Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: Wotcha Date: 18 Apr 01 - 11:22 PM It is very tempting to yell, after the line "I heard a young girl calling" .... MICHAEL !!!! ... After a few pints down the pub ... who wouldn't ...? Cheers, Brian |
Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: alison Date: 18 Apr 01 - 09:06 PM and then there is the techno version that they play in the clubs....... which I now own...... brilliant after you get over the shock!!!! lol a dance floor full of people singing the fields of athenry and pogo-ing is a bit bizarre..... slainte alison |
Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: vindelis Date: 18 Apr 01 - 08:12 PM If you go to Clifden, Connemara, you will certainly hear a more up-tempo version of F o A. I suppose it is more 'Country'; as opposed to the slower 'Folk' versions, that 'traditionalists' are used to. - But then how slow is 'slow'? |
Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: GUEST,Paddy(1) Date: 18 Apr 01 - 07:21 PM Don't know what version you are referring to but one Brush Sheilds does a rock version of F o A which is interesting. I think it is on a recording somewhere . . . . Paddy(1) |
Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: Blackcatter Date: 18 Apr 01 - 05:42 PM Gee, ya know, I think that my inadvertant mdification is kinda nice. - Removes the whole Scot/Irish mixture. I've got Wild Rover on 9 different albums, including:
Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem - Reunion Not that it's a big deal, but has anyone else heard the upbeat version of Athenry? |
Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: Blackcatter Date: 18 Apr 01 - 05:32 PM oops. |
Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: Moleskin Joe Date: 18 Apr 01 - 02:45 PM It's not "rise" up your kilt. It's "right" up. Good Luck, Ian M. |
Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: Matt_R Date: 18 Apr 01 - 02:39 PM Irish music? HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH! I have 2 Clancys albums, with well over 50 songs on them...no Wild Rover. When I read what you wrote that the yell was, I almost died laughing! (read it again!) |
Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: sophocleese Date: 18 Apr 01 - 02:39 PM Blackcatter, I think "up your klit!" is a wonderful thing to yell in Wild Rover and one day I may have the nerve to do so. Until then I'll probably be boring and simply yell, "Up your Kilt!" Sophocleese, sniggering quietly to herself. |
Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: GUEST Date: 18 Apr 01 - 02:15 PM I sang a song in a singaround last year, which I'd never heard sung. I picked up the words/music in the local music library. Someone told me later that it's more usually sung at a fast lick. Shan't change my version, as it went down well, anyway. |
Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: Blackcatter Date: 18 Apr 01 - 02:08 PM Good Lord Matt, You don't get out much do you? (just joking - is there any Irish music available where you live? - Pick up a Clancy Brother's Album or two. Wild Rover has to be in the Irish Top 40.) And I agree to some extent about the ruination of some of the fun songs. I still don't get the "Rise up yer klit" yell in Wild Rover. I thought it was fine with the clapping. I'm guess I don't know what humorous kilts need to be doing in the song - especially a bitter-sweet song like Wild Rover. On the other side - I love the version of "Wild Colonial Boy that'd I heard years ago to a Reggae rhythm, with the first line: "There was a wild Rastafarian boy . . ." pax yall |
Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 18 Apr 01 - 01:14 PM Well, then you get people like me. I've never heard Streets of London performed (I sing it, but learned it from a MIDI). I know the words to Wild Rover, but I've never actually heard it. I don't even know how the tune goes. |
Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: Les from Hull Date: 18 Apr 01 - 12:58 PM I ought to point out that The Fields of Athenry is a regular 'anthem' type song in Dublin and so it gets this anthem-type treatment. I've heard the song far too many times myself, I don't care how they do it as long as they get it over with quickly. It's a shame that this happens to songs like the Wild Rover, which might have been a good song once. Even Streets of London (one of the finest-crafted songs written) can jar after the first five hundred times you hear it. Susan - doing familiar musical stuff in an unfamiliar way can be great fun. I remember the time we took St Anne's Reel and played it as a waltz, jig, cha-cha, tango... Les |
Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: wysiwyg Date: 18 Apr 01 - 12:39 PM UB Ed, too late! O, Dem Golden Slippers (and I Come to the Garden Alone)-- as lovely, slow fiddle waltzes! (Golden Slippers has a nice little yodeling part now too! O (dee-lo) Dem Gol-den Slippers...) So in my head they are dancing in a heavenly garden and they are ALL wearing their golden slippers... it's very pretty! (THAT's the dance band I wanna be in!) I prayed for this ability, but now-- uh oh! Seriously, I am pretty talented in the area of rhythm, but I am also talented in the area of absorbing soungs as I have heard them... mimic ability, down to the twangs and tricks various singers are prone to. These abilities clashed whenever I tried to re-fashion a song to another rhythmic style. Now the walls between these two abilities have fallen down, and maybe I DO need to lie down! It will be interesting to see what happens at our Saturday Night Service this week... Thanks, I think! ("Preacher and the Bear" as a slow, prayerful blues piece... very funny!) ~Susan |
Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: Les from Hull Date: 18 Apr 01 - 12:32 PM It's 'Hey Baby, watch the free birds fly' |
Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: UB Ed Date: 18 Apr 01 - 12:18 PM Previous Thread Susan, you may want to lie down a bit...
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Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: Blackcatter Date: 18 Apr 01 - 12:18 PM I can't remember what my friend said they were saying - It was after the thing about the birds flying - they audience yell something to the effect of "Fly birds, fly!" It's odd to me because there are plenty of upbeat songs to sing. |
Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 18 Apr 01 - 12:17 PM I just got an image of me beloved Pogues singing it! FAR! LIE! THE FIELDS OF ATHENRY! |
Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: wysiwyg Date: 18 Apr 01 - 12:15 PM Omigod! Now I am hearing this in my head as a bluegrass tune! (Mindcreep, not thread creep!) I am more accustomed to hearing things that are usually done upbeat, slowed down for a new mood. Oh dear. Now I am hearing Pass Me Not O Gentle Savior done as a mountain wail. ~S~ |
Subject: RE: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: UB Ed Date: 18 Apr 01 - 12:14 PM Yeah, I've heard it twice with an upbeat; no yelling though (What could one possibly yell?). Maybe that's what folks were referring to on a previous thread (Been adpoted by some football team?). I think I favor the traditional, slower version. |
Subject: Fields of Athenry - performed upbeat? From: Blackcatter Date: 18 Apr 01 - 12:10 PM Hi all A good friend of mine spent a couple nights in Dublin recently and was surprised that it appears that the way "Fields of Athenry" is commonly performed is as an up-beat sing-a-long almost like "Wild Rover" with even comments yelled from the audience during the chorus and such. He heard the song performed this way in at least 3 different pubs. This confused him to some extent. We're used to it being performed fairly solemnly as typically befits a sad song. He and I are all in favor of interpretations of songs, but this was quite surprising. Has anyone else experienced this? pax yall |
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