TheKing... and Planxty

[Planxty]

Im not claiming that Planxty are just like the Pogues or anything like that but someone told me about them recently and if you havent done so already you should check them out cos they are really very very good.

[CraigBatty]

...they are really very very good.

They were/are/and always will be VERY very good. The occasional reunion is all we're likely to see for the foreseeable future. But even that is pure gold.

[Plastic Paddy]

What's all this got to do with Elvis Presley?

Has your baby left you and youv've got no place to go?

Or are you a devil in disguise?

[CraigBatty]

What's all this got to do with Elvis Presley?

Has your baby left you and youv've got no place to go?

Or are you a devil in disguise?

I suspect that there has been a confusion-reversal take place here. IIRC there has been an infrequent guest in the Fora whose handle has been 'The King'. My Theory Number 2* is that the guest has transposed their guest-handle with the title of their thread 'Planxty'. I could be wrong - only time will tell.













*My Theory Number 1 was misappropriated from me by Ann Elk ( NO, NOT an elk... ANN Elk), a mischievous undergraduate research assistant. It was a theory regarding dinosaurs, particularly the diplodocus, which posited that: they are thin at one end, very thick in the middle, and then thin again at the other end. This was my theory, which was mine.

[Michaelo]

What's all this got to do with Elvis Presley?

Has your baby left you and youv've got no place to go?

Or are you a devil in disguise?

He aint nuthin' but a hound dawg

[CraigBatty]

He aint nuthin' but a hound dawg

Look... we can't go on together with Suspicious Minds, or we'll be Crying In The Chapel down in Spanish Harlem. A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action may be in order I think.
Have ye seen The Little Drummer? I think he's still running from Arthur MacBride's cousin down to The West Coast Of Clare. I heard from The Blacksmith all about The Jolly Beggar with his "Follow Me Up To Carlow" and what have you, after he Merrily Kissed The Quakers Wife. He had to run all the way to Sasana, where he now hears the Sweet Thames Flow Softly.

[Michaelo]

He aint nuthin' but a hound dawg

Look... we can't go on together with Suspicious Minds, or we'll be Crying In The Chapel down in Spanish Harlem. A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action may be in order I think.
Have ye seen The Little Drummer? I think he's still running from Arthur MacBride's cousin down to The West Coast Of Clare. I heard from The Blacksmith all about The Jolly Beggar with his "Follow Me Up To Carlow" and what have you, after he Merrily Kissed The Quakers Wife. He had to run all the way to Sasana, where he now hears the Sweet Thames Flow Softly.

You'd have to have a Wooden Heart not to sympathise. I believe he checked into Heartbreak Hotel to get away from it all because he was All Shook Up.

[CraigBatty]

You'd have to have a Wooden Heart not to sympathise. I believe he checked into Heartbreak Hotel to get away from it all because he was All Shook Up.

Does he have his Teddy Bear? I reckon he'd have more Fun In Acapulco, though.

[Michaelo]

You'd have to have a Wooden Heart not to sympathise. I believe he checked into Heartbreak Hotel to get away from it all because he was All Shook Up.

Does he have his Teddy Bear? I reckon he'd have more Fun In Acapulco, though.

This is getting to be Too Much. It's time for A Little Less Conversation.

[CraigBatty]

This is getting to be Too Much. It's time for A Little Less Conversation.

Yes it is, Almost. But something's Always On My Mind, Don't Ask Me Why, I Beg You, can you help me with this Fever? C'Mon Everybody... what were we talking about? I Forgot To Remember To Forget...

[Sam's Cross]

Just listening to Planxty's Planxty, and I thought I'd have a look to see where Planxty was in the Shared Glory section. Four and a half pages down is just not good enough. These guys are the best irish folk group of all time. I love Flogging Molly, The Dropkick Murphy's, The Tossers, Greenland Whale Fisheries all great stuff, but in my humble opinion, if you like the Pogues and you don't have a Planxty album then you are simply missing out on a great and glorious piece of world culture. They should be on the front page at all times. Carry on now.

[DzM]

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[Low D]

Just listening to Planxty's Planxty, and I thought I'd have a look to see where Planxty was in the Shared Glory section. Four and a half pages down is just not good enough.

Well, unlike some bands, Planxty never attempted an Elvis cover, so how good could they really be?

(If you missed it, i'm referring to the Pogues' cover of "Got a Lot Of Livin' to Do", which was on some Elvis tribute record, and will be on the forthcoming box set).

[Irishbookish]

Planxty are brilliant. What's amazing about them is they've been around in one shape or another since the seventies and the musicianship and connection in music these guys share is pure magic. And Christy Moore...well he's a man you don't meet everyday.