Heh AHers, What's your favourite Irish Ballad?

AskMyChocolate

I like Raglan Road, done by Sinead O'Connor. It's probably the only thing that she's done that is still talking to her.:pac:

Ouch, joking. But seriously, boys and girls,; what's your favourite and who's version?

Btw mods, I hope ye won't move this to the music forum, I think it's a pretty good universal theme, and something that would be a pub conversation.

And that's what defines AH. Something y'might talk about in the pub.

I like dogs but it'll be a cold day in hell before I'll discuss their welfare in the animals&pets forum.

Choco

Balfie

Luke Kelly's version of The Auld Triangle.


Also IBTL..

Colilfc

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

Degag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m296tHPIlsY

policarp

The National Anthem...
Played and sung at the end every good pub session...

Yakult

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqXEYFb6fNY

entropi

Yakult wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqXEYFb6fNY

That, and this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XXDHjKWd-M

Oh ibtl :pac:

im invisible

the green fields of france, is a good one

(also caledonia, and will ye go lassie go, but it seems they're scottish)

Yakult

Master of Nothing wrote: »

That, and this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XXDHjKWd-M

Oh ibtl :pac:

and this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb7c5LAisT4

Hazys

Choon!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3wPUtfxzeI

Ruu_Old

UNF UNF UNF UNF!

My lovely horse is the winner.

RichieC

where's me jumper!

Jesus Wept

The Ballad of Brummie Tom

It's an epic yet melancholic tale of a young lad trying to get his leg over.

Pdfile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtAxF3BQFRg


in b4 cultchie thanks...

pragmatic1

No Irish musician better than Luke Kelly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b605qq7xBzM

OutlawPete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNNuE7nyDoQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWA8Nr5uIMU

AskMyChocolate

Heh. Thanks everyone. Some absolute crackers in there. I hope I've thankd everyone. Some of th keys on me keyboard are giving up the ghost. Aah but shur fcuk them.

Btw, what's with the ibtl? Why would this thread be locked?

Ponster

im invisible wrote: »

the green fields of france, is a good one

I suppose that it's an Irish song seeing as it was made famous by an Irish band but I always believed it to be Scottish in origin.

Kiera

Grace. Love that song!

tan11ie

Rattlin Bog -But i sing it faster
http://youtu.be/xnv9GB8xvrw

Plazaman

Damn work filters, can't see the vids.

Love any of Thom Moores songs regalrdeless who sings them (Carolina Rua, Saw You Running, The Scholar) biased probably as he wrote a lot of Sligo songs.

Also love singing Johnny Jump Up when I'm on a Bulmers trip

stovelid

Bunclody.

msdemena

Joe McDonnell by the Woletones or the H block song.

kfallon

This, always sing it at a good ould fashioned sing song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA79kVLHZ5c

kfallon

4 Green Fields is brilliant too, I hope this is the correct video of the young lad singing it, brilliant version (I'm in work so can't access YouTube just have to rely on google)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhUK1o592pk

thebigbiffo

it's not particularly original :pac: but mine has to be the fields of athenry.

brilliant uniquely irish lyrics that perfectly capture the national obession - our oppression by the english and the famine. story of a man having to leave his family he was only trying to feed and the anguish his wife feels at his deportation. and the hope at the end as she prays for him in botany bay.

i know it's naff at this stage - but sometimes you forget how brilliant it actually is because it's heard so much. the rousing chorus makes a pub session and a football match all the better.

...and the green field of france. absolutely...f'ucking...amazing

fryup

here's mine:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IH9QnYJ2-A

sensibleken

'By the hush me boys' or 'the maid of cabra' west sung by Frank Harte, well anything sung by frank harte.

listening to christy moore's version of 'well below the valley' yesterday was epic. Check out 'fionnghuala' by the Bothy band also

Percey Ffrench came up with some classic tunes as well. Tullinahaw sung by my friend Dick Hogan is amazing.


sorry I can't link to youtube from work.

kfallon

thebigbiffo wrote: »

it's not particularly original :pac: but mine has to be the fields of athenry.

brilliant uniquely irish lyrics that perfectly capture the national obession - our oppression by the english and the famine. story of a man having to leave his family he was only trying to feed and the anguish his wife feels at his deportation. and the hope at the end as she prays for him in botany bay.

i know it's naff at this stage - but sometimes you forget how brilliant it actually is because it's heard so much. the rousing chorus makes a pub session and a football match all the better.

...and the green field of france. absolutely...f'ucking...amazing

It's a great song when sung properly by the likes of Paddy Reilly, however the tits who have added the "Hey Baby let the free birds fly", "Sinn Fein", "IRA" parts to it have utterly destroyed a brilliant song. I once stopped singing it at a party when someone added them, only a-holes sing that part of it!

Pompey Magnus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6RtRB5U0GA

Carrickfergus is a wonderful song, I've seen bustling, rowdy pub go silent when someone starts playing it.

trad

Has to be the epic "The Ballad of Little Musgrave" by Planxty

Scorn not his simplicity sung by Luke Kelly and written by Phil Coulter. George Murphy doesn't do a bad version of it either.

