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Post by bigmac on Jul 24, 2009 15:07:08 GMT -5
In the interest just having something to do ( bored out of my skull right now) I thought I`d start a new topic.
Lets have the community ( all five of us) weigh in on the latest Dreadnoughts album Victory Square. I`ll start.
I loved every track on the Dreadnoughts first album Legends Never Die so I was excited when they had a new one coming out. I was not disappointed. Gone is the jolly, swaggerish feel, replaced by a darker, more hardcore sound (maybe its the new bassist). You can still look at the CD back and find yourself saying, Oh, thats a good one. to every song.
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Post by Professor Gommel on Jul 25, 2009 16:39:59 GMT -5
Although I have been following the updates and the topics., I haven't been really buying or listening to much music in the paddy-punk sound lately. In fact, I was unaware of a new release from The Dreadnoughts.
But if your assessment of their sound, as darker and more hardcore, is accurate, than I am definitely intrigued. Some more variation in the field can only benefit everyone. I may have to out this on my short list of future acquisitions!
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Post by Tom Fucking McSod on Jul 31, 2009 2:47:57 GMT -5
Honestly, I love the Dreadnoughts to death. And then some. There's been however a streak of things that have been doing what their albumn(s) have done, lately, that at first hit me as novel an' I loved. Pretty much the new albumn sounds alot like all the minor songs compiled from the first one. (Not that this is a bad thing, by any means). I just don't find enough varying for me. It's seeming like... there's a type of punk metal... that's meeting up more with gypsy.
It's the same sound t'me that the Real McKenzies pulled on their last albumn, an' what it seems like Rum Rebellion did on the track Stand Up, that they've got posted on their myspace. Maybe I'm jus' gettin' bitchy in my old age, but I prefer a folk band playin' punk songs to a punk band playin' folk songs. There's a noticable difference. I kinda miss accoustic guitars.
(Anyone agree? Disagree? I kinda wanna see if I'm the only one noticing this.)
~However~, that being said... The albumn itself was something I'd been waiting for for a while, an' I listened to the shit outt'a it, when I first got my copy. I was drawn to Boneyard, an' Hottress right off the bat. Samovar, I'd familiarized myself with already from the myspace. Already knew I dug that one. Eliza Lee was an immediate favourite, but.. I'm a huge Stan Rogers fan.. I dig the shit outt'a well written a 'capella, an' this, much like Roll The Woodpile Down on the first albumn, didn't let me down. The title track, oddly was the only song in the first week or so, that I'll admit I skipped over.
Jus' so I'm not run off, I'm gonna say the 'Noughts are absolutely one of my favourite bands goin' right now, an' there aren't a whole lot of things I'll be waiting for as expectantly as whatever they release next.
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Post by bigmac on Aug 1, 2009 14:57:21 GMT -5
McSod, I agree and disagree on several points.
I will agree that there is very little variance or change in the energy of the songs.They seem to have found what they like and what works and are sticking to it. However if (like me) you like this sound, you couldn't be happier with two full albums of it.
There does indeed seem to be a more punk/metal sound in the new album. I am fine with it, as long as they don't eliminate the folk element entirely.
As to the Folk->Punk/ Punk->Folk thing, i have to say I can go either way. While there is a noticeable difference i'll take either. Though I find myself now listening to all Flogging Molly's CD's again getting the slow, acoustic songs that I skipped the first time I listened. I like to slow it down as well as speed it up now.
Interestingly I like The West Country, Samovar,... every track actually. However I'm less so with Boneyard. I too LOVE the acapella tracks ( Eliza Lee, Woodpile), in fact one of my friends has gotten hooked into the Dreadnoughts as well. We have both been working on learning all the words as these songs are totally perfect for pub chorus.
P.S.: Does anyone know what song the start of Samovar is like. I seem to remember some metal song like that...
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Post by SingloudSingproud on Aug 1, 2009 16:18:28 GMT -5
Yeah, i have to say i dont like the new Dreadnoughts record half as much as the first. Its by no means a bad record and i thoroughly enjoy it, but i'm more into the melodic folkier side of things as opposed to the punk/ hardcore direction so it doesnt do it as much for me.
Gutted i missed them in London recently though. Just couldnt afford to make it up for the show - shite timing!
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Post by Tom Fucking McSod on Aug 3, 2009 21:49:56 GMT -5
It's understandable if you do gear more t'wards the punk/hardcore elements. I can remember a time when that's ~all~ I listened to. An I still go back to those punk roots I started with occasionally. I guess as I've matured musically, an' I keep finding more and different things to listen to, I move further from said roots. I still appreciate them... I just don't go outt'a my way t'listen as much.
I'm more inclined to sit down with a Dubliners CD, than with an Op Ivy albumn these days.. S'just how things've fallen.
An' yeah. Those a capella/hauling songs are pretty bad-assed. I used to collect 'em back before I found the joys of downloading whole albumns at once. Written a couple of 'em m'self even. I used to like to burn CDs of those and like... old slave labour songs to bring to work an' blast.
An' finally... I know I'm gonna catch hell 'fer this... Saying nothing against the 'Noughts... I think I like Siobhan a lil' better.
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Post by bigmac on Aug 6, 2009 17:01:34 GMT -5
Actually,
I agree. Siobhan was about ten 'n a half and the Noughts are like a ten maybe nine 'n a half.
The Celtbot ftw
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Post by Tom Fucking McSod on Aug 7, 2009 13:35:32 GMT -5
A weird thing, too... I'd had those couple Siobhan albumns for... literally a couple years, 'fore I sat down an' listened to 'em enough to appreciate 'em. I think when I first found soulseek, I jus' started downloadin' anythin' and everythin' I could get my grubby lil' hands on with even the slightest irish twist to 'em. I'd made m'self a bunch of cds for work, this last year. Did like.. St. Bushmills, an' the Skels, Mutiny, Rum Rebellion, etc. Threw in the disc of their stuff.. an' I don't think it left the cd player 'fer like... a month.
Never really knew how good they were 'til they were gone.
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Carry on.
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Post by SingloudSingproud on Aug 16, 2009 16:08:50 GMT -5
While on the subject of Siobhan, i too have to say i prefer them to the Dreadnoughts. The Siobhan albums are superb.
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