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Last week, we asked YOU, our distinguished commentariat to recommend us your favourite new Irish music.

On the line was a crisp, new €25 voucher for Golden Discs, redeemable at any of its fourteen locations nationwide. In fact, we asked you to complete this sentence:

‘My current favourite song by a new Irish artist is ___________________ by ______________________ because __________________________’

The competition was tight as usual, but as ever, there can only be one winner:

Dav clinches it, with his recommendation (streaming above).

My current favorite song by a new Irish artist is Falling for You by Daithí featuring Sinead White because, not only is it a powerful vocal on her end, but he spent the last year traveling Ireland, recording sounds from the landscape to incorporate into his tracks, so I mean this quite literally when I say this is the sound of Ireland!

Other highlights from the running:

Gorugeen: ‘My current favourite song by a new Irish artist is Charlene by Chewing on Tinfoil because the video is so simple, honest, which reflects the song. It’s a tune that’s emotional but not at all soppy. It’s a touch raucous and sung in a genuine accent. An all round great package.’

Odockatee: ‘My current favourite song by a new Irish artist is Tin Man by Saint Sister because it has great harmonies, a real velvet flow and it’s just cool.’

Anne: ‘Lynched are very good’.

Penfold: ‘My current favourite song by a new Irish artist is Bullethead by Fangclub because its a great rough sounding riff laden track that showcases the bands grungey influences. Not sure if it qualifies as new as picked it up midway through last year.’

Thanks all

Golden Discs

Last week: The Young Folk

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Last Friday, with a TWENTY FIVE EURO voucher for Golden Discs on offer, we asked you to complete this sentence:

“To my mind, the finest Bob Dylan lyric can only be…”

You responded in your dozens.

But there can only be one winner.

ItWasChaosBilly clinched it.

To my mind the finest Bob Dylan lyric can only be from To Ramona, a song to console even the heaviest of hearts:

“The flowers of the city
Though breathlike, get deathlike at times
And there’s no use in tryin’
To deal with the dyin’
Though I cannot explain that in lines.”

Runners up.

Penfold: “To my mind the finest Bob Dylan lyric can only be (and maybe Trump can break it out!): “Someone’s got it in for me, they’re planting stories in the press/Whoever it is I wish they’d cut it out quick but when they will I can only guess”. From Idiot Wind.”

Mr. P: “One that always stuck with me is the brilliantly simple, yet deeply cutting message to someone who turned on him when he left the trad folk music scene. Positively 4th Street, 1965. “I wish that for just one time, you could stand inside my shoes, you’d know then what a drag it is to see you.

DSpot: ‘To my mind the finest Bob Dylan lyric can only be: ‘Well, the sword swallower, he comes up to you and then he kneels/He crosses himself and then he clicks his high heels/And without further notice, he asks you how it feels/And he says, “Here is your throat back, thanks for the loan’ (Ballad Of A Thin Man) Some boy altogether.”

realPolithicks: To my mind the finest Bob Dylan lyric can only be: “Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now” (My Back Pages)

Cheech: “To my mind the finest Bob Dylan lyric can only be *inaudible mumbling*”.

Thanks all

Golden Discs

Last week: Johnny’s In The Basement

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Animator Bard Edlund visualises the paltry diversity of Oscar winners over the years (including his own advance predictions for 2015). He sez:

A lot of noise has been made about the lack of diversity among nominees for the Oscars this year. This video shows how many black, hispanic, and asian winners there have been throughout history, across four main categories — best actor/actress, supporting actor/actress, writing (original and adapted screenplays), and directing.

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You may recall yesterday’s Lexicon Tee competition:

The winners

Liathain I deserve a Lexicon Tee because…*points at fifth row left, fourth row right and runs finger along ninth row*

Kolmo: I deserve a Lexicon Tee because…chociaż mogę mówić 5 języków nie lubię mówić do innych ludzi, mogę tylko wskazywać i wykorzystywać moje brwi to dostać to, czego potrzebuję fioletowy małpa zmywarki

Hector: I deserve a Lexicon Tee because…I haven’t a bob to my name and not a hope of going to the finals, but it’ll keep me warm and I can tell my grandkids I was there and have the Tee to prove it.

Symapathy Tee to:
Dave: I deserve a Lexicon Tee because…my girlfriend is Polish, I’m probably going to Poland in the summer and I speak about three or four words, this would be a godsend. Please, please, please! also her parents don’t speak any English so it would help for that too.

Close but no Tee for thee:

Spud: I deserve a Lexicon Tee because…*points to bare, awesome t-shirt-less covered, chest*.

Crivens: I deserve a Lexicon Tee because…I need an excuse for touching my nipples in public.

Lexicon Tees here.