Songs to learn and sing

[James]

think we did irish live acts before and up and coming bands etc

making an irish music compilation to send abroad to someone

so far got:

The Blades - DownMarket
The Stunning - Brewing up a Storm
Whipping Boy - We dont need nobody else
Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
Fat lady Sings - Arclight
Horslips- An Dearg Doom
Phil Lynott - Old Town
Frames - Revelate
Something Happens - Daisychain
Turn - In Position
Therapy - Going Nowhere
Golden Horde - Friends in Time
BellX1 - Alphabet Soup
Fred - Parsnip Song
Wallmark - Melodies and Lines
Blotooth - Give up the dayjob
Mic Christopher - Listen Girl
Frank and Walters - After-all


can fit on another 2 or 3 ..any suggestions?

[Schumi]

Something by the Undertones I reckon.

[Ruairi]

undertones - teenage kicks

Rory - banker's blues (on the blueprint album, fcuking magic)

Mickey Harte - we've got the world

Sultans - where's me jumper


Rulers of the planet - phone number (not sure if their EP is on release, but they're pure mad like)
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Can you do me up a copy too head?*

And you have to have Mickey Harte on an Irish music compilation


*not that I condone that copyin music sorta thing :D

[James]

jeasus yea the sultans

ok will add on
Sultans of Ping - Veronica

am no phooking way having mickey joe phooking harte on any compilation i make

[wws]

undertones - its gonna happen

Katell Kaenig Beautiful day

The Pogues - Body of an American

Luke Kelly - Days

Taste - Same Ol Story

Into the Mystic Van Morison

[James]

anyone know / remember were Rollerskate skinny irish?
if so

RollerSkate Skinny - Speed to my side is gona be added

also
Revilino - Step on High

[James]

Originally posted by Conor74
Who in the name of Jesus are "Blotooth" and "Wallmark"? Forget them bands that gig in the Lobby...!!!


are dublin bands (hence the me broadening horizons :), and afaik they have never yet played in the lobby conor 74 :D

[James]

Originally posted by Conor74
Jesus man, why don't you just send them the brown woollen jumper, flares and big hair altogether?

thats a whole other compilation cd conor
all the sing songwriter heads are on that :)

[Dodge]

In fairness lads most of these are on Tom Dunne's top 30 Irish compilation album.

Very good it is too

[James]

yeah whata know tom dunne has good taste
i was using that as a starting point to get me thinking like :)
will prob have most of them changed by end of the day

changing frames song to Pavement Tune

[pineapple stu]

What about the first Irish song to reach No. 1 in the UK?

Rat Trap by the Boomtown Rats.

[SÓC]

Defo one of the Undertones songs, Jimmy Jimmy is the best IMO.

[tiktok]

great list james, my two cents on acts you've left out....

Ash: Kung Fu
Paddy Casey: Whatever gets you through
Pelvis: Hang my Hat
JJ72: Algeria
David Kitt: Song from Hope St.
Mark Geary: Volunteer
Lir: Good cake bad cake
Power of Dreams: The joke's on me
The Walls: Bone Deep
Damien Rice: The professor
Hothouse flowers: Don't Go
Energy orchard: Belfast
Engine Alley: Mrs Winder
Watercress: Stars shine on
The Pale: Butterfly
The four of us: Change
Kerbdog: Sally

you've no girlies so....
Sinead O'Connor: no man's woman
Nina Hynes: Universal
Gemma Hayes: Hanging around

i'd change the mic christopher song to curious notion though.

serious kudos to conor by the way for suggesting town to town by microdisney, have to have the undertones on too.

[James]

ok ok ok
songs to learn and sing is now gone double cd :)
with artwork to follow

not sure bout universal form nina hynes though
was thinking sleep tv ice-cream or mono-prix

also missed: devine comedy - something for the weekend

watercress, kittser, engine alley all guduns :)
looking for some juniper oldies also

i'm changing that mic christopher song by the hour
now thinking i've got your back

[James]

dance smance bah :rolleyes:
conor list us a few i'll check em out and include it

heard those roskyopp feens at witnness and they sounded pretty good btw

[tiktok]

'i've got your back' is a good choice from mic......

and by the way i forgot...

