Dropkick Murphys
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Dropkick Murphys are an Irish-American punk rock
band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts
in 1996. The band was initially signed to independent punk record label Hellcat Records
, releasing five albums for the label, and making a name for themselves locally through constant playing and yearly St. Patrick's Day week shows, held in and around Boston
. The band's final Hellcat release, 2005's The Warrior's Code
, features two charting singles, Tessie
, which was recorded for the Boston Red Sox
to be played after home game wins, and I'm Shipping Up to Boston
, which was featured in the Academy Award winning movie The Departed
.
In 2007 the band signed with Warner Bros. Records
, and have seen each of their subsequent albums, The Meanest of Times
and Going Out In Style
, chart in the Billboard top 20.
has said:
, initially consisting of lead vocalist Mike McColgan
, bassist/vocalist Ken Casey
, guitarist Rick Barton
, and drummer Jeff Erna
(who would be replaced in the next year by Matt Kelly). The band first started playing in the basement of a friend's barbershop and soon found that people loved their music, and as a result began to tour and record. They received their first big break when The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
selected them as the openers for their 1997 tour in support of Let's Face It
.
After putting out a series of EPs, they were signed by Hellcat Records
. In 1998 they released their first full-length album, Do or Die, which was produced by Rancid
's Lars Frederiksen
. Lead singer Mike McColgan
left the band later that year to pursue his life-long dream of becoming a Boston
firefighter
(but later returned to the punk scene with the Street Dogs
).
lead singer Al Barr
, who was referred to Ken Casey by Derek TC NYSR producer–founder of the groundbreaking 1990s Oi!–Skampilation series at the Middle East Club
in Cambridge
.
In 1999, they released their follow-up album, The Gang's All Here, the first to feature new singer Al Barr and the last album to feature founding guitarist Rick Barton. The album featured more of a hardcore–street punk sound closer to that of Barr's former band, The Bruisers, and more of an Irish influence than on their debut album. The band gained their first mainstream exposure when the video for their single "10 Years Of Service" received airplay on the MTV
show 120 Minutes
.
Under the name McBusiness, the band along with English
Oi!
–punk rock
band The Business
, released a split single titled "Mob Mentality
" in 1999. A year later they released a full-length album of the same name featuring the two bands covering each other's songs along with songs from other artists. Dropkick Murphys even re-recorded their own song "Boys On The Docks" with Al on vocals.
In 2001, they released their third album, Sing Loud, Sing Proud!
. The album showcased their developing sound as the band widely progressed from being a four-piece punk rock outfit, 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 Robbie "Spicy McHaggis" Mederios, whose name was inspired by a McDonald's
menu item while the band was on a 1999 tour in Scotland. Mederios became the full-time piper after original Dropkicks touring piper Joe Delaney could not commit full time to the band. Shortly after in 2003, both Foltz and McHaggis left the band, being replaced by mandolin–guitar player Tim Brennan and bagpiper Scruffy Wallace.
Their next album, Blackout
, was released in 2003. The album included the radio hit "Walk Away", as well as the fan favorite song "Fields of Athenry". "The Dirty Glass" with female vocals from Stephanie Dougherty (Deadly Sins) is a song about a bar in Quincy, Massachusetts called Darcy's. Dougherty became an unofficial member of the band and would also join them on tour working their merchandise table. The song "Time To Go" was written about the Boston Bruins, and the band performed the song live at the TD Garden during at a Bruins game during intermission at a November 2003 game.
For the 2004 baseball season the band released a re-working of an old Boston Red Sox song, "Tessie
". "Tessie" was used in the major motion picture Fever Pitch
and was included on the EA Sports
MVP Baseball 2005 soundtrack. The band was invited to the Fever Pitch premiere of the movie which was held at Fenway Park
where the video was also shot. The song continues to be played at Red Sox games along with Dirty Water
after games the team wins.
In 2005, 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, Vol. 2
.
Their fifth studio album, The Warrior's Code
on Hellcat Records
, was released on June 21, 2005 and made its debut at number 49 on the album charts, which at the time was the highest debut for a Dropkick Murphys album. The album features the singles "Sunshine Highway" and "The Warrior's Code" as well as the bonus track "Tessie".
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:
The band released a single, with the family's permission, including the Andrew Farrar-dedicated "Fields Of Athenry" and "The Last Letter Home". All proceeds went to the Farrar family.
In 2006, "I'm Shipping Up to Boston
", a song from The Warrior's Code, with lyrics from a Woody Guthrie
poem the band found in his archives was featured in the 2006 Academy Award winning film The Departed, Martin Scorsese
's adaptation of the Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs
. Two videos, one with and one without footage from The Departed, were made due to overwhelming response to the song, which became one of the band's biggest hits to date and helped introduce Dropkick Murphys to an even bigger mainstream audience thanks to the film and soundtrack. The song was also featured in The Simpsons
episode "The Debarted
". "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" became the walk-up song of Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon
, who danced an Irish jig to the song several times throughout the 2007 Boston Red Sox
Championship season. During the team's victory parade, Papelbon did the jig while the Murphys played the song on the same float.
