After Hours - what's your favourite Saw Doctors song?

Darragh

Howdy

The Saw Doctors are coming into Boards.ie tomorrow to play a couple of tunes, to answer a few questions and generally have the craic.

I've already posted details - and a competition - in the music forum but I'd love to get the After Hours take on the Saw Doctors - great musicians or not?

What's your favourite song of theirs? I'll ask them to record it especially for After Hours and stick it up on YouTube tomorrow...

Answers below please and thanks!

Darragh

MagicMarker

None, they're shíte.

Augmerson

Two Princes was good.

The Master

Great gang of musicians

"I Useta Love her" - TUNE!!!!

Donkey Oaty

They are the thinking man's Jedward.

Ush1

When I hear Saw Doctors I instantly think of culchies in wellies going mental.

Bonito

MagicMarker wrote: »

None, they're shíte.

Written/sang any good tunes yourself?

I second TheMaster's choice.

sam34

its gotta be "i used to love her"

or else "tahts what she said last night"

Pope Benedict

Woeful flock of potato munchers.

MagicMarker

Bonito wrote: »

Written/sang any good tunes yourself?

Yes.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

I saw the thread title and I thought 'This is defo gonna get deleted'
Then I saw that Darragh had written it!

Saw Doctors aren't that bad, they did start out as a kind of parody band but in later years they wrote some pretty nice songs

Of course I'm gonna pic 'The Green and Red of Mayo'!
Great song

Bonito

MagicMarker wrote: »

Yes.

Link?

Strange Loop

I only know two, my favourite of which is N17.

bonerm

I once heard "Too win just once" cut to a montage of Norn Ireland 1-1 Rep Ireland 1993 and I've liked that particular song ever since.

"I used to love her" is just too much of a bogger anthem for me to get on board with it.

super_furry

True story - my knowledge of the lyrics to N17 impressed a girl so much that it earned me the dirtiest, messiest and one of the best one night stands I'd ever had. She was a farmer's daughter from Galway, we were in Hersonissos in Greece and I still have a slight limp after that night.

Kasabian

Avery Immense Belt wrote: »

I saw the thread title and I thought 'This is defo gonna get deleted'
Then I saw that Darragh had written it!

Saw Doctors aren't that bad, they did start out as a kind of parody band but in later years they wrote some pretty nice songs

Of course I'm gonna pic 'The Green and Red of Mayo'!
Great song

Reminds me of "The National" in Kilburn

ejmaztec

super_furry wrote: »

True story - my knowledge of the lyrics to N17 impressed a girl so much that it earned me the dirtiest, messiest and one of the best one night stands I'd ever had. She was a farmer's daughter from Galway, we were in Hersonissos in Greece and I still have a slight limp after that night.

She can't have been much good.

SadieSue

Has to be "N17" and "I used to love her"
Just reminds me of going on holidays.

babyfratelli_x

I used to love Joyce Country Ceili Band so much, bt heard so damn much of it after a year of college in Galway and G.A.A discos last summer that I now have to be seriously drunk before I can resit the urge to change the song.

Tommy K's a decent song, as is Green and Red of Mayo

K-9

N17

Engelbert

I accidentally stumbled into a Saw Doctors gig a few years back and got poked in the eye by a man brandishing his thumbs like a crab with mad cow disease. I think he had an "I shot J.R." T-shirt on!

Saw Doctors....pfft! More like Witch Doctors if they can provoke a man to dance in such an irregular fashion!

MidlandsM

TR Dallas is better than the SAW DOCTORS! lol

Parsley

Clare Island or Share the Darkness.

Rented Mule

N17 ...but the opening line of I Useta Love Her is the greatest line ever written.

I have fallen for another, she can make her own way home ....

ya-ba-da-ba-doo

THE GLORY OF HER ARSE!

I useta love her is mine!

WesternZulu

Avery Immense Belt wrote: »

I saw the thread title and I thought 'This is defo gonna get deleted'
Then I saw that Darragh had written it!

Saw Doctors aren't that bad, they did start out as a kind of parody band but in later years they wrote some pretty nice songs

Of course I'm gonna pic 'The Green and Red of Mayo'!
Great song

Its comparable with dylan type lyrics if you're from mayo.

