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Music : Ride on
Rating: 
- my favourite album, by one of my favourite singers
This is full of songs that you find yourself singing under your breath - 'Ride On', 'Lisdoonvarna', 'Wandering Aongus' - it's the first album I heard by him, and still my favourite.
I first heard Lisdoonvarna on Irish radio, and thought it was an advertising jingle for the Irish tourist board. Then got to 'massage parlours in horse boxes' and thought - what? Mind you, this is the Irish tourist board. But even so, surely not. But then - Ireland. That place where a tramp can waltz (alone, and quite literally) across a major intersection in Dublin through three lights changes and not one driver will as much as beep or edge forward until he's safely onto pavement again. But even so...
One kindly record store later, I was the proud possessor of a fine (vinyl) record - which this replaced.
My favourite quote? 'This is heaven - this is hell - who cares, who can tell? Anyone for the last few choc ices now.'
Pretty much sums up the music festival experience for me.
The other songs are all completely different, from Lisdoonvarna and from each other - and all good.
Rating: - the conscience of ireland
Fantastic! An excellent version of Bobby Sand's empathic "Back Home in Derry", a must have for any fan of Irish music!
Rating:
- One of Christy's finest hours
Not in the classic status of his 'Ordinary man' album, but definitely his second best album. Themes on the album are typically Irish ones, immigration and revolution. The courage of as they were know then 'black Irish' immigrants is relayed in The City of Chicago and Bobby Sands' composition 'Back home in Derry'. Homage is at last paid to the heroic 5th international brigade who fought against Franco's force before WWII in the powerful 'Viva La Quinta Brigada'. A couple of the album highlights are 'The Wandering Aoengus' the haunting W.B.Yeats Poem set to a wonderfully simple yet haunting tune and the amazing wordplay of the Legendary Lisdoonvarna. A must have.
- my favourite album, by one of my favourite singersThis is full of songs that you find yourself singing under your breath - 'Ride On', 'Lisdoonvarna', 'Wandering Aongus' - it's the first album I heard by him, and still my favourite.
I first heard Lisdoonvarna on Irish radio, and thought it was an advertising jingle for the Irish tourist board. Then got to 'massage parlours in horse boxes' and thought - what? Mind you, this is the Irish tourist board. But even so, surely not. But then - Ireland. That place where a tramp can waltz (alone, and quite literally) across a major intersection in Dublin through three lights changes and not one driver will as much as beep or edge forward until he's safely onto pavement again. But even so...
One kindly record store later, I was the proud possessor of a fine (vinyl) record - which this replaced.
My favourite quote? 'This is heaven - this is hell - who cares, who can tell? Anyone for the last few choc ices now.'
Pretty much sums up the music festival experience for me.
The other songs are all completely different, from Lisdoonvarna and from each other - and all good.
Rating:
- the conscience of irelandFantastic! An excellent version of Bobby Sand's empathic "Back Home in Derry", a must have for any fan of Irish music!
Rating:
- One of Christy's finest hoursNot in the classic status of his 'Ordinary man' album, but definitely his second best album. Themes on the album are typically Irish ones, immigration and revolution. The courage of as they were know then 'black Irish' immigrants is relayed in The City of Chicago and Bobby Sands' composition 'Back home in Derry'. Homage is at last paid to the heroic 5th international brigade who fought against Franco's force before WWII in the powerful 'Viva La Quinta Brigada'. A couple of the album highlights are 'The Wandering Aoengus' the haunting W.B.Yeats Poem set to a wonderfully simple yet haunting tune and the amazing wordplay of the Legendary Lisdoonvarna. A must have.