' is great, 'Geno' was their first UK no.1. Kevin Rowland is the singer and writer, he's pretty intense but sincere with it. Every album takes a different direction, they are very underrated by most but if you know you know. The band's name was derived from Dexedrine, a brand of dextroamphetamine used as a recreational drug among Northern soul fans to give them energy to dance all night. Cheers.

  • @davidmarrazzo774
    @davidmarrazzo774 8 місяців тому +7

    I love this song…need more Radiohead tunes…

    • @Dooklawz
      @Dooklawz 8 місяців тому +1

      Yes...yes we do!

  • @kimzwolinski9919
    @kimzwolinski9919 8 місяців тому +1

    I didn’t know the name of the band but I definitely know the song 😊 Fun Song
    I had no idea they said “my thoughts are dirty” 😂

  • @johnsrensen3366
    @johnsrensen3366 8 місяців тому

    Great tune

  • @sufoguets
    @sufoguets 8 місяців тому

    Recently I've been addicted to October ends ' new song. Reacting to it would be awesome 🤘

  • @daveadams3692
    @daveadams3692 8 місяців тому

    I went out clubbin last night. They played The Twist, so I did the twist. They played Jump, so I jumped. They played Come On Eileen... I got kicked out for that one!

  • @terryconnelly484
    @terryconnelly484 8 місяців тому +2

    I liked that little Carlton banks dance that was appropriate

  • @happymethehappyone8300
    @happymethehappyone8300 8 місяців тому +2

    In Honor & Memory...
    General Public "Never You Done That"...
    R.I.P. Ranking Roger 🙏❤️

    • @NikkieTwix
      @NikkieTwix 8 місяців тому +1

      I love their song Tenderness ❤️

    • @happymethehappyone8300
      @happymethehappyone8300 8 місяців тому +2

      @@NikkieTwix Understood,, I love them both. ❤️

  • @simpleexplodingmaybe
    @simpleexplodingmaybe 8 місяців тому

    Any party of any type attended by anyone of any age in the UK, this plays and the floor fills.

  • @jons.105
    @jons.105 8 місяців тому

    Cyndi Lauper's answer when she was asked, "What's your favorite '80s song?" She thought for only a few seconds.

  • @leecollison8795
    @leecollison8795 8 місяців тому

    Gr8 song Boyz 🎉🎉🎉

  • @NikkieTwix
    @NikkieTwix 8 місяців тому

    The music video to this is pretty funny 🤣

  • @kristaspecht
    @kristaspecht 8 місяців тому

    Keep doing the 80s questions Hollywood! Lol

  • @lorraineweller4929
    @lorraineweller4929 8 місяців тому

    Every end of party and pub disco 😂

  • @stevebrown9955
    @stevebrown9955 8 місяців тому

    you guys have to check out Afroman - Hunter Got High

  • @stephaniegeer1691
    @stephaniegeer1691 8 місяців тому

    Moonshine...made under the moonlight,ran under the moon and got you soaring over the moon once you drank it,lol.that makes perfect sense. Btw,Moonshine & Jack Daniel's are my drinks of choice,lol.nothing better than sippin on some shine under the moon on a clear starry night imo,lol.🎶❤✌

  •  8 місяців тому +1

    Public Enemy
    - "Harder Than You Think"
    Michael Franti & Spearhead
    - "Good To Be Alive Today"

  • @paulhaire3982
    @paulhaire3982 8 місяців тому

    I missed the last trivia question. 😢

  • @pamphillips5968
    @pamphillips5968 8 місяців тому

    Fuck yeah!

  • @Nerdsammich
    @Nerdsammich 8 місяців тому +1

    Dexys are dexedrine, an amphetamine coming l commonly used in the 70s and early 80s by truckers to stay awake on long runs. It's also the main ingredient in the diet pill Dexatrim.

