Warrior's Code (2005)

Product Summary UPC: 00045778047222 Release Date: 6/21/2005 Buy.com Sku: 63981136 Item#: M2D9GS Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Your Spirit's Alive ~ Dropkick Murphys 2. Warrior's Code, The ~ Dropkick Murphys 3. Captain Kelly's Kitchen (Courtin' in the Kitchen) ~ Dropkick Murphys 4. Walking Dead, The ~ Dropkick Murphys 5. Sunshine Highway ~ Dropkick Murphys 6. Wicked Sensitive Crew ~ Dropkick Murphys 7. Burden, The ~ Dropkick Murphys 8. Citizen C.I.A. ~ Dropkick Murphys 9. Green Fields of France, The (No Man's Land) ~ Dropkick Murphys 10. Take It And Run ~ Dropkick Murphys 11. I'm Shipping Up To Boston ~ Dropkick Murphys 12. Auld Triangle, The ~ Dropkick Murphys 13. Last Letter Home ~ Dropkick Murphys 14. Tessie ~ Dropkick Murphys   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Dropkick Murphys: Marc Orrell (vocals, guitar, accordion); James Lynch (vocals, guitar); Ken Casey (vocals, bass guitar); Matt Kelly (vocals, drums, bodhran); Al Barr (vocals); Tim Brennan (acoustic guitar, mandolin, whistle, accordion); Scruffy Wallace (bagpipe). Personnel: Laura Casey (viola, cello); Anders Geering, Doctor Charles Steinberg, Julie Cordeiro, Jeff Horrigan, Lance Burnett, Josephine Lyons, Tommy O'Connell, Tom Madden, Peter Chase, Bill Janovitz, Bronson Arroyo, Lenny Dinardo, Johnny Damon, Mark Rogoff (background vocals). Additional personnel: Dr. Charles Steinberg, Jeff Horrigan, Sara Stevenson, Julie Cordeiro (background vocals); Peter Chase, Bill Janovitz, Laura Casey, Bronson Arroyo, Lenny Dinardo, Johnny Damon, Mark Rogoff. Audio Mixers: Dave Westner; Jim Siegel. Recording information: Q Division, Somerville, MA (06/2004); The Outpost, Stoughton, MA (06/2004); Woolly Mammoth Studios, Boston, MA (06/2004). Photographer: Paul Harries. Like The Pogues before them, the Dropkick Murphys successfully combine traditional Irish music, (lusty, barroom choruses plus accordion and bagpipes) and punk rock (choppy guitar riffs, speedy drumming) into the kind of Celt-punk that's at the heart of their fifth album, THE WARRIOR'S CODE. Amid the folkie "Captain Kelly's Kitchen" and "I'm Shipping Up to Boston," (based around previously unreleased Woody Guthrie lyrics) and Australian troubadour Eric Bogle's anti-war anthem "The Green Fields of France," modern-day punk energy is a constant. Scruffy Wallace's aforementioned bagpipes fuse well with James Lynch and Marc Orrell's raging guitars on a title track dedicated to Massachusetts welterweight "Irish" Mickey Ward, while the raucous "Wicked Sensitive Crew" makes light of the DMs being "touchy feely sensitive guys." Most touching is "Last Letter Home," an homage to Sgt. Andrew Farrar, a die-hard fan who died serving in Iraq (the band played at his funeral). Producer: David Bianco; Ken Casey; Ken Casey; David Bianco Engineer: David Bianco; Dave Westner; Jim Siegel   Artist Overview Taking their musical cues from British Oi!, American hardcore, and traditional Irish music, Boston's Dropkick Murphys are--believe it or not--a rowdier, drunker version of the Pogues. The Murphys formed in the late 1990s as more of a straightforward punk band, but through the years began incorporating traditional Irish folk instrumentation and melody into their unruly sound. With songs about working-class troubles, street-tough solidarity, and the joys to be found at the bottom of a bottle, the band became popular with traditional punk crowds as well as any committed late-night reveler. Their song "Shipping Off to Boston" was featured in the 2006 Oscar-winning film THE DEPARTED, and introduced the band to the largest audience of its career. Artist Influences 7 Seconds | AC/DC | Blitz | Circle Jerks | Cock Sparrer | D.Y.S. | Dag Nasty | Gang Green | Hsker D | Negative FX | Operation Ivy | Social Distortion | SSD | The Dubliners | The Mighty Mighty Bosstones | The Pogues | Woody Guthrie Artist Contemporaries 25 Ta Life | Anti-Flag | Black 47 | Blood for Blood | Converge | Darkbuster | Death Before Dishonor (Hardcore) | Flogging Molly | HorrorPops | Lars Frederiksen (Punk) | New Bomb Turks | NOFX | Pennywise | Rancid | Roger Miret | The Bouncing Souls | The Briggs (Hardcore) | The Casualties | The Ducky Boys | The Explosion | The New Breed (California) | The Scotch Greens | The Tossers | The Turbo A.C.'s | The Unseen | Tiger Army | Whiskey Rebels   Compilation Appearances Vol. 1-Give 'em The Boot Oi Skampilation Volume 3 Built For Speed Compilation Of Warped Music Punch Drunk Boston Drops The Gloves: Tribute To Slapshot Vol. 5-Punk-O-Rama Vol. 3-World Warp Live Vol. 2-Punch Drunk Vol. 1-Cheap Shots & Low Blows Vol. 2-Skins & Pinz Vol. 3-Give 'em The Boot (Bonus Tracks) Vans Warped Tour 2003 Compilation Punk O Rama 10 (w/ Bonus DVD) 2005 Warped Tour Compilation Tony Hawk's American Wasteland TAKE ACTION 5 (ENH) Essential Irish Drinking Songs & Sing Punk O Rama Vol 7 The Departed Let Them Know:story Of Youth Brigade   Associated Artists and Works Business (The) Business (The) Face To Face (Punk)   Technical Info Release Date : 06/21/2005 Original Release Date : 2005 Catalog ID : 80472 Label : Hellcat Records Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00045778047222    Related Videos Unbroken: Katharine Mcphee Battle Studies: John Mayer