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Origins of the Name

There are differing stories as to the origin of the band's name. Band member Marc Orrell has said:

   The Dropkick Murphy will come and get you if you don't go to sleep tonight. It's a rehab center, I think it's in Connecticut. I think it was the guy who used to come around late at night for all the drunks, like if you were too drunk to drive home, he would come and get you and put you in this hole that you couldn't get out until you were sober enough, I don't know. There's a bunch a story, it's also a boxer, a bunch of things, a rehab center in Connecticut, grandparents used to scare kids with it.

Original frontman Mike McColgan and co-founder Ken Casey said the following:

   The band’s name was stolen from an old rehab where they used to take skid row bums in Boston... We always heard of old-timers in our neighborhood telling war stories about being locked up at Dropkick Murphy's, so we decided that if we ever started a band, that would be the name.

Bio

Dropkick Murphys were originally formed in 1996. The band put out a series of EPs and were signed by Hellcat Records. In 1998, they released their first full length album, Do or Die. Lead singer Mike McColgan left the band later that year and was replaced by The Bruisers lead singer Al Barr. In 1999, they released their follow-up album, The Gang's All Here. In 2000 they released their third album, Sing Loud, Sing Proud!. The album showcased their developing sound, and included collaborations with Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan and Cock Sparrer's Colin McFaull. It also marked a significant lineup change for the band. Original guitarist Rick Barton was replaced by former The Ducky Boys guitarist, James Lynch and Marc Orrell, and additional instruments were added and played by new members Ryan Foltz and Spicy McHaggis.

Their next album, Blackout, was released in 2003. The new album included the radio hit "Walk Away," as well as the song "Fields of Athenry." Notably "The Dirty Glass" with female vocals from Stephanie Dougherty (Deadly Sins) is a song about a bar in Quincy, Massachusetts called Darcy's. Around the same time the band released a re-working of the Boston Red Sox anthem, "Tessie", which then became the official song of the Boston Red Sox 2004 winning World Series run. "Tessie" was also used throughout the major motion picture Fever Pitch which starred Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore and was included on the EA Sports MVP Baseball 2005 soundtrack. The band was even invited to the premiere of the movie which was held at Fenway Park where the video was also shot. In 2005, the Dropkick Murphys released "Singles Collection Volume 2", featuring covers, b-sides, and other material that didn't make it onto previous albums, and the band contributed a recording of "We Got the Power" to Rock Against Bush, Volume 2.

Their fifth studio album, The Warrior's Code, was released on June 21, 2005. It features the singles "Sunshine Highway", "The Walking Dead", "The Warrior's Code" as well as the bonus track, "Tessie". It also includes a song that was inspired by a Woody Guthrie poem the band found in his archives named "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" which is featured in the 2006 film The Departed, Martin Scorsese's adaptation of the Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs (Scorsese mentioned the band in an interview after he won his first Oscar).

The song "Last Letter Home", contains excerpts from personal letters between Sgt. Andrew Farrar, his mother and his wife. The following is taken from the album notes:

   We had already finished this song that was based on general correspondences to & from the soldiers serving in Iraq, when we were contacted by the family of Sgt. Andrew Farrar who had recently died while serving there. The family wanted to tell us he was a big supporter of the Dropkick Murphys. They also passed on a letter that he had written to his mother shortly before his death in which he thanks her for sending him a Dropkick Murphys CD & said that if anything should happen to him while in Iraq, he would like one of our songs played at his funeral. He also left behind a wife, Melissa and two young boys Tyler & Liam. His tour of duty in Iraq was coming to an end & he was due to come home & renew his wedding vows with Melissa to another song of ours, "Forever". Sgt Farrar died on January 28th, on his 31st birthday. We were present at his funeral to grant his wish and played "Fields of Athenry" as his casket entered the church. This song was re-written to include excerpts from that letter.

On March 17th, 2007, the band headlined their first ever Arena show at Agganis Arena in Boston .

On September 30th, 2007 the band played the last show at Boston's famed Avalon Ballroom before it closed for extensive renovations. In addition, former DKM guitarist Rick Barton played with his new band, Everybody Out!