. The album was their first since leaving Hellcat Records and was released on Dropkick Murphys' own label, Born & Bred Records. The Meanest Of Times made its debut on the album charts at #20 in the U.S., giving the band their highest chart debut to date. The first single released from the album, "The State of Massachusetts
," became an instant hit. The song is featured as the opening theme to the MTV
show Nitro Circus
and ranked #83 on the Rolling Stone
top 100 songs of 2007 list. By January 2008, the single became one of the 60-most played alternative rock songs in the United States for the previous year.
On October 21, 2007, the band played on a small stage in Fenway Park
prior to Game 7 of the 2007 American League Championship Series
and on October 30, 2007, the band performed on a flatbed truck during the Boston Red Sox rolling rally to celebrate their 2007 World Series
Championship, playing "I'm Shipping Up to Boston", "Dirty Water
", "Tessie
", "The State of Massachusetts", "For Boston
", and "Sunshine Highway", to celebrate. Red Sox relief pitcher
Jonathan Papelbon
performed his trademark dance on the flatbed with them. Fellow Red Sox relief pitchers Hideki Okajima
and Mike Timlin
also rode on the band's flatbed.
In 2008 Marc Orrell
announced he was leaving the band and that Tim Brennan would replace him as a full-time guitarist. Brennan's duties will be taken over by Jeff DaRosa.
To tie in with St. Patrick's Day, a free Dropkick Murphys track pack for Guitar Hero III on the Xbox Live
Marketplace and the PlayStation Network was released on March 15, 2008 containing: "Famous For Nothing"; "(F)lannigan's Ball
" and "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya" from their latest album, The Meanest of Times. Also, the song "The State Of Massachusetts" is available as downloadable content for Guitar Hero II
for the Xbox 360. In July 2009, the song "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" was released as a downloadable track for Guitar Hero World Tour
, and was also released in the video game Rock Band the following month.
In 2008 frontman Ken Casey re-opened McGreevys Pub. The bar has drawn good reviews for both its food and atmosphere. The Murphys have also continued touring, including a number of dates in July set to feature The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
. At their July 10, 2008 concert date at LeLacheur Park in Lowell, Massachusetts
, they announced that the show was being recorded and would be released as their next live album. They made similar announcements during shows in Portland, Maine
and Pawtucket, Rhode Island
. The band also stated at the Pawtucket show that the sellout crowd of 10,060 was the largest in the band's history.
"I'm Shipping Up to Boston" has also become an anthem in the Australian Football League
(AFL) in the 2009 and 2010 seasons, featuring in the official 2009 League ad for the AFL, as well as the 2010 ad for the Brisbane Lions
, one of the clubs in the league. It is also the Boston Celtics
' warmup song.
On April 22, 2009, the Dropkick Murphys joined Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band on stage in Boston for his Working on a Dream Tour, playing "Glory Days" and "American Land". During the show, guitarist Tim Brennan proposed to his girlfriend Diana onstage which was followed by a performance of the Springsteen song, "So Young And In Love."
On June 16, 2009, the band opened up for Aerosmith
at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts
, in a "Hometown Heroes" concert; they later joined Aerosmith onstage to perform "Dirty Water".
On January 1, 2010, the band performed "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" before the Boston Bruins
–Philadelphia Flyers
2010 NHL Winter Classic
held in Boston's Fenway Park baseball stadium.
On March 16, 2010, the band released their second live album, Live on Lansdowne, Boston MA
. The album also featured the band's first full-length live DVD. The album made its debut at #25 in the U.S. charts making it their second highest charting album to date.
In a March 2010 interview with alt porn website Burning Angel, Ken Casey announced that the band would be hitting the studio in the summer or early Fall of 2010 to record their next album.
In December 2010, a live version of "The Warrior's Code," the title track from the 2005 album of the same name was briefly featured in the Academy Award nominated film, The Fighter. The film followed the life and career of Micky Ward
, the boxer on the cover of The Warrior's Code album, and starred Mark Wahlberg
and Christian Bale
. The Warrior's Code is also featured in the trailer for the 2011 comedy, Your Highness
.
In 2011, the band's song, "Barroom Hero" was featured in the Academy Award nominated documentary, Restrepo
making it the band's third song to be featured in a Academy Award nominated film.
The band released their seventh studio album, Going Out In Style
on March 1, 2011. The album is the highest chart position ever for Dropkick Murphys – debuting at #6 and selling 43,259 in the U.S. in its first week. The album was produced by Ted Hutt
, and features guest appearances by Bruce Springsteen
, Fat Mike, Chris Cheney
, and Lenny Clarke
. The title track will be the first single and the music video was also released on March 1, 2011
On March 17, 2011, the band released the music video for "Memorial Day."
