Description

Two listener questions take us an entire episode to answer... first, we compare Shane MacGowan of the Pogues to Ronnie Drew and Luke Kelly of the Dubliners. Then follows a ridiculously long discussion of our top five(ish) desert island discs.

References for this episode

• Leaving of Liverpool - The Dubliners — Ronnie Drew on lead vocals
• The Town I Loved So Well (Live) - The Dubliners — Luke Kelly on lead vocals
• Dirty Old Town (Live) - The Dubliners — Luke Kelly on lead vocals
• Rocky Road to Dublin (Live) - The Dubliners — Luke accidentally repeats the 'Mullingar' verse and reacts humourously
• Monto (Live) - The Dubliners
• Dirty Old Town - Christy Moore and Shane MacGowan
• Huey Lewis performs with Thin Lizzy
• Interview with Chris Hayes of Huey Lewis & the News — Suburban Underground
• New Religion - Duran Duran

Patrick's Top 5 Desert Island Discs

1. Life Live - Thin Lizzy
2. Gold: Greatest Hits - Abba
3. Live After Death - Iron Maiden
4. Reign in Blood - Slayer
5. Elvis 75 - Good Rockin' Tonight - Elvis Presley (4 Disc Box Set)

Chad's Top 5 Desert Island Discs

1. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) - David Bowie
2. Peter Gabriel (Scratch) - Peter Gabriel
3. Fear of Music - Talking Heads
4. The White Album - The Beatles
5. ???

More References

• Cold Sweat (Live) - Thin Lizzy
• Human Strain - Slayer
• George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr talk about Elvis's later period (from the Beatles Anthology)
• Bruce Dickinson and his opinion(s) on synthesizers in heavy metal
• The Rocker - Thin Lizzy (Eric Bell guitar solo)
• Still in Love With You - Thin Lizzy (John Sykes guitar solo)
• My Sharona - The Knack (Berton Averre guitar solo)
• Life During Wartime - Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads (Jerry Harrison keyboard solo)
• Girlfriend is Better - Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads (original 1984 theatrical mix) (Jerry Harrison keyboard solo)

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