IF YOU HAVEN’T heard these musical masterpieces from our own island, you’re missing out.
They are in no particular order. How many can you tick off?
1. Ash – 1977
2. Bell X1 – Music in Mouth
3. Horslips – The Táin
4. Whipping Boy – Heartworm
5. Windings – I Am Not The Crow
6. Andy Irvine and Paul Brady
7. The Frames – For The Birds
8. The Undertones – The Undertones
9. Christy Moore – Live At The Point
10. Damien Rice – O
11. U2 – Achtung Baby
12. Matt Molloy, Paul Brady & Tommy Peoples – Molloy, Brady, Peoples
13. Jape – The Monkeys In The Zoo Have More Fun Than Me
14. The Pogues – Rum Sodomy and The Lash
15. Villagers – Becoming A Jackal
16. Planxty – Planxty
17. Fight Like Apes – Fight Like Apes And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion
18. Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill – The Lonesome Touch
19. Thin Lizzy – Live And Dangerous
2o. Simple Kid – SK1
21. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
22. The Fatima Mansions – Viva Dead Ponies
23. Therapy? – Troublegum
24. Stiff Little Fingers – Now Then
25. Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
26. David Kitt – The Big Romance
And that is it. How many have you got left to hear?
Go on, we know you can add to this list. And you probably have complaints too. Let us have it in the comments…
