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.
