It's been a while, but I'm not giving up on my big album project. A a rate of 1 album per week I might actually get this done by the time I'm 50. That's not a joke. 1,000 albums at one per week is 20 years. I should probably go a bit faster.
Anyway, as for today... The Pogues are a Celtic punk band, meaning their music is a fusion of traditional Celtic folk music and punk rock. The two styles blend together pretty well, probably because the stripped down riffs and progressions of punk sound more like real compositions when played on the wider range of Celtic instruments. Plus the Celtic accent just makes any singing voice sound more badass.
Now traditional music can be quite lovely. But the main reason it became traditional in the first place is because everyone knows the tune and can hum along without really knowing the whole thing. So take punk, as derivative a style of music as there ever was, and cross it with predictable melodies... Unless you really like Uilleann pipes and constant flute tweetling it becomes a slogfest to sit through a whole album. The big problem I have with this style of music is the fast instrumental sections tend to loop without variation. Picture that party scene from Titanic as if it went on for twenty minutes. 2 stars- at least they're better than the Dropkick Murphys.
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