Dropkick Murphys - Live on St. Patrick's Day from Boston, MA at the Avalon Ballroom
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Free Music Review: WOW!
Hit: 5 Stars
It's always a real test to hear a band doing a live album - you can't really fudge it. And this album speaks volumes about the quality of the band's live performances (as brilliant as their studio stuff) and the audience response - in this case, AWESOME. I'm only sorry I wasn't there to share the energy, fun, and raw talent! Get this album! It has everything to do with who this band is!Free Music Review: It's about time!
Hit: 5 Stars
The Murphys have finally released their live album, and it's great. The sound quality of the recording is excellent, and you can really tell the guys and the fans had a blast. If you like DKM, buy this. You'll love it.Free Music Review: For Boston! For Boston!
Hit: 5 Stars
Pop this one in on the Monday morning commute and you'll be cracking skulls all day at work. Tremendous energy. Amazing Grace is fantastic. Love that dirty water!Free Music Review: For Boston
Hit: 4 Stars
I'm envious of Bostonites every St. Patty's Day (for a couple reasons) but most certainly because the Murphs throw a 3 day party (not just a concert, a PARTY, as author Dennis Lehane says in the liner notes) for the city. These guys embrace their fans and their fans embrace them and it's just one slambang three day celebration with punk, hicks, micks, and brews pouring. In fact, on this album is a recording of a wedding engagement that occured onstage at the show. Great stuff man!
After the bagpipes, the Murphs launce into "For Boston" a track declaring comraderie with their fans, and then "Boys on the Dock", just one of many of the Murph's worker anthems.
As the party flies with amped up killer cuts from albums past and present like "Which Side Are You On?", "John Law", "A Few Good Men" (Stand up and be counted, sing a song for liberty...!) ,and of course two ultimate rockers "The Gauntlet" (download this song now!) and "Barroom Hero" I just found myself wishing I was there. I've seen this band 3 times but never on their own turf on their own holiday and in front of their family. What an awesome way to start the Spring!
Finally, the show wraps up with "Skinhead on the MBTA" (Metro Boston Transit Authority" - right, you Bostonites?? Is that what that stands for?") aka "Bloody Pig Pile" and as the liner notes state "the mob swarmed onboard". I gotta get there some
I don't like the Red Sox cause they beat my Cards but I love this band and you would too.
Free Music Review: Good, But doesn't quite match the real thing
Hit: 4 Stars
I actually was lucky enough to get tickets to one of the shows that St. Pattys day weekend, and let me say, that show was awesome. I have been awaiting this live album from the second they announced it during the show (I know, kind of strange...) and was really hoping it would be the best live album ever...well in some ways it is and some ways it isnt. First the good...this is a REAL live album, not the overproduced junk that most live albums are (sound exactly like the studio tracks), it's a full 74 minutes (they played 25 songs at the show I saw)which is either good or bad depending on your attention span, the band was really into the shows those days and it shows, and the songs are varied well from their three studio albums. Of course it has its downs...sometimes the audio is so distorted with the crowd and Al Barr and the others say every other word into the mike (good live, bad on a live album becuase you cant see why they weren't able to get to the mike)...there aren't enough tracks from their best album "Do or Die", they really pumped thier lastest "Sing Loud", which is good but not as punk as their earlier work...and since the songs are from three different days the transitions between songs doesn't always work well...I wish it was all recorded on one night...I hope I didn't slam the album too much but this really is for die hard fans only...please check out "Do or Die" though...its incredible (My first punk album). 4 stars for keeping the raw element however!