Luke Kelly - The Net Hauling Song
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Don’t like that, but it did remind me of the scandalously overlooked “Clare to Here”.
Meh.
From the guy who had the fucking “Deluge” #1 on his list, I’ll take that as a compliment.
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The Rattlin Bog
I am a butterfly. The Pale.
Not on spotify sadly, though a load of later dross is.
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Are you soft in the head?
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Dearg Doom - Horslips
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Song of the Faithful Departed - The Radiators from Space
Downtown - Moving Hearts
Arclight - The Fat Lady Sings
Colony - Damien Dempsey
Sword of Light - Horslips
Follow Me - Rory Gallagher
Ghost of a Chance - The Blades
You won’t go wrong with any of those in a playlist.
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Song of the Faithful Departed - The Radiators (…RIP Phil Chevron)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ThaJmtpX0j4
Viva la Quinta Brigada - Christy Moore
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xQbXO828Vio
Stiff Little Fingers - Listen
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RiUt8UKjMgk
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The odd time
And throw in As the Crow Flies - the Rory Gallagher studio version on Wheels Within Wheels is epic.
Beat me to it on the Radiators. Quite possibly the greatest Irish rock song ever written. Those lyrics… fucking hell!
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An underdog’s wounds aren’t so easy to mend…
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Ballad of Long Kesh.
Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers
Mary Ellen Carter - Liam Clancy
We had a teacher in school that went through the lyrics with us as kids - even then you just knew it was something special. Chevron tapped into something there that I don’t think I’ve seen since in an Irish artist. He was a poet and a bard.
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"…Many Irishmen heard the call of Franco
Joined Hitler and Mussolini too
Propaganda from the pulpit and newspapers
Helped O’Duffy to enlist his crew
The word came from Maynooth, “support the Nazis”
The men of cloth failed again
When the Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Dun Laoghaire
As they sailed beneath the swastika to Spain…"
Jaysus! Powerful stuff… Nice reference to Maynooth.
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We don’t need nobody else x 14
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Red Cortina - Saw Doctors
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