Best Irish band/musician

Personally I'd go with either Aphex Twin or MBV for GOAT Irish artists.

Irish-Americans don't count btw.

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Van Morrison is pretty good. And I'm partial to post-punk era U2.

enya

Never checked Enya out before, is she actually great?

I like A Day Without Rain a lot but I have the taste of a 50 year old art teacher so idk

any non-folk irish artists that sing in irish?

thin lizzy is the best

Mbv or Van, though the Undertones at least deserve to be mentioned, also
>Aphex Twin
>Irish
hmmmmm I'm Irish and as much as I'd like to say otherwise, the man is the living embodiment of Cornwall

Sinead O Connor

Yeah I was sketchy about including AT since he was only born in Limerick, dunno what he considers himself

Norn Iron > Ireland
Prove me wrong

Ireland should depart from the UK tbqh

I like her. And some Cranberries stuff was okayish.

>No

Virgin Prunes
Undertones
Stiff Little Fingers (Northern Ireland)
Róisín Murphy

Not making a new thread, but maybe you guys know, looking for a traditional folk song that starts like this:
"Jura jura juraaaaa, jura jura yeeey"

Thanks in advance.

Easily Van Morrison or the Clancy Brothers; Thin Lizzy for more conventional rock stuff

Why is Ireland so bad at rock music compared to, let's say, Scotland?
Apart from MBV, U2 and celtic music, not much more comes from that country.

Aslan crazy world is the worlds catchiest song

the rubberbandits
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U2 is probably the greatest album of all time

Róisín Murphy could easily be a Sup Forumsfu if more people knew about her. She's surprisingly good.

The Rubberbandits are a dead meme

Girl Band

>Forgetting Thin Lizzy

I do see your point though. It's been a long time since any new Irish musician has done anything particularly interesting or good in any genre, at least as far as I'm aware.

Altar of Plagues

Girl Band are decent. I know a few friends who have been to see them a couple times, apparently they're really good live.

because it has a population of 4 million people and spent 3 decades fighting the UK.

Green Day

mbv

>3 decades

80 decades pal

seee the stone set in your eyes see the thorn wist in your smile...
and i'll wait for you

historically yeah, but during the revolution of rock music the IRA were too busy bombing civilians.

This is Sup Forums, talk about music you loser.

Pls don't devolve this thread into Troubles Shitposting featuring IRA defening and and political shitflinging

I am

being at war with propaganda flying everywhere is hardly a good environment for music to thrive

> Green Day
> Irish

???

why would they be called GREEN day if they weren't irish?

Alright fair enough, your original post just sounded like bait. I'm too used to everything resulting in an argument whenever the Troubles are brought up.

She actually used to get posted reasonably often in the old days

and so i watch you from afar

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RDJ was born in Ireland but he's Cornish

this

The Pogues
Just to hear the sound of Shane Macgowen's brain deteriorating.

The Pogues.

Best folk rock band ever, let alone Ireland.

Oh really? That's cool to know.

Maybe they're from Libya, who's flag was pic related until 2011, you ever think of that huh user?

For

Irish music scene is dead. Even though techno is all the rage here now theres very few home grown artists making waves

If Northern Ireland counts, The Divine Comedy

This.

He wasn't born there but he lives there now: Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound.

I sent away to Ireland for five CDs a year ago. They came from a place called "The Punchbowl" in Gort, County Galway, very close (I think) to Steven's neighboring residence of Cooloorta, in county Clare. A packing label bears a signature that reads something like "Sr22potl". I believed that this might possibly be Steven's signature itself, so I kept both pieces of the outer packing, and I keep them tucked in the liner notes of my "Chance Meeting..." CD copy now.

Not completely irish, even though they played celtic influenced music.
The band was formed in London by english musicians. A few of those like Shane McGowan and Cait O'Riordan were of irish ancestry.

Jun Tzu

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fuck you contrarians. U2 wins hands down.

Wolfe Tones are pretty based.

Stiff Little Fingers imo

Everyone wins if they put their hands down and stop playing

If you like ASIWYFA check out Leo Dresden, not entirely the same style but you'd probably like them.

Lots of great homegrown talent in Ireland at the moment.

Jun Tzu is hilariously bad

That's pretty good

It's not in the UK?

The Pogues

Can we include Celtic Diaspora?

They are truly the greatest musicians in the world.

Waterboys > Pogues

U2 without a doubt