Paddy's Lament by Sinead O'Connor

Ordinary Man by Christy for the times we live in.

Bright Blue Rose by Jimmy McCarthy

RachaelVO

Good thread, so super answers, most of which I do really love!

Mave faves have to be Arthur McBride and Lakes of Ponchartrain. Love them both. They get taken out and dusted at family shindigs!

kfallon

Fav ballad sung by Luke Kelly, not sure if this is the clip of his last ever performance (if it's not it should be in the related videos, take a look) but this video of him singing and looking quite frail always brings a tear to my eye and a lump in my throat. You can see Ronnie looking at him as if making sure he is ok, heartbtreaking

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

RachaelVO

kfallon wrote: »

It's a great song when sung properly by the likes of Paddy Reilly, however the tits who have added the "Hey Baby let the free birds fly", "Sinn Fein", "IRA" parts to it have utterly destroyed a brilliant song. I once stopped singing it at a party when someone added them, only a-holes sing that part of it!

In a crowd I don't mind the "hey baby let the free birds fly" bit so much. But it only works if there's loadsa people, one or two people making tits of themselves make me blush, and I didn't do it. As for the "Sinn Fein" "IRA" ****e, can't be doing with that at all

pickarooney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IyvshOYelU

sensibleken

RachaelVO wrote: »

In a crowd I don't mind the "hey baby let the free birds fly" bit so much. But it only works if there's loadsa people, one or two people making tits of themselves make me blush, and I didn't do it. As for the "Sinn Fein" "IRA" ****e, can't be doing with that at all

urgh. I cant stand that. I can't stand that song anyway, ruined by too many Nitelinks home

kfallon

RachaelVO wrote: »

In a crowd I don't mind the "hey baby let the free birds fly" bit so much. But it only works if there's loadsa people, one or two people making tits of themselves make me blush, and I didn't do it. As for the "Sinn Fein" "IRA" ****e, can't be doing with that at all

It should be a hanging offence to sing any (or all) of the 3 'add ins' :pac:

Since when does the word 'baby' belong in an Irish ballad, it's not Chart music!!!

Orando Broom

Not an Irish Song but Christy Moore singing Beeswing is spectacular. Beeswing was originally written by Richard Thompson of Fairport Convention. It really is worth the listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0F6Wy6w3_4

Smoke and Strong Whiskey is another song I think is excellent.

Also check out Richard Thompson's song Vincent Black Lightning 1952. It is a magnificent ballad. The guitar playing is incredible, the vocals can polarise.

There is a lot of exalting adjectives there!

kfallon

Loving this one at the minute too (Christ I could be here all day :pac:)

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

solerina

The Green Fields of France
or
Sean South (from Garryowen)

biko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWHo7syTQOo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PUtc2Lwuh4

kfallon

solerina wrote: »

The Green Fields of France
or
Sean South (from Garryowen)

Nice username!!!

Another classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x7zgIAWzuM

sensibleken

kfallon wrote: »

It should be a hanging offence to sing any (or all) of the 3 'add ins' :pac:

Since when does the word 'baby' belong in an Irish ballad, it's not Chart music!!!

Never hear of weila weila waila? she stuck the penknife in the babys heart weila weila waila

Good god the songs we were taught as small kids. that and songs about hookers in the coombe by zozimus

stovelid

Pompey Magnus wrote: »

Carrickfergus is a wonderful song, I've seen bustling, rowdy pub go silent when someone starts playing it.

A pub in Carrickfergus would certainly go silent anyway. :pac:

kfallon

Two more Luke classics, one of my fav lines ever in a song: "All along that singing river that black mass of men was seen, High above their shining weapons flew their own beloved green"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYIdrV3cdlk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXvt25IsIZ0

Ok I'll stop now :pac:

Lustrum

Liam Clancy singing The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, not Irish but close enough

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCekeoSTwg

Dyr

trad wrote: »

Has to be the epic "The Ballad of Little Musgrave" by Planxty

Great tune but it's not Irish, neither is the bonny shoals of herring :pac:

Luke Kelly doing tramps and hawkers is great (not an irish song either)

Lustrum

How about The Bantry Girls Lament, Frank Harte doing the Shan Van Vocht, Planxtys Bonny Light Horseman, Karan Casey singing anything (particulary Roger the Miller and The King's Shilling), as long as the song tells a story and has none of this baby baby ****e it's good

holystungun9

Glad to see She moves through the fair and also some Luke Kelly and Planxty too.

Top ones for me (which I can't embed, cause I just seem to balls it up) are

In a lifetime - Clannad and Bono, great vocal from Bono
As I roved out - planxty, particularly the live version from vicar st. - as andy roved out
Black is the colour as sang by Christy live at the piont, just beautiful, he says it wasn't his song but I don't know whose it is?

sensibleken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtY6mi0oS2w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AFRCWg_kOc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvECtlJQ4dU

rainbowdrop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77xM1h304Ao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WonYt3wOLcE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3cl7Q2GI50