I got into Shanties, and Irush stuff, you may like it as well

[Greenflame133]

This is more than just shinties, some addison's involve Irish, Scottish or Scandinavian folk, some bands add rock or metal but that’s whole new thing. Like bagpipe-rock (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amJ_WLmOKS0), has very much same feel but is a sub-genre on it’s own. In fact I’m not sure if that’s one genre but it all has same feel so now I will go in depth about stuff I found and liked.

Let’s start with old, old, shanty, Drunken Sailor. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGyPuey-1Jw) There are a ton more but to name a one Tyme Flyes When You're Havin' Rum (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIsigWHfF3g). Lucky new songs are being made, most of the time I don’t care weather it’s a original song or cover of something from ages ago but case and point Rocky Road to Dublin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Road_to_Dublin)was made not too long ago, Fair Old Lady (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk1kmQjOqTQ) just 2 years ago and there are many others with shanty like style. On the other side there are covers, Star Of The County Down (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_of_the_County_Down) has meny cover but my favorite is one by Orthodox Celts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEt2XdN_TbQ). Somehow that’s coin has 3 sides as Over The Hills And Far Away (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec729nmajwc) was metal song but one of cover sound much like shanty

Anyways I will start with music that introduced to it with metal-folk album that combined Beer Bear, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ0PRfeo_CE) Tyr (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu2bgwcv43o&list=RDEMZFJanYZmXEb0ERXMHe318A&index=3) and Heidevolk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reOLeLX0Q9U&start_radio=1&list=RDEMe1DMl-DFCOwLIWuUV9sT0Q). Few years after I looked around for more songs like this, what I found was Korpiklaani (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7kJRGPgvRQ), Skyclad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVJkVCWXe9Q) (I would to link one more (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOwxjxEwZgA) song as both are really great) and Ale Storm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOegZ3x4hMA). Right now I really only keept listening to Skyclad and Ale Storm.

Last month I was found Devils Son (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBMVZdE97l0), more flat out shanty. From then point I look around YouTube and found more shanties like The Flying Dutchman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9zcieO7Plw) as well as ton of Irish stuff. The Pot & Kettle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YklPK6DwOzM), Fee Ra Huri (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J56VVtlZCGE) (always make me dance) and Irish Way (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lhkBxoWddU) to name a few.

Few things I found to be key for me, aside from shintie like sound are instruments and
fancy language, having said that. Having said that, there are more songs I liked, aside from ones I linked
Barrels of Whiskey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_GpqDCs8ys)
The drunk Scotsman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ35SOU9HTM) (more of a joke but sounds good ans has great punch line)
Johnny I hardly knew ye (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFUTHcjiZGo)
Patron Saint O' Thieves (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryr1OoRA26Q)
Pirate's Lullaby (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooQPUYCOp00)
The Longing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyIXR3s8OtY)
Nancy the Tavern Wench (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKtBIuSeY5s)
1741 The Battle Of Cartagena (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv6ySRXFSUA)
Treasure Island (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIW1eW03HL8)
No Grave But The Sea (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3np0UONiTs)
Wolves Of The Sea (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9sdxhuCN6c)
Join The Riot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-JcssjUIW0)
Man the Pumps (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3fcw1mLjFY)
Another Drinking Song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRCq7yuxFWA)
Bar The Door Casey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm66i2IGJPg)
(and that's not even half of it but it's alredy more then one can listen to in one sitting)

Anyone listens to something like this? Recommend me stuff please. Also I wonder what other thing of this genre.

About fancy language, I didn’t hit me how fun is it until this video called An Extremely Inappropriate, Extremely Shakespearean Dramatic Reading (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFMv3B28sPk). Now I’m revisiting Anne From Green Gables but now as anime (yeah it exists).

[Brother Oni]

Somehow that’s coin has 3 sides as Over The Hills And Far Away (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec729nmajwc) was metal song but one of cover sound much like shanty

Different Over The Hills and Far Away (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_the_Hills_and_Far_Away_(traditional_song)). The traditional one is best known for being the main theme of the Sharpe TV series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOeYPpOblAw) and is much more a shanty.


Anyone listens to something like this? Recommend me stuff please. Also I wonder what other thing of this genre.

I presume you know about the Assassin's Creed Black Flag OST, which has numerous sea shanties.

