Posts Tagged ‘punk’

St. Patrick’s Day Music: Mr. Irish Bastard’s “I Hope They Sell Beer In Hell”

Wednesday, March 17th, 2021

For a rowdy St. Patrick’s Day drinking song, here’s everyone’s favorite German Celtic Punk band Mr. Irish Bastard with “I Hope They Sell Beer In Hell”:

Mr. Irish Bastard

Friday, April 25th, 2014

While I was poking around iTunes listening to covers of “Road to Nowhere,” I stumbled across this:

If you like Flogging Molly or The Dropkick Murphys, you’ll recognize the Celtic folk punk sound of Mr. Irish Bastard.

Would you believe they hail from Münster, Germany?

Like other bands of their ilk, drinking seems to play a big role in their music:

I should really put up one video that’s an actual video:


I liked the sound so much that I picked up their first album, St. Mary’s School of Drinking for a mere $4.83 off iTunes.

They’ve also done a complete album cover of Never Mind the Bollocks, but I think I prefer their original work.

Obviously, I should have put this up for St. Patrick’s Day…

Japanese Pop Punk Band SpecialThanks

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013

While plumbing the depths and breadths of YouTube for suitable Shoegazer Sunday entries, sometimes I stumble across something interesting that doesn’t fit in the Shoegaze label. Today let’s take a look at Japanese band SpecialThanks.

The first 20 seconds of silence is just to mess with you.

So a pop-punk band with a deadly cute female lead who sings in English that sounds like a cross between Blink-182 and [Insert Current Teenage Female Pop Sensation Here]. This is the sort of Japanese cross-cultural pop artifact that Bruce Sterling circa 1992 would have been all over. As it stands, I’m pretty sure some canny American record label would make millions signing them over here…

Nothing Says “Punk” Quite Like Huey Lewis

Friday, May 18th, 2012

I know that when I think “punk,” Huey Lewis and Toni Basil are the first names that come to mind:

I can hardly wait for their forthcoming Heavy Metal collection with Simon & Garfunkel and The Bee Gees.

(To be fair, Devo were considered punk very early in their career, and Billy Idol at least dressed the part and came out of the same scene as The Sex Pistols. There’s a very amusing bit in Glen Matlock’s I was a teenage Sex Pistol in which a suddenly chastised Idol grows apprehensive over having wrecked his father’s car…)

(Hat tip: Iowahawk’s Twitter feed. )