File Format: mp3 @ 320kbps

Albums Included:

    1998 - Boys on the Docks [EP]



  1. "Boys on the Docks" – 2:31
  2. "Never Alone" – 2:59
  3. "In the Streets of Boston" (Casey, Close, Mike McColgan) – 1:15
  4. "Caps and Bottles" – 2:41
  5. "Eurotrash" (Barton, Casey, McColgan) – 1:48
  6. "Front Seat" (Barton, McColgan) – 2:19

    1999 - The Gangs All Here



  1. "Roll Call" – 0:32
  2. "Blood and Whiskey" – 1:47
  3. "Pipebomb on Lansdowne" – 1:50
  4. "Perfect Stranger" – 1:58
  5. "10 Years of Service" – 2:45
  6. "Upstarts and Broken Hearts" – 2:56
  7. "Devil's Brigade" – 1:27
  8. "Curse of a Fallen Soul" – 3:00
  9. "Homeward Bound" – 2:00
 10. "Going Strong" – 3:06
 11. "The Fighting 69th" (Traditional) – 3:13
 12. "Boston Asphalt" – 1:39
 13. "Wheel of Misfortune" – 3:50
 14. "The Only Road" – 2:11
 15. "Amazing Grace" (John Newton)– 2:38
 16. "The Gang's All Here" – 7:59
       
        * Contains a hidden track of guitarist Rick Barton's answering machine


    2000 - The Singles Collection



  1. "Barroom Hero" – 3:09
  2. "Fightstarter Karaoke" – 2:33
  3. "John Law" – 2:15
  4. "Regular Guy" – 1:53
  5. "3rd Man In" – 2:19
  6. "Career Opportunities (Live)" (Joe Strummer, Mick Jones) – 1:53
  7. "Never Alone" – 3:18
  8. "Take It Or Leave It" – 2:02
  9. "Eurotrash" – 1:36
 10. "Front Seat" – 2:33
 11. "Denial" – 2:24
 12. "Billy's Bones" (Shane MacGowan) – 2:03
 13. "Road Of The Righteous" – 2:50
 14. "Guns Of Brixton (Live)" (Paul Simonon) – 2:47
 15. "Cadence To Arms (Live)" (Traditional, Dropkick Murphys) – 2:26
 16. "Do Or Die (Live)" – 1:48
 17. "In The Streets Of Boston (Live)" – 1:14
 18. "Never Alone (Live)" – 2:40
 19. "Get Up (Live)" – 2:05
 20. "Far Away Coast (Live)" – 2:46
 21. "Boys On The Docks (Live)" – 2:53
 22. "Skinhead On The MBTA (Live)" (Traditional, Dropkick Murphys) – 4:45
 23. "I've Had Enough (Live)" (Jack Kelly, Slapshot) – 1:42
 24. "White Riot (Live)" (Joe Strummer, Mick Jones) – 1:48


    2001 - Sing Loud, Sing Proud



  1. "For Boston" (T.W. Allen) – 1:33
  2. "The Legend of Finn MacCumhail" – 2:14
  3. "Which Side Are You On?" (Florence Reece) – 2:28
  4. "The Rocky Road to Dublin" (Traditional) – 2:37
  5. "Heroes from our Past" – 3:31
  6. "Forever" – 3:08
  7. "The Gauntlet" – 2:49
  8. "Good Rats" – 3:03
  9. "The New American Way" – 3:32
 10. "The Torch" – 3:17
 11. "The Fortunes of War" – 2:43
 12. "A Few Good Men" – 2:36
 13. "Ramble and Roll" – 1:59
 14. "Caps and Bottles" – 2:41
 15. "The Wild Rover" (Traditional) – 3:25
 16. "The Spicy McHaggis Jig" – 3:27

    2002 - Live on St. Patrick's Day



  1. "Intro"
  2. "For Boston"
  3. "Boys On The Docks"
  4. "Road of the Righteous"
  5. "Upstarts & Broken Hearts"
  6. "The Gauntlet"
  7. "Rocky Road to Dublin" (Traditional)
  8. "Heroes From Our Past"
  9. "Finnegan's Wake" (Traditional)
 10. "Which Side Are You On?"
 11. "A Few Good Men"
 12. "Curse of a Fallen Soul"
 13. "The Torch"
 14. "Gang's All Here"
 15. "Forever"
 16. "Spicy McHaggis Jig"
 17. "John Law"
 18. "Wild Rover" (Traditional)
 19. "Fortunate Son" (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
 20. "Nutty (Bruin's Theme)"
 21. "Good Rats"
 22. "Amazing Grace" (John Newton)
 23. "Alcohol" (Gang Green)
 24. "Barroom Hero"
 25. "Dirty Water"
 26. "Bloody Pig Pile" ("Skinhead on the MBTA"

