Do you know anyone that's Irish that doesn't like Irish music?

Tombi! · 27-07-2012 01:36PM #1

Things like Dubliners, Clancy Brothers, etc (not U2 or Thin Lizzy, moreso folk Irish music)
I'm not talking about people disliking it apart from one or two songs.
But people who wouldn't enjoy any song.

I never once came across anyone that I've met that has actually said they dislike Irish folk music.

Washington Irving · 27-07-2012 01:37PM

Yes, lots

Helix · 27-07-2012 01:38PM

can honestly say i only know a handful of people who DO like that kind of music

o1s1n · 27-07-2012 01:38PM

Eh what? I think you have that the wrong way around OP.

Thomas20 · 27-07-2012 01:38PM

Yes, lots

Biggins · 27-07-2012 01:39PM

I like a small select amount, the rest bores me to crap!

Tombi! · 27-07-2012 01:39PM

Really?

I know one person who likes at least one Irish song

I feel like an eejit now.

PseudoFamous · 27-07-2012 01:39PM

I don't like any of that music

3rdDegree · 27-07-2012 01:39PM

Loads, including my wife, her friends and all their friends.

yoyo · 27-07-2012 01:40PM

Well I'm Irish and don't like any of that kinda music :pac:

Nick

Grayson · 27-07-2012 01:40PM

I can't stand it and neither can most of my friends (who are culchies too). It's the most god awful repetitive ****e I've ever heard.
And I'm fine with hating it. I don't feel any less irish. It's like expecting every swiss person to like yodeling.

Tombi! · 27-07-2012 01:41PM

yoyo wrote: »

Well I'm Irish and don't like any of that kinda music :pac:

Nick

You've never heard one song you enjoy? At all?

Diapason · 27-07-2012 01:42PM

Guessing you're not a South Dublin dweller, OP?! :pac:

Fupping Grasshole · 27-07-2012 01:42PM

I wouldn't know anyone either who doesn't like at least one.

Tombi! · 27-07-2012 01:43PM

Diapason wrote: »

Guessing you're not a South Dublin dweller, OP?! :pac:

Nope, north inner city

shaneb92 · 27-07-2012 01:43PM

Everone I know likes at least 2 or 3 irish songs

starbelgrade · 27-07-2012 01:44PM

Old men with beards in wooly jumpers singing songs of misery & despair about people starving in the famine, being killed by Brits, and having to leave Ireland for America.

Sure what's not to like?

yoyo · 27-07-2012 01:45PM

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

You've never heard one song you enjoy? At all?

Nope, living in temple bar for a few years probably didn't help either, whiskey in a jaarrr.... As someone said above I find it repetitive and just not my kind of music, prefare pop/dance music myself

Nick

Pushtrak · 27-07-2012 01:45PM

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

You've never heard one song you enjoy? At all?

That's a fairly broad way of looking at liking a style, just liking one song in a particular style. One can appreciate a song in a style, but as a general thing dislike that style. I'd say if people were honest and were exposed to enough variety within each style they'd find at least one song in every type of music that they can appreciate on some level.

Pherekydes · 27-07-2012 01:46PM

Diddly eye!

My son plays in a trad Ceili band. I'd better like it. :pac:

I like most types of music. /shrugs

Tombi! · 27-07-2012 01:47PM

yoyo wrote: »

Nope, living in temple bar for a few years probably didn't help either, whiskey in a jaarrr.... As someone said above I find it repetitive and just not my kind of music, prefare pop/dance music myself

Nick

I'm not having a go at all

I'm just genuinely curious because I can think of at least one song people like (not one particular song, but everyone I know likes at least one song).

So you think it's the fact you've been forced to endure it so long you just hate it?

Pushtrak wrote: »

That's a fairly broad way of looking at liking a style, just liking one song in a particular style. One can appreciate a song in a style, but as a general thing dislike that style. I'd say if people were honest and were exposed to enough variety within each style they'd find at least one song in every type of music that they can appreciate on some level.

That's what I meant. I mean as a genre, I hate most rap music but I like one or two songs.

I've never met an Irish person that hates every Irish song they listened to.

mike65 · 27-07-2012 01:47PM

Someone must like Sharon Shannon and the way she smiles while reeling in the reels for hours and hours and hours while hardy men in serious jumpers look on sternly.

gobnaitolunacy · 27-07-2012 01:49PM

I can't stand Irish Trad/Country & Western hybred (or inbred more like) music, and what's presented to tourists as 'real' Irish trad music in Killarney. Fairly p*ss poor standard of live music there in general.
Also, TOO FRIGGING LOUD! Whats it with playing with amps in smallish pubs?

starbelgrade · 27-07-2012 01:49PM

Pushtrak wrote: »

I'd say if people were honest and were exposed to enough variety within each style they'd find at least one song in every type of music that they can appreciate on some level.

That doesn't apply to country music, folk music, barbershop quartets, anything played on the spoons, christian music, emo music and The Script.

EyesClosed · 27-07-2012 01:49PM

I have loads of friends that hate it, I like it though, great fun to play live

Grayson · 27-07-2012 01:50PM

I don't mind this

kfallon · 27-07-2012 01:52PM

I fooking love it

Kintarō Hattori · 27-07-2012 01:53PM

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

I never once came across anyone that I've met that has actually said they dislike Irish folk music.

You have now. I never listen to it as it's never really appealed to me.

Tombi! · 27-07-2012 01:53PM

Grayson wrote: »

I don't mind this

What in the name of divine beings was that?!

davet82 · 27-07-2012 01:53PM

you have to be drunk to enjoy it...

that tells a story in itself :P

Tombi! · 27-07-2012 01:54PM

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

You have now. I never listen to it as it's never really appealed to me.

I'm talking about one song. You've never heard one song you liked at all?

Do you know anyone that's Irish that doesn't like Irish music?

Have you meet someone Irish that hates all Irish folk music they've listened to 117 votes

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