, and Sex Pistols
, as well as Irish rock band The Pogues
When they wrote their first song, Barroom Hero, they were surprised to hear how much the vocal melody sounded like those from old Irish music they heard as children, something the bandmembers at one time tried to reject. "It dawned on us that Irish music was a bigger influence on all of us than we'd realized," said Ken Casey. "Growing up in Boston, every time you went to a wedding or a wake or your grandparents' house, you heard that music. I went through a phase of hating it just because it's what my (folks) listened to."
While frequently referred to as a Celtic punk
band, some of their earlier material has also been classified under other punk rock
subgenres like Hardcore punk
and Oi!
.
They frequently cite AC/DC
as an influence to their formula of maintaining a specific style, with Casey once saying "I think our goal is to be the AC/DC of Celtic punk rock. The worst thing we can do to the local fans who have stuck with us is to all of a sudden try to be Fall Out Boy
with bagpipes." Al Barr commented "We've always said we're like The Ramones or AC/DC with what we do; if it ain't broke, don't fix it. But at the same time, we have to keep challenging ourselves. And if we find that tunes we're putting together for a record are boring us, we're not going to record them."
and union
causes, and have a strong relationship with the AFL-CIO
. The band has said that they are all Democrats
, and during the 2004 United States presidential election
were part of Punkvoter, a political activist group dedicated to defeating George W. Bush
. That year they also appeared on the Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2
compilation contributing the song "We Got the Power".
On February 22, 2011, in support of Wisconsin
workers' rights, the band released their song "Take 'Em Down" from the album "Going Out In Style" on their website along with creating a limited edition "Take 'Em Down" t-shirt which will benefit the Workers’ Rights Emergency Response Fund. Thousands of Wisconsin public Union workers have been protesting the current budget plan of Governor Scott Walker
. Two days later on the MSNBC
news show, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
, "Take 'Em Down" was used as a intro song to a news story on the Wisconsin workers protest.
On Saturday August 13, 2011, Dropkick Murphys issued a statement of solidarity with the 45,000 Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) on strike from Verizon Communications, Inc.
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts
Quincy, Massachusetts
Quincy is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Its nicknames are "City of Presidents", "City of Legends", and "Birthplace of the American Dream". As a major part of Metropolitan Boston, Quincy is a member of Boston's Inner Core Committee for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council...
in 1996. The band was initially signed to independent punk record label Hellcat Records
Hellcat Records
Hellcat Records is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California. The label, an off-shoot of Epitaph Records, was started as a partnership between Brett Gurewitz carp Bad Religion, the owner of Epitaph, and Tim Armstrong of Rancid, the latter of whom is generally responsible for...
, releasing five albums for the label, and making a name for themselves locally through constant playing and yearly St. Patrick's Day week shows, held in and around Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
. The band's final Hellcat release, 2005's The Warrior's Code
The Warrior's Code
The Warrior's Code is the fifth studio album by the Irish-American Celtic punk band, the Dropkick Murphys. Released in June 2005, it is also their bestselling. It features a dedication to Lowell's own "Irish" Micky Ward...
, features two charting singles, Tessie
Tessie
"Tessie" is both the anthem of the Boston Red Sox and also the title of a newer song by the punk rock band Dropkick Murphys. The original "Tessie" was from the 1902 Broadway musical The Silver Slipper. The newer song, written in 2004, recounts how the singing of the original "Tessie" by the Royal...
, which was recorded for the Boston Red Sox
Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...
to be played after home game wins, and I'm Shipping Up to Boston
I'm Shipping Up to Boston
"I'm Shipping Up to Boston" is a song with lyrics written by the folk singer Woody Guthrie and music written and performed by the Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys. It appeared on their 2005 album, The Warrior's Code. An earlier recording of it can be found on the Hellcat Records compilation Give...
, which was featured in the Academy Award winning movie The Departed
The Departed
The Departed is a 2006 American crime thriller film, fashioned as a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. The film was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan...
.
In 2007 the band signed with Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...
, and have seen each of their subsequent albums, The Meanest of Times
The Meanest of Times
The Meanest of Times is the sixth album by the Dropkick Murphys. It was released on September 18, 2007 by their new vanity label, Born & Bred Records, a division of Cooking Vinyl Records...
and Going Out In Style
Going Out in Style
Going Out in Style is the seventh studio album by the Dropkick Murphys and was released on March 1, 2011. It was the band's second studio release on their Born & Bred Records label, and marks the longest gap between two Dropkick Murphys albums, as it was released almost four years after 2007's The...
, chart in the Billboard top 20.
Name origin
There are differing stories as to the origin of the band's name. Former band member Marc OrrellMarc Orrell
Marc "The Kid" Orrell is an American guitarist, best known as a former member of the Boston Celtic Punk band the Dropkick Murphys. Originally from Grafton, Massachusetts, he joined the band in 2000 when the band was recording Sing Loud, Sing Proud...
