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

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...

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!

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...

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.

rossie1977 wrote: »

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

That's the thing though isn't it?! If people took time to listen to most of the songs, they would probably find some relation to the song. They are so universal but personal at the same time.

rossie1977 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7kYXgFs2rY

Unfortunately, I now associate that song with funerals after Leo sang it at my next door neighbours funeral.

Lovely song.

starbelgrade wrote: »

The N17 is a fairly sh*tty road, linking Galway to Sligo. Most of the road has no hard shoulder or any decent stretches for overtaking & it seems to attract "Sunday drivers", seven days a week.

It passes through such "lovely" towns as Ballynacarrow & Tubercurry and past the ugliest piece of sculpture ever commissioned (in Ballindine.. http://www.castlebar.ie/education/ballindine-ns/Images/locality/sculpture.jpg).

And then you hit the inevitable & ridiculously long tailbacks at Claregalway.

It is a short 139km drive, that on a decent road would take less than an hour, but on a bad day, can take over 2.5 hours.

Yes, when you get to the Galway side, the walls are stone & the grass is green, but the walls are stone & the grass is green almost everywhere in the west of Ireland.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is that if you had to drive it more than once, the novelty of singing that Saw Doctors song when you see an N17 signpost, would soon wear off.

My Dad travels it everyday to and from work, N17 is practically a censored word in our house!