On Fire

Artist: Black 47
Label: Gadfly
Category: Music

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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 076605228026
EAN: 0076605228026
ASIN: B00005OKSQ

Release Date: 2002-02-26

On Fire

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Tracks:

Big Fellah
Those Saints
Czechoslovakia
Fire Of Freedom
Bobby Sands MP
Rockin' The Bronx
American Wake
Johnny Byrne's Jig
Our Lady Of The Bronx
I Got Laid On James Joyces Grave
Biko

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Black 47 is named for the darkest year of the Irish potato famine. They are first and foremost a live pub band, and they're at their rowdy, profane best when heard from a piss-and-Guinness-soaked stage. County Wexford-born bandleader Larry Kirwan sympathetically addresses the sometimes radically opposed concerns of Irish immigrants in New York and native-born Irish-Americans, keeping a wary foot in both camps. While their economic and cultural points of reference often part company, the two groups nonetheless share a tragic and much-brooded-over history, a fondness for a dram downed in good company, an obsessive preoccupation with sex, and a sense of humor so wittily self-deprecating that it passes for satire. This live "greatest hits" package offers refueled versions of Black 47's most blistering anticlerical and/or political rants, including "Fires of Freedom," "American Wake," and "I Got Laid on James Joyce's Grave." <I>--Christina Roden</I>

Customer Reviews:

not a "greatest hits package".......2003-11-24

most live albums either serve as a introduction for the non-fan or for fans who have never heard the band live. seeing black 47 live is almost a religious experience, and you can't get on a cd what you get from seeing them live. it comes pretty close. the first black 47 live album, "live in new york city" was phenomenal and covered many of the "hits" such as james connolly, funky ceili, maria's wedding, etc. none of those songs, which are their best songs are on this album. there are still plenty of good songs on this album. our lady of the bronx was a great choice, along with big fellah, and american wake. but they really miss chris "seanchai" byrne. doing rockin in the bronx and those saints without chris' raps aren't very good. they could have included something else instead like "back to the west," which still isn't on a black 47 album. all in all it's not a bad album, but if you're looking for a better introduction to the band, get "live in new york city" or try to find the very rare greatest hits album "ten bloody years."

Thought it was celtic rock........2002-05-03

Just a very loud and hard rock, no jamming fiddle solo's and such. If you want celtic rock don't buy this, if you want loud hard rock which is indistinguishable from anything you could hear on todays junky radio stations this is it.

Play it again, Larry--LOUD!.......2002-03-22

If the Clash came back they'd be Black 47 and why the hell wouldn't they be proud and glad to be? Rebel stance, laughing good hearts, brave enough to take a bullet and keep rockin'--these lads don't mess. Fans love them enough to catch dozens of shows a year, beauties in the front row lipsynching every word while the uileann pipes wail and the brass section soars. Hey, you have to see and hear them to really get it--and they play everywhere from Shea Stadium to Times Square to Argentina, the hardest working band in America!
This second live cd brings you close to the Black 47 gig. You can taste the whiskey burnin'down as you shout back at Larry Kirwan--"Where the hell are ya now?"! A wonderful roiling roistering party of a record. Get it and play it, you'll play it again. And again and again after that. Loud. Guaranteed.

Bold, Brash, Black 47.......2001-12-01

New York gael-rockers Black 47 return for a second live album and outshine their previous live effort. The track list pulls from various studio albums, with Bobby Sands MP a notable selection for the 10th anniversary of his death. Highly recommended for Black 47 fans and newcomers.

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