Dropkick Murphys - Warrior`s Code [Bonus Track]

Artist:

Dropkick Murphys

UPC:

045778047222

See Also:

Jimmy Eat World blink-182 Hothouse Flowers Goldfinger

Description:

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, Sara Stevenson, Julie Cordeiro (background vocals); Jeff Horrigan, 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.
Boston`s Dropkick Murphys turn in another collection of Irish-tinged punk rock on The Warrior`s Code. The tempos are breakneck for the most part, and the energy is accentuated by the alternating lead vocals, a tag team of rage and bravado. That the group doesn`t take itself too seriously is demonstrated on "Wicked Sensitive Crew," in which the singers discuss how they`ve been misunderstood as they`ve toured the world, when in fact they are "touchy feely sensitive guys." As if to demonstrate their sensitivity (sentimentality is more like it), they cover Eric Bogle`s "The Green Fields of France (No Man`s Land)," a reflection on the loss of a soldier in World War I and the general futility of war that is taken at a ballad tempo and even begins with a piano. They have also been to the Woody Guthrie archive of unpublished lyrics, and come away with "I`m Shipping Up to Boston," a goofy song they set to typically blistering rock. (In 2006, the song was given greater exposure when it was used in Martin Scorsese`s Academy Award-winning film The Departed.) The theme of war dead is brought up to date with the closing track, "Last Letter Home," the epistolary true story of a Dropkick Murphys fan who died in Iraq; the band played at his funeral. It is here that the punk rage seems to find a purpose. ~ William Ruhlmann

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Your Spirit`s Alive
2. Warrior`s Code, The
3. Captain Kelly`s Kitchen (Courtin` in the Kitchen)
4. Walking Dead, The
5. Sunshine Highway
6. Wicked Sensitive Crew
7. Burden, The
8. Citizen C.I.A.
9. Green Fields of France, The (No Man`s Land)
10. Take It and Run
11. I`m Shipping Up to Boston
12. Auld Triangle, The
13. Last Letter Home
14. Tessie

Album Information

Release Date:

06/21/2005

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Label:

Epitaph (USA)

Producer:

David Bianco; Ken Casey; Ken Casey; David Bianco

Catalog Number:

80472

Original Release Year:

2005

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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