six days to go

Another appearance from the Dropkick Murphys. "For Boston" is the Boston College fight song, and in this video you'll see them on stage at the now defunct Avalon in Boston, on St Patrick's Day with the Boston Police Department's bagpipe band. Cool. Actually I have it on good authority that the BPD out there is pretty cool, as are the fire department. That and endless pictures of friends posing with them while drunk...

Seven Days to go

Another song from the now defunct Lost City Angels from Boston, MA. Their 2004 album "Broken World," is by far one of my favorite records composed about drinking lots of booze. They are also excellent bartenders.

Considering the sheer amount of shows I saw on the tour that this video was filmed during, I might actually be in it somewhere, but I doubt it. Wouldn't be the first time YouTube surprised me....

7- Lost City Angels - "Today's the Day"

yet again playing catch up

I've been a bad slacker with this blog and I apologize. Between planning our party here at the homestead, working on the playlist and watching the Oscars and almost taking a nap in my yard afterwards, I have been a busy gal. No worries, I'll just catch you up on my St Patrick's day countdown

11- U2 - "Sunday Bloody Sunday"

I love U2 which I know to some people makes me a dork, but they're definitely the biggest band to ever come out of Ireland. This is a gorgeous song. Listen, love it. Be happy!



10- Street Dogs - "Two Bottles"

These guys have to write the best drinking songs ever. You know, after Dropkick.



9- Dropkick Murphys - "Tessie"

While this song is about baseball (hey spring training just started, go Red Sox!) you drink beer at baseball games, making this count.



So cool.

8- House of Pain - "Shamrocks and Shenanigans" (Butch Vig Remix)

I like the original version of this song too but the Butch Vig remix makes me want to turn over cars and light trash cans on fire. I don't know why, but it do. So here you go.

12 days!

Here we are, 12 days away. And a Friday! So enjoy one of my favorite Flogging Molly tunes: Black Friday Rule

12: Flogging Molly "Black Friday Rule"

13 days till St Patrick's Day

Aside from the singer of this band once being very rude to a friend of mine, I enjoy the Street Dogs and their music. This is an especially good one for St Patrick's Day.

13- Street Dogs - "Tobe's got a Drinking Problem"


A drinking problem? What is he out of booze?

14 days to go!

Here we are with 14 days left until St Patrick's Day. I really, really, really love the Dropkick Murphys, not just because they let me drink beer in their dressing room once, either. Because that's just awesome on top of awesome.

This is off their first record they released on their new label (i.e. not their first record ever, duh) called "The Meanest of Times"

14- The Dropkick Murphys- "The State Of Massachusetts"

15 days to go!

Today I've got the Dubliners here with a song that could almost be a horror story

15- The Dubliners - "A Pub With No Beer"

playing catch up

When I last left you, there was 20 days until St Patrick's Day. I obviously have some catching up to do!

Number 19-The Muppets do "Danny Boy"



Number 18- Stiff Little Fingers - "Suspect Device"



Stiff Little Fingers are from Belfast, Ireland. They also did a mean cover of Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" once. I'm including that as a bonus because it's awseome.



Number 17- Black 47 - "Livin' in America"



Sorry it's the live version, still AMAZING.

Number 16 - The Pogues - "The Fairytale of New York"

Yeah it's a Christmas song. It's also the most awesome song in the WORLD. RAHHHHHH



I'll catch up with my Project 365 stuff later...

twenty days to go

Hey look, it's the Tossers again. This is a great song, and it's true. Ha ha.

20- The Tossers "No loot, No booze, No fun"

twenty one days to go

I've seen Flogging Molly play countless times and I never get tired of their live show. This song is one of my favorites.

21 - Flogging Molly - "If I Ever Leave This World Alive"

twenty one days left

I love Morrissey, that's no joke. So to leave this song off this countdown would be absurd. "Irish Blood, English Heart" focuses on Morrissey's joint Irish/English heritage and was also his first single in over seven years when released. If you ever get a chance to see him in concert, do it. I took my dad a few years ago for Father's Day and it remains one of his favorite gifts! (You know, unless hell ever froze over and there was a Smiths reunion.)


Number 22: Morrissey - "Irish Blood, English Heart"

22 days to go!

Number 22 comes to us from Kings Cross, North London. The Pogues play pretty much the most Irish of Irish music. Shane MacGowan, the singer and songwriter of the group is a pretty wild guy and has a very interesting history. More recently he worked on a song with the Dropkick Murphys for their album "Blackout," and I'm sure that collaboration will see the light of day on this countdown before it's through.


Number 22 The Pogues "Hell's Ditch"

24 and 23

So I failed at life yesterday and didn't post a video, which is good news for you actually because you get TWO today. Amazing, right? Isn't life grand?

Frankly I need to get my Irish music on right now as I am in the planning stages of my annual party, which let me say, never sucks.

Okay on with the music. Number 24 comes to us mostly from Boston, MA. The Lost City Angels music was introduced to me through a former roommate who I miss so much, but she's back on that side of the country. Anyway we had this epic adventure that kicked off with seeing Social Distortion on St Patrick's Day one year, that lead us to see these guys in Anaheim after seeing Flogging Molly the night before. Trust me it was a long weekend and I still am legally advised not to get into details. The point is that I saw these guys about 13 or 14 times over the next year and gave them a place to crash when they came through SLO with Guttermouth. While not all the boys in this band are of Irish heritage like myself, they make Boston styled punk rock about drinking and fighting and I think girls. Also they made a mean cocktail and fantastic asparagus.

24: Lost City Angels - "Broken World" (really poor audio quality, which sucks because this song is hot.)



In the same spirit (and another band I met because of LCA, ha ha) number 23 comes to us from the Dropkick Murphys. I love this band. And I can honestly tell you they're very cool guys in person. I have a feeling we'll be hearing from them again on this little countdown of mine.

23: Dropkick Murphys - "Heroes of our Past"



Enjoy!

25 days to go

So the countdown to St Patrick's Day continues. I love Sinead O'Connor. Most people just remember her as that bald chick who ripped up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live and pissed off Frank Sinatra, but she's been making music since then, if you don't know. And it's brilliant. There's more to Sinead than "Nothing Compares 2 U"

25: Sinead O'Connor - "Fire on Babylon"

26 days to go

You can't have a countdown to St Patrick's Day with Irish music without mentioning U2 at least once. This is one of my favorite U2 songs, so here you go. Happy Friday, yo.

26: U2 "Bullet the Blue Sky"

It's that time of the year again

Here we are, twenty seven days out from my favorite holiday of the year, St. Patrick's Day. Part of the reason I love it so much is my family's heritage is mostly Irish. The other of course is the music. So without further ado I will now begin my annual countdown to St Patrick's Day in Youtube video form.

27: The Tossers - "Siobhan"



Enjoy