Brilliant song (The definitive county song)

Would bring a tear to a mayo stone!

biko

This version of this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNPwi3kKASo

WesternZulu

Oh and yeah we Culchies have the Saw Doctors.

Ye Dubs have Christy and Aslan...i always thought of the Saw Doctors as the culchies Aslan, without the heroin!

And this is our "Crazy World"

Super-Rush

WesternZulu wrote: »

Oh and yeah we Culchies have the Saw Doctors.

Ye Dubs have Christy and Aslan...i always thought of the Saw Doctors as the culchies Aslan, without the heroin!

And this is our "Crazy World"

Hay Wrap would be my pick also.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

WesternZulu wrote: »

Oh and yeah we Culchies have the Saw Doctors.

Ye Dubs have Christy and Aslan...i always thought of the Saw Doctors as the culchies Aslan, without the heroin!


And this is our "Crazy World"

I think they had a drummer caught smoking hash once :eek:

kiwilostineire

I am definitely a Tommy K fan, watching a girl stand on boyfriends shoulders and then do T K to the tune, and a girl beside me hold up a shirt that said I Love NY with NY crossed out and Saw Doctors written in was one of the best memories of Oxegen.

Mars Bar

Ye've got to delve deeper than N17 and I Useta Lover. Seriously.

How many of ye know "Same Oul' Town"? Unreal song and my favourite album. There is some serious songwriting in there and in their newer-ish album, "The Cure". It's about getting fed up of the same people, same **** everyday. Very applicable to the tough times of the recession.

My favourite verse of Same Oul' Town being:

"you know you'd often wonder
as the years go past
why you ever bothered
going to mass
was it the fear of god
or to find a wife
or just buying shares
in the afterlife".

What about, "You Got Me On The Run", "Wake Up Sleeping", "Going Back To Tuam", "Wisdom Of Youth", "This Is Me", "Out For A Smoke", "Share The Darkness" is a lovely haunting tune...

Did ye know that the USA Women World Cup Winners of 1999 adopted the song "To Win Just Once" as their theme tune? Yes, yes they did.


They are much more than culchie (Tuam isn't even a culchie town ffs!), welly wearing entertainment. They are poets who have honed their craft through much practice and hard work.

A very hard working live band too. I should know, I have seen them play over 20 times...

epgc3fyqirnbsx

^^^All very true Mars Bar, not a huge fan but my mate often playes there stuff and as you said they have honed their craft and are actually pretty damn good songwriters now

Still I cant say I know much, my favourite lyric goes back to

'Daddy can I go on top of the trailor, Daddy can I go on top of the trailor, I swear to God I'll be carefull'

Mars Bar

Avery Immense Belt wrote: »

^^^All very true Mars Bar, not a huge fan but my mate often playes there stuff and as you said they have honed their craft and are actually pretty damn good songwriters now

Still I cant say I know much, my favourite lyric goes back to

'Daddy can I go on top of the trailor, Daddy can I go on top of the trailor, I swear to God I'll be carefull'

I appreciate the fact that you can appreciate their song writing abilities!

Thank you!

Davy was in a punk band called Blaze X before he was in the Saw Doctors. They supported U2 in Leisureland and had relative success before disbanding. They were a deadly band!

Paparazzo

Has to be N17. Every time I go over the west and see a sign for it I sing it. In fact, if you don't do that, there's something wrong with you.

ottostreet

mars bar wrote: »

Ye've got to delve deeper than N17 and I Useta Lover. Seriously.

How many of ye know "Same Oul' Town"? Unreal song and my favourite album. There is some serious songwriting in there and in their newer-ish album, "The Cure". It's about getting fed up of the same people, same **** everyday. Very applicable to the tough times of the recession.

My favourite verse of the song being:

"you know you'd often wonder
as the years go past
why you ever bothered
going to mass
was it the fear of god
or to find a wife
or just buying shares
in the afterlife".

What about, "You Got Me On The Run", "Wake Up Sleeping", "Going Back To Tuam", "Wisdom Of Youth", "This Is Me", "Out For A Smoke", "Share The Darkness" is a lovely haunting tune...

