Ten Favourite Irish Songs by Ten different artists/ groups

Tombo2001 · 16-03-2021 10:51am #1

Just a personal view but I do think Irish contemporary music (rock/pop/ folk/ hip hop etc) is really good, has been really strong for as long as I can remember.

To reflect that - here is (my) list of Ten Favourite Irish Songs by Ten Different Artists....songs that I suppose mightn't be at the top of everyones list.

Whats your list?

U2 - A Sort of Homecoming
A House - I am the Greatest
Sinead O'Connor - Black Boys on Mopeds
Soak - B a Nobody
Fionn Regan - Riverside Heights
David Kitt - Step Out in the Morning Light
The Frames - In the deep shade
Damien Dempsey - Spraypaint Backalley
Paul Brady - Hard Station
Cranberries - When You're Gone

The Princess Bride · 17-03-2021 3:18am

In no particular order.

U2 - The Unforgettable Fire

An Emotional Fish - Celebrate

Phil Lynott - Old Town

Gary Moore - Empty Room

BellX1 - Rocky Took A Lover

In Tua Nua - Coming Through

Brian Kennedy - Captured

Dermot Kennedy - Power Over Me

Bono/Clannad - In A Lifetime

Paul Brady - Crazy Dreams

PetitPois89 · 20-03-2021 5:11pm

U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
Clannad - Newgrange
The Cranberries - Linger
Snow Patrol - How To Be Dead
The Thrills- Not For All The Love In The World
Damien Rice - 9 Crimes
Enya - Caribbean Blue
Hozier - From Eden
The Corrs - Only When I Sleep
Sinead O’Connor - Mandinka

Bozo Skeleton · 20-03-2021 6:19pm

Off the top of my head.

The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God (so many to choose from!)

Pillow Queens - HowDoILook

David Kitt - You Know What I Want To Know

My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise

Republic Of Loose - Comeback Girl

Jinx Lennon - City Of Styrofoam Cups

Microdisney - Town To Town

Sultans Of Ping - Where's Me Jumper?

Stump - Charlton Heston

The Undertones - Teenage Kicks

Moloko would be on here too - The Time Is Now, but only half Irish, so I guess they don't qualify?

NewbridgeIR · 20-03-2021 6:50pm

The Would Be's - My Radio Sounds Different In The Dark

The Frank & Walters - Walter's Trip

A House - Endless Art

Power Of Dreams - 100 Ways To Kill A Love

Paul Brady - Nothing But The Same Old Story

Hothouse Flowers - Love Don't Work This Way (1987 single mix - the later album version is crap)

U2 - Lemon

Brian - You Don't Want A Boyfriend

My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise

Into Paradise - Sleep (the version on the Angel 12" / CD single, not the one re-recorded for Down All The Days)

Tombo2001 · 31-03-2021 11:05am

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

The Would Be's - My Radio Sounds Different In The Dark

The Frank & Walters - Walter's Trip

A House - Endless Art

Power Of Dreams - 100 Ways To Kill A Love

Paul Brady - Nothing But The Same Old Story

Hothouse Flowers - Love Don't Work This Way (1987 single mix - the later album version is crap)

U2 - Lemon

Brian - You Don't Want A Boyfriend

My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise

Into Paradise - Sleep (the version on the Angel 12" / CD single, not the one re-recorded for Down All The Days)

What a brilliant song.

The sort of song that you couldn't believe it was an Irish band.

I once spent an hour or so running a Google search trying to find a video of this, but I couldnt remember the name of the band or the song. The only lyric I could remember was "everyone knows about me, me and my radio". But the song didnt come up.

It was a No Disco staple back in the day, I'm pretty sure, or maybe Nighthawks. One of those late night RTE music shows.

NewbridgeIR · 31-03-2021 11:19am

Tombo2001 wrote: »

What a brilliant song.

The sort of song that you couldn't believe it was an Irish band.

I once spent an hour or so running a Google search trying to find a video of this, but I couldnt remember the name of the band or the song. The only lyric I could remember was "everyone knows about me, me and my radio". But the song didnt come up.

It was a No Disco staple back in the day, I'm pretty sure, or maybe Nighthawks. One of those late night RTE music shows.

It got Single Of The Week in NME back in 1991. As did their debut I’m Hardly Ever Wrong the previous year. The latter also reached #12 in John Peel’s Festive 50 of 1990.

I saw them live a lot between 1990-1992. They supported Morrissey at National Stadium.

Radio was played a bit on Beatbox, Sunday mornings.

