Dexys Midnight Runners

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 2005

First Recording: 1979

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

Dexys Midnight Runners
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Albums
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Songs
🔲Rolling Stone Cover
🔲Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Come On Eileen (1982)

Dexys Midnight Runners @ Wikipedia

Will Dexys Midnight Runners be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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"About all I can think of is that the Eileen they mention in song is now a member of the voting committee.."

Frickin' hysterical! ROFLMAO.

Posted by Bullsh*tter on Friday, 01/25/2013 @ 20:17pm


“Come On Eileen”, “Geno”, and “Jackie Wilson Said (I’m In Heaven When You Smile)” aside, Dexys has for a long time been one of my very favorite bands. I doubt that they’ll ever be considered, let alone nominated and especially inducted, but I think it’s unfair to judge a band’s entire career on one song, like much of this comment section is doing. Their 3 albums are all absolutely amazing underrated classics in my opinion, and each represent vastly different eras in their career. In fact, their third album “Don’t Stand Me Down”, has very frequently been called the “Pet Sounds” of the 80s, and their debut album “Searching For The Young Soul Rebels” has placed very high on both NME and Melody Maker’s lists of the greatest albums of all time.

So before you just dismiss them as being the one hit wonder band that made that one song your dad likes, try to take the time and listen to their 80s material. It’s definitley worth a few spins in my opinion, and Kevin Rowland is a genius who definitely deserves more than the recognition he gets.

Posted by Tyler Partnow on Thursday, 09/27/2018 @ 07:11am


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