See, now that they have competition from the Internet's stores and downloads, the major record/multimedia shops now seem to have cut price sales on permanently, which is good for us all as often this means a stone cold classic or three gets hugely reduced for a couple of weeks. What will happen in this irregular feature, although there's going to be at least one more instalment this week, is an album will be highlighted that you can buy for a fiver or less in one of these sales whenever they're on and will, I think, provide far more in enjoyment value than it will in outlay. All while stocks last and stock available may vary between stores, obviously. So, to kick us off:
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels : £4.99 in Virgin (not HMV as stated yesterday. Although come to think of it, it might have been about the same in the last HMV sale, and thus plausibly the current one too. I'll check.)
Kevin Rowland, direct from a minor role in the punk wars, hit upon a genius thought when forming Dexys - if the 1976 Year Zero rethink meant anyone with the requisite vocal passion could become a singer, why not apply the same rule to the Stax, Otis, Geno and Reverend Al he was listening to after becoming disillusioned with three chord thrashing? Springing out of the traps with a declaration of laying waste to all working class music surrounding them, it's a hugely confident, swaggering, subtly political due in part to Rowland's Irish roots, staccato yet full-on 'new soul vision' from a self-styled last gang in town that played as hard as they talked the talk. "Where have you hidden them?" Rowland asked after the Young Soul Rebels. Oh, well they'll be crouching in the cupboard, won't they?
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