Review: Christy Moore Box Set

Subject: RE: Review: Christy Moore Box Set
From: GUEST,seadew
Date: 05 Feb 08 - 05:53 PM

Christy uses to joke (?) about how he'll release a second Box Set on Paddy's day 2016 with other unreleased material left aside for this one... ;o)

Subject: RE: Review: Christy Moore Box Set
From: Marc Bernier
Date: 05 Feb 08 - 05:21 PM

If I'm not mistaken. Everything in 'The Box Set' is previously unreleased.

Subject: RE: Review: Christy Moore Box Set
From: GUEST,Ken Murphy
Date: 13 Jan 05 - 11:13 PM

An outstanding collection, a lot of what is on the collection is one off stuff, warts and all, a real insight into a fabulous entertainer.
If anyone wants to hear other tracks buy the CD's because that is not really what this collection is all about and he does explain in the notes why he chose the tracks that he did, I for one am more than happy, the best collection I have ever bought.
I hope there are more treasures waiting to be put on CD, hail Christy.
Ken

Subject: RE: Review: Christy Moore Box Set
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 04:25 AM

Yes some mystifying ommissions. You generally think of boxed sets being like the Simon an Garfunkel thing where they put everything in. Perhaps Christy takes it as read, that we've all got Ride On, Curragh of Kildare etc - that is if we're likely to buy this collection.

Subject: RE: Review: Christy Moore Box Set
From: GUEST,dk3658
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 10:47 AM

top drawer stuff-essential listening for anyone who appreciates songcraft,emotion and feeling in song.
go on-buy it,burn it and give all your friends a copy for xmas-you'll be mighty popular in january

Subject: RE: Review: Christy Moore Box Set
From: PoppaGator
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 04:08 PM

No "Lisdoonvarna"?

Subject: RE: Review: Christy Moore Box Set
From: GUEST,Doug L
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 03:33 PM

Just ordered the Box Set. How can it not be worth it?
For those interested, I play Christy quite regularly
on a web radio show out of Canada at www.coopradio.org
heard every Thursday, 10 p.m. to midnight, Pacific time.

Subject: RE: Review: Christy Moore Box Set
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 10:57 AM

CD 6 has all four members of Planxty singing 'Down in the Valley', recorded for and left off the first Planxty album, years before 'O Brother'! yes, Liam O'Flynn can sing!
this box set is well worth having, available from Christy's web site at a reasonable price and FREE shipping and handling. He gets the proceeds directly too, so better than Amazon. Planxty Live 2004 also available this way, FREE shipping

Subject: Review: Christy Moore Box Set
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 09:05 PM

Could not find a reference in the files so hopefully I am not repeating anything here.

I bought the Christy Moore Box set whilst I was over in the UK and I can only say it is money well spent.

101 tracks some of which he has never released on record before. They cover his music from 1964-2004 and it is organised onto six discs each named by colour, red, green, pink etc. However the oranisation of the tracks onto each disc does not seem to follow a particular order of time, subject or event.

Some of the tracks are of poorer audio quality but as he says in the extenisive notes provided he was happy that someone illicitly recorded the particular song and captured the spirit of the night rather than the quality.

Whatever it is a wonderfull collection of songs and anecdotes and goes well with his autobiography 'One Voice'.

I also picked up the Planxty re-release "After the Break' and the 'Planxty Live 2004' both of which have some stunning playing.

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Subject: RE: Christy Moore Box Set
From: Kevin Sheils
Date: 08 Apr 04 - 09:22 AM

I believe it's a mixture of different takes, earlier versions, demos etc

Subject: RE: Christy Moore Box Set
From: GUEST,JB
Date: 08 Apr 04 - 09:08 AM

Are these all original recordings or have the tracks been re-recorded for the box-set?

If they are not original recordings, then I would not be really interested.

JB

Subject: RE: Christy Moore Box Set
From: s6k
Date: 07 Apr 04 - 06:56 PM

Christy Moore will be on Radio 2 on wednesday april 14th. next april in fact... mike harding show, 8pm gmt

Subject: RE: Christy Moore Box Set
From: Amergin
Date: 07 Apr 04 - 05:15 PM

I'm glad to see that They Never Came Home is on it...it is a shame the courts made him take it off his album when he first released it.

Subject: RE: Christy Moore Box Set
From: GUEST,5s
Date: 07 Apr 04 - 05:03 PM

Vive La Quinte Brigada and Bridgit's Pill are class songs.Hail Christy.

Subject: RE: Christy Moore Box Set
From: s6k
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 07:33 PM

£29.99 from amazon.co.uk

buy it! then put your own cd with ride on and biko drum on, or buy the dvd!

Subject: RE: Christy Moore Box Set
From: michaelr
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 06:41 PM

What's the price of this tome?

Subject: RE: Christy Moore Box Set
From: s6k
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 06:38 PM

biko drum and ride on are shocking in their absence!

Subject: Christy Moore Box Set
From: GUEST,Den at work
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 03:02 PM

Christy's new box set is now out on six CDs. The title is the Box Set 1964 -2004. The track listings are as follows.

CD 1:
Yellow Triangle
Dunnes Stores
Never Came Home
Nuke Power
Who Cares?
Mullaghmore
Ronnie Regan
San Fernando
Tim Evans
Goose Green
In Zurich
Powedered Milk
Folk Tale
Two Conneeleys
The Shovel
Quiet Desperation

CD 2:
January Man
Poor Old Earth
Tippin' It Up
Poitin
1945
Little Musgrave
Johnny Jump Up
Radcliffe Highway
John O'Dreams
Cold Blow
Raggle Taggle
El Salvador
Jack Doyle
Joxer (original)
Introl
Lawless

CD 3:
Love Song
Changes
Ballindine
Anne Lovett
Dalesman's Litany
Intro
Pripchat
Pontchartrain
Cricklewood
Strangeways
Holy Woman
Veronica
Cry Like A Man
Vive La Quinte
The Auld Triangle
Intro
Brown Eyes
Johnny Connors

CD 4:
Lay With Me
This Is The Day
The Wicklow Hills
Aisling
Lake Of Loughrea
All I Remember
Someone To Love
Trip To Carnsore
Danny Boy
Ships In The Forest
100 Miles
Intro
Strong Whiskey
Pierce Turner
Hamburg Medley
Tyrone Boys

CD 5:
Hey Paddy
On the Blanket
Southern Winds
Don't Hand Me Over
Streetlights
Bridge At Killaloe
North And South
G.P.O. 1980
90 Miles To Dublin
Wicklow Boy
Ballinamore
Derry January 1993
Armagh Women
On The Bridge
Scapegoats
Fouled The Ball
No Time For Love
On A Single Day

CD 6:
Roots
Old Man's Song
1913 Lockout
Seth Davy
Bould Rake
Bridget's Pill
Lark In The Morning
Come By The Hill
Enniskillen Dragon
Weela Waile
Whiskey In The Jar
Intro
Tribute To MacColl
Finnegan's Wake
Down The Valley
Paddy On The Road
Drunken Maidens

Musicians featured include:
Barrowlands Choir, Steve Benbow's Band, Robbie Brennan, Kevin Burke, Brian Calnan, Pat Crowley, Keith Donald, Jimmy Faulkner, Mick Hanly, Andy Irvine, Donal Lunny, Callum McColl, Neil McColl, Arty McGlynn, Barney McKenna, Declan McNeils, Des Moore, Christy Moore, Michael O'Domhnaill, Liam O'Flynn, Eoghan O'Neill, Declan Sinnott, Davy Spillane, Davy White

Definately one for my collection.