Music Monday: Celtic Punk

It is a grand American tradition to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by pretending to be Irish.  My heritage runs Scottish and English (to my knowledge), but what red-blooded American ever let that stop them?  And what better way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a little Celtic punk from a band out the U.S. and a band out of England?

The two songs, by the way, were prominently featured in the two greatest TV series ever made.

The Dropkick Murphys’ Celtic punk take on Amazing Grace was featured in The Shield.  (THE greatest TV series of all time, as far as I am concerned, and now finally available on blu-ray.)

Amazing Grace is The Dropkick Murphys’ album The Gang’s All Here.

Body of an American was much more prominently featured in The Wire (the second greatest TV series of all time).  Who can resist this description of an Irish wake?

Then we turned and shook as we had a look

In the room where the dead men lay

So big Jim Dwyer made his last trip

To the shores where his father’s laid

But fifteen minutes later

We had our first taste of whiskey

There was uncles giving lectures

On ancient Irish history

The men all started telling jokes

And the women they got frisky

By five o’clock in the evening

Every bastard there was piskey

The Body of the Americans is off The Pogues’ album Rum Sodomy & The Lash, truly one of the greatest album names of all time.

 

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