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 ConnecticutConnecticutConnecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...
. 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 stories, it's also a boxer, a bunch of things, a rehab center in Connecticut, grandparents used to scare kids with it.
Mike McColgan era: 1996–1998
Dropkick Murphys was originally formed in 1996 in Quincy, MassachusettsQuincy, Massachusetts
Quincy is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Its nicknames are "City of Presidents", "City of Legends", and "Birthplace of the American Dream". As a major part of Metropolitan Boston, Quincy is a member of Boston's Inner Core Committee for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council...
, initially consisting of lead vocalist Mike McColgan
Mike McColgan
Michael "Mike" McColgan is best known as the original lead singer of the Irish American outfit Dropkick Murphys and the current lead singer of the Street Dogs....
, bassist/vocalist Ken Casey
Ken Casey
Ken Casey is the bass guitarist and a vocalist of the Boston Celtic punk group Dropkick Murphys. Casey was one of the original members, starting it in 1996 with Rick Barton and Mike McColgan. He is the only original member of the Dropkick Murphys left in the band, though drummer Matt Kelly joined...
, guitarist Rick Barton
Rick Barton
Rick Barton was the original guitarist for Dropkick Murphys. He played on Boys on the Docks EP, Do or Die, The Gang's All Here, and the Mob Mentality split album with The Business. He no longer plays for Dropkick Murphys, working now with the newer band "Everybody Out!"...
, and drummer Jeff Erna
Jeff Erna
Jeff Erna is an American drummer, most notable for being the original drummer for Dropkick Murphys .While with the Dropkick Murphys, he played drums on their Boys on the Docks EP . He also played on The Early Years, Fire and Brimstone, Tattoos and Scally Caps and Dropkick Murphys/Ducky Boys Split 7...
(who would be replaced in the next year by Matt Kelly). The band first started playing in the basement of a friend's barbershop and soon found that people loved their music, and as a result began to tour and record. They received their first big break when The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are an American ska punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 1983. Since the band's inception, lead vocalist Dicky Barrett, bassist Joe Gittleman, tenor saxophonist Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton and dancer Ben Carr have remained constant members...
selected them as the openers for their 1997 tour in support of Let's Face It
Let's Face It
Let's Face It is an album by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. It was released on March 11, 1997 by Mercury Records. This album sold very well due to the success of its single "The Impression That I Get", which reached #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. Also faring well were the album's...
.
After putting out a series of EPs, they were signed by Hellcat Records
Hellcat Records
Hellcat Records is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California. The label, an off-shoot of Epitaph Records, was started as a partnership between Brett Gurewitz carp Bad Religion, the owner of Epitaph, and Tim Armstrong of Rancid, the latter of whom is generally responsible for...
. In 1998 they released their first full-length album, Do or Die, which was produced by Rancid
Rancid (band)
Rancid is an American punk rock band formed in Berkeley, California in 1991. Founded by Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman, both of whom previously played in the ska punk band Operation Ivy, Rancid is credited—along with Green Day and The Offspring—for reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the...
's Lars Frederiksen
Lars Frederiksen
Lars Erik Frederiksen is an American guitarist and vocalist, most notably for the punk rock band Rancid, and as the frontman of Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards and The Old Firm Casuals. He was also briefly a member of the UK Subs in 1991...
. Lead singer Mike McColgan
Mike McColgan
Michael "Mike" McColgan is best known as the original lead singer of the Irish American outfit Dropkick Murphys and the current lead singer of the Street Dogs....
left the band later that year to pursue his life-long dream of becoming a Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
firefighter
Boston Fire Department
The Boston Fire Department provides fire protection services for Boston, Massachusetts, USA. In addition to fire protection, the Boston Fire department also provides basic emergency medical services and respond to a variety of emergencies such as, but not limited to, motor vehicle accidents,...
(but later returned to the punk scene with the Street Dogs
Street Dogs
Street Dogs are a punk rock band originally from Boston, Massachusetts. The band's current line-up includes Mike McColgan, former lead singer of Dropkick Murphys, Johnny Rioux, Marcus Hollar, Tobe Bean III and Paul Rucker.-History:...
).
Hellcat years: 1998–2007
McColgan was replaced by The BruisersThe Bruisers
The Bruisers were pioneers of the American streetpunk/oi! movement, formed in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1988. The original lineup included: Al Barr , Scotty Davies , Jeff Morris and Rodger Shosa...
lead singer Al Barr
Al Barr
Alexander Martin "Al" Barr is the lead singer of the Dropkick Murphys. He was also a founder and lead singer for The Bruisers, which he helped form in 1988 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His first band circa 1984, was called D.V.A....
