Top Irish Albums (Including Northern Ireland)
by Patman360

From Mercury 03/17/2016 20:00 | #162108

Happy st. Patrick's da! Great chart!

From Secondsoul 10/03/2014 13:12 | #123254

Great stuff. Hope you can extend this to a Top 100, though that will probably mean you have to make it 2 albums per artist. I hope to eventually get around to listening to the ones on your list that I'm not yet familiar with!

From Jimmy Dread 09/30/2014 19:34 | #123066

Interesting chart... I'm sure you'll get one or two people questioning the lack of U2, but then so what? Lovely to see SoPFC so high too - I remember bopping to Where's Me Jumper when it first came out!

Three recs for you - Children of Lir by Loudest Whisper, Swaddling Songs by Mellow Candle (both folk) and If I Die, I Die by The Virgin Prunes (odd post-punk).

From Patman360 09/12/2013 00:53 | #85753

Thanks, this list is a bit all over the place at the moment, I tend to get easily distracted and attempt some new project.
And yes, I am from Cork, you must be the first other user from Cork I've met on this site so welcome, there's no more than 5-10 Irish users regularly active here so it's always nice to meet more, especially from Cork.
As for Protobaby, I haven't got around to it yet, but I'll make it a priority to hear it soon, thanks for the rec!

From latenighttv 09/11/2013 18:22 | #85729

Decent list. Have heard maybe one out of every three, although if I wasn't from Cork this might be a bit less (wagering you might be a Corkonian too)!

They Want Control are a cool band. Didn't know they had put out a full LP - gonna have to check it out.

Have you heard the Protobaby album?

From Patman360 07/22/2013 18:38 | #82138

Thanks for the comment, the order of this is actually a bit wayward at the moment, needs to be arranged but I'm overloading myself with custom charts so I'll get around to reordering/expanding this chart soon hopefully. As for The Pogues issue, they're an English-Irish band from my understanding, they formed in London, the majority of members are English, yet they have a sense of Irishness about them in their music and members of Irish origin such as MacGowan aid in adding to this Irishness.

From andy_hunter 07/22/2013 11:48 | #82122

Funny I almost prefer this chart in reverse. I love Ham Sandwich, Villagers and TDCC but then again my knowledge of Irish music is somewhat limited and biased towards newer stuff. Anyhow, a lot of stuff here for me to check out. And for what its worth I would include The Pogues, you'd hardly call them an English band would you?

From Patman360 07/20/2013 13:06 | #82028

A House are cool, one of their albums will probably will fall into this chart further down the line should I choose to expand beyond 50 albums, not sure which one I'd choose though, I Am The Greatest maybe...

From SingingPeasant96 07/20/2013 10:41 | #82015

How about "A House"? they are one of my favourite Irish band

From Patman360 06/14/2013 17:02 | #78853

@SingingPeasant96
I would say that instrumental post-rock seems to be their genre, I find it hard to think of other bands with a similar style as it's not a genre I'm overly familiar with, other Irish bands, such as Adebisi Shank, do fit under this genre in my opinion though. Here's a link to the opening track off ASIWYFA's self titled debut album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRD8z4cTjTM