Kinda Celtic

So this is probably one of the more interesting mixes so far. Alt. pop rockers, The Script and Celtic masters The Cheiftains... I'll explain later. But first!...

The PLAYLIST

So, this started out as a post on The Script. I'd heard their songs on the radio and thought I should listen to the rest of their stuff. I thought, "that one song is awesome, that means they're all cool, right?" Wrong. Well, semi-cool anyway. Just not as cool as I'd hoped. The first album only yielded one song I cared for and that was the single they played on the Radio. Their second album was sadly like the first, just one song and I'd already heard in the radio. I started listening to their third and most recent album but I noticed over half of the songs were tagged as explicit... Had I liked their other stuff more, I might have listened to see if I could edit them and make them "appropriate" but with only two songs in their favor, I decided to just skip it.

Which left me in a jam because I was not expecting this. I was fully expecting to find awesomeness, not "not-awesomeness"... So, instead of finding an alternate contemporary album I did the only rational thing... I decided the write about an album that's almost 20 years old! Why you ask? Surely there's a higher purpose, some grand, universal connection.... well, I'll tell you. They're both Irish. Yup. That's it. I created a Celtic station on Pandora today (I call it "ookch-aye!" in honor of David Tennant) and I had Scotland & Ireland on the brain. I figured that was enough. Also, the Cheiftans are awesome. My mom loves Celtic music so I grew up listening to these dudes, seen them in concert twice, they're basically the Gaelic version of the Shiz.

So here's one of my favorite albums of theirs, The Long Black Veil. It's actually pretty cool. Almost every song is a collaboration with another famous artist from the UK. My favorite is the first one with Sting. The last one "Rocky road to Dublin" is the Stones as the backing band (in case you didn't catch the "No Satisfaction" hint). And I threw the TWO Script songs on there for good measure but they're the only ones I like.

Also, here's The Who's Roger Daltrey singing "Behind Blue Eyes" with the Cheiftans. Enjoy!