Who digs Irish Music (rock/folk/etc)?

[seriousart]

I gotta say, some of my favorite bands have come out of Ireland.
A short list:

Pogues/ Shane MacGowan
Boomtown Rats/ Bob Geldof
Sinead O'Connor
U2
Cranberries
Stiff Little Fingers
Chieftans
Waterboys
and a lot of the softer folkier stuff as well.

Don't know why I'm so attracted to 'em but God knows I am.
Hmmmm... anybody care for a pint?

[ChrisCTP]

Me, me, me.

I like all the bands you've listed, plus all the stuff I've heard from bands whose names I either don't know or can't recall. I'm a big fan of that "soft, folk stuff", too.

I dig Irish music. :)

[NothingMan]

Those, and don't forget The Coors . . . great music, hot girls !

[ChrisCTP]

You mean The Corrs, right? :)

I love them. I can't find ANY of their stuff here, other than "Talk on Corners" and I never have any luck finding anything other than what's on that CD when I check Napster. Darn it.

[Typo Negative]

I loved Stiff Little Fingers! They rocked!!

[irish_bill]

The corrs piss me off bigtime. Their latest album is produced by 'Mutt' Lange, husband of Shania.

If you guys want the corrs, you are welcome to them.

If you put the three girls together, you might get one woman.:D

I'm a little surprised no one has mentioned Thin Lizzy....

[JavaMaven1]

::: waving hand furiously in the air :::

Oh oh oh! I do!

I think, between my mother and I, we own every Chieftan CD there is to own, and I saw them play live here last year. A show by them is worth its price in gold.

I have not noticed Loreena McKennitt on this list--even though she's Canadian, her music is Celtic-based, and absolutely wonderful (especially her earlier CD's).

I spent several years working & playing at the Renaissance Faires, and have been blessed to be surrounded at the Faire by such glorious music. Many songs bring back happy memories.

[Edward The Head]

I would have said Thin Lizzy, but I love Gary Moore. Great guitarist and Wild Frontier album has lots of Celtic feel to it.

[Bottle of Smoke]

Gotta throw my 2 cents in, too.

I love everything that was already mentioned, but especially:
The Pogues (I said it before, I'll say it again: best damn band of the '80s)
The Waterboys
Sinead O'Connor
VanMorrison
The Chieftains
Hothouse Flowers

[Falcon]

Me! I have about 6 different Irish music compilations, and an additional 4 Celtic ones.

My favorites:

* Lorena McKennitt
* Waterboys
* Sharon Shannon
* early U2 (up through Joshua Tree. After that.....eh.)
* Figgy Duff (once again, Canadian, but their music is Celtic-based)

[Balance]

Loreena McKennitt and Clannad are my favorites. The Cranberries invariably annoy me--I'm not even sure why.

[struuter]

So can I not feel guilty for listening to Fionna Ritchie on the Thistle and the Shamrock? I get teased...sheesh. Must be something in the blood--man, I love Irish music.

ChrisCTP--I've got the Corrs first cd. Oh my lord, very good. Got it second-hand in Nebraska. Think I paid five bucks for it. It's out there...keep looking. Good luck.
struuter

[tomndebb]

So can I not feel guilty for listening to Fionna Ritchie on the Thistle and the Shamrock? I get teased...sheesh.

If you're being teased by "friends," drop 'em.
If you're being teased by family, abandon them.
If you're being teased by co-workers, go postal.

The Thistle and The Shamrock is the sort of show that makes it worthwhile to actually own a radio.
If you have Realplayer or any of its competitors, WKSU radio runs folk music 8 PM - midnight, Friday through Sunday. I am not a fan of the DJ, but he plays a fair amount of Celtic music. (If you're in Northeast or East Central Ohio, of course, you can pick it up directly on WKSU or one of its five repeater stations.)

[struuter]

tomndebb--
Thank you, kind soul. Now I can tell everybody to f*** off about it. Jeesh, you'd think I was listening to kittens being slaughtered, the way they make over it. I can't even remember when it's on here anymore. Just have to look into that...
struuter

[Spoke]

Is there room for one more on this bandwagon?

I am a fan of most of the bands mentioned, and am a huge fan of the Pogues and Shane MacGowan. Best band of the 80's? Dunno about that. (Tough to top R.E.M. in my book.) Still, the Pogues have put out some incredible music.

[casdave]

Try out the

Saw Doctors-they are most excellent.

Christy Moore

Undertones

Feargal Sharkey

[Moirai]

Oh YES! Have seen the Chieftains several times, always great. It was on their tour supporting "A Irish Evening" with Roger Daltrey & Nanci Griffith that the world was introduced to a very talented young (16?) girl who danced several numbers for them. It was Jean Butler, soon to become famous as the principal dancer in "Riverdance."

Love Shane & The Pogues- you can't help but love a man who has been know to come out on stage, look out at the audience, take a swig and yell "F*CK OFF" and then leave the building, leaving the band to play on!

If they come to your area, try to catch The Fenians, a very good band which tends to roost at the Harp Inn in SoCal.

[SqrlCub]

I like Irish/Celtic music. I am particularly fond of Ad Vielle Que Pourra which is a French Canadian/Celtic band. They are quite intersting and talented. You can find their music through Green Linnet catalogs where most of the other Irish bands are found (like Silly Wizard).

HUGS!
Sqrl

[Moirai]

Did I forget Van Morrison?

