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Flogging Molly, Flogging Molly. It's a name that immediately brings to mind festive atmospheres, dances, beer and... Ireland.
The Los Angeles band has previously made a name for itself as one of the best in the punk\folk scene. "Drunken Lullabies" or "Devil's Dance Floor" surely come to mind, among their most famous tracks.
After a little less than 2 years since their last "Within a Mile of Home," they return to the scene with "Float"... more folk, more mature, more catchy, less punk.
"Requiem For A Dying Song" opens the show with its cheerful and easy-to-listen melody, followed by the beautiful "Paddy's Lament," which finds peace in the third track, the title track "Float." The choice to include a ballad in the first part of the album is curious.
The central part of the album is the most valid and engaging, highlighting the stunning "Lightning Storm" and "Punch Drunk Grinning Soul." Listening to Molly at first glance may seem repetitive and monotonous. In my opinion, it is precisely that rhythmic formula that gives the work that magic, gritty and relentless energy that makes the listener's imagination wander into the carefree universe sung by the group.
Lastly, let's remember "Man With No Country" and "The Story So Far " which masterfully (but melancholically) closes 2008 with Flogging Molly.
Undoubtedly a mature album and the result of serious work by the group, highly appreciable and remarkable.
Tracklist Lyrics and Samples
01 Requiem for a Dying Song (03:31)
There's a government whip cracked across your back
Where the honor of the day is don't listen, attack
See the blood run down in your bushwhack town
Revolution is the gimmick of the joke less clown
Where the body's just yelling for the tax man's gun
Talk don't talk if you've nothing to say
Walk don't walk if your feet don't know the way
And requiem for a dying song
with a shimmy and a shank from a futile war
And the sun that lights the day
breaks the darkness and the powers of another great shame
With you my love, with you my lover
with you I will return
And requiem for a dying song
Got a barrel by the face should the order release
Should the bullet in your pocket turn away and retreat
See the terror in the eye of a bloodshot child
Only bubble in his belly and the promise of lies
Operation, liberation, tell me, you can decide
Talk don't talk if you've nothing to say
Walk don't walk if your feet don't know the way
And requiem for a dying song
with a shimmy and the shank from a futile war
And the sun that lights the day
breaks the darkness and the powers of another great shame
But with you my love, with you my lover
with you I will return
And requiem for a dying song
Agony on the corner of every street
Then he lost himself over bitterness, explode
Explode
There's a government whip cracked across your back
Where the honor of the day is don't listen, attack
Talk don't talk if you've nothing to say
Walk don't walk if your feet don't know the way
And requiem for a dying song
with a shimmy and the shank from a futile war
And the sun that lights the day
breaks the darkness and the powers of another great shame
But with you my love, with you my lover
with you I will return
And requiem for a dying song
With you my lover
with you I will return
And requiem for a dying song
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