Friday Tradition!

[theweaselking]

Today we're going with the classics. And by "classics" I of course mean folk songs about getting really drunk and arrested.

Here's five different versions of Whiskey In The Jar, from Metallica to Thin Lizzy to the Grateful Dead (they forget a lot of the words) to U2 and even some boring guys doing it straight.

Comments

[fortysevenbteg.livejournal.com]

The first version of that I'd ever been exposed to was Metallica's. (And I loved the hell out of it.) I didn't realize it was a cover however. I'll definitely check out the others. :D

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

You totally had me going "Friday already" for about three seconds.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Friday Tradition very rarely happens on Fridays.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Metallica's is probably the best - unless you think Jerry Garcia jamming into the song and explaining why he just remembered most of it is hilarious, like I do.


There's something about reels and the like that lends itself really well to fast metal covers - it's like classical music, there's LOTS AND LOTS OF NOTES, and that sounds really good on an electric guitar.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

They all have slightly different lyrics. I like these ones most.

http://www.thebards.net/music/lyrics/Whiskey_In_The_Jar.shtml

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. It's a folk song.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

True. It's funny at the Latvian summer festival, with people making up verses and everyone singing some version of "Ligo, ligo" as a chorus (pronounced LEE-gwa) and then drinking huge quantities of alcohol.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Michael Palin attended one of those, in the "Baltic Summer" episode of his current travelogue series "Michael Palin's New Europe". Very interesting to (briefly) see it.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

Neat. I had fun at the one near Montreal.

[elffin.livejournal.com]

The rhythm is easy to get right - up DOWN up DOWN up DOWN up DOWN.

I want to see a metal cover of a hornpipe. That shit would be heavy.

[cmseward.livejournal.com]

The U2 one isn't really U2 singing, though, it's Bono introducing the song and thousands of drunken Irish singing. Which, really, is probably the most traditional form of the song, when you think about it.

[rgovrebo.livejournal.com]

Metallica's Whiskey In The Jar isn't so much a cover as it is the Metallica version of Thin Lizzy's version of that old Irish folk song.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It's still a cover.

[rgovrebo.livejournal.com]

A cover of a cover.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

And?

It's a cover.

[rgovrebo.livejournal.com]

The guy was pointing out he hadn't been aware it was a cover.