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Grace - Wolfetones Number 1 Itunes

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    #32
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Odhinn wrote: »
    So there isn't a segment of irish society that dislays a fawning attitude to our former occupiers?
    former? they're still occupying your head, rent free


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    #33
    LuasSimon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭LuasSimon


    Joseph Plunkett would be sad to come back 104 years later and still see we don’t have a United Ireland ☹️


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    #34
    CorkBlackbird
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭CorkBlackbird


    The Wolfe Tones donated all money they got for being back in the charts to charity, fair play to them!
    They did the same for Come Out Ye Black and Tans a few weeks ago.


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    #35
    CorkBlackbird
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭CorkBlackbird


    Truthvader wrote: »
    Jesus, imagine where your head would be growing up listening to the "Wolfies". In fairness Grace is probably the least offensive of the toxic sludge they produced over the years. Still at least Dessie Ellis and Garda McCabes killers and all the other sociopaths have a soundtrack to accompany them as trawl through their brave and heroic history or pass the time dumping diesel sludge on the country they claim to love or beating boys to death in barns. Nice for them

    Boooooringggg


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    #36
    maestroamado
    Registered Users Posts: 4,426 ✭✭✭maestroamado


    LuasSimon wrote: »
    After been in second spot yesterday Grace sang by the Wolfetones has risen to Number 1 today in the top 100 Irish Itunes downloaded.

    Today is the 104th anniversary of the execution of Joseph Plunkett by British troops in Dublin , whilst many like Charlie Flanagan & Michael Martin want to forget the fight for Irish freedom it seems like plenty others will remember our patriot dead!


    I never download music, i must be one of the few who still buy the ould record/CD.
    Is that the downloads in Ireland or the downloads in the World?


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    #37
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,280 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Forget about the politics, that's not my biggest issue with this. What I want to know is why, whenever there's one of these efforts to get an Irish song to top a chart somewhere, is it always some sh*te rebel song? These songs were crap back in the day and they haven't gotten any better with age.


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    #38
    Still waters
    Registered Users Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    Today is also bobby sands anniversary, have we any songs to commemorate his life and struggles


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    #39
    CorkBlackbird
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    Still waters wrote: »
    Today is also bobby sands anniversary, have we any songs to commemorate his life and struggles

    Yes google Bobby Sands Trust and go to multimedia


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    #40
    Coillte_Bhoy
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    LuasSimon wrote: »
    Joseph Plunkett would be sad to come back 104 years later and still see we don’t have a United Ireland ☹️

    Why? The concept/idea of a united Ireland wouldnt have meant much in 1916.


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    #41
    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Zaph wrote: »
    Forget about the politics, that's not my biggest issue with this. What I want to know is why, whenever there's one of these efforts to get an Irish song to top a chart somewhere, is it always some sh*te rebel song? These songs were crap back in the day and they haven't gotten any better with age.




    Tens of thousands would disagree.


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    #42
    debok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 814 ✭✭✭debok


    Zaph wrote: »
    Forget about the politics, that's not my biggest issue with this. What I want to know is why, whenever there's one of these efforts to get an Irish song to top a chart somewhere, is it always some sh*te rebel song? These songs were crap back in the day and they haven't gotten any better with age.

    In fairness grace is a good song. Not the Wolfe tines version but anyone else version


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    #43
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,799 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    LuasSimon wrote: »
    Joseph Plunkett would be sad to come back 104 years later and still see we don’t have a United Ireland ☹️

    Don't worry, he won't.
    Zombies aren't real.


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    #44
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    Still waters wrote: »
    Today is also bobby sands anniversary, have we any songs to commemorate his life and struggles

    I had planned a trip to Tehran to eat at the infamous Bobby Sands Burger. But the Corona virus had other ideas.

    🙈🙉🙊



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    #45
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Still waters wrote: »
    Today is also bobby sands anniversary, have we any songs to commemorate his life and struggles
    Obviously he doesn't even deserve his name in capital letters now.


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    #46
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    debok wrote: »
    In fairness grace is a good song. Not the Wolfe tines version but anyone else version
    Good song, not a great song


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    #47
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,237 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    So many great versions of that song. Why the poxy Wolfe Tones?