  • @Chudnut
    @Chudnut 8 місяців тому +6

    Eileen...can you hurry up please

    • @dees6631
      @dees6631 8 місяців тому

      Good one Ivan 😂

  • @janicepriest6578
    @janicepriest6578 8 місяців тому

    Great Bar Song

  • @mattblatchley2061
    @mattblatchley2061 8 місяців тому +2

    was 12 when this dropped on the radio...have heard it, oh, about a MILLION times in the intervening years...but this is the FIRST time I've seen the lyrics!!!!! So random!!!!

  • @jackmag4056
    @jackmag4056 8 місяців тому

    In the top three songs of the 80s , my opinion

  • @ladaddy19
    @ladaddy19 6 місяців тому

    So it's an '80s song from some dudes that were definitely of age in the '70s. I think even if they never said it out loud to the public, it's a double entender the lyric video kept writing Ah come on Eileen. But you know those dudes were laughing when they wrote that song and were singing I come on Eileen.

  • @kelst75
    @kelst75 8 місяців тому

    It's a shame you didn't do the video, too. Denim and bandannas everywhere

  • @JustinMeansRighteous
    @JustinMeansRighteous 7 місяців тому

    9:48

  • @maryscales5747
    @maryscales5747 8 місяців тому

    Well I finally know what this song is about . Kinda like Paradise by the Dashboard Lights . Same desire ya know ?

  • @AIGeneratedUser
    @AIGeneratedUser 8 місяців тому

    I fucking love this song hahaha

  • @antonioaraujo2461
    @antonioaraujo2461 6 місяців тому

    Adoro

  • @marksmall6145
    @marksmall6145 2 місяці тому

    You need to react to a song from the late 70s, that is at the end of disco-beginning of New Wave, with a funky beat and a rap type vocal. Try 'Hit me with your Rhythm Stick' by Ian Dury and the Blockheads (official video if poss).

  • @kajabrill2404
    @kajabrill2404 8 місяців тому

  • @flon57
    @flon57 8 місяців тому

    I just found your channel, and I'm 💙 that you dig my music, best music imo, 65-90

  • @linkloudenback8359
    @linkloudenback8359 8 місяців тому

    At a certain point in time sister was used as a reference to women or girls in the way as slang. Like dolls or chicks. Of course this sort of disappeared in the nineties because of the obvious confusion that it causes in that some people might think that the guy saying it means his actual sister but he’s really talking about a girl or woman that he not related to.

  • @detroitpolak9904
    @detroitpolak9904 7 місяців тому

    Fun fact: in China it’s Come On Irene.

  • @pamphillips5968
    @pamphillips5968 8 місяців тому

    Lmao! Lefty rules❤

  • @dianem8544
    @dianem8544 8 місяців тому +1

    Love this song. Everyone's going to say you should have watched the official video but I think there are some things in it that didn't age well. 1985's flirting is 2024's aggression. I don't know, watch it and see what you think. I think it distracts from how good the song really is.

  • @rodb9275
    @rodb9275 8 місяців тому

    What is Smokey's shirt? Why does it look blurry to me? Maybe it's because I'm old and my eyesight is going.

  • @vader8724
    @vader8724 8 місяців тому

    Depeche Mode "Strangelove" black and white vid.

  • @BaronVonSavage
    @BaronVonSavage 8 місяців тому +2

    Dexys is slang for a type of speed. So you would be "running" all night.

  • @dizastro5437
    @dizastro5437 8 місяців тому

    If I am remembering correctly, this was one Toronto's radio Top Ten at 10, with Rush. I don't think MJ ever made that list.

  • @pauloaraujo3824
    @pauloaraujo3824 8 місяців тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤80s❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @jamesgreer9366
    @jamesgreer9366 8 місяців тому +1

    What do you call a woman with one leg longer than the other?? Eileen!! Sorry dad joke i do every time i hear it hear this song around someone i havent said it uet! 😂

  • @davidmarrazzo774
    @davidmarrazzo774 8 місяців тому +1

    Tech n9ne “the Martini” up next…

  • @sarahealey1780
    @sarahealey1780 8 місяців тому

    It ain't a party in the UK if this isn't playing

  • @GreenMother1
    @GreenMother1 8 місяців тому

    The drummer is missing in last part of the video. Why? He was fired from the band.😏

  • @zdoggzero6595
    @zdoggzero6595 8 місяців тому +2

    Come On Eileen? I hardly even know her
    *ba dum tsssss

  • @planojag595
    @planojag595 7 місяців тому

    Verge on dirty.

