Best Irish Band Ever!

De Mad Yoke

This thread has probably been done before.What band do you think is the best to come out of Ireland?
Thin Lizzy for me personally. You know real Rock! Forget them goin heavy in the later years it was still rock! I mean it feels like your listening to Rock you know like the way Lemmy says that Motorhead is just rock and roll! and not metal like a lot of people say. You know when you listen to metal and you feel its metal not like when you listen to Lizzy you know its just rock and roll!
If I was in a funny mood I woulda said Sultans Of Ping FC
Maybe Horslips could be considered the best. Celtic ROCK!
PS
A statue of Philo is being put in Grafton Street sometime soon!

tripper

Rory Gallagher, the best irish guitar player ever. Horslips rock to. The statue of Phil is going outside Bruxells

De Mad Yoke

Rory Gallagher is considered 2nd best in the world! 1st being Hendrix of course. Bruxeles? Is that where the flowers are sold?

tripper

Yeah its beside the Westbury

Riamfada

Ill probably fly with thin lizzy

Ilac

Yup, near there. The statue will be unveiled on the 19th of August.

My Bloody Valentine are probably my favourite Irish band at the moment, but I won't say they're better than Thin Lizzy...

De Mad Yoke

Darn Right. LIZZY FOREVER! www.thinlizzyfan.com
There will be and official site someday.

Ro: maaan!

To be honest, The Frames. But second choice (for popularty sake) Therapy?

Blood Or Whiskey are quickly rising though.

De Mad Yoke

Whoa man you're gone all indy! the Frame sare good but the best I don't thinkso. Thats just my opinion.......LIZZY RULE!

Mr. CooL ICE

Cyclefly

nadir

Lizzy all the way !

BobTheBeat

The frames?Are you joking? :mad:

Whipping Boy or My Bloody Valentine are serious contenders. Therapy are ahead by a furlong for sure!

John

See my sig

Not to say Thin Lizzy aren't good, Kevin Shields and co. just do far more for me.

tripper

Ro: maaan! wrote:

To be honest, The Frames. But second choice (for popularty sake) Therapy?

Blood Or Whiskey are quickly rising though.

Therapy? are ****ing awesome

jd

John2 wrote:

See my sig

Not to say Thin Lizzy aren't good, Kevin Shields and co. just do far more for me.

MBV could be a bit hit and miss live, though- Shields may have been too much of a perfectionist .

John

jd wrote:

MBV could be a bit hit and miss live, though- Shields may have been too much of a perfectionist .

When they were still playing live I was only in primary school, so I can only comment on albums.

joejoem

U2 - The olden days and they still are

The Bollox

Thin Lizzy, it would have been better if you made a poll

smackbunnybaby

the sultans of ping fc

oh and whether you like it or not.....U2

cranoo

LIZZY :cool:

symbolic

kerbdog/pogues

Cianan2

Thin Lizzy for me...

Ardent

The Stunning. The greatest Irish band that never made it internationally.

De Mad Yoke

I love the Stunning! Did they reform recently? I know yur man in it formed the walls. The stunning have a website don't they?

U2 you must be jokin me. Besides Lizzy I'm also likin, Horslips/Sultans Of Ping/Pogues/Planxty you get me?

danniemcq

KERBDOG!!!! the hell with U2

It wasn't me!

There are plenty of great Irish bands:
Kerbdog
Therapy?
Thin Lizzy
Pogues were kind of Irish I guess...
Rory Gallagher
BellX1 are quite good for Indie
Blood or Whiskey

De Mad Yoke

Waht do you mean pogues kinda Irish? How Irish can you get?

Bottle_of_Smoke

Pogues, Lizzy, Frames would be my favs. Whats your fave album - poster who can't stop saying LIZZY?

OLP

stiff little fingers, the undertones

De Mad Yoke

I dont know who can't stop saying Lizzy,
My favourite album, Jailbreak and if you count live albumsLIVE AND DANGEROUS! My favourite album of any form!

De Mad Yoke

I quite like the Undertones!

Bottle_of_Smoke

what you think of black rose? I think it's got some of the best songs they've done

John

De Mad Yoke wrote:

Waht do you mean pogues kinda Irish? How Irish can you get?

Shane MacGowan was born in England. They formed in London. Hardly the Blarney Stone.

Baggio

Horslips easily the best..
..multi talented bunch, their live shows were red hot,,,seen them and Thin Lizzy at wembley arena in 78, what a night that was!!.Lizzy were good, but Horslips stole the show..was all over the music press the week after that they had done so...They were a niche outfit overseas,,and a damm fine bunch of musicians - Johnny Feans guitar was red hot..dont get me started on O'connor on electric mando and fiddle - played that mando like a rock lead guitar live *was a custom hard body job, not one of those dinky mandos with a pick up*...
Horslips deffintaely the best from this country, Lizzy next the rest?...well who the hell are they!!?

ciao' amigos...Baggio......

toffo

Taste
Kerbdog/Wilt
Therapy?
Skid Row
Thin Lizzy

Töpher

Warlords Of Pez

Neo#

It has to be U2. I also love Thin Lizzy. But U2 have more top songs. Achtung Baby and the Joshua Tree are two of the best albums of all time. Plus that second Slane show I was at in 2001 was the best gig ive ever seen.

mo_thoin

Thin Lizzy and Therapy?!!!!
Legends!!!!!!!!

exiot

Phil Coulter anyone?

By far - Rory Gallagher

mayordenis

probably wilt for me i dunno really though,
therapy? live though are fantastic.

*Page*

Clergy!!

byte

Thin Lizzy tbh

John

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Warlords Of Pez

Padré Pio!

Frosty

Celtic Legacy

celtic-legacy.com

1huge1

aint the biggest fan of irish bands but U2 anyone...

kkposse

De Mad Yoke wrote:

This thread has probably been done before.What band do you think is the best to come out of Ireland?
Thin Lizzy for me personally. You know real Rock! Forget them goin heavy in the later years it was still rock! I mean it feels like your listening to Rock you know like the way Lemmy says that Motorhead is just rock and roll! and not metal like a lot of people say. You know when you listen to metal and you feel its metal not like when you listen to Lizzy you know its just rock and roll!
If I was in a funny mood I woulda said Sultans Of Ping FC
Maybe Horslips could be considered the best. Celtic ROCK!
PS
A statue of Philo is being put in Grafton Street sometime soon!

I want to see therapy? and Kerbdog play a reunion gig together in the ambassador co-headlining!!!

Nea

Ash.
Jack L is quite amazing live too.

OMcGovern

"The 4 of Us"

their early rock stuff... not the soft ballad stuff later on !

dantbyhid

easpa measa/the dagda/primordial/serpents/revolution of a sun/tooth
cant believe some of the stuff ye are coming up with. U2? Wilt? Ash? Horslips? Pogues i can understand but not on this forum.

funky_buddah

Thin Lizzy, and I'd personally prefer Gary's guitar playing to Rory's.

No offence to Rory (legend - much respect - RIP), but Gary can ****ing wail.

Speaking of Rory,was anybody else against the monument Music Maker were applying to put up to Rory Gallagher? I'm sorry, but when a music shop trys to put a statue of a guitar that they're selling, I dont take that as a tribute to a guitar legend, I take it as a sly,advertising move in disguise.

funky_buddah

*Page* wrote:

Clergy!!

I met their guitar player a while ago. Funny guy...