‘Too-Rye-Ay’ gave Dexys their biggest UK album chart success in the summer of 1982.
Kevin Rowland has used the opportunity afforded by its 40th anniversary to remix Dexys’ second studio album Too-Rye-Ay for a re-release on October 14th.
“For many years, I’ve been haunted by the mixing on Too-Rye-Ay,” Rowland explains. “It wasn’t as good as it should’ve been and I knew it. It was nowhere near as musical as it should’ve sounded.”
“When the album was finished, I knew it wasn’t right, and asked the label for more money to do some more mixing. They said, no that’s it, the budget is spent. And I had to live with it.”
“Of course, tracks like Eileen and one or two others turned out great, but most of the album was not mixed to the standard it should’ve been, and not mixed to the standard the performances and songs deserved.”
Also included in the super deluxe box-set version of the reissue are bonus tracks and a live album recorded at the Shaftesbury Theatre in October 1982.