, who was referred to Ken Casey by Derek TC NYSR producer–founder of the groundbreaking 1990s Oi!–Skampilation series at the Middle East Club
The Middle East (nightclub)
The Middle East is a live music venue, bar and restaurant in the Central Square area of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Having featured a huge variety of musicians since 1987, the establishment, with its upstairs and downstairs rooms, "is the nexus of metro Boston's rock-club scene for local and touring...
in Cambridge
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
.
In 1999, they released their follow-up album, The Gang's All Here, the first to feature new singer Al Barr and the last album to feature founding guitarist Rick Barton. The album featured more of a hardcore–street punk sound closer to that of Barr's former band, The Bruisers, and more of an Irish influence than on their debut album. The band gained their first mainstream exposure when the video for their single "10 Years Of Service" received airplay on the MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
show 120 Minutes
120 Minutes
120 Minutes is a television show in the United States dedicated to alternative music, originally airing on MTV from 1986 to 2000, and then on MTV's sister channel MTV2 from 2001 to 2003....
.
Under the name McBusiness, the band along with English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
Oi!
Oi!
Oi! is a working class subgenre of punk rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The music and its associated subculture had the goal of bringing together punks, skinheads and other working-class youths ....
–punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
band The Business
The Business (band)
The Business are an English Oi!/punk rock band formed in 1979 in Lewisham, South London. Their album Suburban Rebels became influential in the Oi! movement...
, released a split single titled "Mob Mentality
Mob Mentality
Mob Mentality is a split 7" and album by Dropkick Murphys and The Business. Originally, the bands put out a split 7" single with the name Mob Mentality. This single consisted of three songs, two which were each band covering one of the other band's songs, and the third was an original song...
" in 1999. A year later they released a full-length album of the same name featuring the two bands covering each other's songs along with songs from other artists. Dropkick Murphys even re-recorded their own song "Boys On The Docks" with Al on vocals.
In 2001, they released their third album, Sing Loud, Sing Proud!
Sing Loud, Sing Proud!
Sing Loud, Sing Proud! is the third studio album from Boston punk rock band the Dropkick Murphys. Before the album's release in 2001, guitarist Rick Barton left the band. He announced James Lynch of Boston punk band The Ducky Boys as his successor. As well as Lynch, the band also recruited then...
. The album showcased their developing sound as the band widely progressed from being a four-piece punk rock outfit, and included collaborations with Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan
Shane MacGowan
Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan is an Irish musician and singer, best known as the original singer and songwriter of The Pogues.-History:...
and Cock Sparrer
Cock Sparrer
Cock Sparrer are a punk rock band formed in 1972 in the East End of London, England. Although they never enjoyed much commercial success, they are considered one of the most influential streetpunk bands, helping pave the way for the late-1970s punk scene and the Oi! subgenre...
's Colin McFaull. It also marked a significant lineup change for the band. Original guitarist Rick Barton
Rick Barton
Rick Barton was the original guitarist for Dropkick Murphys. He played on Boys on the Docks EP, Do or Die, The Gang's All Here, and the Mob Mentality split album with The Business. He no longer plays for Dropkick Murphys, working now with the newer band "Everybody Out!"...
was replaced by former The Ducky Boys
The Ducky Boys
The Ducky Boys are a street punk band from Boston, Massachusetts. Since forming in 1995 in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, the band has spanned over ten years with two tenures that have led to four full-length albums and over 50 songs. The band derives its name from the name of an Irish...
guitarist James Lynch
James Lynch
James Lynch may refer to:* James Lynch , Irish Roman Catholic archbishop.* James Lynch , Irish Roman Catholic bishop* James B...
and Marc Orrell, and additional instruments were added and played by new members Ryan Foltz
Ryan Foltz
Ryan Foltz is an American producer, audio engineer and musician from Cleveland, Ohio. A former member of Dropkick Murphys and Motel Blonde , Foltz has also played tin whistle, trumpet, , in renowned The Pogues cover band, for ten years...
and Robbie "Spicy McHaggis" Mederios, whose name was inspired by a McDonald's
McDonald's
McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...
menu item while the band was on a 1999 tour in Scotland. Mederios became the full-time piper after original Dropkicks touring piper Joe Delaney could not commit full time to the band. Shortly after in 2003, both Foltz and McHaggis left the band, being replaced by mandolin–guitar player Tim Brennan and bagpiper Scruffy Wallace.
Their next album, Blackout
Blackout (Dropkick Murphys album)
Blackout is the fourth studio album from Dropkick Murphys, released in 2003. It was released with a DVD, which contained live videos for "Rocky Road to Dublin" and "Boys on the Dock", a music video for "Gonna Be a Blackout Tonight", and a trailer for their then upcoming untitled full-length DVD,...
