Dropkick Murphys - Gang's All Here
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Artist: Dropkick MurphysBrand: DROPKICK MURPHYS
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-03-23
Music Label: Hellcat Records
Soundtracks:
- Roll Call
- Blood and Whiskey
- Pipebomb on Lansdowne
- Perfect Stranger
- 10 Years of Service
- Upstarts and Broken Hearts
- Devil's Brigade
- Curse of a Fallen Soul
- Howeward Bound
- Going Strong
- The Fighting 69th
- Boston Asphalt
- Wheel of Misfortune
- The Only Road
- Amazing Grace
- The Gang's All Here
Free Music Notes for Gang's All Here
Free Music Review: Simply Stellar
Hit: 5 Stars
I haven't listened to the Pogues. One of their albums spent some time on my Amazon.com wish list, but I never committed because their stuff is all imported and I refuse to pay more than $...for a CD. I've never listened to the Stiff Little Fingers. I've heard of them, of course, because I've seen High Fidelity, but that's as far as it goes (and in reference to that scene, Green Day sounds nothing like the Clash). So I don't know how qualified I am to review a CD that has a pedigree behind it that I'm unfamiliar with. Which brings up the issue of how much any punk band/album can have a pedigree. The influence of ideas is pretty straightforward throughout the movement, but honestly, how much inspiration was required to get a bunch of teenage boys to play loud, fast, and confrontationally (is that a word)? If punk is any one thing, it's minimalist. Let's just all admit that we're playing in the Velvets' backyard and move on, kay?
Now the Dropkick Murphys scene and flavor is, their inspiration from the bands in my first paragraph aside, rather unique. Boston is among the last places in the U.S. where the Irish presence that showed up in the 1840's hasn't been completely pushed out by more recent immigrants. The town still has a very Mick feel to it, with its prevalance of old-school pubs and love of falling short of victory (This year the Red Sox will do it!). Take this half-look back over the Atlantic, throw in some heartfelt working-class politics and savage punk riffs, and you have the essential Murphys formula.
The sound is Hardcore in the best sense of the word, forever driving and dedicated to cacophony, as though a melody gentle to the ears would be an insult. And the lyrics are everything we'd want from the best hardcore band: intelligent, poetic without being self-indulgent, occasionally corny, and always delivered at face value. Facile irony and juvenile sarcasm, so essential for the myriad of Descendents-wannabes that provide the 14-year-olds with their pre-fab image of punk, is not in the Murphys playbook. They live what they sing about, love it, and in that typically Irish way, laugh at and weep for it at the same time. "The Gang's All Here," faintly praised as a departure by some fans due to the change of original frontman Mike McColgan for Al Barr, is as good an intro to this formula as any.
The tracks:
"Roll Call" - a nod to the WW2 grim-determination-of-battle cover, with kettle drums and singing men stopping just short of sounding like a Munich beer hall. It's just an intro, though.
"Blood and Whiskey" - And they get right into the scene: hooligans and bar brawlers and legends in their own neighborhoods. Not a hint of double meaning.
"Pipebomb on Lansdowne" - A definite guilty pleasure in the post-World Trade Center culture. Blowing stuff up isn't nearly as amusing as one might have thought. The harshest track on the album, lyrically and musically.
"Perfect Stranger" - What's sad about this song is not anything actually having to do with this song, but that very well-educated people write for pages to cover the kind of ideas that these guys put into a two-minute amp blast.
"10 Years of Service" - A classic refrain ("10 years of service and I'm still not worth your time") breathes new life into the trials and tribulations of the working stiff against management.
"Upstarts and Broken Hearts" - Not enough punk songs celebrate the virtues of a good wife.
"Devil's Brigade" - Sometimes the Murphys write a song that gives one hope for redemption. This isn't one of them.
"Curse of a Fallen Soul" - The album's high point, where the band's black sense of humor says all those things we'd like to say at funerals but don't.
"Homeward Bound" - A love song to Boston, not in spite of its warts, but because of them.
"Going Strong" - Sure, the "new generation of American kids" mantra sounds a tad like what all the Rolling Stone writers were saying when Nirvana broke it big, but hey, someone's gotta stand up and say that punk isn't dead, and the kids are not all spaced out.
"The Fighting 69th" - Classic folk tune of the famous WW1 American unit redone with hardcore sensibilities, achieving a real appreication of the proud ugliness of combat. It's also kind of refreshing to hear a band reveal a deeply held sense of patriotism that doesn't become cliched or otherwise jarring to the overall effect.
"Boston Asphalt" - a sharp reminder of which tribe among Boston's immigrants paved the roads, and how this was a break for them.
"Wheel of Misfortune" - Some melody and fiddle thrown in, perhaps to mellow the crowd out and let everyone get a chance to get a pint they can wave around during the chorus.
"The Only Road" - Re-hashing earlier themes on the obstinance of man in the face of his doom, thinking you'll win only to get beat down and all that jazz.
"Amazing Grace" - Maybe if I had listened to the Pogues and Fingers I wouldn't be so impressed with this track, but sweet lord of rock n'roll are bagpipes and guitars two great tastes that taste great together. And their use of this particular gospel tune, coming as it does after two straight downers, makes the heart soar.
"The Gang's All Here" - The fiddles come back, the whiskey goes around, and you cut the dust on your throat once more before heading off to hearth and home.
One for the road?
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Media Type: CD
Artist: DROPKICK MURPHYS
Title: GANG'S ALL HERE
Street Release Date: 03/16/1999
Genre: PUNK
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