Every week, we give away a voucher worth TWENTY FIVE big ones to spend at any of the 14 Golden Discs stores in Ireland.
All we ask for is a tune we can play TOMORROW and at the end of Broadsheet on the Telly tonight.
This week’s theme: Patrick’s Day discs.
What snake-hipped Irish song of any genre makes your heart swell with patriotic palpitations?
To enter, complete this sentence:
“If I could hear only one song on March 17 please make it_________________________because______________________’
Lines MUST close at 5.55pm MIDNIGHT! March 17, 10am!
No Amhrán na bhFiann.
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If I could hear only one song on March 17 please make it Raglan Road because it has everything, poetry, Luke Kelly and if you’ve ever loved and lost it perfectly captures that awful dagger in the heart feeling.
https://youtu.be/EuafmLvoJow
Failing that, would be happy with some post-coital humming from Mildred?
If that’s an option keep your Golden Discs vouchers!
I had a massive drunken-fueled debate one night with a fellow Irish-music lover on Luke’s version vs Sinead’s. I’m not one for fights so we solved it with one for the road and a nod to Paddy Kavanagh. Both versions are great.
But both are useless in getting my party going tomorrow night.
I’m just checking the letterbox here Hoopsy and my invitation doesn’t seem to have arrived?
I have to agree with Bertie, and it’s not because we’re having a rather public love affair.
Luke Kelly’s version wins hands down, for me, every time. It moves me to tears, and chases shivers down my spine. The raw power and the starkness of his voice make it the definitive version for me. Think I might just have a wee listen right now.
Horslips – The snakes farewell to the Emerald Isle. Because it’s applicable to the multitude of Ministers that exited this past week.
Good Save The Queen.
Because as a proud Brit he’d appreciate the irony.
-1
Thin Lizzy – Emerald, what an anthem. Now should that CD have had snapped I half, Whiskey In The Jar would also be acceptable.
Oirlands Call!
Fupp no!
I know you’re taking the Mickey but I actually like it.
City of Chicago…..Christy Moore, Was playing football in Boston for a summer and after a tough match one sunday were all in a bar in Dorchester and this song came on, the lines dreaming of Hills of Donegal hit a chord. powerful song and one that I am sure gets the goosebumps up for many who have moved away from the ol’ sod.
Christy’s an insufferable aul poo though.
True but with a few cold ones in a dingy bar far away from home it works!
If I could hear only one song on March 17 please make it ‘Where’s Me Jumper’ by The Sultans of Ping FC.
An anarchic tune with brilliant and sometimes non-sensical lyrics and a class guitar riff. Nothing to do with Paddy’s Day but more Irish.
This one is correct.
‘Where’s Me Jumper’ by The Sultans of Ping FC
I remember one time I was jumping around a bit too energetically to this tune, so much so that me false teeth shot out across the dancefloor..
I was running around going ”Where’s me dentures? Where’s me dentures?”
“If I could hear only one song on March 17 please make it Curragh of Kildare by the Johnstons because, even at a very young age, those soaring harmonies and strong yet delicate voices made my heart sing.
bones by little May – because it reminds me of where I got my headphones from; Golden Discs.
(also on spotify-basic)
Chinatown by Thin Lizzy, but just the intro. Over and over and over again. It’s 20 seconds of hard rock perfection.
https://youtu.be/8BNE7gIerwg
Bunch Of a Thyme by Foster and Allen because always beware and keep your garden fair and let no man steal away your thyme
Apart from your husband, obv.
No. The thyme must be stolen away by another woman. In an Aran geansaí
Think green
If I could hear only one song on March 17 please make it “Dóchas Linn Naomh Pádraig” because it is a good reminder that St. Patrick did not do that good job in bringing Christianity to Ireland!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Oy5tt66GAE
“The game is about being effective
Being aggressive, winning the ball
Getting on with the play
We’ll put ’em under pressure”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5PT65I2ny8
Oh the halcyon days of the summer of 1990 and a World Cup in Italy. A simpler time when Irishmen and Irishwomen were justifiably proud of our little country and the long strange trip that we had traveled together. Produced by Larry Mullen, Moya Brenan of Clannad does the intro, timeless Jack Charlton vocals and a melody from a tune called O’Neills March, itself a tribute to the great Hugh O’Neill. Thankfully though it is a period in time that can be relived by reading and/or watching The Van.
(Jimmy Sr and Jimmy in conversation after a skin full o pints)
“-I love yeh, son, said Jimmy Sr.
He could say it and no one could hear him, except young Jimmy, because of the singing and roaring and breaking glasses.
-I think you’re f**kin’ great, said Jimmy Sr.
-Ah f**k off, will yeh, said Jimmy Jr. -Packie saved the f**kin’ penalty, not me.
But he liked what he’d heard, Jimmy Sr could tell that. He gave Jimmy Sr a dig in the stomach.
-You’re not a bad oul’ c**t yourself, he said.”