An emotional fish: Celebrate
Blink: It's not my fault
My bloody Valentine: Swallow
Rollerskate Skinny: Speed to my side
Whipping Boy: Twinkle
Wilde Oscars: Love Song
The Prayer Boat: Saved
The Plague Monkeys: White Feather
Devlins: Almost made you smile
Scheer: Wish you were dead
Gavin Friday: Angel

you'd forget we produced so many good acts...
and you should probably throw on something by U2

anybody remember Heart and Soul by No sweat??:D

[tiktok]

sure throw in 'Wake Up' by the fourth dimension for Conor.

he'll be delighted, lovely Kerry boys they are!!!!:D

69 police by david holmes might be a better choice though.

[James]

A House - I'll Always Be Grateful
An emotional fish: Celebrate
Ash: Kung Fu
Aslan - This is
BellX1 - Alphabet Soup
Blink: It's not my fault
Blotooth - Give up the dayjob
Cry Before Dawn - Gone Forever
Damien Rice: The professor
David holmes - 69 Police
David Kitt: Song from Hope St.
devine comedy - something for the weekend
Devlins: Almost made you smile
Energy orchard: Belfast
Engine Alley: Mrs Winder
Fat lady Sings - Arclight
frames - Pavement Tune
Frames - Revelate
Frank and Walters - After-all
Fred - Parsnip Song
Gavin Friday: Angel
Gemma Hayes: Hanging around
Golden Horde - Friends in Time
Horslips- An Dearg Doom
Hothouse flowers: Don't Go
Into the Mystic Van Morison
JJ72: Algeria
Katell Kaenig Beautiful day
Kerbdog: Sally
Lir: Good cake bad cake
Luke Kelly - Days
Mark Geary: Volunteer
Mic christopher- i've got your back
Mic Christopher - Listen Girl
Mickey Harte - we've got the world
Microdisney - Town to Town
My bloody Valentine: Swallow
nina hynes mono-prix
Nina Hynes: Universal
Paddy Casey: Whatever gets you through
Pelvis: Hang my Hat
Phil Lynott - Old Town
Power of Dreams: The joke's on me
Revilino - Step on High
RollerSkate Skinny - Speed to my side is gona be added
Rollerskate Skinny: Speed to my side
Rory - banker's blues (on the blueprint album, fcuking magic)
Scheer: Wish you were dead
Sinead O'Connor: no man's woman
Something Happens - Daisychain
Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
Sultans - where's me jumper
Sultans of Ping - Veronica
Taste - Same Ol Story
The Adventures - Broken Land
The Blades - DownMarket
The four of us: Change
The fourth dimension 'Wake Up' by
The Pale: Butterfly
The Plague Monkeys: White Feather
The Pogues - Body of an American
The Prayer Boat: Saved
The Stunning - Brewing up a Storm
The Walls: Bone Deep
Therapy - Going Nowhere
Those Nervous Animals - My Friend John
Turn - In Position
undertones - its gonna happen
undertones - teenage kicks
Wallmark - Melodies and Lines
Watercress: Stars shine on
Whipping Boy - We dont need nobody else
Whipping Boy: Twinkle
Wilde Oscars: Love Song


missing anything :D ?

[pineapple stu]

No U2?

Still reckon you can't have an Irish compilation without the Rats, especially given what they did for the image of Irish music.

[tiktok]

Conor, i'm surprised you haven't demanded a song from the albert reynolds led showband era:D

how about 'house with the whitewashed gable' by joe dolan or 'the hucklebuck' by brendan bowyer to round out the list.

p_stu is right, the rats deserve their place.

here's a test for the muso's though.....
how about aidan walsh's 'the eagles have landed' or 'rock my crazy head'? ;)

[daithi]

Where did Aiden Walsh ever get to? A rock and roll genius he was!

