The Warrior's Code (CD)

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.

• Category:  Music  »  Punk  »  General/Hardcore/Punk
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• Release Date: June 21, 2005
• Label: Epitaph Records (USA)
• UPC: 045778047222
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106034494
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #2041 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
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• #1 in General/Hardcore/Punk (See Top 100 General/Hardcore/Punk Bestsellers)

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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).

Additional personnel: Laura Casey (viola, cello); Peter Chase, Bill Janovitz, Bronson Arroyo, Lenny Dinardo, Johnny Damon, Dr. Charles Steinberg, Jeff Horrigan, Mark Rogoff, Sara Stevenson, Julie Cordeiro (background vocals).

Recording information: Q Division, Somerville, Massachussets; The Outpost, Stoughton, Massachusetts (2004 - 2005).

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).

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