― Roddy Doyle, The Van
or in reference to the heavily dilapidated van that Bimbo is going to buy
Jimmy Sr. -“Which end does it sh1te out of?”
That’s a great shout!
Heartland by Celtic Thunder. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1FExIWex_vc
That’s so wrong for so many reasons.
I watched 43 seconds of that and burned my passport.
If I could hear only one song on March 17 please make it N17 (Stone Walls and the Grass is Green) by the Saw Doctors because I love it and it always brings a smile to my face (even though I’ve never been near that part of the Island in my life!)
In fairness – gratuitous tin whistle solo after the righteous sax solo? have you ever heard similar??? Brillo!
frankly, m’dear, it’s not a patch on Hay Wrap, which – for the telecaster-flavoured The West’s Awake bit alone – is better. Also, there’s not been a better lyric since “get that wasp off my sangwidge” :)
or, the Marino Waltz, because everyone remembers _that_ ad from the 80s and being from Marino myself, it makes me poor little heart doubly swell with patriotic pride…
Marino women are the bestest in the world :)
If I could hear only one song on March 17 please make it ‘come out ye black and tans’ because it has everything – pointless nationalism, a killer chorus and and a ‘come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough’ attitude that would make a millwall fan jealous.
i always fancy that come the revolution, ‘come out ye black and tans’ will be the soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORifieiZiP4
Scottser -me oul rebel.
Banna Strand is my Wolfe Tones favorite.
If I could listen to only one song on Paddy’s night it would have to be
RIRa – Front Bar.
I saw him live in Barcelona 2011 on Paddy’s Night. He was supporting Method Man.
Just watch the video and you will feel so proud to be Irish.
Once you realise and feel, that someone with so much passion, doesn’t need to be known by anyone or anywhere, in order to have maximum impact, on first hearing seeing and meeting.
That’s True Irish!
We bring the craic…
RiRa- Front Bar
https://youtu.be/HaGgLrNlwSg
YES! Excellent call. Hands-down winner.
If I could hear only one song on March 17th make it Kilkelly, because if you’re not weeping uncontrollably like a babe for it’s mother or a woman for her lover or a man for the failure of the potato crop, then you’re not having a proper Irish experience. If you don’t think of your dear old dad, assuming your dad was or is dear to you, and heave a sob of raw grief, you’re a monster:
https://youtu.be/WXEr08aRhts
“If I could hear only one song on March 17 please make it Raggle Taggle Gypsy Oh because It’s a quintessentially Irish song by one of the greatest Irish bands of all time. I give you, Planxty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vQvr3iiZOY
+ Bothy Band
If I could hear only one song on March 17th, please make it Microdisney’s Town To Town. It’s got a great vocal from Cathal Coughlan as well as a simple but imaginative music video:
https://youtu.be/BvXd3qyRz-o
It has to be “Thousands are Sailing ” – Pogues
The line
We stepped hand in hand on Broadway
With/Like the first man on the moon”
And
“When I got back to my empty room
I suppose I must have cried”
Just captures the Irish experience! All irony and innocence intended.
Either that or
“The Broad Majestic Shannon “
Two wonderful choices, I’ve often felt homesick listening to The Pogues when I was in Dublin so I can only imagine what it feels like abroad :)
There’s a whole lotta’ love going on because there’s a whole lotta’ love going on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtFUXec5IAQ
If I could hear only one song on March 17, please make it The Waterboys’ version of William Butler Yeats’ poem, The Stolen Child, because as a Faery Queen in a former life I had to relinquish my crown due to my Earthly fondness of a music God called Bowie, and Dana didn’t like it; henceforth, in the twinkling, but myopic eyes of my Tuatha brethren, I will forever be known as a chchchchangeling >.<
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOzbqY1ABwQ
Good choice.
And it reminds me: believe it or not, I’ve got a story about me, Twink, Tomás Mac Eoin and rectal bleeding. Hopefully there’ll be a Twink thread soon enough. It rightly belongs there.
Great choice – excellent piece of music
It would have 2
to be luke Kelly’s song for Ireland.
If i could hear one song on march 17 could it be isrealites by desmond decker, never got that voucher lads.
…just sayin.
Happy st Guinness day to all.
Niallo, very sorry. We’ll get on to that this morning. Happy St Patrick’s Day.
Super duper ;)
Ole
Ole Ole Ole
Ole
Ole
That should do it
No matter where ya are or how things turned out for ya
Kilburn , Nairobi, Dubai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Mexico City, Boston, Toronto, or even Bundoran
Lash out a single Olaaaaaayyyyyyyy
And you’ll always remember where ya come from
Olaaaaaaaay to make sure you’re never away from your roots
It’s definitely a very useful, speedy way to establish if someone is a gobshité.
not all of us suffer inferiority complexes Bert
I’m not a bitta’fraid of where I’m from
OOOOHHLLLAAAAYYYYYYYYYY
Ole Ole Ole
#TeamAnne ;)
I thought Frilly was signing off
Nonetheless I’m glad she didn’t