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I've recently become really interested in irish folk music, listening to it a lot on web radio. I've actually always liked it, but just recently begun really digging into it. I like stuff like Andy Irvine. Could you reccomend me some stuff? I hate the "new age" and "celtci inspired" music. I want it to be about bonnie lasses and whisky, with violins and the whole shiznit. Do you like it at all? If yes, could you reccomend me some of the good stuff? |
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Which web radio are you listening to? |
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I use one called called "highlander radio" a lot. It's not perfect, but some of it is right up my alley |
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Nice! I'll give it a whirl. |
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I've always had a soft spot for folk music, but never really had any introduction to Irish folk specifically. I shall be reading recommendations with interest. |
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I'm afraid I couldn't... Reason being, it forms a core part of the music curriculum (if you choose to take it) in school, and i had to study it for 3 years.. i never really liked it, and that just made me DESPISE it.. so I couldn't name any decent bands off hand (although Kila are a great trad-fusion band that're around at the moment, their shows are fucking electric and they play the leechrum raves with people like u-ziq and hellfish, so that's pretty cool).. erm who else.. if you're into vocal stuff, check "clannad", if you're into "folk-trad" then check christy moore, if you're into the yie-tin-die-dee stuff (you'd have to be irish to get that joke) then you'll have to wait a few days for me to check with friends, i'll get you a list of people to check out. there's a really great trad-fusion band, from the 70s/80s which i'm forgetting, the name will come to me, terribly drunk right now (hence the awful fluency of this post and the number of parentheses).... but my gut instinct tells me that you want the down-and-dirty yie-tin-die-dee stuff so give us a few days and i'll come up with the goods, BRRRAP! |
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AHAHAAHAHA THAT'S YIEDINDIETIN ALRIGHT! hilarious |
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Brilliant. Bump this one when you have the quality stuff!!! For me personally, i like the completely traditional stuff. Strange really, since this is a electronic music forum and all, but when it comes to irish folk music, i want it completely old school. I really don't like stuff like enya, and similar artists. For some reason, the music really touches something in me. I feel it deep inside my soul. HEhe... i don't get the whole YIEDINDIETIN thing! |
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Paddy Noonan. :D You'll like him. |
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yiedindietin - can't really spell it... it's a thing people say, to take the piss out of that cliched irish trad melodic style.. flattened 7th and lots of runs and all that. new age stuff, like enya, i totally agree.. it's complete fucking.. ugh. it's soul-destroying stuff, although it's nmeant to do the opposite. i tell you though, if you're pissed in a pub and a session starts up with a fiddle player and an uilleann pipes playe,r, and they're not shit, and you're not in a touristy pub in dublin.. jesus christ , i hate to sound cliched, but it's great craic altogether, you can't help but dance the fuck around and laugh your fucking head off, it's the best feeling ever. gets me moving better than dnb ever could :) |
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What they are playing now, isnt that great. But please give them a chance. They played music at around 2:00 at night yesterday, and they had like a streak for an hour that was completely brilliant. |
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Actually, my relation to irish music also stems from, that one of the few places that where worth visiting in the little crappy town i grew up in, was an "traditional irish pub". It was run by this crazy irishman that me and my friends actually became friends with (some of them worked there in the summertime and stuff) When it was about closing time, him and his friends found their instruments and played some music, and it was fucking brilliant. |
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I'm still with it... I'd like to hear some songs about a bonnie lass tonight. |
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If you have a p2p program, try finding: Andy Irvine: My heart's tonight in Ireland And give the channel a chance I'm addicted to it, after giving it a proper chance |
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good stuff. that sounds proper. it's great fun when you're suitably drunk. i'll get those names for you asap. tip: stay away from sharon shannon's stuff... actually you might actually like it.. but like, urgh. |
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Lyrics from Andy Irvine: My heart's tonight in Ireland Our hotel was that hay barn on the outscirts of town We where all sick and feverish And dolem had the flu But Johnny produced some whisky And the sun came smiling through |
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The thing is, i might have just investigated by myself, but i'd love to hear what someone who obviously has an interesting taste in music (well... you post here) and is an native irishman has to say about the subject. |
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Ah... there was a mentioning of a bonnie las |
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Wolftones. |
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A lot of traditional irish music lyrics are about drinking and fucking. It's like really old CRUNK! |
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Wolftones are good, but maybe a bit to political for my taste. |
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I like their politicism, I think it's quite funny. I lived with an Irish lad who used to put them on whenever he used to get drunk and would sing along at the top of his voice. By day, a respectable lawyer working for the man, by night (after a few jars) a socialist revolutionary. :D |
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Hello all! Another Irishman here. I had the same revelations about trad recently, but I've yet to start listening. Heard some mighty stuff in a friends house the other day and vowed to pursue it. I'll find out and update. |
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hahahaha niall you fucker |
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Is Niall an Irish version of "Neil"? |
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i'm sure niall will give you a lengthy post on that point ;) Neil is traditionally an irish name though, i mean.. the O'Neil family has been around forever. |
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im not much into trad but when i saw a young gang of kids play a fiddle, guitar, tin whiste, digereedoo, a boughrain (irish drum) and a saxaphone in a country pub one time, its was as energetic, fast, meldodic and zany as squarepusher at a paddy day parade with 16 guiness inside him. the place went mad. think bogdan with trad instead of folk there has to be some irish idm heads twisting up the trad with electronics somewhere! (they've done it with happy hardcore but its the chavvist, pikeyest crap ever) |
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Thats what i'm talking about. The thing is, every irish traditional music, combined with electronics that i've found, is cheesy "new age" type music, wich i despise. |
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well heres the thing, live trad music played in country pubs where people dance has many of the ingredients of the electronic music we like: - fast as fook rhythmns - multiple percusion elements - layered melodies that change over time - passion now what needs to happen is for the young folk who play these instument to get togther with laptop artists and 303 knobbers and jam their asses off. Im sure it happens, but im in dublin and we're scared of bog-hoppers :) so i dont know anyone who does it. some day we will hear the wail of a trad air being flanged through a DSP with distorted fiddling and it will be damn good if done well by the kind of folks who've really worked on it and not just someone who puts a jungle loop over Dubliners or Clannad. |
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Ah... jesus. It has such a huge potential. The violin and banjo/guitar is a key element in the music as far as i'm concerned. But some hard drum sounds, and warm synthlines and intricate digital detials over trad irish music, and maybe some far out lyrics. It could be sooooooooooo good. Maybe i should try doing a cover of a good irish song. |
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classic piece of music. great stuff. |
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dropkick murphys - irish drinking song |
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the duwty auld bamboozaliers |
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Redrum: Thanks a bunch! I love the dubliners Ezzzzz: I actually saw them live. They are a bit to "rock" for me, but still pretty awesome. |
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flogging molly "takes the piss" |
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paddyday soon, a good excuse to play all this stuff |
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TAKE HER UP TA MONTO MONTO MONTO |
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