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Favorite Dropkick Murphys songs?
Since a good number of their songs are covers, it doesn't matter if they did it first per se, just that they did it.
For me... 10 years of service Boys on the Docks The Dirty Glass (Funny as Hell) The outcast (Also referred to by a lot of people as Break the Law) Walk Away Which Side Are you on? The Worker's song. |
The Dirty Glass
The Outcast The Worker's Song Barroom Hero Walk Away Kiss Me I'm Shitfaced Black Velvet Band |
Awesome.
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I've only heard them a couple times on Conan O'Brian, sounded pretty good.
I've been meaning to download some of their shit. |
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Seeing them in August |
Download some of mentioned songs. :love:
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I have heard their version of the Wild Rover, which wasn't all that great. Do they do any other traditional Irish arrangements?
To me they sound kind of like a hundred other bands who play round Dublin and try to emulate the Irish folk/punk fusion that Shane MacGowan pioneered 20 years or more ago. |
I am trying to get songs, but currently both kazaa lite and soulseek are being shit.
Their version of Fields of Athenry is pretty dire, but that song is hard to do well now, outside of a rugby or football crowd singing it at Lansdowne Road. If you like the Dropkick Murphys, you might want to check out the following Pogues songs. The Pogues are my favourites of all time: If I Should Fall from Grace with God Turkish Song of the Damned Bottle of Smoke Streams of Whiskey Body of an American A Rainy Night in SoHo Sickbed of Cuchulain Dirty Old Town Boys from the County Hell Waxie's Dargle Down in the Ground Where the Dead Men Go A Pair of Brown Eyes Fiesta Fairytale of New York Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six (Shane MacGowan got cut off on live TV singing this song, because of the politics of the time. Full of eloquent venom) Poor Paddy Sally MacLennane |
I've got some of their songs, I'll be on Soulseek later on tonight, if you want to d/l some then.
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I'm not sure which ones off the top of my head tho. I listened to the Pogues, but I'm not much hearing the similarity besides the roots in folk songs (Such as the droning bass lines...). The weirdest thing they do is prolly a cover of "Charlie on the MTA" which is called "Skinhead on the MBTA." I know, it's not exactly a traditional irish song, but I felt like mentioning it. Have you heard much form their new album? I tend to prefer it to most of their stuff. |
Blackout is the only album of theirs that I have and it is pretty darned good.
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I personally think it's their best.
It's not to say I hate their other albums, or anything (That'd be weird, since I have almost all of them...). |
I really love Bar Room Hero, Walk Away and World Full Of Hate is pretty awesome too.
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Heros of our past
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Dropkick and the Pogues are both awesome
good dropkick songs The Fighting 69th The Spicy McHaggis Jig For Boston The Guns of Brixton Good Rats Rocky Road To Dublin The Fortunes of War just to name a few |
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I am being misleading though, they sound much more like MacGowan's later work with the Popes, which has electric instruments. Listen to "Donegal Express" for example, which is my favourite song from that body of work, which I generally don't like nearly as much as the Pogues stuff. I'm trying to get more Murphy's stuff, but the download programs seem to have gone to shit. I suppose the problem, really, is that around Dublin there are hundreds of tinpot bands who try that sound, and try that particular style of singing with it, so it passes me by unless it is really, really good. |
Yeah, well, In Vermont, I'm not exposed to those bands, so I guess it's easier to have a different set of standards on the deal. Since most of the bands indegenous to the area are folk, so something that's folk is going to sound a little less unique, whereas Dropkick Murphys are going to sound more interesting in a landscape of Beach Boys throwbacks who think they're "punk."
I'm DLing the song mentioned, or trying to. Soulseek has been a cu</>nt of late. might be a few years before I manage to DL. If you can manage to get the Blackout album, I'd recommend at least trying it. Maybe you'll wanna gouge your ears out, but their stuff is generally better than the cover of fields of Atherny. Walk Away, The Outcast, Workers' Song (The pickford cover), Gonna be a Blackout tonight (Guthrie lyrics, most of my interest comes from that fact), etc. Most of my faves come off that album. Their quality kinda varies. I'm also more drawn in by electric instruments, though a lot of the droning basslines make me wanna scream electric OR acoustic (Same with a couple of the Stone Coyotes tracks, and I love 'em to pieces...) |
spicy mchaggis jig i got their live album from st patricks day if u like live music check it out its pretty good and has lots of bagpipes and shit
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I have their Live CD, live DVD and the live tracks off their Singles collection. :D
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^^^^^* hands him a cookie* hahahahahah thats tight though yeah im getting or at least trying to get back into the Murpheys Blackout to me was good, but again it also made me stop listening to them for a while but hopefully be able to find some of their older stuff
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