There's also the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival which has numerous songs. Roll the Old Chariot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49FWp7WLYKw) is my favourite and I would love to go, unfortunately, it's the wrong Portsmouth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth,_New_Hampshire) for me. :smallfrown:

[BWR]

I grew up listening to The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, and they are awesome. Shanties (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7dRt2wHoag), other sea songs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAY5saopMgg), war songs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEV8XHBt9fw), folk songs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98baO-LNbtc), Dylan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ6WelUX19w) and more, and all of it excellent.

You can never go wrong with the Dubliners (solo acts included). A (very) small selection:
Shoals of Herring (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGP2oJnjyVw)
Travelling people (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wWm9W47gV4)
South Australia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggqU5F4puGE) (by the inimitable Barney McKenna)
The definitive singers of Rocky Road to Dublin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwjDXwHbLfc)


Ifyou like bagpipe music, you can try Clanadoina (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95oz0hPeqxE)

For slightly more modern Irish/British folky stuff you could try Danú (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktA5UiBTqAw), Karen Casey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9NN4fS6UU), Karen Matheson, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP40Z0ltO7E)Altan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1wPluX_WYc),

And finally, if you are at all interested in mixes of traditional songs and modern stuff you are morally obliged to check out the Fairport Convention (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1it7BP5PckI) (pretty mcuh everything they do is amazing) and Steeleye Span (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pADlDZyIS-8) (ditto). Both have far far far too many good songs to list so I just listed the first that came to mind.

[zimmerwald1915]

I grew up listening to The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, and they are awesome. Shanties (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7dRt2wHoag), other sea songs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAY5saopMgg), war songs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEV8XHBt9fw), folk songs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98baO-LNbtc), Dylan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ6WelUX19w)and all of it excellent.

You can never go wrong with the Dubliners (solo acts included). A (very) small selection)
Shoals of Herring (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGP2oJnjyVw)
Travelling people (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wWm9W47gV4)
South Australia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggqU5F4puGE) (by the inimitable Barney McKenna)
The definitive singers of Rocky Road to Dublin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwjDXwHbLfc)

You have good taste.

[JoshL]

Celtic music thread? Yeah, I heard you paging me!

Lorenna McKennitt is a must here. Start with the album The Visit...and then everything else!

I'm a big fan of Scottish modern trad bands, like Silly Wizard, Tannahill Weavers and Old Blind Dogs. Ian Benzie, the original OBD singer and solo artist in his own right, is one of my favorite vocalists!

I like some of the punk stuff too; the Pogues are fantastic and "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" is a must-have album. Some of Flogging Molly is pretty fun too.

The Levellers are more English folk rock, but hit some of the same buttons. Some great fiddle work there! And if you like that, New Model Army are similar, but darker!

And, shameless self-publishing because it's related, I just put out a 7" with a darkwave/goth electronic version of Twa Corbies, a traditional Scottish song I love very much:
https://doorsinthelabyrinth.bandcamp.com/track/two-ravens

I'll post more suggestions, and a few specific songs later! I also really dig some of the psych-folk with a lot of traditional roots, but like all psychedelic music, that is not for everyone!

[Sholos]

Just as a quick recommendation, literally anything by Gaelic Storm.

[Thrudd]

The Decemberists -The Mariner's Revenge Song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD165Xn2PXw)

This is the only real technical "shanty" I can think of from them, but they are a great folk rock band with amazing song writing. A lot of their earlier stuff is inspired by folk tales and fairy tales and myths. They have a concept album, "The Hazards of Love", telling the story of a changeling who falls in love with a human girl, and another that is an oblique reference to the Tain Bo Cuailnge - The Tain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOYZuaLg0J0) -the shadow-puppet video that goes with it is really cool. There is a very "shanty-ish" section in the middle played with accordion or calliope. A lot of their music is just fun, in general.

If you want folk/celtic death metal, try Eluveitie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMDmKKCTgsc&index=3&list=PLVvbrJI_8kSWMv8SO0TktaHL6VornNqZu) - or their pair of traditional instrument-only albums, called Evocation I and IIEvocation II (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTXu08_wsS8&list=PLTy4uxZLePuLDE_XdfkYUO-x9QTpFl1PM&index=4)