The Japanese CD pressing of Songs For Cynical People has the 11 tracks from their first three 12”s and plays like one of the best debut albums that never was.

magicbastarder · 31-03-2021 12:02pm

U2 - hawkmoon 269
no sweat - tear down the walls
the tycho brahe - half mast
the fatima mansions - blues for ceausescu
new jackson - having a coke with you
aphex twin - analogue bubblebath 1 (yes, i'm claiming him as irish)
therapy? - screamager
whipping boy - hard to pick the favourite from 'heartworm' so i'll plump for 'the honeymoon is over'.
mael mordha - wind of 1000 winters
colin morris - leningrad

(had to mention the last two because i know them...)

UrbanSprawl · 03-04-2021 1:20am

Engine Alley- Infamy
Scheer-wish u were dead
therapy -tough one gonna say disgrace lands
Otherkin Enabler
Compulsion Jean could be wrong
JJ72 -Snow
Burnt out dear James
Whipping Boy -when we were young philo version

dobman88 · 03-04-2021 1:31am

Bozo Skeleton wrote: »

Off the top of my head.

The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God (so many to choose from!)

Pillow Queens - HowDoILook

David Kitt - You Know What I Want To Know

My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise

Republic Of Loose - Comeback Girl

Jinx Lennon - City Of Styrofoam Cups

Microdisney - Town To Town

Sultans Of Ping - Where's Me Jumper?

Stump - Charlton Heston

The Undertones - Teenage Kicks

Moloko would be on here too - The Time Is Now, but only half Irish, so I guess they don't qualify?

Well the Pogues aren't Irish either. Most members are English and the band was formed in England so I dont see why they're included and Moloko ruled out

dobman88 · 03-04-2021 1:41am

No particular order

Cranberries - Dreams

Undertones - Teenage kicks

Christy Moore - Ride on

Thin Lizzy - Dancing in the moonlight

Hozier - angel of small death and the codeine scene

Enya - orinoco flow

Horslips - dearg doom

Liam Clancy - streets of London

Dubliners - spancill hill

Jim McCann - Grace

Joe_ Public · 03-04-2021 1:46am

Horslips - Shamrock Shore
Rory Gallagher/Taste - Catfish
The Radiators - Kitty Ricketts
Stocktons Wing - Skidoo
The Cranberries - Waltzing Back
Sinead O'Connor - Baidin Fheilimi
Stars of Heaven - Sacred Heart Hotel
Van Morrison - On Hyndford Street
Atrix - Treasure on the Wasteland
Stiff Little Fingers - Johnny Was

magicbastarder · 03-04-2021 10:44am

is it not 'the atrix'?

Notmything · 03-04-2021 11:01am

Picturehouse. Sunburst

Treehouse Diner. Whatever Happened to Lucy

Therapy? Going Nowhere

Ash. Oh Yeah

Saw Doctors. I Useta Love Her

The 4 of Us. Mary

The Cranberries. Zombies

Clannad. I Will Find You

U2. Stuck in a Moment

Dubliners. Waltzing Matilda

Nothing too original or unusual on that list.

Tombo2001 · 08-04-2021 8:27am

Notmything wrote: »

Picturehouse. Sunburst

Treehouse Diner. Whatever Happened to Lucy

Therapy? Going Nowhere

Ash. Oh Yeah

Saw Doctors. I Useta Love Her

The 4 of Us. Mary

The Cranberries. Zombies

Clannad. I Will Find You

U2. Stuck in a Moment

Dubliners. Waltzing Matilda

Nothing too original or unusual on that list.

Treehouse Diner wouldnt be a household name...

Notmything · 08-04-2021 10:44am

Tombo2001 wrote: »

Treehouse Diner wouldnt be a household name...

Childish response deleted, apologies.

Johnny Jukebox · 08-04-2021 10:48am

Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Radiators - Faithful Departed
SLF - Suspect Device
Boomtown Rats - Looking after #1
Light a Big Fire - CIA
Outcasts - Self Conscious Over You
Eugene - Julie Cries
Eileen Gogan - Nothings for Certain
Would Bes - Hardly Ever Wrong
Blades - Ghost of a chance

Tombo2001 · 08-04-2021 11:31am

Notmything wrote: »

Ooooooh sorry &#55357;&#56900;&#55357;&#56900;

I wasnt giving out - just in response to your comment "nothing unusual in that list".

I am all for learning about new music and artists I havent come across before.

Notmything · 08-04-2021 11:35am

Tombo2001 wrote: »

I wasnt giving out - just in response to your comment "nothing unusual in that list".

