Irish Musicians I have enjoyed listening to
Paul Brady
‘Paradise is Here’
‘Follow On’ (on the great album Back To The Centre)
‘Not the Only One’
Songs & Crazy Dreams is a good compilation
Van Morrison
who has recorded 36 studio albums to date…
Very good compilations:
The Best of Van Morrison (1990)
Van Morrison at the Movies (2007)
‘Gloria’ (with his band Them)
‘Bright Side of the Road’
‘Real Real Gone’
‘When Will I Ever Learn to Live in God’
‘Orangefield’
‘Someone Like You’
Hothouse Flowers
‘Stand Beside Me’ is my fav on their 3rd album
The Cranberries
'I Still Do'
‘Ridiculous Thoughts’
‘Ridiculous Thoughts’
Thin Lizzy
‘Wild One’
‘Dancing in the Moonlight’
‘Whiskey in the Jar’
‘Don’t Believe a Word’
Sinead O’Connor
‘Troy’
‘I Want Your (Hands on Me)’
(her first two albums were
brilliant)
U2
‘A Sort of Homecoming’
‘Pride (in the name of love)’
‘Sunday, Bloody Sunday’
‘Without or Without You’
(my fav album was always The Unforgettable
Fire)
Gavin Friday
album Shag Tobacco
Gary Moore
‘Parisienne Walkways’ (co-written
with Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy)
‘Still Got the Blues’
Clannad
‘Coinleach Glas an Fhómhair’
‘In a Lifetime’ (with Bono)
For a bit of Irish Folk:
The Chieftains ‘Women of Ireland’
The Dubliners
‘Wild Rover’
‘Whiskey in the Jar’
The Horslips ‘Dearg
Doom’
Sharon Shannon ‘Cavan Potholes’
A few extra names in no particular
order:
Snow Patrol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOBs8dU4Pb8
The Divine Comedy ‘National
Express’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fw73dBJGss
Ash ‘Shining Light’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nt2-pOs_-g
The Boomtown Rats (Bob
Geldoff) ‘Rat Trap’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhXwyxDFmdw
The Undertones (Fergal Sharkey) ‘Teenage
Kicks’
Rory Gallagher – guitar hero
Chris de Burgh ‘Don’t Pay
The Ferryman’
Famous Irish artists who
are in fact not Irish, but are brilliant all the same:
Chris Rea
‘Fool (If You Think It’s
Over)’
‘I Can Hear Your Heartbeat’
‘Josephine’
‘On The Beach’
Elvis Costello
Too many to mention: 30
studio albums to date!
Excellent compilations:
Girls Girls Girls
The Best of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years
‘(I Don’t Wanna Go To)
Chelsea’
‘Alison’
‘Indoor Fireworks’
‘Tramp the Dirt Down’
The Pogues
their cover of ‘Dirty Old
Town’
Often mistaken for an Irish band, The Waterboys are led by the Scot Mike
Scott who has resided and composed in Ireland, on and off. Some members of the ever-changing
band have been Irish, notably Dubliner Steve Wickham.
Famous album recorded in Ireland: Fisherman’s
Blues (1988)
Also recorded in Ireland, the
album Room to Roam (1990)
On the album An Appointment with
Mr Yeats (2011) the songs are all based on the poetry of WB Yeats.
On Mike Scott’s first solo album
(1995) ‘City Full of Ghosts (Dublin)’
