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Christy Moore Top 20

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  • #52
    Bearhunter
    Registered Users Posts: 656 ✭✭✭Bearhunter


    As I Roved Out/The Night Visit, a cracking song, great harmonica on it.
    John O'Dreams, a beautiful way to close out an album.
    And The Well Below The Valley, a song that would have been lost forever had Christy not revived it.


  • #53
    Famous45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Famous45


    I'll add a couple more to the list I already had.

    Stitch in Time
    Sixteen Fishermen Raving

    The Contender, as stated above would be a nice way to close the disc.


  • #54
    Raytown Rocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 814 ✭✭✭Raytown Rocks


    Just listening to Mcllhatton as I read this thread
    Really is a good song.
    Good choce.


  • #55
    Raytown Rocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 814 ✭✭✭Raytown Rocks


    Originally Posted by vag77
    wat about the song from the stardust disaster great song
    Tony_Montana wrote: »
    what?

    "They never came home" is the name of that song Tony.

    Listening to that one now...very powerful and sad song.


  • #56
    Gingy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 683 ✭✭✭Gingy


    How have 'North and South' or 'Motherland' not been considered. Other than them, some other good ones that haven't been seriously considered,

    The Contender
    Flickering Light
    Companeros
    Sonny
    Raggle Taggle


  • #57
    Michael Collins
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 1,851 Mod ✭✭✭✭Michael Collins


    The Contender! How could I forget? Possibly the best song I've heard in my entire life. How could I forget...


  • #58
    fitz0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,753 ✭✭✭fitz0


    Michael Collins wrote: »
    The Contender! How could I forget? Possibly the best song I've heard in my entire life. How could I forget...
    Most definately! The version from the boxset has to be in my all time top 10 favourite songs.

    Ill post my top 20 and you can pick and choose unless of course this thread is already dead and yo uhave the CD burned.

    1 Jack Doyle (The Contender)
    2 Metropolitan Avenue (Tribute to Noel Brazil)
    3 Motherland
    4 James Larkin
    5 Bridge at Killaloe
    6 Smoke and Strong Whiskey
    7 Continental Ceili
    8 Hey Ronnie Regan
    9 Lawless
    10 Missing You
    11 Ordinary Man
    12 Mc Illhatton
    13 Viva la Quinte Brigade
    14 Pair of Brown Eyes
    15 Biko Drum
    16 Go Move Shift
    17 They Never Came Home
    18 Wicklow Boy
    19 Before the Deluge
    20 No Time for Love


  • #59
    Tony_Montana
    Registered Users Posts: 822 ✭✭✭Tony_Montana


    fitz0 wrote: »
    Most definately! The version from the boxset has to be in my all time top 10 favourite songs.

    Ill post my top 20 and you can pick and choose unless of course this thread is already dead and yo uhave the CD burned.

    1 Jack Doyle (The Contender)
    2 Metropolitan Avenue (Tribute to Noel Brazil)
    3 Motherland
    4 James Larkin
    5 Bridge at Killaloe
    6 Smoke and Strong Whiskey
    7 Continental Ceili
    8 Hey Ronnie Regan
    9 Lawless
    10 Missing You
    11 Ordinary Man
    12 Mc Illhatton
    13 Viva la Quinte Brigade
    14 Pair of Brown Eyes
    15 Biko Drum
    16 Go Move Shift
    17 They Never Came Home
    18 Wicklow Boy
    19 Before the Deluge
    20 No Time for Love


    As i speak i am sorting out the CD. I havent heard alot of them song. Is there anyway i can hear them?


  • #60
    Tony_Montana
    Registered Users Posts: 822 ✭✭✭Tony_Montana


    Gingy wrote: »
    How have 'North and South' or 'Motherland' not been considered. Other than them, some other good ones that haven't been seriously considered,

    The Contender


    Defo in there, thanks for this. Brilliant song


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  • #61
    fitz0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,753 ✭✭✭fitz0


    Tony_Montana wrote: »
    As i speak i am sorting out the CD. I havent heard alot of them song. Is there anyway i can hear them?
    If you PM me your email I can forward whatever ones you want.

    BTW what version of the contender do you have? The one on the boxset is incredible.


