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Dreadful Example of Irish Music

Beware of Barak! | USA | 02/09/2003

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Oh, where to begin - the fake brogue used or the simply terrible sounds altogether? Trust me, you'll NEVER hear this kind of dreadful music in the pubs in Ireland - UNLESS, of course, the only pub you enter happens to be Durty Nelly's the night before your flight back home from Shannon.Imagine handing a CD by Lawrence Welk to some foreigner and telling them "this is a very good example of American music", and that's what you have here that is supposed to be representative of Irish music.This is the sort of thing that they play in the retirement homes on St. Patrick's Day, and then they put the CD away for another 364 days."

A Little Bit of Irishness

Kathleen M. Kisner | Cincinnati, OH United States | 09/13/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This CD has wonderful, classic folk songs from Ireland. It makes me feel like I am in a pub with a bunch of friends having a drink. The music is upbeat and toe-tapping. My two-year old loves to dance to it and it always puts me in a better mood."

Great to hear some old familiar songs, but songs to short.

John O'connell | rockaway point, NY United States | 02/11/2006

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Many of the songs listed were amoung my favorites, I was so excited to hear this CD. But when I recieved it. Each song listed only has a verse or two and is part of a 3-4 song blend all crammed into a 4 minute song track. So you really don't get the full enjoyment of the whole song. You only get about a minute of each song. The rendition of danny boy was terrible. The song has a terrible background music you'd find on an electric piano keyboard under cheesey DANCE beat. Seriously a dance beat to Dannyboy? Other than the dannyboy fiasco and the briefness of each song grouped on each track, the music was pretty good, I loved hearing all the songs my grandfather and his brothers would sing, like Moonshiner. But I would prefer to listen to the full version of my favorite pub songs. Not the condensed combinations of one or two versus of several songs crammed into one track on the cd. The songs just didn't flow. I'd recommend a different CD."