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Irish rebel music

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  • #62
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    I used to work in a music shop an about 90% of the people who bought rebel song cds were the knuckle dragging "up the ra" tatoo sporting, celtic jersey wearing gobsh1tes that give it a bad name. have heard enough of it over the years to realise its sh1te music though.


  • #63
    Frankie Lee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,277 ✭✭✭Frankie Lee


    Bambi wrote: »
    COuld everyone stop posting horrible ****e like eire og and the bhoys or the green irish celtic belfast brigade band or whatever other crap is doing the circuit over in glasgow? Good lads.

    fuxache

    I cringe when I hear people singing Sean South, the man was an ultra catholic fascist.


  • #64
    kfallon
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    krudler wrote: »
    I used to work in a music shop an about 90% of the people who bought rebel song cds were the knuckle dragging "up the ra" tatoo sporting, celtic jersey wearing gobsh1tes that give it a bad name. have heard enough of it over the years to realise its sh1te music though.

    So if you wear a Celtic jersey you are a gobshite? :confused:


  • #65
    bigwormbundoran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭bigwormbundoran


    I love it myself, my fathers car used to have a glovebox filled with nothing but Spirit of Freedom and Irish Brigade tapes, so I think a lot of its nostalgia with me, with the satirical nature of a lot of The Irish Brigades stuff is immense lyrically, nobody does tounge in cheek quite like Gerry O'Glackin. He wrote a crazy amount of the 80's era of rebs both the silly (for want of a better word) ones and the ballads. Roll of Honour, Sam Song, Ballad of Francis Hughes, Fathers Blessing etc and hes a sound chap too to boot!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FwbTvLS5nw


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


  • #66
    JoeGil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭JoeGil


    Great music but doesn't get much coverage.
    Also many of the songs capture a historical moment from our past which would otherwise be lost in the transient commercialised world we live in today.


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  • #67
    kfallon
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    JoeGil wrote: »
    Great music but doesn't get much coverage.
    Also many of the songs capture a historical moment from our past which would otherwise be lost in the transient commercialised world we live in today.

    Soon as I saw your username I thought of this, great song:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2OivplOBq8


  • #68
    Molloys Clondalkin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 444 ✭✭Molloys Clondalkin


    Some of its great some stuff from the wolfhound or barleycorn but what put me off years ago were groups like eire og screaming into a microphone
    Jesus wept do people buy cds of those brazen head groups?


  • #69
    Dionysus
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    Bambi wrote: »
    COuld everyone stop posting horrible ****e like eire og and the bhoys or the green irish celtic belfast brigade band or whatever other crap is doing the circuit over in glasgow? Good lads.

    fuxache

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gixzEtC2I8g

    Never heard Roddy McCorley before - it's exactly the same tune as Seán South of Garryowen!


  • #70
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,192 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    I think radio stations should be still playing the likes of Liam Clancy and Luke Kelly,they are the true Irish music legends

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


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1se8_-fcxZs



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcj48HvL3us


  • #71
    dlofnep
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    Love of a genre of music is subjective.

    Stick any genre in that topic, and you'll get similar responses.. Rock, heavy metal, pop, techno... It's not for everybody.

    I like a lot of rebel songs - they tell stories of real people, real struggles and are historical. A lot of verses are very thought-provoking. In particular the line in Joe McDonnell - "And you dare to call me a terrorist, while you look down your gun." at a time when British troops were murdering civilians in Belfast and Derry.

    Not for everyone - but it is for me. Compare and contrast it with the likes of music that exists today, millionaires moaning about how their lives are so tough, or some generic nonsense about how someone wants someone else to be their girlfriend/boyfriend.


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  • #72
    Fromthetrees
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    I love all of the above music.
    Strictly not rebel music but these lads always make me happy.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivTCYSpVa9g


  • #73
    Fromthetrees
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Fromthetrees


    and this fela...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCch_W2Ro38


  • #74
    KeithAFC
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    eirekielthy wrote: »
    U talk some **** boy I bet u listen to all the orange music

    Orange music is good.


  • #75
    Rodger_Muir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭Rodger_Muir


    No the OP is absolulry right. Here are two I'd love to hear played across the airwaves a Easter Morn

    Ding Dong tell is like it is!!




    This one is my favorite drinking song.


  • #76
    Dionysus
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    Rodger_Muir wrote: »
    No the OP is absolulry right. Here are two I'd love to hear played across the airwaves a Easter Morn

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUXqH1rhHrc

    This one is my favorite drinking song.

    Judging by the above YouTube embedding skills (or lack thereof), it's your favourite song right now.