, was released in 2003. The album included the radio hit "Walk Away", as well as the fan favorite song "Fields of Athenry". "The Dirty Glass" with female vocals from Stephanie Dougherty (Deadly Sins) is a song about a bar in Quincy, Massachusetts called Darcy's. Dougherty became an unofficial member of the band and would also join them on tour working their merchandise table. The song "Time To Go" was written about the Boston Bruins, and the band performed the song live at the TD Garden during at a Bruins game during intermission at a November 2003 game.
For the 2004 baseball season the band released a re-working of an old Boston Red Sox song, "Tessie
Tessie
"Tessie" is both the anthem of the Boston Red Sox and also the title of a newer song by the punk rock band Dropkick Murphys. The original "Tessie" was from the 1902 Broadway musical The Silver Slipper. The newer song, written in 2004, recounts how the singing of the original "Tessie" by the Royal...
". "Tessie" was used in the major motion picture Fever Pitch
Fever Pitch (2005 film)
Fever Pitch, which was released as The Perfect Catch outside of the United States and Canada, is a 2005 Farrelly brothers romantic comedy film. It is a remake of a 1997 British film of the same name. Both films are loosely based on the Nick Hornby book of the same name, a best-selling memoir in...
and was included on the EA Sports
EA Sports
EA Sports is a brand of Electronic Arts that creates and develops sports video games. Formerly a marketing gimmick of Electronic Arts, in which they tried to mimic real-life sports networks by calling themselves "EA Sports Network" with pictures or endorsements of real commentators such as John...
MVP Baseball 2005 soundtrack. The band was invited to the Fever Pitch premiere of the movie which was held at Fenway Park
Fenway Park
Fenway Park is a baseball park near Kenmore Square in Boston, Massachusetts. Located at 4 Yawkey Way, it has served as the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club since it opened in 1912, and is the oldest Major League Baseball stadium currently in use. It is one of two "classic"...
where the video was also shot. The song continues to be played at Red Sox games along with Dirty Water
Dirty Water
"Dirty Water" is a song first recorded by the California rock and roll band The Standells in 1966 and composed by their producer, Ed Cobb. It is considered a classic of garage rock.-Description:...
after games the team wins.
In 2005, 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, Vol. 2
Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2
Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2 is the second Rock Against Bush compilation album released on the Fat Wreck Chords record label. It contains a collection of songs by various punk rock artists, some of which were previously unreleased. It also includes a bonus DVD with political facts, commentary...
.
Their fifth studio album, The Warrior's Code
The Warrior's Code
The Warrior's Code is the fifth studio album by the Irish-American Celtic punk band, the Dropkick Murphys. Released in June 2005, it is also their bestselling. It features a dedication to Lowell's own "Irish" Micky Ward...
on Hellcat Records
Hellcat Records
Hellcat Records is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California. The label, an off-shoot of Epitaph Records, was started as a partnership between Brett Gurewitz carp Bad Religion, the owner of Epitaph, and Tim Armstrong of Rancid, the latter of whom is generally responsible for...
, was released on June 21, 2005 and made its debut at number 49 on the album charts, which at the time was the highest debut for a Dropkick Murphys album. The album features the singles "Sunshine Highway" and "The Warrior's Code" as well as the bonus track "Tessie".
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.
The band released a single, with the family's permission, including the Andrew Farrar-dedicated "Fields Of Athenry" and "The Last Letter Home". All proceeds went to the Farrar family.
In 2006, "I'm Shipping Up to Boston
I'm Shipping Up to Boston
"I'm Shipping Up to Boston" is a song with lyrics written by the folk singer Woody Guthrie and music written and performed by the Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys. It appeared on their 2005 album, The Warrior's Code. An earlier recording of it can be found on the Hellcat Records compilation Give...
", a song from The Warrior's Code, with lyrics from a Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...
poem the band found in his archives was featured in the 2006 Academy Award winning film The Departed, Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...
's adaptation of the Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs
Infernal Affairs
Infernal Affairs is a 2002 Hong Kong crime-thriller film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It tells the story of a police officer who infiltrates the triads, and a police officer secretly working for the same gang. The Chinese title means "the non-stop path", a reference to Avici, the lowest...
. Two videos, one with and one without footage from The Departed, were made due to overwhelming response to the song, which became one of the band's biggest hits to date and helped introduce Dropkick Murphys to an even bigger mainstream audience thanks to the film and soundtrack. The song was also featured in The Simpsons
The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
episode "The Debarted
The Debarted
"The Debarted" is the thirteenth episode of The Simpsons nineteenth season. It was first broadcast on March 2, 2008, and guest stars Topher Grace and radio host Terry Gross have a cameo. A new troublesome student named Donny arrives at Springfield Elementary School, prompting a gleeful Bart to...
". "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" became the walk-up song of Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon
Jonathan Papelbon
Jonathan Robert Papelbon is an American professional baseball pitcher with the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball. Before joining the Phillies, Papelbon played with the Boston Red Sox from 2005-2011....
