Heh AHers, What's your favourite Irish Ballad?

AskMyChocolate · 19-04-2011 03:15AM #1

I like Raglan Road, done by Sinead O'Connor. It's probably the only thing that she's done that is still talking to her.:pac:

Ouch, joking. But seriously, boys and girls,; what's your favourite and who's version?

Btw mods, I hope ye won't move this to the music forum, I think it's a pretty good universal theme, and something that would be a pub conversation.

And that's what defines AH. Something y'might talk about in the pub.

I like dogs but it'll be a cold day in hell before I'll discuss their welfare in the animals&pets forum.

Choco

Balfie · 19-04-2011 03:18AM

Luke Kelly's version of The Auld Triangle.

Also IBTL..

Colilfc · 19-04-2011 03:19AM

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

Degag · 19-04-2011 03:25AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m296tHPIlsY

policarp · 19-04-2011 03:34AM

The National Anthem...
Played and sung at the end every good pub session...

Yakult · 19-04-2011 03:34AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqXEYFb6fNY

entropi · 19-04-2011 03:37AM

Yakult wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqXEYFb6fNY

That, and this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XXDHjKWd-M

Oh ibtl :pac:

im invisible · 19-04-2011 03:38AM

the green fields of france, is a good one

(also caledonia, and will ye go lassie go, but it seems they're scottish)

Yakult · 19-04-2011 03:39AM

Master of Nothing wrote: »

That, and this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XXDHjKWd-M

Oh ibtl :pac:

and this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb7c5LAisT4

Hazys · 19-04-2011 03:41AM

Choon!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3wPUtfxzeI

Ruu_Old · 19-04-2011 03:47AM

UNF UNF UNF UNF!

My lovely horse is the winner.

RichieC · 19-04-2011 04:07AM

where's me jumper!

Jesus Wept · 19-04-2011 04:11AM

The Ballad of Brummie Tom

It's an epic yet melancholic tale of a young lad trying to get his leg over.

Pdfile · 19-04-2011 04:11AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtAxF3BQFRg

in b4 cultchie thanks...

pragmatic1 · 19-04-2011 04:20AM

No Irish musician better than Luke Kelly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b605qq7xBzM

OutlawPete · 19-04-2011 04:26AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNNuE7nyDoQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWA8Nr5uIMU

AskMyChocolate · 19-04-2011 05:34AM

Heh. Thanks everyone. Some absolute crackers in there. I hope I've thankd everyone. Some of th keys on me keyboard are giving up the ghost. Aah but shur fcuk them.

Btw, what's with the ibtl? Why would this thread be locked?

Ponster · 19-04-2011 07:06AM

im invisible wrote: »

the green fields of france, is a good one

I suppose that it's an Irish song seeing as it was made famous by an Irish band but I always believed it to be Scottish in origin.

Kiera · 19-04-2011 07:32AM

Grace. Love that song!

tan11ie · 19-04-2011 08:40AM

Rattlin Bog -But i sing it faster

http://youtu.be/xnv9GB8xvrw

Plazaman · 19-04-2011 08:52AM

Damn work filters, can't see the vids.

Love any of Thom Moores songs regalrdeless who sings them (Carolina Rua, Saw You Running, The Scholar) biased probably as he wrote a lot of Sligo songs.

Also love singing Johnny Jump Up when I'm on a Bulmers trip

stovelid · 19-04-2011 09:03AM

Bunclody.

msdemena · 19-04-2011 09:16AM

Joe McDonnell by the Woletones or the H block song.

kfallon · 19-04-2011 09:18AM

This, always sing it at a good ould fashioned sing song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA79kVLHZ5c

kfallon · 19-04-2011 09:23AM

4 Green Fields is brilliant too, I hope this is the correct video of the young lad singing it, brilliant version (I'm in work so can't access YouTube just have to rely on google)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhUK1o592pk

thebigbiffo · 19-04-2011 09:29AM

it's not particularly original :pac: but mine has to be the fields of athenry.

brilliant uniquely irish lyrics that perfectly capture the national obession - our oppression by the english and the famine. story of a man having to leave his family he was only trying to feed and the anguish his wife feels at his deportation. and the hope at the end as she prays for him in botany bay.

i know it's naff at this stage - but sometimes you forget how brilliant it actually is because it's heard so much. the rousing chorus makes a pub session and a football match all the better.

...and the green field of france. absolutely...f'ucking...amazing

fryup · 19-04-2011 09:29AM

here's mine:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IH9QnYJ2-A

sensibleken · 19-04-2011 09:30AM

'By the hush me boys' or 'the maid of cabra' west sung by Frank Harte, well anything sung by frank harte.

listening to christy moore's version of 'well below the valley' yesterday was epic. Check out 'fionnghuala' by the Bothy band also

Percey Ffrench came up with some classic tunes as well. Tullinahaw sung by my friend Dick Hogan is amazing.

sorry I can't link to youtube from work.

kfallon · 19-04-2011 09:32AM

thebigbiffo wrote: »

it's not particularly original :pac: but mine has to be the fields of athenry.

brilliant uniquely irish lyrics that perfectly capture the national obession - our oppression by the english and the famine. story of a man having to leave his family he was only trying to feed and the anguish his wife feels at his deportation. and the hope at the end as she prays for him in botany bay.

i know it's naff at this stage - but sometimes you forget how brilliant it actually is because it's heard so much. the rousing chorus makes a pub session and a football match all the better.

...and the green field of france. absolutely...f'ucking...amazing

It's a great song when sung properly by the likes of Paddy Reilly, however the tits who have added the "Hey Baby let the free birds fly", "Sinn Fein", "IRA" parts to it have utterly destroyed a brilliant song. I once stopped singing it at a party when someone added them, only a-holes sing that part of it!

Pompey Magnus · 19-04-2011 09:37AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6RtRB5U0GA

Carrickfergus is a wonderful song, I've seen bustling, rowdy pub go silent when someone starts playing it.

trad · 19-04-2011 09:43AM

Has to be the epic "The Ballad of Little Musgrave" by Planxty

Scorn not his simplicity sung by Luke Kelly and written by Phil Coulter. George Murphy doesn't do a bad version of it either.

Paddy's Lament by Sinead O'Connor

Ordinary Man by Christy for the times we live in.

Bright Blue Rose by Jimmy McCarthy

Heh AHers, What's your favourite Irish Ballad?

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