Do you know anyone that's Irish that doesn't like Irish music?

Tombi!

Things like Dubliners, Clancy Brothers, etc (not U2 or Thin Lizzy, moreso folk Irish music)
I'm not talking about people disliking it apart from one or two songs.
But people who wouldn't enjoy any song.

I never once came across anyone that I've met that has actually said they dislike Irish folk music.

Washington Irving

Yes, lots

Helix

can honestly say i only know a handful of people who DO like that kind of music

o1s1n

Eh what? I think you have that the wrong way around OP.

Thomas20

Yes, lots

Biggins

I like a small select amount, the rest bores me to crap!

Tombi!

Really?

I know one person who likes at least one Irish song

I feel like an eejit now.

PseudoFamous

I don't like any of that music

3rdDegree

Loads, including my wife, her friends and all their friends.

yoyo

Well I'm Irish and don't like any of that kinda music :pac:

Nick

Grayson

I can't stand it and neither can most of my friends (who are culchies too). It's the most god awful repetitive ****e I've ever heard.
And I'm fine with hating it. I don't feel any less irish. It's like expecting every swiss person to like yodeling.

Tombi!

yoyo wrote: »

Well I'm Irish and don't like any of that kinda music :pac:

Nick

You've never heard one song you enjoy? At all?

Diapason

Guessing you're not a South Dublin dweller, OP?! :pac:

Fupping Grasshole

I wouldn't know anyone either who doesn't like at least one.

Tombi!

Diapason wrote: »

Guessing you're not a South Dublin dweller, OP?! :pac:

Nope, north inner city

shaneb92

Everone I know likes at least 2 or 3 irish songs

starbelgrade

Old men with beards in wooly jumpers singing songs of misery & despair about people starving in the famine, being killed by Brits, and having to leave Ireland for America.

Sure what's not to like?

yoyo

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

You've never heard one song you enjoy? At all?

Nope, living in temple bar for a few years probably didn't help either, whiskey in a jaarrr.... As someone said above I find it repetitive and just not my kind of music, prefare pop/dance music myself

Nick

Pushtrak

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

You've never heard one song you enjoy? At all?

That's a fairly broad way of looking at liking a style, just liking one song in a particular style. One can appreciate a song in a style, but as a general thing dislike that style. I'd say if people were honest and were exposed to enough variety within each style they'd find at least one song in every type of music that they can appreciate on some level.

Pherekydes

Diddly eye!

My son plays in a trad Ceili band. I'd better like it. :pac:

I like most types of music. /shrugs

Tombi!

yoyo wrote: »

Nope, living in temple bar for a few years probably didn't help either, whiskey in a jaarrr.... As someone said above I find it repetitive and just not my kind of music, prefare pop/dance music myself

Nick

I'm not having a go at all

I'm just genuinely curious because I can think of at least one song people like (not one particular song, but everyone I know likes at least one song).

So you think it's the fact you've been forced to endure it so long you just hate it?

Pushtrak wrote: »

That's a fairly broad way of looking at liking a style, just liking one song in a particular style. One can appreciate a song in a style, but as a general thing dislike that style. I'd say if people were honest and were exposed to enough variety within each style they'd find at least one song in every type of music that they can appreciate on some level.

That's what I meant. I mean as a genre, I hate most rap music but I like one or two songs.

I've never met an Irish person that hates every Irish song they listened to.

mike65

Someone must like Sharon Shannon and the way she smiles while reeling in the reels for hours and hours and hours while hardy men in serious jumpers look on sternly.

gobnaitolunacy

I can't stand Irish Trad/Country & Western hybred (or inbred more like) music, and what's presented to tourists as 'real' Irish trad music in Killarney. Fairly p*ss poor standard of live music there in general.
Also, TOO FRIGGING LOUD! Whats it with playing with amps in smallish pubs?

starbelgrade

Pushtrak wrote: »

I'd say if people were honest and were exposed to enough variety within each style they'd find at least one song in every type of music that they can appreciate on some level.

That doesn't apply to country music, folk music, barbershop quartets, anything played on the spoons, christian music, emo music and The Script.

EyesClosed

I have loads of friends that hate it, I like it though, great fun to play live

Grayson

I don't mind this

kfallon

I fooking love it

Kintarō Hattori

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

I never once came across anyone that I've met that has actually said they dislike Irish folk music.

You have now. I never listen to it as it's never really appealed to me.

Tombi!

Grayson wrote: »

I don't mind this

What in the name of divine beings was that?!

davet82

you have to be drunk to enjoy it...


that tells a story in itself :P

Tombi!