[tiktok]

Originally posted by daithi
Where did Aiden Walsh ever get to? A rock and roll genius he was!

last i heard he was running 'Blast' in the temple Bar music centre.

That's the saturday afternoon gigs which gives young bands the chance to play a few songs, it's practically 100% teens , fair play to him, he's still involved. it got a lot of hassle in the papers because kids were moshing at twelve o'clock on saturday afternoon :eek:. quelle scandal.

the documentary on his life 'Master of the Universe' is brilliant. (i saw him plugging it at the opening of the bodega in cork a few years back, in great form) you always worry he's surrounded by people who'll take advantage of his good nature though.

aidan walsh a real cork rocker.:)

[J.O.F.A.S]

All Im gonna say is....neunundneunzig luft ballons..lalalalala lal la

[Macy]

The Undertones - Lets Talk About Girls (Cover of the Chocolate Watch Band classic thats on Nuggets) or Mars Bar
Damien Rice - The Blowers Daughter

[patsh]

I'd change MicroDisney's to either
"LoftHoldingsWood" or
"Singers Hampstead Home".
That Petrol Emotion "Big Descision",
In Tua Nua "Wonderful thing" or "need Someboody to love"
and the 'Happens song is called "DaisyHead" !

[The Good Son]

For a Microdisney song, at a Cathal Coughlan gig in The Half Moon last year there was a free CD given out with a solo live version of Begging Bowl absolute class if you could get your hands on it. Even more bitter sounding than the original. On the same note you could do worse than sticking on Blues For Ceaucesau by The Fatima Mansions.

[James]

missesd the cathal coughlan gig last year
any chance you cud put the song online as an mp3 like :)

[sadloserkid]

Hello? Do any of you people have taste in music????

Snow Patrol!!!

Snow Patrol!!!

Snow Patrol!!!

Now I've calmed down I'll suggest either 'An Olice Grove Facing The Sea' or 'One Night Is Not Enough'

[Schumi]

I'd second Snowpatrol. I'd switch Summersong for In Position as the Turn track but I'm probably on my own with that.

And Brendan Keeley? Ugh :(

[Ruairi]

Originally posted by Schumi
I'd switch Summersong for In Position as the Turn track but I'm probably on my own with that.



I'd use Catch on You from the In Position ep

[tiktok]

Originally posted by patsh
In Tua Nua "Wonderful thing"

good call, jeez, i used to fancy lesley dowdall.

can't believe i forgot Fatima Mansions and That Petrol Emotion.

Snow Patrol are class, but i thought they were scottish, or are some of them from the north? if not, 'ask me how i am' is a brilliant track.

[noby]

mentioning Cathal Coughlan, what about Bubonic, where I think he collaborated with Sean Hughes.

Jeez, I'll have to go home and dig it out now. '20 Golden Showers'. Class album.

[sadloserkid]

Originally posted by tiktok
Snow Patrol are class, but i thought they were scottish, or are some of them from the north? if not, 'ask me how i am' is a brilliant track.

They're from the North yeah but so are Ash, Undertones, most of Therapy? etc. so we can't hold that against them. Their third album is due very shortly too I believe (or else it's just out I forget...)

[EireBadBoy]

What about Bagatelle? :D

[tiktok]

Originally posted by sadloserkid
They're from the North yeah but so are Ash, Undertones, most of Therapy? etc. so we can't hold that against them. Their third album is due very shortly too I believe (or else it's just out I forget...)

in that case i suggest something by 'the reindeer section' too:)

[Aberdonian Stu]

Of what's not on there two that come to mind are:

Juniper - World is Dead
Pogues - Fiesta

[Gaz]

Can I get me a copy o' this CD? Ah, go on.

[tiktok]

just had a look back on this,

No Relish, may as well reclaim 'Rainbow Zephyr'
...and how about the ****** Song :D

[gustavo]

dunno if any1 remembers it but " slip into sound " by the marbles is a class song :D

[Gaz]

Ahh, every time I hear these songs it takes me back to the oul sod. Christ, I could go for a pint of Murphs up at the Residence at the moment...

