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The greatest Irish song of all time

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    #242
    mr_edge_to_you
    Registered Users Posts: 3,021 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    With or Without You - U2
    Gloria - Van Morrison (would highly recommend you check out the Doors version of you haven’t already heard it)
    When We Were Young - Whipping Boy (Ferghal McKee’s lyrics should be on the leaving cert syllabus)
    Dreams - The Cranberries
    Rocky Took a Lover - BellX1

    Where The Streets Have No Name is the greatest song to experience live.


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    #243
    Dick phelan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭Dick phelan


    Where the streets have no name

    Running to stand still

    The town i loved so well

    Scorn not his Simplicity

    Grace

    Missing you Christy Moore


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    #244
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    Clannad and Bono, In a Lifetime
    U2, New Year's Day
    Phil Lynott, Old Town.
    All 3 still give me goosebumps when I hear them.


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    #245
    Peatys
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mifMjKT4Tl0


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    #246
    furiousox
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    Anything by The Smiths.

    CPL 593H



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    #247
    MikeyTaylor
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    Do The Beatles count?
    https://www.beatlesstory.com/blog/2017/03/17/the-luck-of-the-irish-the-beatles-and-ireland/


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    #248
    retro:electro
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    MikeyTaylor wrote: »
    Do The Beatles count?
    https://www.beatlesstory.com/blog/2017/03/17/the-luck-of-the-irish-the-beatles-and-ireland/

    Do they have what it takes?


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    #249
    Mrs OBumble
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    MikeyTaylor wrote: »
    Same with 'When You Were Sweet 16', the Fureys famously covered it but it was written by American James Thornton and covered by Al Jolson and Perry Como amongst others, before any of the Fureys were even born.

    Ditto Green Fields of France (Willie McBride). Written in Australia, about Australian people by an emigrated Scot. Not even covered by any famous Irish band AFAIK. But appropriated because of a mention of the 1916 in the lyrics.


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    SEPT 23 1989
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    furiousox wrote: »
    Anything by The Smiths.



    A nice ballad from a son of Athy


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    #251
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »


    A nice ballad from a son of Athy

    I would go out tonight, but I haven't got a ditch to bear.


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    #252
    MikeyTaylor
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    retro:electro wrote: »
    Do they have what it takes?

    They're the biggest selling band in music history, I guess they do.


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    #253
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    Enya's "Boadicea", love this intro to Criminal Minds that uses it




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    #254
    baron von something
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    I went through all 17 pages and made one hell of a spotify playlist.

    I can't believe nobody mentioned Heyday by Mic Christopher


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    #255
    trashcan
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »


    A nice ballad from a son of Athy

    And Crumlin:cool:


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    #256
    trashcan
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    MikeyTaylor wrote: »
    Do The Beatles countt ?]

    Well, McCartney can clearly be heard going 1,2,3,4 at the start of "I Saw Her Standing There", if that's any help ?


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    #257
    clappyhappy
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    Surprised he's only gotten one mention in this thread, but Gary Moore for me is one of our finest. Empty rooms, parisienne walkways, still got the blues for you....

    Was in a French bar in Paris last Jan and they were playing his songs, was wonderful to see almost everyone singing along to his songs, (not an Irish bar!!!) reminded me of my love for his music.


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    #258
    xi5yvm0owc1s2b
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    It's probably cheating to name albums, but Astral Weeks by Van Morrison, Fisherman's Blues by the Waterboys, and The Joshua Tree by U2 would in different ways embody the best of Irish music for me.


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