This is from The AU board:
And now the end is here, and so we face the final curtain... Yes folks, we're almost at the end of the Decade With No Name. And while every mag and its aunt will be rounding up the best albums released since 2000, we thought we'd do things slightly differently.
That's why we're asking our staff, contributors and most importantly YOU, the readers, to tell us about the Irish albums you have loved and hopefully not lost over the last 10 years. Compile a list of up to 20 albums, ranked in order, and email it to me - chris@iheartau.com I'll then have the thankless (but probably fascinating, now I come to think of it) task of putting it all in a spreadsheet and coming up with a final countdown.
The deadline for your lists is Monday, November 23. Yes, time is tight, so get your thinking caps on and your lists in. Remember, we're looking for Irish albums only - north or south. And the Irish/UK release dates must have been since January 1, 2000.
Happy listing!
Tonight's the last night, but could be a source of some debate.
That's on my list too!
Aaagh! - Republic of Loose
Overpowered - Róisín Murphy
Extratime.ie
Yo te quiero, mi querida. Sin tus besos, yo soy nada.
Abri o portão de ouro, da maquina do tempo.
Mi mamá me hizo guapo, listo y antimadridista.
I haven't listened to a lot of Irish music recently unfortunately. But JJ72's debut is class. As is Bell X1's 'Music In Mouth', they never improved on that, for me anyway.
'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
Me too.Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
I thought Music in Mouth was a bit whiny and wet-the-bed.
But, when they do turn it on it's majestic. He's got a great wit in his lyrics.
Flock was a notch below Music In Mouth IMO. Blue Lights on the Runway wasn't great though.
'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
Some of my favourite Irish albums of the decade:
Damien Dempsey - Seize The Day
Ash - Free All Angels
Humanzi - Tremors
Sinead O'Connor - Throw Down Your Arms
JJ72 - JJ72
Wilt - Bastinado
U2 - No Line On the Horizon
David Kitt - The Big Romance
Delorentos - In Love With Detail
Bell X1 - Flock
Fight Like Apes - Mystery Of The Golden Medalion
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
Wilt - My Medicine
Ash - Twilight of the Innocents
'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
Colm Lynch - Tickety Boo. A fine piece of work.
For the Birds by the Frames for me. They went down hill big time after that and the only album they really made on their own terms, steve albni's anti production is top class also.
In Trap we trust
Fight Like Apes one is great.
Julie Feeney - 13 Songs
Saville - Is Anybody Happier Today
Damian Dempsey - Seize The Day
Roisín Murphy - Overpowered
Can I include Morrissey's You are the Quarry under the parental rule?
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
Help me, Arthur Murphy, you're my only hope!
Only a new one but Strict Joy by The Swell Season is pretty special, and I'm a confirmed Hansard Hater!
You show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser - Vince Lombardi
I'm gonna throw Hal by Hal into the mix. Great album and I sti listen to it regulary years later
My Goal Is To Deny Yours...
I do myself, its a quality album, I like the Thrills first album a lot too
You show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser - Vince Lombardi
Damien Rice - O, not amongst my favourites, but internationally probably the best selling Irish album of the decade.
'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
Would have said yes until he released a song called "Irish blood, English Heart"
JERRY: But are you still master of your domain?
GEORGE: I am king of the county. You?
JERRY: Lord of the manor.
Can't think of a huge amount I got excited about to be honest.
We are the way forward by Giveamanakick is one I really liked.
Know Your station gouger nation by Jinx Lennon'd be another.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
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