Did ye know that the USA Women World Cup Winners of 1999 adopted the song "To Win Just Once" as their theme tune? Yes, yes they did.


They are much more than culchie (Tuam isn't even a culchie town ffs!), welly wearing entertainment. They are poets who have honed their craft through much practice and hard work.

A very hard working live band too. I should know, I have seen them play over 20 times...

BORING! They're a culchie band, and ya can't take them away from us!

Joyce County Ceili Band for me, please & thank you.

Mars Bar

ottostreet wrote: »

BORING! They're a culchie band, and ya can't take them away from us!

Joyce County Ceili Band for me, please & thank you.

I'll let ya have that much so!

You can take JJCB with ya if ya wish, there's better than that hiding away in their vaults!

cian1500ww

The bebo song :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf5Lys19eJY

DundalkDuffman

No one has mentioned "To win just once" as yet. An excellent Saw Doctors track and one of my all time favourites from any band! Went through a phase of them years ago and just recently rediscovered them. Some excellent songwriting from them if people take the time!

Mars Bar

DundalkDuffman wrote: »

No one has mentioned "To win just once" as yet. An excellent Saw Doctors track and one of my all time favourites from any band! Went through a phase of them years ago and just recently rediscovered them. Some excellent songwriting from them if people take the time!

mars bar wrote: »

Ye've got to delve deeper than N17 and I Useta Lover. Seriously.

How many of ye know "Same Oul' Town"? Unreal song and my favourite album. There is some serious songwriting in there and in their newer-ish album, "The Cure". It's about getting fed up of the same people, same **** everyday. Very applicable to the tough times of the recession.

My favourite verse of Same Oul' Town being:

"you know you'd often wonder
as the years go past
why you ever bothered
going to mass
was it the fear of god
or to find a wife
or just buying shares
in the afterlife".

What about, "You Got Me On The Run", "Wake Up Sleeping", "Going Back To Tuam", "Wisdom Of Youth", "This Is Me", "Out For A Smoke", "Share The Darkness" is a lovely haunting tune...

Did ye know that the USA Women World Cup Winners of 1999 adopted the song "To Win Just Once" as their theme tune? Yes, yes they did.


They are much more than culchie (Tuam isn't even a culchie town ffs!), welly wearing entertainment. They are poets who have honed their craft through much practice and hard work.

A very hard working live band too. I should know, I have seen them play over 20 times...

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Well this has worked out well for them, I've decided to get the two albums Marse Bar mentioned.

Well played lads!

Mars Bar

Avery Immense Belt wrote: »

Well this has worked out well for them, I've decided to get the two albums Marse Bar mentioned.

Well played lads!

Did you purposely put "arse" into my username!? :eek:

:pac:

I swear, I get no commission for this!

Good going Slasher, "Out For A Smoke" from "The Cure" is a brilliant song. Pity they wouldn't play it live more often.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

lol, just noticed marse

Demeyes

I'm very pleased that I managed to live in Galway for a few years without ever seeing them live, trust me that's an achievement! I can't really stand them at all.

starbelgrade

If the Saw Doctors had never existed, Graham Linehan would have invented them as a sitcom, ala The Monkees.

Conor Bourke

Hay Wrap, Red Cortina or Exhilarating Sadness


And no matter how boggery, I'll always love JCCB.

Never Mind the Strangers is nice too..

bernardo mac

Dunno,some good guitaring and catchy tunes but much the same shout throughout.

up for anything

Presentation Boarder.

Mars Bar

up for anything wrote: »

Presentation Boarder.

"She's a 4th year, dead feek, Presentation Border!".

The borders are long gone now though...:(

veryangryman

Avery Immense Belt wrote: »

lol, just noticed marse

You'd forget it if it wasnt attached to you!

rossie1977

some of the best nights out in this country have been at saw doctors gigs, i cannot imagine someone not having craic at one of their gigs, someone mentioned them being the country version of aslan, i think thats spot on. as someone who grew up in rural roscommon (not far from both the galway and mayo border) many of their songs are so close to home, same aul town. someone mentioned this, great song, this could have been written about me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBAA2nX42H0