cimorene | new yorkers, or people who know something about irish bars:

We once had to take shelter in an Irish bar in Majorca, during a big storm. They played nonstop Dido (version:gloomy) and The Cores. A wrist-slitting dance was called for! and a *lot* of whiskey...

er, but I'm sure most Irish bars are nothing like that!

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< useless comment > Folk music. But also, yeah, the Corrs, Boyzone - reprazent - and general pop pap non-Ireland related. That's my French Irish bar for ya!

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irish folk music or just general folk music?

Yeah, Irish folk music :)

dido and the corrs?

:shudder:

that kind of diabolical evil is almost outside my poor mortal ken.

hence the whiskey! and the dance.

It's a toss-up in NY -- there are a *lot* of Irish bars, and a lot of "Irish" bars. Since the CSI:NY folks seem to hang out there, I'm guessing Sullivan's is actually authentically Irish, since those are the places that attract cop types.

Music...a lot of modern Irish stuff (e.g., the Pogues, Dropkick Murphys, Black Flag) mixed with the occasional contribution from Springsteen or Mellencamp, for no immediately apparent reason.

not that I hang out in a lot of Irish bars or anything.

wax says she's heard of these, but my BLATANT lack of knowledge of any of them is probably going to get in the way.

is it like rock music that just happens to come from ireland? can i safely say it's a strikingly bad choice of music to tango to?

Yes. Think a hard rock or punk beat, with the occasional fiddle or merry little jig tune thrown in. It's stuff to get drunk to.

And it would be *very* difficult to tango to any of these choices. Though I would certainly like to see Danny try.

i think danny can tango. he just seems like he could. what do you think?

ahah, merry little jig tunes i get. but i think i will download a sample nonetheless.

so does danny know the name of the bands they're playing, or the names of the songs even? cause i have this:

Danny finishes off his beer, catches Aiden's hand and drags her out of the chair. "C'mon, you should be dancing in a dress like that, show it off. Besides, there's nothing wrong with the music. What, you don't like the ___?"

and then this:

Danny ends up leading her through a kind of sloppy tango to ___, which is the next thing that comes on, and another with a little salsa thrown in to ___ which Aiden starts humming along with halfway through.

i think danny can tango. he just seems like he could. what do you think?

I think he could. With all that grace and the emphatic body language he uses?

so does danny know the name of the bands they're playing, or the names of the songs even?

I think he would. If he's spent any amount of time at all hanging out in Sullivan's (and I get the impression he has), he's probably gotten familiar with a lot of the stuff they play. So the two bits you quoted would be totally believable with specific band/song references thrown in.

excellent. thanks. :)

*drive by commentary*

I, personally, would like to see *any* of them dancing to the Dropkick Murphys.

(notably as they're a Boston-based band, and evidently heavy on the "wheee!riot!" tone of music.)

i have a feeling a tango to them isn't quite what you had in mind...

Your icon seems to think that I've gone mad.

Anyway, no, it's not exactly tango music. It's...it's get rowdy and happy and sort of...*try* to dance things that have names, but fail miserably, and end up chortling drunkenly on your partner, who doesn't know you, but doesn't care.

If I may direct your attention to their rendition of "Tessie"?

apparently not. at least, well, you could, but it won't do a lot of good because i can't listen to it. a friend uploaded three other songs of theirs for me that i will listen to, uh, soon! but it doesn't matter in the scene, as it turns out. it's supposed to be inappropriate tango music. :)

and you know that's what mac secretly thinks about most people.

Ah, well, I didn't link to anything. "Tessie" was the Red Sox theme, anyway, this past year, so I don't think they'd be playing it in NYC. ;-) Skinhead on the M(B)TA might work. I don't have links to either one, unfortunately. But the latter would be *extremely* inappropriate tango music.

and you know that's what mac secretly things about most people.
of course, because he's clearly the only *sane* one of the bunch.

it took me three reads to get the red sox-new york thing. ("why not? it wasn't released in new york? ohhhhh.") i'm one of those sports team-impaired people. do you mean "extremely inappropriate tango music" in a good, humourous way, or in a "not in a million years could even danny's hips make this work" way?

ahahahaha. sane. yes, that's one word for it. ~~a much politer one than the one stella prefers, at least, when she's irritated with him.~~

If you want I have some Dropkick Murphys and possibly Black Flag. Y'know, for research purposes. Dropkick Murphys to my knowledge hail from Boston and sound it too. Like, Irish in that 'hey, I have an Irish heritage!' kind of way. Mmm. And they're really really awesome too. < /annoying pimp comment >

oh yes, and thank you, i do want. you seem to have a much wider music library than i, but if you like i can upload something for you in exchange. and i do also have all of wax's music at my fingertips.

Well, Black Flag I couldn't find, if I ever did have it. But here's some Dropkick Murphys.

The Spicy McHaggis Jig
Barroom Hero
Far Away Coast

And Flogging Molly, just for the hell of it, although it falls to a very similar genre. Maybe a bit cleaner.

Drunken Lullabies
Devil's Dance Floor
What's Left Of The Flag

My music library is mostly just insane because I so rarely get rid of anything, but I do like almost every kind of music. So I guess if you want to, you can upload a few tracks for me. You know. Surprise me!

i don't know what you might already have. i'll just upload some things i've been listening to lately.

the kent that's been stuck in my head this week: stoppa mig juni (http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=30X3D9MJICH3Z0QYCI0QPSIB6Y)

juanes and nelly furtado - fotografía (http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=13O9IVQGPP5J40LAFJD16MJ8B6) (in spanish. imo, catchy hook.)

gjallarhorn - kulning (http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3O9TYFNEUYSSA0X1G47OFKXWUP) i'm not sure if this has any words. it's a lot of that eerie wordless shrieking that she does in "dejelil och lagerman."

esthero - that girl (http://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=047ELV7LN748B2OPXBE78LMXVW) a kind of, um. i actually don't know how to describe this song but it made me fall in love with esthero four years ago.

fiona apple - extraordinary machine (http://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3MQR1KIHOL6XC0W1F621VZ1ZKO). the title track of the unreleased third album. it's awesome! there's not even any drums, the only backup is clarinet and oboe.

I actually only had the Gjallarhorn track ouf those, so not a bad guess. Moreso when I do like Fiona and Esthero, and have been known to listen to Nelly Furtado. And I hear I should give Kent a ~~second~~ one-hundered-and-second chance.

Thanks, I'll put these on my playlist asap. I was a bit preoccupied with the Manics spammage that grew to be way more complicated than I meant to so it took me a while to get to these.

By the way, does this mean you have more Gjallarhorn songs? That aren't I riden så... or Elgjald. I'd love some more.

i haven't been able to find any gjallarhorn since i've been here. i only have grimborg--i've never heard of the ones you mentioned.

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