Well St Patrick's Day is coming up on March 15 and it's time to celebrate music from Ireland, one of the most productive and unique sources of rock music through the years.
There is so much great music to choose from, here is Rock Revival's Top 20 Tracks
1. Celtic Ray: Van Morrison and the Chieftans
Van playes celtic-mystic with one of the greatest traditional Irish Bands ever.
2. I Wonder Who: Rory Gallagher
Live in Europe and the Irish Tour albums demonstrate that he is better than Eric, more passionate than U2 and a harder drinker than Shane McGowan (well... maybe not)
3. Throw Your Arms Around Me: Luka Bloom
This acoustic version of a Hunters and Collectors song (Aussie band) ........ magic
4. Waiting for an Alibi: Thin Lizzy
What can you say, the best bass riff ever................Phil Lynott is God
5. Ordinary Man: Christy Moore
Brother of Luka Bloom, politics and folk by the Irsh master
6. Beautiful Day: U2
Bono Vox is a tosse (but the music........)
7. Nobody's Hero: Stiff Little Fingers
Some of the best second wave punk around
8. You've Got My Number: The Undertones
The first pop-punk band, craps on the US version !
9. Elfin Knight: Kate Rusby
Contemporary traditional, excellent
10. Still Got the Blues: Gary Moore
Friend and colleague of Phil Lynott
11. Everybody Hurts: The Coors
The Coors are rubish but this version of the REM track is pretty mindblowing
12. Dirty Old Town: The Pogues
Shane drinks for the nation
13. Your Daughters and Your Sons: The Duhks
More great contemporary Irish folk
14. I Dont Like Mondays: Boomtown Rats
Probably their only good song, but something else
15. Zombie: The Cranberries
16. Don't Go: The Hothouse Flowers
They do the amazing feat of sounding like Heartland USA, when they are actually from Dublin
17. The Wind That Shakes the Barley: Planxty
Wow, who needs rock, actually, when you have the rots of rock in the hillbilly Irish
18. The Hunter: Clannad
Well, this is bending the definition of rock a bit, but it's pretty heady stuff
19. Blister on the Moon: Taste
Rory Gallagher's band before he went solo, blues heaven
20. Redemption Song: Ziggy Marely and the Chieftans
What the ? Jamaica and Ireland are not that far apart
Image: Courtesy Shock Records
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