The Medusa Fora

Lucifrank wrote:Fourth generation streetpunk mixed with tin whistles does not a great band make.

True, but The Tossers are different. They don't use electric instruments and their songs are really great. They're fast, yes, but that is not their main appeal. The ballads may be stunningly beautiful at times and the lyrics are somewhat witty and touching.

I understand that you may not like Dropkick Murphys or Flogging Molly, but give The Tossers a chance, they are more of a folk band than a punk band anyway. And they are definitely not street punk.

Sober wrote:And people complained about the accent of the Real McKenzies' singer, but the guy's from Scotland!

Canada.

From what I can tell of the lead singer's accent it gets worse (more irish-y) when he has been drinking. That being said I can't really mock him because when I'm drunk out trots the South Armagh accent even though I was born and raised in Boston.

Eric V wrote:

Sober wrote:And people complained about the accent of the Real McKenzies' singer, but the guy's from Scotland!

Canada.

Yeh, I was always under the impression that the entire band are Scottish-Canadian. I may be wrong, but he really doesn't sound that Scottish...

I know he is from Nova Scotia, but he doesn't have a Nova Scotian accent. Maybe his parents are from Scotland and he got their accent, don't know... and he also uses many expressions that are not from North-America. So I don't know... maybe he's just trying to get a Scottish accent just to make his band look like more genuine?

Sober wrote:I know he is from Nova Scotia, but he doesn't have a Nova Scotian accent. Maybe his parents are from Scotland and he got their accent, don't know... and he also uses many expressions that are not from North-America. So I don't know... maybe he's just trying to get a Scottish accent just to make his band look like more genuine?

I think his family is from Scotland. I heard or read that somewhere. But yeah, the whole band is from Canada, and the fuckers hardly ever come to the USA. Constantly going on European tours, but nada for us.

Haha. Spider thinks the same thing as many of us:

Spider: The Tossers I really like. Flogging Molly... I don't know. They seem to distant themselves, stating that they weren't influenced by us at all, but then you'll hear one of their songs and it sounds exactly like ours.

http://www.concertlivewire.com/interviews/spiderint.htm

Sober wrote:Haha. Spider thinks the same thing as many of us:

Spider: The Tossers I really like. Flogging Molly... I don't know. They seem to distant themselves, stating that they weren't influenced by us at all, but then you'll hear one of their songs and it sounds exactly like ours.

http://www.concertlivewire.com/interviews/spiderint.htm

Looks like the line is drawn.

Lucifrank wrote:Fourth generation streetpunk mixed with tin whistles does not a great band make.

I'd like to welcome Yoda to the forum...

oh the fun of trying to label a band into a category continues....

Thanks for that Kelly. Absolutely great and sham I have no money at the moment eh? I'm sure The Tossers can wait.

Eric V wrote:
They played Buckets of Beer, Dancin' Shoes, Johnny I (which drew a tear), Goodmornin' Da, No Loot, No Booze, No Fun, I've Pursued Nothing (they opened the show with this, and it just rocked the rest of teh night), Preab San Ol, and In The Pub ..... and I think that was it ... but not in that order.

They also played Real Irish Whiskey, and I may have left out another because as I've been riding around the past few days with my iPod in teh car, I've noticed that I left at least that one out... may have been more. And how brilliant was it to play Dancin' Shoes at the Roseland Ballroom, eh?! I swear there were thousands of olde time dancin' ghosts there just above the crowd having a grand time.

Also, In retrospect, they should have played The Crock of Gold. Its a great song, but also given the crowning achievement of opening for teh Pogues, I would have loved to hear them sing:

"Well, Chicago is my home and I'll never want to roam,
to live on any sun swept distant shore.
Well, it is where I was reared by forbearers so revered,
and I sing the songs that they all sang before.

Well, any woman that's neared me
has been repelled most thoroughly.
Still I'm a lover God, I am foremost of all.
A musician that's my call of high degree professional.
But I'm afraid I do not know my trade at all.

And if it's every twenty years
some small relief to me appears,
then the crock of gold will wait until that day."

Just listening to Agony (again).

I like it a lot, but I don't think I actually prefer The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death personally, the tunes are more catchy.

The Tossers are great, so is the new record. I've been a fan since Purgatory, but they almost never come to San Francisco, so I haven't had the chance to see them live.

Heather wrote:Just listening to Agony (again).

I like it a lot, but I don't think I actually prefer The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death personally, the tunes are more catchy.

Your sentence is not clear. You prefer Agony or The Valley?