DKM are irritating :(. I have a friend who listens to them, Reel Big Fish and Me First..., and nothing else. Far too many mental images of smoky pubs for my liking.

everyone seriously needs to go get the first 3 Pogues albums

you know what, I bought "Sing Loud, Sing Proud!" by DKM cause my friend advised it. I took a listen, got through the first 3 songs and I was suddenly bored out of my mind. But some gut feeling made me think they were ok, I don't know why, it just did, and for that feeling that made me like them just a bit, I give them some credit. 1 thumbs up... maybe "snaz" things up a bit and I will like them better. They were singing proud, but not so loud.

Listening to Finnegan's Wake right now!
I think you have to be in the right mood to really get into them..but then again being Scottish I really enjoy it...something a bit different! :D

SL, SP sucks ass. The Gang's All Here, Warrior's Code and Do Or Die is where it is at.

If your SCOTTISH why don't you listen to an actual SCOTTISH band instead of a watered down AMERICAN band attempting to imitate an IRISH band.

I don't think you know what you're talking about. Why is it imitation, and not their own instincts?

I'll get back to you in two years.

wtf does that mean?

you commented on something that was posted two years ago... so yeah.... my post was stupid, i know.

I almost made the same joke though. :D

Haha. My post seems a little less stupid now

Well anyway, DKM are badass, no two ways about it.

Definitely.

Well I read this entire thread and there seems to be quite a bit of hate towards the Dropkicks.... Wtf? Kiss Me I'm ****faced is possibly the greatest song ever.

I liten to them but I wouldn't say they are the best.I'm shipping up to Boston is one of their best songs though.DKM isn't an oi! punk band they are a celtic punk band.

I've bought a few Dropkick albums but I've never found myself being engrossed by the entire album, I just find two or three songs that I really like, then the rest just becomes filler. I prefer Flogging Molly to the Dropkick Murphys based more on a lyrical and composition level than anything else.

My friend is a HUGE fan of theirs. I think she sent me some of their music way back when we were in high school but I can't remember their material so I'll have to give it another listen.

Not to keen on them, btw i thought working class punk bands like sham 69 were oi, so wtf is the DKM?

i'm going to pretend like I remember what I was unnecessarily aggressive about and attempt to answer your question.

I assume I said imitation, because (I might be wrong here, mind you) but I'm pretty sure all the band members were born up north in the United States of America, and while there music definitely has Celtic roots and is influenced by Celtic music, I don't consider them to have the same authenticity as real Celtic band. It sounds more commercialized to me.


But in all honesty, I was probably just pissed off by him saying that his heritage makes him enjoy DM. And the idea that one can think the fact that your great-great grandparents were from Scottland has any influence on what music you will end up enjoying kinda baffles me. Those ideas of aceint ancestory influencing you so much I think is cause for lots of the racial and ethnic tension that causes so many problems today.

The Meanest Of Times is a good album, but with regards to Celtic punk or whatever you wanna call it I much prefer Flogging Molly the Tossers and (of course) the mighty mighty Pogues. Dropkick Murphys are a pretty decent band, but personally I wouldn't really rate them any higher.

eh, I don't have an articulate way to say this, but those other bands are more celtic than DKM. I'd almost call DKM music that was influenced by them, but wasn't a part of them.

If the instruments make the genre, then Korn and Ac/Dc are celtic as well.

If the fact that they cover irish songs makes them celtic, then so is Springsteen and Waits, and both also happen to be african americans too.

Theres clearly a youth there, that grew up on the Pouges, but I don't think DKM ever wanted to be the pouges. In all, I think its part of being in the melting pot, the influences are there, but with each recording and especially the vocalist switch, they have moved further away from the old days of recording punk versions of Finnigans Wake.

meh, I find the Dropkick Murphys music completely uninteresting (and quite boring), but i am bias as I find most modern punk to be quite a bore

I loved them with Mike McColgan on vocals, but once Al Barr replaced him, I mostly lost interest. I liked Al Barr with The Bruisers, but I didn't think that he fit with Dropkick Murphys style at the time. Perhaps they have evolved differently with him by now... presuming that he is still the vocalist at this time. I haven't followed them for nearly ten years now.

Love them.

Picked up The Warrior's Code a while back since I liked the one DKM song that was in The Departed. I quite like it. I'm Shipping Up To Boston is a rockin' track.

The only song of theirs that's caught my attention is "The Stae Of Massachusetts".

the rest is pretty generic, been done 100 times already

I heard DKM for the first time at the Big Day Out this year and they seemed great live, however I rushed home to download their music and discovered it didn't really satisfy as though I'd thought. My conclusion is they're a good pub band to get a kick in your gears.

Yea. They were great with Mike McColgan.

Agreed. I got their album after hearing im shipping off to boston on itunes. I think it was free or something, and then the rest of the album just didn't do much else for me. Good song though.

My favorite song is The Green Fields of France and Cpt. Kelly's Kitchen.

Dropkick Murphys?
 

Anyone a fan of this awesome irish-american celtic punk band?

I can't get enough of them, every time they drop an album it just seems to surpass the one that came before it. Just when you think they can't get any better, they do! :p

sorry for the typos in this first vid but the guy who wrote the lyrics for this sucks lol

Awesome band.I haven't heard their newest album but have always enjoyed their music.Their later albums have more of a Irish feel than punk but it's still good nonetheless.

I like Dropkick Murphys.

Boys On The Docks is my favorite song!

Personally don't like them

I live in Ireland, and like most people i know find the US citizen obsession with being Irish rather comical, especially when it seeps into music

To us you are Irish if you were born in Ireland, not because your great great grandfather married a dubliner or whatever

No offence but thats how it is

do or die was good and a couple songs from the gangs all here werent bad but the rest has been kinda tired and played out

You guys should also check out Flatfoot 56 and The Rumjacks

They have ONE good song IMO, the one they used in the departed.

Listen through about two of their albums after that I think, it was....grating. Might've missed some good songs but didn't seem worth the effort.

They have a couple more good songs, but I find that I can't listen to their albums in their entirety, just the few songs that I like. Flogging Molly is the same way, as with The Real McKenzies. There's just something about that kind of music that makes it good in short doses, but horrible for longer listens, unless it's like a mix or something.

They're a novelty act. As you've said Pete, they're quite fun in small doses but listening to them for a prolonged period causes the novelty to wear thin.
I can't really take them seriously, it's a drunken Irish man wailing ridiculous lyrics about losing his leg into a microphone accompanied by some fiddler players and guitarists. A track or two of theirs on shuffle is good, a whole album not so much.