Originally Posted by Gavin Sinclair
FD, glad to have taken you down Memory Lane. This song was actually written by Liam Reilly of another Irish band called Bagatelle.

I'm not a huge fan of some of the Wolfe Tones own songs, so aggressively anti-British as to be faintly ridiculous and almost a subconscious self-parody. Their audience laps them ups though, so they know what they're doing. Probably the most ridiculous of their songs is "Rock On Rockall," an insult laden diatribe against Britain and asserting Irish right to a deserted rock in the middle of the Atlantic but actually far closer to Scotland than it is to Ireland. Why they got so worked up about that I have no idea LOL.

Yeah they were a rebel group thats why i think if they wore leather pants and long hair and some pounding drums and distorted guitars, could be a punk group

I figured they wrote this, i remeber some good songs, and i saw how they affect some people. Dad also loved classic country and doo wop, and Sinatra so my taste caught up to his in some ways as i got older, and less mature....

I dont even care for American politics let alone Uk Politics, that ranges hundreds of years back. but alas, there is another great song called streets of new york, by one of the best rock stars you have never heard of, or many havent, this album was a masterpiece, great lyric and tune and the hole album was top shelf. Astonisihng how this guy aint a huge rock star, when most rock stars think hes better than they are!

Much more accurate of new york



the lyrics alone are top notch


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