    And which version? The Continuity Wolfe Tones? The Real Wolfe Tones?


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    #48
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Don't worry, he won't.
    Zombies aren't real.

    He’s probably spinning in his grave. Seems to be very common amongst Irish martyrs if you were to believe the rants of republican posters on sites like this, Twitter, journal etc.

    Pearse seems to be the one who spins the most. Dude hasn’t stopped spinning since they lowered him down. Sands also seems to be one who spins a lot. You’d rarely hear about Griffith, Liam Mellows etc, but one would have to presume they are spinning as well. At what velocity we aren’t sure.


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    #49
    The Tetrarch
    Registered Users Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭The Tetrarch


    The Wolfe Tones were formed in 1963, the same year The Beatles had their first UK record.
    The cause never gets old, a career for the lads.


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    #50
    whisky_galore
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    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    He’s probably spinning in his grave. Seems to be very common amongst Irish martyrs if you were to believe the rants of republican posters on sites like this, Twitter, journal etc.

    Pearse seems to be the one who spins the most. Dude hasn’t stopped spinning since they lowered him down. Sands also seems to be one who spins a lot. You’d rarely hear about Griffith, Liam Mellows etc, but one would have to presume they are spinning as well. At what velocity we aren’t sure.

    If only we could harness the power of spinning dead patriots, great source of renewable energy.


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    #51
    JohnnyFlash
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    If only we could harness the power of spinning dead patriots, great source of renewable energy.

    Excellent idea. The ESB could close down Moneypoint early. Just get Eoghan Harris or some other former stickie to write a piece and you’d have hundreds of dead patriots spinning like hell.


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    #52
    EmmetSpiceland
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    Odhinn wrote: »
    Tens of thousands would disagree.

    Ah now, let’s be honest, there’s a certain, small, “cohort” responsible for the vast majority of those downloads.

    I’m sure they’ve garnered up a couple of hundred, “independent”, votes through Facebook etc but considering people are parting with cash and not just clicking on an online vote, as with ‘A Nation Once Again’, we cannot be expected to believe 30,000 people paid to send that to No. 1.

    I’m sure it wasn’t difficult to mobilise the “troops” either. I’m actually surprised they don’t do some freelance “mercenary” work for the likes of Sony etc, getting whichever song they want to the top spot.

    Could be a tidy little earner and keep the, online, “foot soldiers” busy at times when the main “party” seems to be in hiding.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #53
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    If only we could harness the power of spinning dead patriots, great source of renewable energy.
    At least we always knew where they were buried unlike the victims of our latter day "patriots"


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    #54
    debok
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    Edgware wrote: »
    Good song, not a great song

    Is that not what I said. Good song you actually quoted it


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    #55
    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Ah now, let’s be honest, there’s a certain, small, “cohort” responsible for the vast majority of those downloads.

    ....................


    I was referring to the notion that rebel ballads weren't popular in earlier decades rather than the current download effort.


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    #56
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Odhinn wrote: »
    So there isn't a segment of irish society that dislays a fawning attitude to our former occupiers?

    it's a long time ago dude


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    #57
    The Tetrarch
    Registered Users Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭The Tetrarch


    Is it just a coincidence that

    Come Out Ye Black and Tans by the Wolfe Tones was a download number one in January 2020
    and Grace by the Wolfe Tones was a download number one in May 2020.


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    #58
    Ash.J.Williams
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    The Tetrarch wrote: »
    Is it just a coincidence that

    Come Out Ye Black and Tans by the Wolfe Tones was a download number one in January 2020
    and Grace by the Wolfe Tones was a download number one in May 2020.

    What do mean?
    All you need to be number one is enough fans to down load the song on the same week and some help from Alan partridge


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    #59
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    What do mean?
    All you need to be number one is enough fans to down load the song on the same week and some help from Alan partridge
    Or to get FFg to have Celebrations for the Black and Tans / RIC / Dublin Metropolitan Police :eek::eek:


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    #60
    Odhinn
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    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    it's a long time ago dude


    Not if you're north of the border, tbh.


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    #61
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Odhinn wrote: »
    Not if you're north of the border, tbh.

    Ah they'll get over it even though many on both sides couldnt live without a big chip on their shoulders


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