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245:, when Michael Corleone's walking through Sicily chilling out after he's shot those two guys in that restaurant. I must've liked the ring of it." Rowland claimed in a 2014 interview that "This song literally came to me as I was going off to sleep. Those words – 'What's she like? Tell me what's she like' – and melodies just came. It didn't sound like anything."
200:. The song, inspired by Rowland's relationship with O'Hara, includes spoken conversations between Rowland and Adams. Rather than answering Adams's repeated in-song question about what "she" is like, Rowland contrasts the "she" of the title with people who irritate him, for example those who put creases in their jeans, and members of the
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Easlea says it was lack of a single release that lead to the album's lack of commercial success, a view shared by
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wrote in 1997 that the album was "unanimously reviled" when released, although Easlea (2011) claims that this was not the case. The album (which has been re-released in different versions) has, in the intervening years, been hailed by some critics as a "misunderstood masterpiece", and a "lost
475:(2007) also detect a Beach Boys influence and comment that the song "merges opaque dialogue" and a "coda of Stax-style horns". Martin wrote that the track "may be the angriest love song ever written", while Roberts feels that it "triumphs as an exhilarating hymn to romance".
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as "utterly astonishing" and that when
Rowlands asks during the song whether he can express himself, his "outburst of ecstatic laa-laa-laas says more than words ever could." In another review the following year, Price noted that Rowland was performing the song with
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The track was described by Sean O'Hagan as "the single most bizarre escapade yet foisted on an unsuspecting public in the guise of a Dexys song." Simon Mares, in a negative review, called the song a "rambling reprise" of the previous Dexys
Midnight Runners album
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in 2003, Rowland said "My biggest regret is that 'This Is What She's Like' wasn't a 10-minute single. I think it might have done for Dexys what 'Bohemian
Rhapsody' did for Queen." and stated in a 2016 webchat hosted by
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stated that the performance of "This Is What She's Like" was one of a few highlights of a show derailed by
Rowland's ill-tempered demeanour. It was next performed live by Dexys Midnight Runners in 2003. Dave Simpson's
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Rowland started composing "This Is What She's Like" in 1983. He taped vocals one evening, and O'Hara began composing the music, on piano, the following day. It was the first song written for the album
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that he felt that the song was one of the best by Dexys
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concert, the group sent him demos of songs including "This Is What She's Like", and Dancy agreed to join the sessions. "This Is What She's Like" was competed soon afterwards.
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276:(1982), to produce, and using Marquis Studios in London. By the end of 1984, little of the album had been completed. After seeing Tim Dancy drumming at an
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called the opening of the song "fatuous dialogue" and a waste of time, and also denigrated
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describes the song as "the ultimate shaggy dog story of inarticulate, unsatisfiable longing", and Daryl Easlea (2011) refers to it as a "mini-opera".
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review described how a version of the song lasting nearly twenty minutes received a standing ovation. A positive review of a show by Gavin Martin in
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in 2002 that "I'd fallen for Helen, see, and my brother said, 'I think the Italians have a word for it.' I think it came from
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O'Sullivan, Neil (July 16, 2012). "Latitude, Henham Park, Suffolk, UK".
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regarded the song as the album's highlight, while Davis Niewert of the
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Price, Simon (May 13, 2012). "We really need to talk about Kevin".
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Easlea, Daryl (April 2000). "Classic albums: Don't Stand Me Down".
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during the performance. The song was included in the band's set at
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version. The single was dismissed as "ludicrous" by Tom Hibbert in
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Martin, Gavin (November 12, 2003). "Pop: Dexys Midnight Runners".
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Simpson, Dave (October 28, 2003). "Pop: Dexys Midnight Runners".
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Hawker, Philippa (January 10, 1986). "That's what she's like".
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as co-vocalist, and they were "walk-dancing" in the style of
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Let's Make This Precious: The Best of Dexys Midnight Runners
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Let's Make This Precious: The Best of Dexys Midnight Runners
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Let's Make This Precious: The Best of Dexys Midnight Runners
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Adams: "What, you mean the Italian word for 'thunderbolt'?"
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Trousse, Stephen (June 2012). "Let's make this precious".
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Egan, Barry (June 15, 1997). "Dexy's cool r'n'b poetry".
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Rowland: "Yeah, she is. The Italians have a word for it."
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Let the Record Show: Dexys Do Irish and Country Soul
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1359:Blake, John (October 3, 1985). "Come on, Dexy!".
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1758:(Album inner sleeve notes). Mercury Music. 1985.
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972:(Album label). Mercury Music. 1985.
364:Eighties classic". Dave Simpson of
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2001:Steve Wynne
1994:Paul Speare
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884:DEXYS 13-12
859:DEXYS 13-10
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147:Music video
124:Producer(s)
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