Remember Me - Tim & Mollie O'Brien

Advantages: If you take it as being jocular, it's quite amusing in places.
Disadvantages: Creepy to the upmost!

...Richard O'Brien; 'Absolute O'Brien' (1999) My fondness of Richard O'Brien stemmed from when I use to watch the Crystal Maze as a girl during the summer holidays. I always found his presenting style interesting, bringing in his own unique charisma and personality to each episode of the Channel 4 game show. Fast forward by ten years and I'm sat watching the Crystal Maze once again. Except for this time, I found Mr. O'Brien to be even more humorous than I remembered. Call me crazy but I never remembered him as being that witty or jocular. Perhaps it was just my age? So, when I found out that the man himself had had the guts to release a solo album, I was shocked but almost intrigued. One of my good friends joked that she would get it for me as a late birthday present. At least, I thought she was joking. A little over a month... Read review

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Advantages: a breath of fresh air in a world of over produced music
Disadvantages: none

...of every line, be it about the famous Irish Blueshirts, the My Lai massacre in Vietnam or the Spanish Civil War, these may appear simple drinking songs but under the surface hi-jinks is a keen observer of the modern world and some very intricate and interesting reference points. Poguetry in motion? Well maybe not. "Dark Streets of London" is a deeply personal tale and one of the first original songs to work its way into the bands set at a time when they mainly did covers. A mid tempo jig that sits as a nice balance to the other extremes the album has to offer. Another early song is "Streams of Whiskey" a story that alludes to Flann O' Briens farcical tale of a mountain with a stream of whiskey flowing from it and also saying something about alcoholism in general and its close association with so many Irish writers. In fact with so many literary... Read review

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Advantages: the best cheer-up album ever
Disadvantages: there is not enough tracks

...: this song opens with every instument playing at a fast pace. which sets of the drunken irish man in everyone.. this song also includes a groundbreaking irish sounding solo which last quite a while... basically this song is just fun to listen to. 4stars 3. devils dance floor: this track sounds the most traditional even with (drums,guitar and bass) involved... it seems to have the sound that it should be played in a pub with drunk people playing around the band..... but anyway this for me is the best flogging molly song in Swagger 5stars hope you have found this review helpfull plz comment so i can improve in future reviews xxx... Read review

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