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Old 05-22-2004, 12:23 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by Kane Knight
They do a ton of trad. arrangements.


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.
The Irish folk/punk thing was invented, by most accounts, by Shane MacGowan so it would really take a good band for me personally to not seem like a pale imitation, rather than, say, a band tackling the same genre.

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.
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