  • #62
    panelb/sprayer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭panelb/sprayer


    the lakes
    ride on
    nancy spain brilliant:
    and definitly message boy


  • #63
    joconnor59
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭joconnor59


    ye that o keefee guy great christy saw it on youtube looks and sings like the legend
    well hows it goin !!!


  • #64
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Wow people your missing two most important Christy albums from the 1970s which lay between the two seminal Planxty periods. 1975s Whatever Tickles Your Fancy and 1976s Christy Moore (Self titled album or known as the Black album). List of songs from these would fill out yer top 20s.
    Whatever Tickles Your Fancy - Christy Moore Polydor 1975
    1. Home By Bearna 2. January Man 3. Moving-On Song (Go! Move! Shift!) 4. Bunch Of Thyme 5. Tippin' It Up To Nancy 6. Ballad Of Timothy Evans 7. Who Put The Blood 8. One Last Cold Kiss/Trip To Roscoff 9. Van Diemen's Land
    Christy Moore - Christy Moore (Known also as the Black album) Polydor 1976
    1. Dalesman's Litany 2. Galtee Mountain Boy 3. Little Musgrave 4. Wave Up To The Shore 5. Nancy Spain 6. Lanigan's Ball 7.Johnny Jump Up 8. Scariff Martyrs 9. Limerick Rake 10. Boys Of Mullabawn 11. Sacco & Vanzetti

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0i_TXx7Z-Y


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juCQEWkP83Q


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf2411oswdY


    Also anyone looking for Christys Lakes of Pontchartrain, it wasnt recorded under his own name, it was recorded with Planxty and appears on the groups album Cold Blow and the Rainy Night from 1974.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #65
    Whiskey Devil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Whiskey Devil


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-nUVTraQHw


    I think the latest recording on the Burning Times album is Christy's best recording of this great song. I have tried to upload it to YT but the Sony nazis were right on top of me..

    Definitely in my top 10!


  • #66
    Whiskey Devil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Whiskey Devil


    bodhrandude wrote: »

    Also anyone looking for Christys Lakes of Pontchartrain, it wasnt recorded under his own name, it was recorded with Planxty and appears on the groups album Cold Blow and the Rainy Night from 1974.

    Thanks for the vids. :)

    Re: The Lakes of Ponchartrain - I'm pretty sure he has recorded it solo also. It appears on the Christy Moore Collection 81-91, not sure about the actual album itself. The Planxty version is the definitive recording though..


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  • #67
    Michael Collins
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 1,851 Mod ✭✭✭✭Michael Collins


    Whiskey Devil wrote: »
    Thanks for the vids. :)

    Re: The Lakes of Ponchartrain - I'm pretty sure he has recorded it solo also. It appears on the Christy Moore Collection 81-91, not sure about the actual album itself. The Planxty version is the definitive recording though..

    Yep you're correct Whiskey, the album is 'The Time Has Come' and there is yet another version on the Boxset.


  • #68
    Deminiman
    Registered Users Posts: 168 ✭✭Deminiman


    Tony_Montana wrote: »
    Anyone see Adrian O' Keefe on youtube.. he amazed me how like christy he is...obviously put on but he's great

    Saw him live last night! Brilliant stuff. Sang some of his own stuff too, was very very good!


  • #69
    bridster007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 417 ✭✭bridster007


    Old thread I know but "And so do I" from the This is the Day album needs to be added.


  • #70
    lucylu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭lucylu


    Your missing "the Curragh of Kildare" from your list. :D

    The Reel in the flickering lights also a serious contender


  • #71
    trad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭trad


    What about the "Night Visit" particularly the up tempo version.

    Welcome to the Cabaret should get a look in as well


    Great thread


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  • #72
    neil_hosey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭neil_hosey


    continental ceili
    beeswing
    casey
    hackler from grouse hall (technically planxty)


  • #73
    uggybear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭uggybear


    Missing you
    Galtee Mountain Boy
    Ordinary Man
    Only Our Rivers Run Free
    The Cliffs Of Dooneen


  • #74
    sean96
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭sean96


    i think you should add back home in derry to the list as it is a brilliant song and well worth a spot in this top 20


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