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

Darragh

Howdy

The Saw Doctors are coming into Boards.ie tomorrow to play a couple of tunes, to answer a few questions and generally have the craic.

I've already posted details - and a competition - in the music forum but I'd love to get the After Hours take on the Saw Doctors - great musicians or not?

What's your favourite song of theirs? I'll ask them to record it especially for After Hours and stick it up on YouTube tomorrow...

Answers below please and thanks!

Darragh

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Mars Bar

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...

epgc3fyqirnbsx

^^^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'

Mars Bar

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!

Paparazzo

Has to be N17. Every time I go over the west and see a sign for it I sing it. In fact, if you don't do that, there's something wrong with you.

ottostreet

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 the song 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...

BORING! They're a culchie band, and ya can't take them away from us!

Joyce County Ceili Band for me, please & thank you.

Mars Bar

ottostreet wrote: »

BORING! They're a culchie band, and ya can't take them away from us!

Joyce County Ceili Band for me, please & thank you.

I'll let ya have that much so!

You can take JJCB with ya if ya wish, there's better than that hiding away in their vaults!

cian1500ww

The bebo song :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf5Lys19eJY

DundalkDuffman

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

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...

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Well this has worked out well for them, I've decided to get the two albums Marse Bar mentioned.

Well played lads!

Mars Bar

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.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

lol, just noticed marse

Demeyes

I'm very pleased that I managed to live in Galway for a few years without ever seeing them live, trust me that's an achievement! I can't really stand them at all.

starbelgrade

If the Saw Doctors had never existed, Graham Linehan would have invented them as a sitcom, ala The Monkees.

Conor Bourke

Hay Wrap, Red Cortina or Exhilarating Sadness

And no matter how boggery, I'll always love JCCB.

Never Mind the Strangers is nice too..

bernardo mac

Dunno,some good guitaring and catchy tunes but much the same shout throughout.

up for anything

Presentation Boarder.

Mars Bar

up for anything wrote: »

Presentation Boarder.

"She's a 4th year, dead feek, Presentation Border!".

The borders are long gone now though...:(

veryangryman

Avery Immense Belt wrote: »

lol, just noticed marse

You'd forget it if it wasnt attached to you!

rossie1977

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBAA2nX42H0

Mars Bar

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.

Dudess

Bonito wrote: »

Written/sang any good tunes yourself?

I second TheMaster's choice.

So you've never disliked/criticised anything unless you've a flair for the discipline yourself Bonito...?

Generally dislike the Saw Doctors - too culchie-tastic, that's my opinion... but I do admit they take a slightly tongue-in-cheek approach at times, and I'd Love To Kiss The Bangles makes me laugh. :pac:

rossie1977

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

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Dudess wrote: »

So you've never disliked/criticised anything unless you've a flair for the discipline yourself Bonito...?

Generally dislike the Saw Doctors - too culchie-tastic, that's my opinion... but I do admit they take a slightly tongue-in-cheek approach at times, and I'd Love To Kiss The Bangles makes me laugh. :pac:

Thats the thing though, wouldn't blame anyone for disliking the whole culchie-tastic thing but they really have grown and developed over the years, as groups tend to do. It's worth listening to some of the songs mars bar mentioned

Mars Bar

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

Paparazzo wrote: »

Has to be N17. Every time I go over the west and see a sign for it I sing it. In fact, if you don't do that, there's something wrong with you.

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.

Mars Bar

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!

veryangryman

Its like picking my favourite woman. Opinion changes everyday!

Honestly cant pick a favourite. Love the Sawdoctors though. Love em. They are a national treasure and saved a very poor Oxegen this year.

Joe Cool

I'd Love to Kiss The Bangles.

starbelgrade

mars bar wrote: »

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

He has my sincerest sympathies. I hate that road with a vengance & I only have to use it maybe 5-10 times a year.