{"id":90,"date":"2006-05-18T09:10:18","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T15:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/2006\/05\/18\/flogging-molly\/"},"modified":"2010-09-07T19:40:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T01:40:46","slug":"flogging-molly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/20060518\/flogging-molly\/","title":{"rendered":"Flogging Molly"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been wanting to say something nice about these guys<\/a> since I listened to the "Drunken Lullabies<\/a>" album after I got it from my brother-in-law<\/a> back at Christmas time.\u00c2\u00a0 But I am not much of a reviewer–I can’t really pull off anything more sophisticated than, "I like these guys.\u00c2\u00a0 You should buy the album too."<\/p>\n

Maybe that’s the best review one can give.<\/p>\n

But I think that a review is supposed to include a bit about the why of it all.\u00c2\u00a0 Let’s start with this gloriously badly spelled IM conversation:<\/p>\n

\n

Douglas <\/strong> (9:38 AM)<\/span> – "we find ourselves in the same old mess: singing drunken lullabies"
Jim <\/strong> (9:39 AM)<\/span> – don’t know that one
Douglas <\/strong> (9:39 AM)<\/span> – guess what country the band that sings sthat line is from?
Jim <\/strong> (9:39 AM)<\/span> – Zimbabwe
Douglas <\/strong> (9:39 AM)<\/span> – dumb ass
Douglas <\/strong> (9:39 AM)<\/span> – you didnt even try
Jim <\/strong> (9:39 AM)<\/span> – \"\"
Douglas <\/strong> (9:39 AM)<\/span> – though excellent effort pulling a hard spell country righ out of your ass
Jim <\/strong> (9:40 AM)<\/span> –
\"\"
Douglas <\/strong> (9:40 AM)<\/span> – Ireland
Jim <\/strong> (9:40 AM)<\/span> – ah, of course!
Douglas <\/strong> (9:40 AM)<\/span> – "Floggy Molly"
Douglas <\/strong> (9:40 AM)<\/span> – sory
Douglas <\/strong> (9:40 AM)<\/span> – FLogging Molly
Douglas <\/strong> (9:40 AM)<\/span> – from their "Drunken Lullabies" album
Douglas <\/strong> (9:41 AM)<\/span> – its kinda folksy irish speed metal
Douglas <\/strong> (9:41 AM)<\/span> – though I am more of a country music guy
Douglas <\/strong> (9:41 AM)<\/span> – so I may have made up that genre
Jim <\/strong> (9:41 AM)<\/span> – oh, sort of Irish Rovers meet U2?
Douglas <\/strong> (9:42 AM)<\/span> – sure
Douglas <\/strong> (9:42 AM)<\/span> – but super accenty
Douglas <\/strong> (9:43 AM)<\/span> – "wipe the golden tear from your mother dear, and raise what’s left of the flag for me"
Douglas <\/strong> (9:44 AM)<\/span> – sorta poetic, patriotic, and angry
Douglas <\/strong> (9:44 AM)<\/span> – a good dance beat
Jim <\/strong> (9:44 AM)<\/span> – ahhh, ok. like Cranberries in that sense
Douglas <\/strong> (9:44 AM)<\/span> – um
Douglas <\/strong> (9:44 AM)<\/span> – sure
Jim <\/strong> (9:44 AM)<\/span> – sorta poetic, patriotic, and angry
Douglas <\/strong> (9:44 AM)<\/span> – I am unfamiliar with the Cranberries
Douglas <\/strong> (9:44 AM)<\/span> – dont forget how sheltered I am
Jim <\/strong> (9:45 AM)<\/span> – oh they’re not realy making noise any more, but they had a few hits in the grunge age
Douglas <\/strong> (9:46 AM)<\/span> – I have heard of them
Douglas <\/strong> (9:46 AM)<\/span> – though I would have said they were Canadian
Jim <\/strong> (9:46 AM)<\/span> – nah, Irish
<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know jack about the other groups Jim mentioned, I was just going along–well I do know jack about U2, but who doesn’t?<\/p>\n

Why: fast paced, easy to understand the words despite the heavier than normal in music accent, makes me feel like if I weren’t of Austrian heritage I could have been from Ireland, so far after a ridiculous amount of repeat listening I haven’t found it getting stale.<\/p>\n

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I have been wanting to say something nice about these guys since I listened to the "Drunken Lullabies" album after I got it from my brother-in-law back at Christmas time.\u00c2\u00a0 But I am not much of a reviewer–I can’t really pull off anything more sophisticated than, "I like these guys.\u00c2\u00a0 You should buy the album … <\/p>\n

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