The Medusa Fora

PADDYgoesDUTCH wrote:

Insert Witty Username Her wrote:but Trouble Pilgrim was not mentioned in the TOP 20 of 2007 by John Bowles at http://www.paddyrock.com at all, how come opinions drift so far apart ??

because evidently some people have better music taste than others!/quote]

hmm,
not sure though whether there is sth. like a better or worse music taste,
far from wanting to be judgemental (for once ), I just thought it was kinda weird

In some people's worlds, if it doesn't go "diddley-ey splat", it's not really paddypunk. The Radiators, by this measure, are decidedly not paddypunk although, from our first album onwards (on the track "Party Line", 1977), we were incorporatiing Irish music into our own peculiar vision of what indigenous Irish rock music might be. Then there's the Celtic rockabilly of "Paddy 'Guitar' Paddy" (1977) and the hard folkiness of "Ballad Of The Faithful Departed" [the unplugged version, adorned by chunks of "Waxies Dargle", "The Spanish Lady" and other Dublin tunes] (1979) and other bits and pieces. In some ways, the Radiators preempted The Pogues in this respect or were, at the very least, the bridge between Horslips and The Pogues.

On the other hand, maybe Mr Paddyrock simply never heard Trouble Pilgrim. Or heard it and didn't like it.

philipchevron wrote:maybe Mr Paddyrock simply never heard Trouble Pilgrim. Or heard it and didn't like it.

I'll ask John and report back

philipchevron wrote:

PADDYgoesDUTCH wrote:

Insert Witty Username Her wrote:but Trouble Pilgrim was not mentioned in the TOP 20 of 2007 by John Bowles at http://www.paddyrock.com at all, how come opinions drift so far apart ??

because evidently some people have better music taste than others!/quote]

hmm,
not sure though whether there is sth. like a better or worse music taste,
far from wanting to be judgemental (for once ), I just thought it was kinda weird

In some people's worlds, if it doesn't go "diddley-ey splat", it's not really paddypunk. The Radiators, by this measure, are decidedly not paddypunk although, from our first album onwards (on the track "Party Line"), we were incorporatiing Irish music into our own peculiar vision of what indigenous Irish rock music might be. Then there's "Paddy 'Guitar' Paddy" and "Ballad Of The Faithful Departed" and other bits and pieces. In some ways, the Radiators preempted the Pogues in this respect. On the other hand, maybe Mr Paddyrock simply never heard Trouble Pilgrim.

well as for "better or worse" music taste i suppose you are probably right there, i bow to your superior judgement (or refusal to judge as the case may be), and if it is the case that he simply never heard the album he surely deserves our sympathy on that one
yeah going "diddley-eh splat" does seem to be most people's qualification for a band to be considered paddypunk, along with having band members who are constantly so drunk they also go "diddley-eh splat" at every attempt to stand - not that these people are making broad sweeping stereotypes or anything like that

philipchevron wrote:In some people's worlds, if it doesn't go "diddley-ey splat", it's not really paddypunk...

f#$% that noise. You don't see people questioning Lionel Richie's or Outkast's quality because they don't fit the Afro-descent-mold do you? I am still convinced that Thin Lizzy is(was) the best paddy band out there... aside from the pogues, of course.


edit* that Flatfoot 56 album is pretty good for a bunch of christian rockers, and The Mahones usually put out quality material... though I haven't had a chance to listen to the albums listed.

philipchevron wrote:...from our first album onwards (on the track "Party Line", 1977), we were incorporatiing Irish music into our own peculiar vision of what indigenous Irish rock music might be. Then there's the Celtic rockabilly of "Paddy 'Guitar' Paddy" (1977) and the hard folkiness of "Ballad Of The Faithful Departed" [the unplugged version, adorned by chunks of "Waxies Dargle", "The Spanish Lady" and other Dublin tunes] (1979) and other bits and pieces...

Every time I hear the line from Joe Strummer which goes "Hey Joe, a rovin' we will go...", I always think of the Pogues.

philipchevron wrote:maybe Mr Paddyrock simply never heard Trouble Pilgrim. Or heard it and didn't like it.

as regards the absence in the PaddyRock list for 2007:
indeed Mr PaddyRock didn't receive, didn't know and didn't list it

Any plans on Radiators tunes becoming available on iTunes? I keep looking...

OrionSafari wrote:Any plans on Radiators tunes becoming available on iTunes? I keep looking...

Doesn't Pete Holidai answer this somewhere??