Best 20 Irish songs so far....

Twilighter

Modern Irish music for me would be:

The Coronas - San Diego Song
The Blizzards - Trust Me, I'm A Doctor
Damien Rice - Cannonball/The Blower's Daughter
Lisa Hannigan - Lille
Duke Special - Freewheel
Paddy Casey - Saints And Sinners
Snow Patrol - Chocolate/Run/Open Your Eyes/Spitting Games/Shut Your Eyes .. so many!Mundy/Sharon Shannon - Galway Girl

Old Irish:
The Dubliners - Finnegan's Wake
Luke Kelly - Song For Ireland
Christy Moore - Joxer Goes to Stuttgart/The Voyage/Bobby Sands
Sawdoctors - I Useta Love Her/Joyce Country Ceili Band
The Pogues - Sally MacLennane/If I Should Fall From The Grace Of God/Haunted (Sinead O'Connor)
U2 -Anything really!

and of course: Donna & Joe of You're A Star/Eurovision.. HA!

So many more that aren't coming to me, we're a great nation of music

Spiritoftheseventies

stateofflux wrote: »

"like clockwork" by the boomtown rats should be up there....a house? wilt? sack? ...gimme a break lol

A house definitely up there. Especially given its an Alternative Indie thread. No doubt about it whatsoever. Endless Art, Call Me Blue, Ill Always be grateful, here comes the good times, Kick me again Jesus. All terrific songs.

A Disgrace

Twilighter wrote: »

Modern Irish music for me would be:

The Coronas - San Diego Song
The Blizzards - Trust Me, I'm A Doctor

and of course: Donna & Joe of You're A Star/Eurovision.. HA!

So many more that aren't coming to me, we're a great nation of music

These are obviously a joke, right?

Back to A House, defo right that they belong here being an alternative forum. NME called them the best Irish band ever, including U2, and I beleive they topped the old independent charts in the UK a number of times (Kick me again Jesus being one of them)

Still on topic, The Pales 'Butterfly' as posted before, Blinks ' It's not my fault' and most of Sunbears stuff..

One thing is for sure, things are very slack at the moment when it comes to seminal Irish indie moments..

The recession should sort all of that out tho, great time for musicians..

gigantic09

Sinead o conner-n compares 2u
The pogues-rainy night in soho
Aslan-this is
Luke kelly-scorn not his simplicity
Rory Gallagher-tattoed lady
Thin lizzy-old town
Whipping boy-When we were young
Christy moore-the contender
The boontown rats-Dont like mondays
The pogues-thousands are sailing.

iamhunted

Sinead o conner-n compares 2u

thats a prince song

gigantic09

true but going by that theory 'scorn not...' is a phil coulter song.Sinead has made the song her own and deserves her spot on any 'best of irish set list'.Pity it hard to come up with many more female artists to accompany her.

1968

Top 10:

The Atrix - Treasure On The Wasteland
Bagatelle - Summer in Dublin
The Blades - Downmarket
The Boomtown Rats - Looking After No.1
Phil Lynott - Old Town
The Radiators From Space - Under Clery's Clock
Stiff Little Fingers - Johnny Was
The Sultans of Ping FC - Where's Me Jumper?
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
The 4 Of Us - Mary

Pat D. Almighty

Off the top of my head....

Them - Gloria
Thin Lizzy - Don't Believe A Word
Radiators From Space - Faithful Departed
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
U2 - Out of Control
JJ72 - October Swimmer
Snow Patrol - Star Fighter Pilot
Ash - Oh Yeah
Kerbdog - JJ Song
Therapy? - Nowhere
The Frank & Walters - After All
Blink - It's Not My Fault
Whipping Boy - We Don't Need Nobody Else
A House - Endless Art
Junkster - Slide
The Frames - Angel At My Table
Something Happens - Hello, Hello, Hello?
Christy Moore - Joxer Goes To Stuttgart
Jape - Floating

rcaz

Oppenheimer - Look Up. Perfect pop song, it's been stuck in my head all week.

KeanSeenan

So Cow is probably my favourite irish musician.He's written three albums of excellent stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hga69iuPqpc

I think there are alot of other great bands around Ireland at the moment passed the usual Coronas-based-tripe.Such as Grand Pocket Orchestra, Squarehead, No Monster Club, plus that whole Popical Island thing has some great bands on it.
Of old song, I'd say Scorn not his simplicity is one of my favourites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTBC7ckTWpo

There's one chord change in the chorus that just floors me each time.

Nolanger

1. Skid row - Virgo's daughter
2. Zerra 1 - Thousand voices
3. Village - Mental state
4. Berlin - 21
5. Virgin prunes - Walls of Jericho
6. Fountainhead - Rhythm method
7. My bloody valentine - Made me realise
8. Assassin - Stealin
9. Starjets - War stories
10. Blades - Downmarket
11. SLF - Suspect device
12. Atrix - Treasure on the wasteland
13. Blink - Cello
14. Thin Lizzy - Do anything you wanna do
15. Barry Warner - Real man
16. It's a secret - I can't dance
17. Undertones - Teenage kicks
18. Minor detail - Canvas of life
19. Light a big fire - CIA
20. Paranoid visions - Politician

KeanSeenan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5hnCb-93WY

This too.

ValJester

So Cow-Ain't No Fun, although very specific cultural references in it which I'd question people outside Ireland would get.

KeanSeenan

Yes Sir!His latest album is magnificent.

Bryan4president

Van Morrison - Days like this
Rory Gallagher - Bad Penny

And how about "Put Them Under Pressure"

ibh

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Rigor Mortis

pinksoir wrote: »

Sorry to drag this up again, but it's actually the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is not part of Britain. Britain is England, Scotland and Wales.

Northern Irish is the correct term, not British. So calling bands from the North Irish is technically correct.

This is also incorrect
Britain = England + Wales
Great Britain = England + Wales + Scotland
UK = GB + NI

Miguel_Sanchez

Discuss the ins and outs of the United Kingdom elsewhere.

The next person who drags this thread off topic will be banned.

Miguel_Sanchez

Actually, taking a look at this thread it doesn't really belong in Alt/Indie at all.

Moved to Music

trashcan

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

Yes there were a lot of irish bands that were brill that should have made it. Stars of Heaven, A House, Something Happens, Radiators from Space and of course the Blades. And of course you couldn't leave out Fatima Mansions and Microdisney. Still nice to hear Dave Couse from a House on the radio every sunday.

Agree with most of those (Never really got the Rads.) My personal pick(and I'm delighted to see you mention them) would be the Stars of Heaven. One of my all time favourite bands. Incredible songs, Sacred heart Hotel, So You Know, Widows Walk, You Only Say What Anyone could Say, 2 O'Clock Waltz, Lights of Tetouan... I could go on and on. Easily the best Irish band there's ever been in my book. Criminally under appreciated. When I see the likes of Jerry ****ing Fish being listed here I just despair. Honourable mentions to The Blades - Downmarket, Microdisney-Town To Town, two classic songs.