Let's determine the Top 10 - 20 greatest Irish artists of all time, Sup Forums.
Preferably based on the high points of their career and not subtracting too much for the low points (ie. Van Morrison was GOAT but hasn't put out much good new material since the 1979)
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Van Morrison
My Bloody Valentine
Rory Gallagher
That Petrol Emotion
Enya
The Pogues
Thin Lizzy
I assume we are not talking about trad artists that no non-irish person will have heard off
Fun fact: Kevin Shields was born in America
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This. But add The Waterboys, Virgin Prunes, and U2 (their post-punk and Eno-produced stuff is damn good)
Right?
Waterboys are a bit shit desu
I did forget the Frames though
The Pogues are English
Waterboys are Scottish
Both bands share lineages to Dublin. It's like dual citizenship.
But Shane MacGowan IS the Pogues
U2 should without a doubt be in the top 5
if we're not subtracting for low points their discography is incredbile. boy, war, unforgettable fire, joshua tree, achtung baby, and zooropa are fantastic albums, and the other ones in the 1980-2000 period also range from decent to great
>Born in Kent
>Spent brief childhood in Tipperary
>Moved back to south-east England
>Attended Westminster
Please ask Shane MacGowan if he is English
Why does every thread about Irish music devolve into people attacking the legitimacy of the artist's Irishness?
what about aphex
I'm going to say The Boomtown Rats because nobody else will
this. It's just easy to hate on U2.
Irish people especially despise them now, as do the British.
Being born in a country doesn't make them from that country
Same as how Shane MacGowan isn't English and Kevin Shields isn't American
Strength NIA
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Not one of the top Irish artists ever but this guy is definitely my favorite of our shitty little indie scene. True lad shit
Doesn't really count, nobody here in Ireland would consider him a quintessentially Irish artist. He grew up in Cornwall, he's got nothing to do with our culture
based enya
Enya is fucking great
To an Irish family and at age 10 went to Ireland. I'd say that's closer than either the Gallagher brothers or the entirety of The Smiths (all of them are of direct Irish descent).
I know
I'm just goofing around and think it's interesting he was born in New York
What about Sinéad O'Connor?
Following up this post with my other favorite shit. Pic related is comfy folktronica I suppose you'd call it
I mean the Gallaghers moved to Manchester while the kids were still toddlers. They grew up 100% Mancunian.
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Fight Like Apes, power pop stuff. They were mental live
oasis
The correct answer is My Bloody Valentine.
>as do the British.
Seriously. U2 were scoring back to back #1 singles in the mid-00s and selling tons of records.
With their latest album, the single didn't even chart and the album only went to #5 in the charts (on a pretty low sales week with no other real competition). They sold like 50k first week and dropped to #23 week two with 8k sales. Liam Gallagher's new album had two Top 40 singles sold 120k first week and has sold 300k copies to date. And he's been totally irrelevant for 10+ years now.
U2 are done for over here.
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Really beloved figure in the Irish indie scene before he passed away from slipping down some stairs. You still hear Glen Hansard honoring him through covers
Whipping Boy definitely deserves a mention
Pic related is one of the greatest shoegaze albums
Does The Divine comedy count?
>no divine comedy
oh shit somebody posted it right before I posted my post shit
To get some metal represented
Hivemind
The Corrs?
1. U2
Who gives a shit about the rest
my personal favourites (im irish)
Rory Gallagher
The Fureys
Jim McCann
Wolfe Tones
The Dubliners
Sticky Little Fingers
Thin Lizzy
The Dublin City Ramblers
Davey Arthur
The Chieftans
>no mention of Glen Hansard
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Van Morrison is British
Cunt
Ur mums British m8
I briefly hung out with them at an after-party. My friend and I snuck in because he was trying to get with someone, and I retreated to a bedroom to drink alone (I was depressed for some reason). Then the whole band came in. They gave me a beer, but then their manager came in with my friend and politely told us both to fuck off out of the party.
>no mention of Damien Rice
The Corrs are fucking awful
Christy Moore.
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>SIR Van Morrison
I know
Enya
Sinead O Connor
The Cranberries
My Bloody Valentine
also their feature of DAMN is pretty good
That's literally nothing compared to the rest of their catalog. Not even worth mentioning.
Saint Yorda were pretty good
not posting the best irish song ever
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All Tvvins make nice indie
They count, but they're shit
As a Derryman I desperately want to like them, but desu Neil Hannon isn't that great a lyricists
What do you dislike about him?
you arent that great a lyricist
Cara Dillon, since nobody else has mentioned her.
Also nobody's mentioned Planxty?
>yfw DJ Lethal is Jewish
>yfw Everlast converted to Islam
fucking listen to this
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He's not from Ireland, he's literally English.
You may as well include every US band if you stretch the criteria to 'of vague Irish descent'. Oasis had a whole "we're Irish" gimmick as well in the 90s, they're as Irish as the Pogues are.
>second worst album
I could easily pick out a good song of his and say "listen to this"
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up the RA boys
>Please ask Shane MacGowan if he is English
his opinions mean shite and getting his teeth knocked out doesn't confer a new homeland upon him now does it
Hozier
It's not a gimmick if their parents are literally Irish. Immediate parentage is very different to the vague stretching you're talking about.
COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS
Don't forget Clannad, the group made up of her family.
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van the man
THIS