[Bottle of Smoke]

Originally posted by spoke-
I am a fan of most of the bands mentioned, and am a huge fan of the Pogues and Shane MacGowan. Best band of the 80's? Dunno about that. (Tough to top R.E.M. in my book.) Still, the Pogues have put out some incredible music.

Ok, Ok, so I exaggerated slightly for effect. If you want to split hairs, I think The Replacements and REM edge out the Pogues for best band honors. But still, I love them Pogues to a fault. They get me movin' more than REM could.

[Necros]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Black 47. Shame on all of you.

[Johnny Angel]

I'm not into Irish music per se, but I have an interest in folk music in general, and folk ballads in particular. I've heard some Lorenna McKennet versions of ballads that were very nice. And the other stuff is probably not that shabby. But on the basis of one song, I fucking hate the Waterboys.

They set Yeats' The Stolen Child to music, taking his delicate lilt and cadence and banging into this sputtering stop-gap rhythm that's more evocative of plungering a toilet than of Yeats' visions of fairyland. How could anyone be so callous that they cannot feel the music in Yeats, or so shallow that they would throw away the best of Yeats, leaving only hollow words where there used to be poetry?

I fucking hate the Waterboys. If my best friend handed me a Waterboys CD, I'd snap it in half, and make the motherfucker eat it.

[seriousart]

Johnny Angel said:
They set Yeats' The Stolen Child to music, taking his delicate lilt and cadence and banging into this sputtering stop-gap rhythm
that's more evocative of plungering a toilet than of Yeats' visions of fairyland...
I fucking hate the Waterboys. If my best friend handed me a Waterboys CD, I'd snap it in half, and make the motherfucker eat it.

Ah... spoken like a true, sensitive poet.

[Scotticher]

I love Celtic music, no surprise since my Scottish mother and gram raised me singing it. I would guess I started hearing it in the womb.

A group that has not been mentioned is Eden's Bridge, I really love them.

Scotti

[dorkbro]

Big fan here - with a few additional groups.

Solas -- I really like them, although their guitarist really bothers some traditionalists.

Boiled in Lead -- Take traditional Irish folk music - play with electric guitars, and crank the amplifiers.

Wolfstone -- Do the Boiled in Lead thing, with Scottish music and bagpipes. You might not think bagpipes and electric guitars belong together, but (IMHO) for Wolfstone it works.

[mega the roo]

Although most of what I listen to is local - me me me!

[tomndebb]

Two Yank Irish groups that are great are St. James's Gate out of Texas and Cherish the Ladies (all woman group out of New Jersey/New York/Baltimore--they had a Detroiter with them for a few years that wrote (and left with them) a song about an Irish couple that comes to the States and is torn about returning "home" after retirement).

[yojimbo]

irish_bill How's it going ? That's 3(and one yank who lives here) of us now .

As for the OP:
And I agree Lizzy IMHO is/was the best Irish band. Also if you like trad. you should check out the Dubliners , Luke Kelly singing On Raglan Road is one of the best vocal performances I have ever heard .

The f**king Corrs :rolleyes:

And for some absolute class guiter riffs check out Rory Gallagher .

All together now ::closes eyes starts to sing:: "I remember Dublin city , in the rare auld times" :)

[kawliga]

Riverdance and Lord of the Dance pretty much ruined Irish music for me. But I still listen to the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, the Dubliners, and the Pogues.

[irish_bill]

irish_bill How's it going ? That's 3(and one yank who lives here) of us now . [/QUOTE]

Did you say three?

Yojimbo, who is Kim Philby?

[yojimbo]

Originally posted by irish_bill
Yojimbo, who is Kim Philby?


That would be JohnLarrigan and the american is ruadh . We're all in Dublin and have met up once for a pint or ten . There is also a possible Dopers piss up coming up in a month or two ( search for john's "Ask the Irish Bloke" thread from a while back) .

Not saying that I would be up for one earlier than that .

[yojimbo]

That would should be wouldn't . I need sleep , just came off a 12hr night shift.

[NothingMan]

Originally posted by ChrisCTP
You mean The Corrs, right?

Damn! Yes, thats what I meant, I posted rather late . . . either that or I really do have beer on the brain.

And yes, certainly have to include Van Morrison, "Moon Dance" and "Into the Mystic" are two of the greatest songs ever recorded.

[TwistofFate]

Those Dundalk Scangers....
for all you Coors fans, their new album is called "In Blue".

The Pogues were brilliant, but dont forget to check out Shane and The Popes material either. very, very good.

For an alternate look at irish music, search for music by Hyper(borea), or Afro-Celt Sound System

Gary Moore and Rory Gallagher, 2 of the greats.

Black 47 are excellent also.

For those who like the Dubliners... Luke Kelly sang a beautiful song by Phil Coulter called "Scorn not his Symplicity". I have heard this song sung by Opera vocalists (bass and Suprano, Male and female), By countless other vocalists, but none came close to the character that Luke Kelly breathed into that song with his gravelly, chiseled, guiness barrel voice.


Michael Flatley can go feltch himself with a broken hula hoop.

[TwistofFate]

oh, yeah, I forgot.

Howya, Irish Bill, chonas ata tu ina chonai?

[irish_bill]

i gcontae Chiarrai!

[Sealemon88]

< Taking notes of bands to look into >

I like Irish music a lot. I'm a real fan of Lorena McKennitt and U2.