, who danced an Irish jig to the song several times throughout the 2007 Boston Red Sox
Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...
Championship season. During the team's victory parade, Papelbon did the jig while the Murphys played the song on the same float.
Major label success: 2007–present
In 2007, the band issued their sixth album The Meanest of TimesThe Meanest of Times
The Meanest of Times is the sixth album by the Dropkick Murphys. It was released on September 18, 2007 by their new vanity label, Born & Bred Records, a division of Cooking Vinyl Records...
. The album was their first since leaving Hellcat Records and was released on Dropkick Murphys' own label, Born & Bred Records. The Meanest Of Times made its debut on the album charts at #20 in the U.S., giving the band their highest chart debut to date. The first single released from the album, "The State of Massachusetts
The State of Massachusetts
"The State of Massachusetts" is a song about the effects of drugs on individuals and their families by the Dropkick Murphys and was released as the first single from the album, The Meanest of Times....
," became an instant hit. The song is featured as the opening theme to the MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
show Nitro Circus
Nitro Circus
Nitro Circus is an American television series that featured Travis Pastrana and his friends traveling around the world riding dirtbikes, base jumping, and performing reckless stunts. It was originally run as a miniseries in 2006 on Fuel TV. In January 2009, it began running as an episodic reality...
and ranked #83 on the Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
top 100 songs of 2007 list. By January 2008, the single became one of the 60-most played alternative rock songs in the United States for the previous year.
On October 21, 2007, the band played on a small stage in Fenway Park
Fenway Park
Fenway Park is a baseball park near Kenmore Square in Boston, Massachusetts. Located at 4 Yawkey Way, it has served as the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club since it opened in 1912, and is the oldest Major League Baseball stadium currently in use. It is one of two "classic"...
prior to Game 7 of the 2007 American League Championship Series
2007 American League Championship Series
-Game 1:Friday, October 12, 2007 at Fenway Park in Boston, MassachusettsIn Game 1, the Cleveland Indians took the lead when Travis Hafner hit a home run to deep right field in the first inning against Josh Beckett. Beckett retired the next ten batters in a row, finishing by striking out seven while...
and on October 30, 2007, the band performed on a flatbed truck during the Boston Red Sox rolling rally to celebrate their 2007 World Series
2007 World Series
-Game 1:Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at Fenway Park in Boston, MassachusettsThe Red Sox cruised to a blowout win in Game 1 behind ALCS MVP Josh Beckett, who struck out nine batters, including the first four he faced, en route to his fourth win of the 2007 postseason...
Championship, playing "I'm Shipping Up to Boston", "Dirty Water
Dirty Water
"Dirty Water" is a song first recorded by the California rock and roll band The Standells in 1966 and composed by their producer, Ed Cobb. It is considered a classic of garage rock.-Description:...
", "Tessie
Tessie
"Tessie" is both the anthem of the Boston Red Sox and also the title of a newer song by the punk rock band Dropkick Murphys. The original "Tessie" was from the 1902 Broadway musical The Silver Slipper. The newer song, written in 2004, recounts how the singing of the original "Tessie" by the Royal...
", "The State of Massachusetts", "For Boston
For Boston
"For Boston" is the traditional fight song of Boston College. It was written and composed by T.J. Hurley, a member of the Boston College Class of 1885. It is known as the oldest fight song in the United States...
", and "Sunshine Highway", to celebrate. Red Sox relief pitcher
Relief pitcher
A relief pitcher or reliever is a baseball or softball pitcher who enters the game after the starting pitcher is removed due to injury, ineffectiveness, fatigue, ejection, or for other strategic reasons, such as being substituted by a pinch hitter...
Jonathan Papelbon
Jonathan Papelbon
Jonathan Robert Papelbon is an American professional baseball pitcher with the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball. Before joining the Phillies, Papelbon played with the Boston Red Sox from 2005-2011....
performed his trademark dance on the flatbed with them. Fellow Red Sox relief pitchers Hideki Okajima
Hideki Okajima
is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher with the Boston Red Sox organization in the United States, currently with their AAA affiliate, the Pawtucket Red Sox. He played with the Yomiuri Giants and Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball league from 1994-2006...
and Mike Timlin
Mike Timlin
-Early life:Timlin was born in Midland, Texas to Jerome Francis Timlin Sr. and Nancy Sharon Beyer. Timlin graduated from Midland High School in Midland, Texas. He then attended and pitched at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta.-Baseball career...
also rode on the band's flatbed.
In 2008 Marc Orrell
Marc Orrell
Marc "The Kid" Orrell is an American guitarist, best known as a former member of the Boston Celtic Punk band the Dropkick Murphys. Originally from Grafton, Massachusetts, he joined the band in 2000 when the band was recording Sing Loud, Sing Proud...
announced he was leaving the band and that Tim Brennan would replace him as a full-time guitarist. Brennan's duties will be taken over by Jeff DaRosa.
