ONE HIT WONDERLAND: “Come on Eileen” by Dexys Midnight Runners
Come found out who Dexy is and why he or she had people running at midnight!
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Come found out who Dexy is and why he or she had people running at midnight!
(Re-uploaded and re-edited to avoid the bots! Support Todd on Patreon!)
@jadesapphira4325
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
Oh, believe me if all those endearing young charms, that i gaze on so fondly today. Where to suddenly leave you or fly in the night, just like fairy gifts gone in the sky
@bumflaps
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
In the UK, Come on Eileen is in that special class of songs that's simultaneously an unimpeachable classic pop hit and also a song you only hear played at wedding receptions when everyone is wankered enough to dance to anything.
@michaelschaefer1904
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
For the longest time, I thought this song was about a stripper at a bar.
@astrodome1994
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
5:38 I knew I wasn't the only one who heard that! 😂
@SamLowryDZ-015
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
One hit wonder – so you are forgetting their first number 1 in 1980 'Geno'
Not to mention all the other top 20 singles they had from 80-86
@ogremage4
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
Remember the dance in The Perks of Being a Wallflower
@babs66
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
They had a no 1 with geno and did well with jackie wilson said so not one hit wonders. I saw them last yr and yr before still fantastic.
@babs66
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
Dr@gs runner is a dealer
@ryanwarren2970
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
Who isn't Dexy, amiright?
@FixTheWi-Fi
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
This is one of them songs a gen z lad/lass will only hear for the first time because their dad puts it on when drunk.
@bloodygoat6941
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
Would you consider a video about the song "big in Japan"?
@ithinkthereforeislampodcast
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
"Come on I'm Dean, and my hands are so clean, at this moment, I am stapling"
@Aspen_Chap
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
it is painful hearing this song every time there is a mudic night at literally every pub ever
@Akasen1226
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN THIS IS FROM 1983?
@phlebdouglas
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
You have no idea.
@jamespusey7186
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
kevin roland sounds like the average birmingham man
@menaw4815
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
To me, this song has always been about how they got stuck in a life they never wanted – even though they were bright-eyed, optimistic and determined to be different than their parents – because Eileen is pregnant at the end of the song.. and I love the song even more because of it😊
@otterofdespair3387
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
I was at a wedding disco in the 90s where this went down so well that the crowd howled for the DJ to play it again when it finished, so he did.
@JamesJones-zt2yx
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
I remember "Come on Eileen" as a pleasant and catchy song ruined by a video providing a thorough examination of Kevin Rowland's armpits. Instant turn-off.
@annuvynarawn392
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
Hardly a one hit wonder, Dexy's had plenty. Oh, and the singing style is from, well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzIAiyxS-nk not only that but in later tracks he doesn't use that style exclusively.
@magnusengeseth5060
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
Are there any more British bands with a name that pretty much means meth head? Apart from Dexys an Motörhead that is.
@justinparkerthewildwolf6394
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
I didn't know Mr bean was in a band
@justinparkerthewildwolf6394
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
Poozies
@Mitsuraga
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
There's a really amusing COVID-19 cover of this song by T.C. Costello.
@TheManroll
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
So crazy to me. They should have been one of the decade defining bands I think, they had the talent. it's funny how shit doesn't work out sometimes
@makeadifference4all
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
Like them or not, most 80s hits sound dated. However, "Come On Eileen" is timeless.
@hanfrank8
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
Kevin Rowland & his eras are so iconic AND so underrated.
@lavabite
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
4:51
@Andres.Angora
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
Yet I still prefer the ska cover of that song.
@domeatown
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
This songs lyrics just get nicer and nicer the closer you look. Its not a real person, maybe. But theres something nice about being moved by how much you like someone that you're actually shy and weird about it
@crazylikefaux
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
I loved them in the 80;s and still do, the instruments and vocals was EPIC.I really think them talented. I am Irish and have a Fiddle fetish THOUGH!
@playlist9980
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
This guy manages to unironically merge two opposing types of annoying Americans in one person: the parochial blowhard who thinks anything that's not 'Murican is weird and Martian and yucky and the wokester who thinks everything is 'problematic'.
@Bismark1815
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
10:37 holy shit weezer reference
@KSignalEingang
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
Had no idea about the Gino Washington connection. I almost got to see Gino live in NY a few years back but he backed out of the show at the last minute.
Guess I shouldn't have been surprised, it's pretty well known Gino is a Coward.
Ok look none of you got that joke but when I said that to Mick Collins he chuckled appreciatively, I'll have you know.
@davidpitts7432
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
This song and band were a huge inspiration in the 90s/00s indie boom. Wolf Parade and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah definitely copied the vocal stylings wholesale.
@farshnuke
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
It's an incredibly uplifting song about how depressingly miserable England was. Sums us up.
@vrijheidradio
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
I heard in a documentary on the British program Top of the Pops about the 'Jocky Wilson' thing during a Top of the Pops episode in the autumn of '82 which caused them to fall out of favor with the TotP boss. This meant that as a band you were asked less often. What happened? Dexy's showed a portrait of darts champion Jocky Wilson during their performance of "Jacky Wilson Said" but the boss of TotP didn't see the joke and therefore the band would have been asked less often and received less airplay.
@julieporter7805
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
Looks like Dexy's went from Rednecks to Yuppies in two albums. 😉😎
@just_passing_through
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
They were hardly a one hit wonder. Geno. Jackie Wilson Said.
Having said that, Come on Eileen has been in my top ten for 50 years. Possibly my favourite song of all time. I really doubt that will ever change.
@jettboy5265
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
one hit wonders , you melt .this is Dexys midnight runners from Birmingham , you ill informed septic !!!!!!!!!
@addersdewinter7495
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
Dexy's are truly awful … pretentious and irritating..
Their previous song Geno was a good song, the rest is trash. …the kind of music to virtue signal to, music that people with no personality attach themselves to.
Kevin is a pratt.
@redwaytoo
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
I love your videos Todd but wtf is that thumbnail XD
@i.7525
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
wait. so… Dexys Midnight Runners and Mötörhead's band names mean the same thing????
@motelghost-AC
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
Dexys a one hit wonder? Don't make me laugh.
@ThomasJackMoore
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 am
This didn't age well.
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