  • @barbarjinx3802
    @barbarjinx3802 8 місяців тому

    With those accents I think they are from St.Louis

  • @inkubuzz
    @inkubuzz 8 місяців тому +1

    If you finally ever make it to react to Pain of Salvation song, "On a Tuesday" look for a studio version, because the live versions out there are not great sounding at all. Also prefer a lyric video..lyrics are very important.
    The album, “The passing light of day”, which “On a Tuesday” is the opening track, is probably one of the most, if not the most, painful and personal reflective and introspective pieces of music you’ll ever hear.
    It is written by the band’s leader, Daniel Gildenlow, he’s the singer and main composer of the band. Back in 2014 he was admitted to hospital with an skin infection which escalated rapidly within hours to be this life threatening situation where he was being eaten alive by a flesh eating bacteria. Yes, it sounds horrendous, and he ended up being in hospital for four months, trying to unsuccessfully fight this bacteria.
    So this guy, who’s pretty young and fit and had all the “checks” to a long prosperous life suddenly had to face up to his own mortality and to evaluate his relationship with those he loved those around like his children, his parents, his wife and even God and all this stuff that goes through someone's mind when they are deep into such a situation and the album is all about that, so it’s a concept album, written or al least imagined to be written form a hospital bed.
    BTW, Daniel Gildenlow was born on June 5th 1973, so he was born “On a Tuesday”

  • @bareakon
    @bareakon 7 місяців тому

    The narrator and Eileen I think are supposed to be around the same age, and the song is really more about getting Eileen to pack up and ditch their shithole city together now that they're old enough to do so.
    Todd In The Shadows described it as the British Born To Run.

  • @DMB088
    @DMB088 8 місяців тому

    I thought the song was about two people the same age, but maybe I'm wrong. I never thought of it as a grown man talking to a younger girl

    • @mortisrat
      @mortisrat 8 місяців тому +1

      You're right. He refers to them both being young, suggests they're peers. Just someone he's known since they were kids.

  • @andyyoung9463
    @andyyoung9463 8 місяців тому

    Try their song Geno. Very different sound

  • @stevedavis5704
    @stevedavis5704 8 місяців тому

    It’s not an exact match but this in 82 was a more subtle approach to getting a girl than 77’s Only The Good Die Young. Skipping seduction and going for what you want seemed to be a common theme in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Both were fun at the school and church dances until the chaperones listened to the actual words.

  • @Eowyn187
    @Eowyn187 8 місяців тому

    Toora Loora is Irish. As is the name Eileen. Y'all need to see the original video. 👍

    • @dalj4362
      @dalj4362 7 місяців тому

      Yeah, good video. Filmed in London. Strange they never filmed it Birmingham England instead.

  • @TheCornishCockney
    @TheCornishCockney 8 місяців тому

    Denys is short for Dexedrine,which were originally slimming pills,stopped your appetite and made you an athlete,but the come down was a monster.
    In other words…..speed.

  • @Biscuitsslamnation
    @Biscuitsslamnation 8 місяців тому

    Great song but I like it with the official video

  • @MrYossarianuk
    @MrYossarianuk 8 місяців тому

    Dexys Midnight Runners are English, we never had prohibition of booze .... (we stupidly still do with weed, but weed is everywhere here..)

  • @davidmazzell2332
    @davidmazzell2332 8 місяців тому

    007, Madonna and bond, wonder what songs she would come up with that dude. 😮😂

  • @jimmymac4559
    @jimmymac4559 8 місяців тому

    Eileen is the girl with one leg.

  • @graciezundt4201
    @graciezundt4201 8 місяців тому

    Phill Collins traveled on the Concorde.

  • @1COMIXMAN
    @1COMIXMAN 8 місяців тому

    Play the devil's chasing me by rev horton heat. It's a banger from the king of psychobilly himself.