YMMV / Dexys Midnight Runners

• Audience-Alienating Premise: Don't Stand Me Down, an expansive experimental soul album, failed to appeal to fans, who wanted another "Come On Eileen". It doesn't help that the first single was released several months after the album was, and the single chosen — "This Is What She's Like" — was twelve minutes long. On top of that, the album received no promotion. It was a commercial failure upon release, which led to the group's disbandment. However, it's now considered somewhat of a lost gem.
• Fan Nickname: The Young Soul Rebels.
• Never Live It Down: Kevin Rowland's solo covers album My Beauty, which is only really remembered because he appeared in drag on the cover (although he insisted that he wasn't in drag, and that it was "a man's dress").
• Vindicated by History: Don't Stand Me Down is far better received now than it was back when it was first released. Uncut even went as far as to call it a "neglected masterpiece".

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