Crying at this Genius annotation in Boys in the Better Land
Carrolls is an Irish brand of cigarettes which had its headquarters in Dundalk Ireland. The traditional Irish ownership and production location so close to the border with Northern Ireland makes it a popular cigarette with Irish Republican smokers – the type of person that might spit out “Brits Out”
― glindr jackson (gyac), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
riiiiight
I started off smoking Carrolls!
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:10 (four years ago) link
Yeah I mean Carrolls is, what, a pretty normal brand? Are Major more authentocrat?!
― glindr jackson (gyac), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:14 (four years ago) link
Nah Major is an aul fella brand surely
― glindr jackson (gyac), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
Major are like Carrolls' harder older stockier brother
Do these brands exist anymore?
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:17 (four years ago) link
They do!https://shop.supervalu.ie/shopping/newsagent-tobacco-cigarettes-major-25-s-1-piece-/p-1544159000
― glindr jackson (gyac), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Sweetafton.jpg
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:30 (four years ago) link
^^^ discounted 2011, proper aul fella fags
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link
Absolutely stunned that there is no mention whatsoever of Cathal Coughlan on this thread. For shame . . .
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRe0Jses5hw
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
Microdisney and The Fatima Mansions quite obviously own this thread.― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:10 (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:10 (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― fetter, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
Ah, I did a word search for his surname.
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
No mention of Flogging Molly though
― AMM stands for Axe-Murdering Motherfuckers (Matt #2), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
no mention of the Rubberbandits as far as i can see
― éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
for shame...
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
xp had this been 2011 I would have been happy to write about how much I loved Serious About Men! Always rated them
― glindr jackson (gyac), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
I really love the Fontaines DC album but it’s the kind of experience where I could imagine being talked out of it.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
I know what you mean. someone on my FB feed dismissed it as 'Lamacq-core' but you know, if every UK indie rock band is gonna get called that while the likes of Ought and Parquet Courts are allowed then it's not fair. Also, compared to Idles who I find fun but super-cringy, there's no comparison
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
ahem
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
both Dad Punk tbf
― a very powerful woman in the dog world (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
Theres nothing blindingly original about them (and why does that have to be the be all and end all) by any means but I love them. "Boys in the better land" is a banger
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
And yes the lyrics do address what it's like to live in late '10s Dublin
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
listening to them for the first time coincidentally. keep reminding me of the hold steady.
― thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
I definitely think Republic of Loose were responding to some idea of ''Irishness" in a more complex and nuanced way than Bono would have you believe:
"The Celtic twilight turned into Celtic soul with Van Morrison. Republic of Loose grabbed the Celtic tiger by the tail, swung it around their heads and threw it out the window into the cosmos. They're sophisticated soul bootboys."
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 21 December 2019 04:36 (four years ago) link
Cruelty Man
Once there was the cruelty manThe whip of the state in his handsCreeping round the halting site to steal their infancyIf they held out in the ditches well then come the mornThey had to move on againBrush that history down the shore, disinfect the corridorsMother she is fallen & the father is unknownSuperior vile she burnt the files, left a generation in tatters
They’re rising, they’re rising, their chances of survivingWhat’s really after happening in the fields?
A young one that was raped so youngTook decades to discover her tongueTouch me daughter sergeant & I’ll break your fucking kneesYou’re the bastion of misogynyProtected by the baton of ignorance
The parish is rising, the parish is risingIn the diocese & the villages that were poisonedThe parish is rising, the parish is risingTo find out what has happened in the fields
What kind of mind debased & rankBuries babies in a septic tank
If there’s a heaven father then you’re going to fuckin hellYou may not have signed off the heinous crimesBut pulled down the blinds when they came for the answers
They’re rising, they’re their chances of survivingWhat’s really after happening in the fields?
They’re rising, they’re rising but no-one’s televisingWhat’s really after happening in the fields?
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 02:30 (four years ago) link
I'm posting this here because this is one of the few threads that's ever mentioned Christy Moore. I did a bit of a rabbit-hole dive on him recently — I was aware of him and love "Ride On," but hadn't really listened to much. In the course of that, the song that really leapt out at me was "Bright Blue Rose," which (like "Ride On") is a Jimmy MacCarthy song. Apparently kind of a modern standard in Ireland? Anyway, it's a beautiful tune and just wanted to call attention to it. I guess it somewhat fits this thread because its soaked in a sort of mystical literary Catholicism that feels very Irish to me. This is Christy and Jimmy singing it together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glGdAwGBt8s
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 12 March 2021 18:02 (three years ago) link
Anyone listening to Kneecap from Ireland
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/arts/music/kneecap-irish-rap-celtic-revival.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 October 2023 16:02 (eight months ago) link
Yeah I like them
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Monday, 2 October 2023 16:09 (eight months ago) link
ctrl-F "Planxty" HWAT/?
― ian, Monday, 2 October 2023 16:26 (eight months ago) link