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NCRanger said:
When I was growing up, my uncle played in an Irish folk band. I used to get taken to hear them play, and I absolutely hated it. As I got older, I came to appreciate it a lot more. Then going to Ireland, I actually started to like it. Hearing Celtic music done in a rock/punk arrangement was something I really enjoy now.

My politics are almost undefinable. I'm basically libertarian, but not Libertarian. I'm on the right, but certainly not alt-right. I'm a Republican, but I get as angry with most of them as I do the other side.
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Well from the perspective of Ken Casey--at least one of his grandfathers was from the old country and after he came to America and settled in the Boston area he was an union organizer--that's part of the subject matter of onr of their earliest songs Boys on the docks. He grew up with McColgan who is an Iraqi war vet (the one in the 90's not after 2001), had a job with the one of the major Boston newspapers and was in a trade union with them and when he dropped out of the Murphys it was to fulfill a childhood dream of becoming a fireman which also meant being in that union. They come from a working class big city background which are notoriously to the left and the one thing I appreciate about the Murphy's is they are very pro union. Now I worked for the Post Office in a small upstate New York city and the further west in New York State you go the more republican it gets--you might as well be in Ohio. The congressman in my district was one of the first to endorse Trump. Do I like him? No. Could I see a lot of my former union comrades voting for Trump. Yeah--not all, but at least 60/40 will trend toward the conservative every time--not that I really think he's a conservative so much as someone who has hijacked that party. Like McColgan by the way I've been in two trade unions--Carpenters and Joiners and APWU--I also did a 4 year stint in the Coast Guard.

All that being said about the Murphy's I don't have as much faith in the democratic party as they seem to have. I've actually been a green for a while but I'm really closer to being a democratic socialist. But to bring it back to the Dropkick's again--musically my vibe since 1978 or so has been punk rock/hardcore music. I appreciate the Irish thing because my last name is Riley and my dad use to play Clancy brothers, Chieftans, Dubliners, Wolfetones etc. on the family record player quite often when I was a kid but still the record of the Murphy's I like the best is their first--which is the most punk/hardcore.
 
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HockeyBasedNYC said:
Waiting for the Tool album to drop next week.

I guess I can hold out a few more days, after waiting, uh... 13 years. lol
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I too have been waiting for Tool, and have seen APC a few times in between as well as Puscifer, Danny Carey at a drum clinic, Pigmy Love Circus, Volto, etc., and recently just got off Black Sabbath radio on Pandora and switched to the UFO station to hear UFO, tons of Rush and Sabbath, Michael Schenker and some Triumph, with a smidgeon of Dio, Deep Purple, Sabbath with Dio, and a couple others.
 
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McCartney said:
Had some good songs but I have to admit, I was not a fan of their change in direction.
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I really like their guitar player--kind of blending folk and psychedelia and heavy on the wah pedal. He's quite an artist too--he painted their album covers. The rhythm section was really fun too and Elizabeth my dear---a kind of remake of Scarbourgh Fair with some pretty wicked new lyrics--great fun. When they were teenagers they were all crazy Clash fans following them around on tours from gig to gig--they didn't have much money but the Clash kind of started looking out for them--that's from Simon Wolstencroft who drummed for them before they became big--Simon ended up playing for the Fall for several years.
 
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Whiskey Myers. They bounce back and forth between absolutely shredding on southern rock cuts and slow folk country. I prefer the rock but I’ve come to appreciate both. Texas changes you.

Top tracks are:

Gasoline
Strange Dreams
Bar, Guitar and a Honky Tonk Crowd
Stone
Guitar Picker
 
Listening to Astro-Creep 2000 by White Zombie.

There’s nothing quite like listening to a full “album” that makes sense in its flow and structure.

Too many albums these days are based around trying to score a hit single. The end result is an effort that feels more like throwing darts blindfolded.
 
Edge said:
Listening to Astro-Creep 2000 by White Zombie.

There’s nothing quite like listening to a full “album” that makes sense in its flow and structure.

Too many albums these days are based around trying to score a hit single. The end result is an effort that feels more like throwing darts blindfolded.
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Whats an album? Is that when you get a discount from iTunes for buying all the singles at once?
 
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aufheben said:


They actually changed iTunes, now it's literally just called Music. :laugh:

So pretty soon we're going to have kids who don't even know what iTunes is/was.
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Pretty soon they can change the brand name to BackGround Noise.

I've found more peace listening to rain drops on a tin roof on Youtube than most music released 2010.

And I get tired of the "being curmudgeon" excuse.

Music isn't immune to being shit especially if it's designed to be as disposable from your brain as fast food is from your bee-hive, yet coincidentally most of the current music gives me as much if not more indigestion than the Big Mac.
 
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Edge said:
Listening to Astro-Creep 2000 by White Zombie.

There’s nothing quite like listening to a full “album” that makes sense in its flow and structure.

Too many albums these days are based around trying to score a hit single. The end result is an effort that feels more like throwing darts blindfolded.
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Songs of Love, Destruction, and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head

The Rangers should play "More Human than Human" for the Intermission ending song, but all security guards would need to be proficient in the Heimlich maneuver as many esophagus would become occluded with fake lobster meat as they gasp.
 
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Songs of Love, Destruction, and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head

The Rangers should play "More Human than Human" for the Intermission ending song, but all security guards would need to be proficient in the Heimlich maneuver as many esophagus would become occluded with fake lobster meat as they gasp.
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Sitting back and listening to "Blood, Milk and Sky" and slip-sliding away.
 
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Controversial opinions:

I tend to like APC better than Tool.

I also prefer Stone Sour to Slipknot, as well as Audioslave to both Rage and Soundgarden.
 
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