Anyways.. I've a favour to ask. Does anyone have Summer in Dublin by Bagatelle in MP3 format? Not the manky "new" version on Bagatelle Gold with the mebsy synthesizers and stuff, but the original? You'd make a Norry in exile very happy...

[CollegeTillIDie]

What about the first Irish song to reach No. 1 in the UK?

Rat Trap by the Boomtown Rats.

The first Irish song to reach No. 1 in the UK was actually Diane by The Bachelors about 15 or 16 years before hand.
But never checking your facts is not a new phenomenon is it?

[Flea]

Wheres Richie Kavanagh, Aon focail?

[Marked Man]

Fatima Mansions: Only Losers Take the Bus.
That Petrol Emotion: V2
Damien Dempsey: Spraypaint Backalley.

And did Spacehopper ever get around to releasing anything?

There are also a lot of (ahem) second generation Irish acts, but we probably don't want to have that conversation here.

[Lionel Ritchie]

I found myself hitting the skip button so often on that Tom Dunne Best of Irish that I ended up burning a copy minus half of it.

Out went Sineads p1ssy-eyed mauling of a Prince song, out went Sinead AND Shanes mauling of 'Haunted'.

Why oh why is it everytime The Golden Horde have something on a comp it has to be 'Friends in fcuking Time' -the worst song on their album by a country mile. 100 Boys? Never Came Down? Paula? Lisa? Now I'm Gone? Have a Scene? or if it has to be a ballady one ...'Over Here'.

Stick Religious Persuasion or Reality Row by Andy White on their too. Now there's a northern accent that isn't so twee it makes you want to kill ..unlike say Snow Patrol.

[Billsthoughts]

the crayons - bringing the conversation down
and better revelino song from that film " I went down" slowish
name escapes me!

[CollegeTillIDie]

Sheesh I am really disappointed in the Limerick contingent not suggesting this band.

Love Me Simple TUESDAY BLUE !

[TonyD]

Christalmighty, there's been an awful lot of cack Irish acts over the years hasn't there.:p (with a few honourable exceptions on the list above) And,and and and - this really won't do. Three pages in and NOT ONE effing mention of the best Irish band there's ever been. The mighty Stars of Heaven. Tons of classic tunes. Take your pick from "Sacred Heart Hotel" "So You Know" "Widows Walk" " 2 O'Clock Waltz" .....I could go on and on. Better still, just do yourself a favour. If you don't own any of their albums and you have a soul and any sort of musical taste go out and buy "Sacred Heart Hotel" and "Speak Slowly" They were both released on CD for the first time last year so they should be still readily available. There's also a superb compilation "Unfinished Dreaming" which contains most of their other recordings not on the 2 albums, might be harder to come by though. Really, trust me folks, I can't recommend this band highly enough. There, I feel better now :D

[Paddyfield]

Cactus World News - The Bridge

The Fountainhead - Rhythm Method

Toasted Heretic - Galway Bay
( " the sun goes down on Galway Bay while the daughter goes down on me..." Larry Gogan choked when he played thses imortal words on his radio show)

The Cranberries - Zombie

The Pale - Butterfly

Those Nervous Animals - My friend John

Luka Bloom - I Need Love (classy cover version)

Of all of the above, I's love to get hold of The Pale & The Fountainhead on CD.


Nobody suggested Westlife, Six or those two red setters from Athlone who were in the Eurovision :rolleyes:

[antofact]

What about any track at all from microdisneys 'the clock comes down the
stairs ' or while we're on the subject :clarke & jones from the slowest clock.is it just me or have we forgotten slf altogether

[Magicme]

God there is some good stuff there. What about some Juliet Turner her duet with that tosspot Brian Kennedy on I hope that I dont fall in love is classic.

As for forgetting Relish....shame on you! Their "Its You I'm Thinking of" is one of the most beautiful Irish songs of all time.