The Irish Experience - or What Irish Music Is On Eric's Computer

[ericcoleman]

Black 47
Boomtown Rats
Flogging Molly
Sinead O'Connor
Stiff Little Fingers
Thin Lizzy
U2

7 hours worth of stuff ... it's a good day.

I shoulda brought some Undertones though

Comments

[alymid.livejournal.com]

with no effort whatsoever - with my standard autoIpodMix put toghether by Itunes - 14.3 hrs of irishey music - Great Big Sea, Steel Eye Span, Boiled in Lead, Chieftans etc.

[herculesmusic.livejournal.com]

Steeleye Span - they are English. As English as a cold and frosty morning.

[ericcoleman]

Ya beat me to it ...

Great band ... but SO English

[alymid.livejournal.com]

1. I get plenty of cold frosty mornings here in Illinois - doesn't take being english to have those.
2. Great Big Sea is Canadian, Boiled in Lead is from Minnesota and their drummer from Jupiter.
3. I quite specifcally didn't say irish . . . just irishey . . .

so nya!! ;)

[ericcoleman]

But Steeleye aren't the least bit irish-y ...

[alymid.livejournal.com]

well we've always known that your ear was way more refined than mine - thats okay, I'm prettier ;) - and I don't think you are going to make it here before the end of the work day to remove it from my playlist.

[ericcoleman]

And indeed prettier you are ...

And I might surprise you ...

probably not, but I might ...

[alymid.livejournal.com]

never fear you are frequently surprising!
Better stop chatting and get a move on if you are going to be here in less than 3 hrs.

[ericcoleman]

if I drive 140 mph the whole way ...

yeah ... no problem ...

[tlunquist.livejournal.com]

Our cable service includes umpty-gazillion music-only channels in addition to the various TV channels. One of them is called "spirit of the season" or some such like, and today (big shock) they're doing Irish music all day. Sadly, most of it is the standard bad renditions of Danny Boy and When Irish Eyes are Smiling, but just at the moment there's some kickin' fiddle happening.

[ericcoleman]

I generally try to listen to music by irish musicians rather than "Irish Music" on St Pats.

I don't wear green either ...

[herculesmusic.livejournal.com]

Best Irish Album ever- "Veedon fleece" by Van the man. Wonderful, wild, beautiful, crazy and very Irish.

Best Irish Rock album - "Vagabonds of the western world". Rock!

[ericcoleman]

I don't have Vagabonds ... nor Veedon Fleece on CD ... I have it on tape somewhere ...

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Celtic Folk/Rock is my favorite kind of music, and after "humor" the largest category in my collection.

Steeleye Span (my favorite group)
various solo albums by SSpan members
Ralph McTell (my favorite song: Streets of London)
Pentangle
Renaissance
The Chieftans
The Horslips
several miscellaneous collections
Boiled In Lead
divers Celtic Harp
and many more you probably haven't heard of
Do you count Jethro Tull as Irish?

[ericcoleman]

I don't count a lot of that as Irish ... Tull are more grounded in English forms ... we've discussed Steeleye Span above ... Pentangle and Renaissance are two big favorites ... but much more English (don't get me started about Annie Haslam, I tend to gibber and drool) ... I haven't heard enough Ralph McTell to make a comment ...

The Chieftans ... oh my yes ... Same for Boiled In Lead

I was thinking that I needed some Horslips ... I have none on CD and I really would like to listen to them today ...

As for many more I haven't heard of ... bring em on ... stump the band is a hard game to play in this LJ

[herculesmusic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Jeeez. Just because it is folky doesn't make it Irish. I had someone trying to pass off Fairport and Nick Drake as Irish the other day. Come on!

Steeleye span & solo, Ralph McTell, Renaissance (both line ups), Pentangle, Tull - as Irish as the Kinks, as English as Thrupence.

Who does that leave? Oh yeah, Horslips, definately Irish.

[ericcoleman]

I've never heard that first Renaissance LP ... always wondered what it sounded like.

[herculesmusic.livejournal.com]

The first 2 renaissance LPs are nice, and on one CD, luckily. I used to have a gorgeous pink island label ~export only~ copy of "illusions", but Katrina ate that one. That's another story.

The first 2 (as I was saying) are the ones with the Relfs, and come recommended. yeah, I prefer the Haslam period, but still.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, I don't count Sinnead O'Connor as Irish Folk/Rock, largely due to the lack of folk.

Well hey, if you want a complete dump of my CD list you can go to my listing. Here are some of my faves from the Celtic F/R category so far unmentioned:

I have the first three Troubadours of British Folk collections, which I recommend.
A group called Bur came to the MN State Fair and they were good live, so I got their eponymous CD.
The Waterboys CD Room To Roam is good.
Ordering Luke Ski's CD from CD Baby last year, I also ordered De Cheadaoin which is apparently a HS summer camp ensemble. Recorded very poorly, the later tracks didn't work in my CD player and it's in my stack to try to fix on the computer. Not all that good, but lively. I think there was more from that order, but I haven't gotten to them yet.
I have the Planxty and Silly Wizard Best of collections, which have a few great songs. (I seem to be collecting versions of Black Jack Davy/Gypsy Davy.)
I bought the Irish Rover's Best of collection, Years May Come, Years May Go to have a version of Shel Silverstein's The Unicorn, but it also has Lily the Pink, a song I heard when I was a wee lad and didn't even associate with the Irish Rovers! A major bonus!
Okay, one last one: The Seven Nation's Rain and Thunder; somewhat more Scottish than Irish, but features Ullean pipes and all.

[ericcoleman]

I never said a thing about anything I was listening to as being folk/rock. The original list has pretty much nothing that is at all folkie in it ...

And I had no idea that Shel wrote The Unicorn ... so you got me there ...

[ericcoleman]

oops ... close bold on that with your mind

[herculesmusic.livejournal.com]

"Lily the pink" - by Scaffold?

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Yes, a strange song based on a true story. It's entirely possible that I heard their version as a kid; a really good reason I never associated them with The Irish Rovers.