The Medusa Fora

by John Murphy of Shite n Onions


1(Joint). The Radiators from Space: Trouble Pilgrim
- Irish punk masterpiece - only 25 years in the making.

1(Joint). The BibleCodeSundays: Boots or No Boots
-Celtic rock masterpiece - easily tops last year "Ghosts of or Past"


2. The Go Set: A Journey for a Nation
-Mighty release. If anyone from this scene is going to break through to the real big time it will be the go set.

3. The Killigans: One Step Ahead of Hell
- A band that can give Flogging Molly a run for their money

4. The Tossers: Agony
- Strong follow-up to "Valley of Death", but just not quite as good

5. Dropkick Murphys: The Meanest of Times
- Strongest release in a long time

6. McDermotts 2 Hours: Goodbye To The Madhouse

7. Zydepunks: Exile Waltz!

8. The Singing Loins: Drowned Man Resuscitator

9. Amadan: Pacifica

10. Filthy Thievin Bastards:I'm a Son of a Gun

Honorable Mentions
Flatfoot 56: Jungle of the Midwest See
The Mahones: Irish Punk Collection
Three Day Threshold: Against the Grain
The Mahones VS Catgut Mary
The Swaggerin' Growlers: The Bottle and the Bow

coingratulations

well done, Philip!

Interesting list, as some titles had managed to escape me.
Personally, I'd put Killigans a bit higher ..

Yet I feel the list to be somewhat Anglo-Saxonia oriented.
I'd like to mention two cd's from countries not speaking that tongue:

St Mary's School of Drinking by Mr Irish Bastard from Germany
and
Fat Man's Chest by Circel J from the Netherlands

let me hear your thoughts .. ..

Congrats

Yay! Tossers beat DKM by a guitar string.

That's very nice, especially considering it's an import that's not available for sale by the lister. Come to think of it, he should be selling it.

territa wrote:That's very nice, especially considering it's an import that's not available for sale by the lister. Come to think of it, he should be selling it.

No?

I mean, yeah, ok, it's an import. And yeah, the listener probably shouldn't be selling it anyway. But according to Amazon 11 listeners are, in fact, selling starting at $13.84.

No, I mean John Murphy, Shite n Onions, the lister, is not selling the album on his site. I think Shite n Onions would be a natural website to search for (and find) this album for sale.

And I think it's nice that he lists it at the top in spite of the fact that he doesn't/can't sell it himself.

Ahh. I was all confused and stuff.

And yay! Good for him for being willing to say "this album rocks" even if he has nothing to gain by doing so.

DzM wrote:But according to Amazon 11 listeners are, in fact, selling starting at $13.84.

Shipping. Expensive. Will wait for a lower total cost. Looking forward to it, though....

DzM wrote:
And yay! Good for him for being willing to say "this album rocks" even if he has nothing to gain by doing so.

...........and for resisting the temptation to mainlist the Mahones album, which he produced.

philipchevron wrote:

DzM wrote:And yay! Good for him for being willing to say "this album rocks" even if he has nothing to gain by doing so.

...........and for resisting the temptation to mainlist the Mahones album, which he produced.

Who says journalistic integrity is dead?

philipchevron wrote:by John Murphy of Shite n Onions


1(Joint). The Radiators from Space: Trouble Pilgrim
- Irish punk masterpiece - only 25 years in the making.

1(Joint). The BibleCodeSundays: Boots or No Boots
-Celtic rock masterpiece - easily tops last year "Ghosts of or Past"

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 ??

PADDYgoesDUTCH wrote:

philipchevron wrote:by John Murphy of Shite n Onions


1(Joint). The Radiators from Space: Trouble Pilgrim
- Irish punk masterpiece - only 25 years in the making.

1(Joint). The BibleCodeSundays: Boots or No Boots
-Celtic rock masterpiece - easily tops last year "Ghosts of or Past"

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! well done Mr Chevron

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