  • #77
    bigwormbundoran
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    When it comes to thought provoking I find these to be two of the best.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaBKi7dHNWI


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z90z6Z3-gDc


  • #78
    Frankie Lee
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    I've never once heard this played on Radio.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdh08n279VI


  • #79
    Cheeky_gal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Cheeky_gal


    Real IRA tune


  • #80
    bigwormbundoran
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    Rodger_Muir wrote: »
    No the OP is absolulry right. Here are two I'd love to hear played across the airwaves a Easter Morn

    Ding Dong tell is like it is!!


    This one is my favorite drinking song.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYbEXLxpAW0


  • #81
    PK2008
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEKSKT46YQM


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  • #82
    Dr conrad murray
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2M4usgh8Ss


  • #83
    chucken1
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    Im involved in a Radio Station that does a Rebel Show every Saturday night :)

    Anyone interested in the link,drop me a PM :)


  • #84
    Liam Byrne
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    eirekielthy wrote: »
    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    UrbanSea wrote: »
    Some great songs. Nothing beats a night in the pub with some trad and the locals singing along.

    My favourite:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6emGGwGqhI

    Probably my most hated because of that retarded twisted chant.

    U talk some **** boy I bet u listen to all the orange music

    The music from the orange ads isn't worth listening to


  • #85
    A Dub in Glasgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,288 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Pangur Ban were some outfit, absolutely fantastic stuff

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLAC10KFvDQ


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziqKa3CwKtM


  • #86
    bodhrandude
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    FearDark wrote: »
    In fairness. Its awful shíte.

    In Fairness its more WOLF than TONE.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #87
    KeithAFC
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    bodhrandude wrote: »
    In Fairness its more WOLF than TONE.
    A group who made a complete balls of the Sash. A bunch of idiots to be honest. Heard more musical ability from a 10 year old with a piccolo.


  • #88
    Beir Bua
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭Beir Bua


    Big fan of rebel music here, spent quite a few fantastic nights in the pub with everyone belting out songs, nothing quite like it. It's a fantastic genre of music, here are some of my favorites:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjDJJ_C27ZA




    One of my favorite versions of a classic.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzccL7k7ifs




    A very haunting and poignant song, again by the Long Kesh ramblers.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjOytY59JCs




    The above is a great song, it's about the Price sisters. (Marian is yet again suffering in a British gaol this Christmas, she has spent months in solitary confinement) Actually I think that may not be the Wolfe Tones preforming in that video, any thoughts?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dU8mGjrjJk




    Probably the definitive rebel song. (Voted the Worlds Greatest Song on the BBC. :D )

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cNsD6L1e-o




    Yet another great song, not the greatest version musically, but a great one because of it's background, this was sung by P.O.Ws in the Long Kesh concentration camp (how the Brit secretary of state described it) and recorded on smuggled equipment.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9WWliz_zg




    The ignorant label the Wolfe Tones as untalented, not so, they were very talented performers and writers with a huge amount of great songs about all eras of Irish history, serious songs, sad songs, fun songs, they have them all.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-FP3hXQyJQ





    A great song preformed and written by Irish legend Bik McFarlane. Not the clearest version of this song out there, but again it's the history around this recording which makes an already poignant song more so. This version was secretly recorded in the H-Blocks under the noses of the screws in 1990 while Bik was imprisoned there. Marcella was Bobby Sands' sisters name, as well as his "pen name" while he was in jail. The song is about the ten brave men who gave their lives on hungerstrike.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI4qSdhmq1U




    Another great song from the Wolfe Tones about the Tan War.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf0aVXwadn4




    One of my personal favorites, it's about the Irish Citizens Army, Jim Larkin, James Connolly, the lockout (And Dublin’s broken union men die first on Flanders fields) and the 1916 rising.


    Brilliant thread OP, I could spend all day listening to and posting songs, there are so many terrific examples.

    During the 80s rebel music was pretty much banned from the airwaves, that is why you generally don't hear it on the radio, that and radio shows are obsessed with playing chart rubbish, you don't hear many other genres of music on the radio nowadays unfortunately, classic rock or metal is hard to come by also.

    Rebel music remains very popular, expect its popularity to increase in the years coming up to 2016.



    BB

    EDIT:

    Forgot this one, always makes me laugh! Its great craic.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYbEXLxpAW0


  • #89
    scopper
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    Mixed bag but it's not popular mostly because people aren't into tunes about how awesome the IRA are/were.


  • #90
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Luke kelly has one o the finest voices ever produced in this country, although his material is mostly british, so i guess he doesn't count!!


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  • #91
    bodhrandude
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    I agree with others about the likes of the Dubliners with Luke Kelly, Ronny Drew (The Auld Alarm Clock), also Liam Clancy and Christy Moore who are absolutely class singers. But a rebel song that is subtle with splendid instrumentation but uses just enough venom to chill the bones must be Planxtys Follow Me Up To Carlow.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvECtlJQ4dU

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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