Comments on: No, Danny Boy!

By: Aristomenes

Aristomenes — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:57:28 +0000

Don't miss any of the early Kenneth McKellar - especially The Songs of Robert Burns / Songs of the Hebrides pair.

By: opusrex

opusrex — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:52:23 +0000

I always liked this version of danny Boy.

By: SkinnerVic

SkinnerVic — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:24:41 +0000

Meep, Damian

That’s just awesome – I play that for my 1 year old all the time, he digs Beaker.

By: Spolitics

Spolitics — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:09:18 +0000

My vote would be for “Wearing of the Green” to be the official St. Paddy’s Day song.

By: Tom_Shipley

Tom_Shipley — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:06:43 +0000

As for myself, On St. Patty’s Day, I slap Thin Lizzy’s “Jailbreak” onto the turntable.

Been listening to it on my iPod!

By: Miss_Anthrope

Miss_Anthrope — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:24:48 +0000

Gawd, it’s like listening to “Saints” in New Orleans at Preservation Hall or somethin’…that’s a song you never wanna hear again!

There’s a sign in Preservation Hall, or there used to be over 20 years ago…went somethin’ like this.

Requests:
Standards – 50¢
Others – $1.00
Saints – $5.00

Of course, our local hangout happens to be an “Irish” pub. We go on Sundays for NFL games, but because we know the owners we’ve dropped by on Friday & Saturday nights over the past 12 years we’ve been regular NFL watchers there. Those nights are crowded with newbies to town & tourists, and they are constantly playing the Irish tunes. Ugh. And since it’s the same players with the same exact spiel, including song order, for decades, that gets one suicidal.

By: fourstringfuror

fourstringfuror — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:56:53 +0000

Metallica did it better ;) LimeyGeek on March 16, 2008 at 10:16 PM

+1 (clean version). Metallica does everything better. Just sayin'.

By: OneGyT

OneGyT — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:37:13 +0000

I wonder how many people really celebrated St. Patrick's Day on Saturday.

By: otcconan

otcconan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:02:53 +0000

I see someone else mentioned Lizzy.

No, the Metallica version is not better. It sucks. Terribly.

But for a real, Irish-sounding Lizzy tune, how about “The Emerald” off the above-mentioned album? Serious celtic lines in that one. And it’s HEAVY

By: Damian P.

Damian P. — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:01:40 +0000

The definitive version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbuRA_D3KU

By: Capitalist Infidel

Capitalist Infidel — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:51:47 +0000

Ed, I think you are missing the entire point. We sing “Danny Boy” as a way of mocking the Irish.

By: otcconan

otcconan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:50:01 +0000

As for myself, On St. Patty’s Day, I slap Thin Lizzy’s “Jailbreak” onto the turntable. Captain, how could you forget Phil Lynott?

By: deadbackpacker

deadbackpacker — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:48:02 +0000

U2, come on Ed. Who wants to listen to the self Sainted Bono tell the rest of us how we should live? Give me Thin Lizzy and Van Morrison, real Irish rock and roll!

By: saint kansas

saint kansas — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:21:34 +0000

I love Irish music, as long as it’s My Bloody Valentine or maybe Ash. Or House of Pain in a pinch.

By: flipflop

flipflop — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:48:43 +0000

Here in Fredericksburg VA, where Gen. Meagher’s Irish brigade from the Union side faced an Irish brigade (regiment, really) from the Confederacy side during the ~~Civil War~~ War of Northern Aggression, St. Paddy’s day is a bit of big deal.

Meagher’s lads fought hard…so hard that they were whittled from over 1600 men down to around 250. Supposedly, it was during this battle that Gen. Lee dubbed them the “Fighting 69th” (69th New York Infantry).

This ends today’s history lesson.

By: canopfor

canopfor — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:43:51 +0000

Oh Blarney there always after me lucky charms!

By: jimbo2008

jimbo2008 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:22:47 +0000

The Corrs by Cap’n Ed

I LOVE the Corrs. But Bono is overrated.

By: Pat Meebles

Pat Meebles — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:18:13 +0000

As a Boston Irish College Student who attends school IN Boston, St. Patty’s Day is actually my day OFF from drinking.

By: landlines

landlines — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:51:55 +0000

I’m part Irish (among several other things), but they can keep all of the music and all of the food, too.

I did keep the red hair (at least until it turned brown and then grey).

By: Spc Steve

Spc Steve — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:45:22 +0000

St. Patrick’s Day is almost 6 hours old here in Germany, where I recommend for Irish music, the Orthodox Celts, Irish music from Serbia. Yeah, you read that right. Serbia. Looking forward to getting out and celebrating the man who took on the Devil and cast the snakes out of Ireland is somewhat true Irish style; at a bar hollowed out from part of a Seminary in Mainz, Germany, with a bartender from Sligo who will throw things at you if you start singing Danny Boy. Hope I make it to work tomorrow.

By: Don Carne

Don Carne — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:57:59 +0000

meep on March 16, 2008 at 9:45 PM

damn ya beat me, but that is the best version yet.

By: Bad Penny

Bad Penny — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:56:57 +0000

try the Dropkick Murphy’s.

Amen to that.

After growing up in a small town that was almost exclusively Italian, going to Ireland was a shock. Every single person looked like my family. It was kinda cool.

By: Mojack420

Mojack420 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:45:02 +0000

mikeyboss on March 16, 2008 at 7:55 PM

The quiet man is a great movie .

By: Scribbler

Scribbler — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:38:32 +0000

If one wishes to celebrate Patrick, one can do no better than by singing his ‘Breastplate’ (or, ‘Lorica’ which begins: ‘I bind unto myself this day’), and, having enjoyed a proper amount of Harp, to follow it up with a public reading of the Epistle to the Soldiers of Coroticus, and his Confession (“I did NOT suckle their nipples!”)

One does even better if one does it after 9.00 p.m. on the high street of Butte, Montana, which is and remains the most ethnically Irish place outside the Island– and possibly even more Irish than any of the cities in Ireland today!

It is a signal, and good thing.

By: reaganaut

reaganaut — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:33:16 +0000

Clancy Brothers adn Tommy Makem are my favorite.

I still have their records (yes vinyl)from when I was a youngin’

Try singing Johnny McEldoo when you’re drunk….