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

You have now. I never listen to it as it's never really appealed to me.

I'm talking about one song. You've never heard one song you liked at all?

Helix

shaneb92 wrote: »

Everone I know likes at least 2 or 3 irish songs

there's loads of great irish music, but the question was specifically about irish folk

yoyo

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

I'm not having a go at all

I'm just genuinely curious because I can think of at least one song people like (not one particular song, but everyone I know likes at least one song).

So you think it's the fact you've been forced to endure it so long you just hate it?

Well tbh of all that type of music (genre) and songs I've heard I would never say that I liked any of them. I don't like rap music either but I do like a few grime artists which is quite similar to rap. I don't like classical music either although do like that gladiator now that we are free song.
I'm sure I've heard many of the dubliners and similar songs and just don't like any, with a few pints in and in a pub with that kinda music live it might be different (wouldn't say like the music but the athmosphere)

Nick

Tombi!

Helix wrote: »

there's loads of great irish music, but the question was specifically about irish folk

Maybe I got it a bit mixed up but I thought Irish folk was the "traditional" stuff like Dubliners, etc?

mauzo

Have to say I love the dubliners and irish music in general, but I'd be on my own with that....my friends hate it. My family are big into it to be fair.

Pherekydes

starbelgrade wrote: »

Old men with beards in wooly jumpers singing songs of misery & despair about people starving in the famine, being killed by Brits, and having to leave Ireland for America.

Sure what's not to like?

The senior band associated with my son's group is comprised entirely of men and women in their 20s. There isn't one wooly jumper, beard or ugly amongst them. The drummer in particular is unbelievably hot.

The music they play is all lively jigs and reels. Even if you're tone deaf you'd be tapping your foot after a minute or two.

Tombi!

yoyo wrote: »

I'm sure I've heard many of the dubliners and similar songs and just don't like any, with a few pints in and in a pub with that kinda music live it might be different (wouldn't say like the music but the athmosphere)

Nick

Maybe that's it. I suppose people like it for the athmosphere sort of "cheery" thing with songs about death, famine and invasions mixed with jaunty tunes.

kfallon

syndeyfife wrote: »

Have to say I love the dubliners and irish music in general, but I'd be on my own with that....my friends hate it. My family are big into it to be fair.

You'll do for me

Can't beat an ould Sunday morning sing song with yourself, lying in the cot when you are hungover!

I have been known to sing a tune or two up the local when my larynx is suitably lubricated

neil_hosey

i cant actually listen to much other music than trad music. I cant get enough of it.

That includes folk and ballads.

Wiggles88

I like one or two folk songs but 99% of it sounds the exact same to me.

mauzo

Diapason wrote: »

Guessing you're not a South Dublin dweller, OP?! :pac:

Why do you ask that?

Grayson

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

What in the name of divine beings was that?!

Now i feel old.

Check out "asshole" and "life's going to suck".
Then start a thread about him and watch it get evicerated by Bill Hicks fans

Honestly though, I find that particular song more entertaining than 99.99% of traditional irish music.

Tombi!

Grayson wrote: »

Now i feel old.

Check out "asshole" and "life's going to suck".
Then start a thread about him and watch it get evicerated by Bill Hicks fans

Honestly though, I find that particular song more entertaining than 99.99% of traditional irish music.

I know who he is and what have you.

I just... never heard anything like that in my life.

FatherLen

it would never be my first choice of music but that doesn't mean i dislike it.

Shane-KornSpace

I dont like Irish music.

Diapason

syndeyfife wrote: »

Why do you ask that?

Playing on stereotypes for rather lame comic effect.

Although I do know many people who reside in the south Dublin area who would claim to hate all trad.

Tombi!

Diapason wrote: »

Playing on stereotypes for rather lame comic effect.

Although I do know many people who reside in the south Dublin area who would claim to hate all trad.

And only on the south side would you find them.
We kicked them outta the northern side for not being patriotic and drunkely singing whiskey in the jar!

eth0

Can't bate a few lively rebel tunes

kfallon

Diapason wrote: »

Although I do know many people who reside in the south Dublin area who would claim to hate all trad.

Heretics! :mad:

Diapason

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

We kicked them outta the northern side for not being patriotic and drunkely singing whiskey in the jar!

Exactly! And as you kicked us up the arse, you couldn't help but notice our Union Jack boxers.

scotchy

Diapason wrote: »

Guessing you're not a South Dublin dweller, OP?! :pac:

I am, and I like the music.


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