I am all for learning about new music and artists I havent come across before.

Apologies. yeah, my response was childish, I thought you were having a dig at me.
Showing my age, they had a few decent songs in the mid nineties and for whatever reason I still listen to them.

Tombo2001 · 08-04-2021 5:06pm

Notmything wrote: »

Apologies. yeah, my response was childish, I thought you were having a dig at me.
Showing my age, they had a few decent songs in the mid nineties and for whatever reason I still listen to them.

Funny though, I listened to them and it has mid '80s written all over it - in a good way, heavy synths and bass line & good vocals.

Mid 90s was all guitar bands/ britpop or else dance music. Maybe they were not 'of their time'.

Ger Roe · 08-04-2021 5:32pm

A few 'oldies but goodies' as Larry used to say on the radio...
In no particular order:

Thin Lizzy - The sun goes down
Stepaside - Sit down and relapse
The Frames - The Dancer
Sound Crowd Orchestra - Sixth season (instrumental)
The Lookalikes - Can I take you home tonight?
Luke Kelly - Scorn not.... (just classic)
The Pogues - Rainy night in Soho (also classic)
Whipping Boy - When we were young
Pop Mecanics - Soldier boys (great pop song)
The Blades - Downmarket

Declan A Walsh · 08-04-2021 5:42pm

Ger Roe wrote: »

A few 'oldies but goodies' as Larry used to say on the radio...
In no particular order:

Thin Lizzy - The sun goes down
Stepaside - Sit down and relapse
The Frames - The Dancer
Sound Crowd Orchestra - Sixth season (instrumental)
The Lookalikes - Can I take you home tonight?
Luke Kelly - Scorn not.... (just classic)
The Pogues - Rainy night in Soho (also classic)
Whipping Boy - When we were young
Pop Mecanics - Soldier boys (great pop song)
The Blades - Downmarket

Great selection there, Ger I don't know those Thin Lizzy and Frames songs, but I like all the others. I am surprised at you picking Sixth Season. a dance track, but it's a good one! I actually heard Soldier Boys recently, not having heard it for years before that!

NewbridgeIR · 08-04-2021 6:19pm

Ger Roe wrote: »

A few 'oldies but goodies' as Larry used to say on the radio...
In no particular order:

Thin Lizzy - The sun goes down
Stepaside - Sit down and relapse
The Frames - The Dancer
Sound Crowd Orchestra - Sixth season (instrumental)
The Lookalikes - Can I take you home tonight?
Luke Kelly - Scorn not.... (just classic)
The Pogues - Rainy night in Soho (also classic)
Whipping Boy - When we were young
Pop Mecanics - Soldier boys (great pop song)
The Blades - Downmarket

Great list. The 7" mix of Downmarket is savagely good.

09-04-2021 3:40pm

Paranoid Visions - Autonomy
A House - Stone The Crows
Rumble - Burn The Discos Down

Honey Thieves - Crawl
Backwater - Memory
The Slowest Clock - Where's Andi?

Joyrider - Are You Sure You're Alright?
Sack - Colorado Springs
Mexican Pets - No Distance
Compulsion - Mall Monarchy

magicbastarder · 20-04-2021 12:19pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

the tycho brahe - half mast

their second album - a double album, 'love life' - has just been put up on bandcamp.
wrap your ears around this, it's fabulous.

https://thetychobrahe.bandcamp.com/track/lost-in-europe

delboy85 · 14-10-2022 10:28pm

An interesting thread.

Mine, in no particular order...

The Golden Horde - "Friends in Time"
U2 - "Moment of Surrender"
Sinead O'Connor - "Troy"
Two Door Cinema Club - "Bad Decisions"
Bell X1 - "Rocky Took a Lover"
A House - "Endless Art"
Dermot Kennedy - "Better Days"
Bono & Clannad - "In a Lifetime"
The Cranberries - "Zombie"
The Pogues - "Rainy night in Soho"

HBC08 · 14-10-2022 10:36pm

U2 -Zoo Station

Hothouse Flowers- Thing of Beauty

The Stunning- Heads are Gonna Roll

An Emotional Fish - Celebrate

BellX1- Rocky Took a Lover

Rory Gallagher- Bad Penny

Van Morrison- Into The Mystic

The Cramberries- Dreams

The Frames - Revelate

Whipping Boy- We Don't Need Nobody Else

Ash- Goldfinger

HBC08 · 14-10-2022 10:38pm

Ah jeez,I've done 11 and somehow managed to leave out Rainy Night in Soho

Ten Favourite Irish Songs by Ten different artists/ groups

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