If This Is Rock and Roll I Want My Old Job Back
If This Is Rock and Roll I Want My Old Job Back
It was inevitable that someone would emerge from the Irish showband tradition to add rock & roll to the equation. Like all the most profitable ideas though, it only seemed obvious once someone had thought of it. If nothing else, the huge following gained by The Saw Doctors’ debut set illustrated what a wide-ranging thing Irishness is. If This Is Rock And Roll plays to the band’s greatest strength–a talent for rabble-rousing tunes which detail all manner of small town life. Diversity? Well, here’s the occasional lighters-aloft anthem such as “Sing A Powerful Song”. Exotic? How about “N17″–a rollicking offspring to Christy Moore’s emigrant hit “Don’t Forget Your Shovel”? Now add it all together and you’ve got yourself a national institution. As Irish as a pint of Guinness with a potato in it. –Peter Paphides
Customer Review: Show band at full throttle
An Irish five-piece who deliver all the passion and excitement of a showband at full throttle. This is melody and humour with a beat, a 60’s pop sound given a Celtic twist and driven by an unabashed determination to entertain.
This 1991 CD captures much of the excitement of a live band. These guys play with a vivacity which insists you get up and dance … or at least sing along relentlessly strumming your air guitar! There’s no fancy, pretentious superstar posing here - this is entertainment for the listener not a demand for adulation for the performers. It takes you back to a time when music was about boy-meets-girl on the dancefloor … a time when the guys on stage had to be able to play their instruments live and do so in a manner which kept your feet tapping. The Saw Doctors do that in spades!
Their songs look at love and lust and loss, and the economics of having to leave your home and go to another country just to earn a living. It’s an experience with which many Celts can identify. The lyrics allude to the politics of Ireland and the macro-economics of labour mobility. The lyrics allude to teenage emotions and teenage fantasies. The lyrics combine themes of life, love, and earning a living, of departure and loss, of moving on.
Tongue is firmly in cheek in places. The stand-out song is “I useta lover” - funny, irreverent, and a number which must be recognised as a rock classic. “Red cortina” and “N17″ are the other tracks which most gripped me, but a lot of the songs on the album catch your ear when they fit the right mood. Still a fresh, entertaining sound, an album you’ll play again and again.
Customer Review: Just class
Fantastic. Spirited and lively and completely feel good music with easy and catchy lyrics, when you have listened a few times you too will be singing along to the words. Hysterical madness, their inspiration coming from school girls to road signs. I found myself singing along in the car to some wary onlookers, but it is an album to let your hair down to, culchie rock with humour.
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