    2003 - Blackout



  1. "Walk Away" – 2:51
  2. "Worker's Song" (Ed Pickford) – 3:32
  3. "The Outcast" – 3:10
  4. "Black Velvet Band" (Traditional, Dropkick Murphys) – 3:03
  5. "Gonna Be a Blackout Tonight" (Woody Guthrie, Dropkick Murphys) – 2:39
  6. "World Full of Hate" – 2:22
  7. "Buried Alive" – 1:57
  8. "The Dirty Glass" – 3:38
  9. "Fields of Athenry" (Pete St. John) – 4:24
 10. "Bastards on Parade" – 3:50
 11. "As One" – 3:01
 12. "This Is Your Life" – 3:43
 13. "Time to Go" – 2:53
 14. "Kiss Me, I'm Shit-faced" – 5:34


    2004 - Tessie [EP]



  1. "Tessie" – 4:13
  2. "The Fields of Athenry" – 4:26
  3. "Nutty" – 1:21
  4. "The Burden (live on WBCN)" – 2:49
  5. "Tessie (Old Timey Baseball version)" – 4:13

    2005 - The Singles Collection: Volume II



  1. "21 Guitar Salute" (Andre Schlesinger) – 2:40
  2. "Fortunate Son" (John Fogerty) – 2:38
  3. "On The Attack" (Dropkick Murphys) – 1:26
  4. "You’re A Rebel" (Iron Cross) – 2:42
  5. "Watch Your Back" (Mick Beaufoy, Steve Bruce, Steve Burgess, Colin McFaull) – 1:54
  6. "Vengeance" (Shane MacGowan, K Bradley) – 2:38
  7. "It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll)" (Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Bon Scott) – 4:43
  8. "Warlords" (The F.U.'s) – 2:23
  9. "Alcohol" (Chris Doherty, Chuck Stilphen) – 1:54
 10. "Pipebomb On Lansdowne" (Dropkick Murphys) – 2:00
 11. "Nobody’s Hero" (Stiff Little Fingers, Gordon Ogilvie) – 3:42
 12. "Mob Mentality" (Dropkick Murphys, The Business) – 2:18
 13. "Informer" (The Business) – 1:56
 14. "The Nutrocker (Nutty)" (Kim Fowley) – 1:17
 15. "Rock ‘n’ Roll" (Phil Campbell, Wόrzel, Lemmy, Phil Taylor) – 3:27
 16. "Hey Little Rich Boy" (Sham 69) – 1:29
 17. "Never Again" (Angelic Upstarts) – 2:52
 18. "Halloween" (Glenn Danzig) – 1:34
 19. "Soundtrack To A Killing Spree" (Dropkick Murphys) – 1:36
 20. "Wild Rover" (Traditional, Dropkick Murphys) – 3:24
 21. "Working" (Mick Beaufoy, Steve Bruce, Steve Burgess, Colin McFaull) – 2:38
 22. "Victory" (Michael J. Shea) – 1:43
 23. "We Got The Power" (Dropkick Murphys) – 2:46

    2005 - The Warrior's Code


 
  1. "Your Spirit's Alive" – 2:20
  2. "The Warrior's Code" – 2:29
  3. "Captain Kelly's Kitchen" ("Courtin' in the Kitchen" traditional) – 2:48
  4. "The Walking Dead" – 2:07
  5. "Sunshine Highway" – 3:22
  6. "Wicked Sensitive Crew" – 2:59
  7. "The Burden" – 2:55
  8. "Citizen C.I.A." – 1:28
  9. "The Green Fields of France" (Eric Bogle cover) – 4:45
 10. "Take It and Run" – 2:44
 11. "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" (Lyrics by Woody Guthrie) – 2:33
 12. "The Auld Triangle" (Brendan Behan cover) – 2:41
 13. "Last Letter Home" – 3:32
 14. "Tessie" (Bonus track) – 4:15
 15. "Hatebomb" (Japanese Bonus track) - 1:12

Note: Obviously this is an incomplete discography(missing several EPs and live albums).  Most notably missing is the newest album, "The Meanest of Times," which has just recently been released.  Look at this as an opportunity to catch up if you are new to the Dropkicks.

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Blenderhead10/11/2008 03.24.51
nice that it's all in one torrent
now i don't have to click a bunch of links to get all these albums


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