St. Patrick's Day Punk
AKA Puncaí na hÉireann, this playlist of punk music from Ireland (not "Celtic punk" or whathaveyou) was made for St. Patrick's Day 2021. Tracks date from the 70s through the 80s and 90s and right up to the present day, and bands from both the Republic and Northern Ireland are included. Listen above: check out the 40 tracks and 4 bonus tracks below.
Track listing
Burn It Down - Dexy's Midnight Runners ☘ Turkish Song of the Damned - The Pogues
☘There's A Fish On Top of Shandon (Swears He's Elvis) - Five Go Down To The Sea?☘
Going Norway - Girl Band ☘ Knocknaheeny Shuffle - Five Go Down To The Sea? ☘ Fight Inequality - Jobseekers
Television Screen - The Radiators From Space (single version) ☘ Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
Trash Glam Baby - The Boomtown Rats ☘ Rats (EP version) - Pillow Queens ☘ Twinkle - Whipping Boy
Justa Nother Teenage Rebel - The Outcasts ☘ My Perfect Cousin - The Undertones
Liberty Belle (EP version) - Fontaines DC ☘ Humane - Microdisney
Territory (single version) - Gender Chores ☘ The Sick Bed of Cúchulainn - The Pogues
¡No Pasarán! (Are You Getting The Picture) - Paranoid Visions ☘ 464 - Microdisney
The Glee Club - Five Go Down To The Sea? ☘ Barbed Wire Love - Stiff Little Fingers
Like Clockwork - The Boomtown Rats ☘ Where's Me Jumper - Sultans Of Ping FC
Smarter Than You - The Undertones ☘ John Wayne - Rocky DeValera And The Rhythm Kings
Neon Heart - The Boomtown Rats ☘ Lost Decade - Rats Blood
An Bhfuil Tú Sásta? - Paranoid Visions ☘ Gotta Getaway - Stiff Little Fingers
You're A Disease - The Outcasts ☘ Stupid Kid - Sultans of Ping FC ☘ Mars Bars - The Undertones
Kick Me With Your Leather Boots - Sultans of Ping FC ☘ Self Conscious Over You - The Outcasts
Rat Trap - The Boomtown Rats ☘ Song of Co-Aklan - Cathal Coughlan
Downmarket - The Blades ☘ Save My Soul - Panik Attaks ☘ Loftholdingswood - Microdisney
☘Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers☘
Bonus Tracks
These are songs or performances of songs which are not on Spotify but which I think deserve to be on the playlist.
Theme for Thought - The Virgin Prunes (1979, RTÉ One)
I don't know how or why the Virgin Prunes ended up on The Late Late Show, but I'm glad they did. UPDATE: As of October 2021, I know that according to Ferdia Mac Anna in his autobiography "the Rocky Years", it was he, in his capacity as a researcher for the program, who was responsible for the Virgin Prunes ending up on the Late Late Show. A nation is grateful.
Song of the Faithful Departed - The Radiators
In glorious potatovision, it's the Radiators, having dropped the "From Space" to reflect their growing artistic maturity. Or so I assume. This is probably their best-known song due to a cover by folk singer Christy Moore. I kid about the name, but they do demonstrate a real maturity here with this cutting critique of Ireland's national myths.
Cathal Coughlan and the Fatima Mansions perform one of their great singles in a music video filmed in the Cork Synagogue.
Sail And Rail - Sissy ft. Radie Peat
A massive audio-visual assault on the power of the Catholic Church in Ireland.