To tie in with St. Patrick's Day, a free Dropkick Murphys track pack for Guitar Hero III on the Xbox Live
Xbox Live
Xbox Live is an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service created and operated by Microsoft Corporation. It is currently the only online gaming service on consoles that charges users a fee to play multiplayer gaming. It was first made available to the Xbox system in 2002...
Marketplace and the PlayStation Network was released on March 15, 2008 containing: "Famous For Nothing"; "(F)lannigan's Ball
Lanigan's Ball
"Lanigan's Ball" is a popular traditional or folk Irish song which has been played throughout the world since at least the 1860's and possibly much longer...
" and "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya" from their latest album, The Meanest of Times. Also, the song "The State Of Massachusetts" is available as downloadable content for Guitar Hero II
Guitar Hero II
Guitar Hero II is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems and published by RedOctane. It is the second installment in the Guitar Hero series and is the sequel to Guitar Hero...
for the Xbox 360. In July 2009, the song "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" was released as a downloadable track for Guitar Hero World Tour
Guitar Hero World Tour
Guitar Hero World Tour is a music video game developed by Neversoft and published by RedOctane and Activision. It is the fourth main entry in the Guitar Hero series...
, and was also released in the video game Rock Band the following month.
In 2008 frontman Ken Casey re-opened McGreevys Pub. The bar has drawn good reviews for both its food and atmosphere. The Murphys have also continued touring, including a number of dates in July set to feature The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are an American ska punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 1983. Since the band's inception, lead vocalist Dicky Barrett, bassist Joe Gittleman, tenor saxophonist Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton and dancer Ben Carr have remained constant members...
. At their July 10, 2008 concert date at LeLacheur Park in Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 106,519. It is the fourth largest city in the state. Lowell and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County...
, they announced that the show was being recorded and would be released as their next live album. They made similar announcements during shows in Portland, Maine
Portland, Maine
Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...
and Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Pawtucket is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 71,148 at the 2010 census. It is the fourth largest city in the state.-History:...
. The band also stated at the Pawtucket show that the sellout crowd of 10,060 was the largest in the band's history.
"I'm Shipping Up to Boston" has also become an anthem in the Australian Football League
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
(AFL) in the 2009 and 2010 seasons, featuring in the official 2009 League ad for the AFL, as well as the 2010 ad for the Brisbane Lions
Brisbane Lions
The Brisbane Lions is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Brisbane, Queensland. The club was formed from the merger of the Brisbane Bears and the Fitzroy Lions in 1996...
, one of the clubs in the league. It is also the Boston Celtics
Boston Celtics
The Boston Celtics are a National Basketball Association team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. Founded in 1946, the team is currently owned by Boston Basketball Partners LLC. The Celtics play their home games at the TD Garden, which...
' warmup song.
On April 22, 2009, the Dropkick Murphys joined Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band on stage in Boston for his Working on a Dream Tour, playing "Glory Days" and "American Land". During the show, guitarist Tim Brennan proposed to his girlfriend Diana onstage which was followed by a performance of the Springsteen song, "So Young And In Love."
On June 16, 2009, the band opened up for Aerosmith
Aerosmith
Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...
at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts
Mansfield, Massachusetts
Mansfield is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the United States 2010 Census, the town population is 23,184. Mansfield is in the south-southwest suburbs of Boston and is also close to Providence, Rhode Island....
, in a "Hometown Heroes" concert; they later joined Aerosmith onstage to perform "Dirty Water".
On January 1, 2010, the band performed "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" before the Boston Bruins
Boston Bruins
The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league's third-oldest team and its oldest in the...
–Philadelphia Flyers
Philadelphia Flyers
The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
2010 NHL Winter Classic
NHL Winter Classic
The NHL Winter Classic is an annual event held by the National Hockey League on New Year's Day where regular-season games are played outdoors, in areas hosted by NHL teams. Though largely derived from the Heritage Classic outdoor game held in Edmonton in 2003, the Winter Classic has so far only...
held in Boston's Fenway Park baseball stadium.
On March 16, 2010, the band released their second live album, Live on Lansdowne, Boston MA
Live on Lansdowne, Boston MA
Live on Lansdowne, Boston MA is the second live album and third live DVD of celtic punk band, Dropkick Murphys. Recorded at seven shows over the span of six nights of their annual St Patrick's Day weekend shows in Boston, MA. The album has an entirely different tracklist to their previous live...
. The album also featured the band's first full-length live DVD. The album made its debut at #25 in the U.S. charts making it their second highest charting album to date.
In a March 2010 interview with alt porn website Burning Angel, Ken Casey announced that the band would be hitting the studio in the summer or early Fall of 2010 to record their next album.
In December 2010, a live version of "The Warrior's Code," the title track from the 2005 album of the same name was briefly featured in the Academy Award nominated film, The Fighter. The film followed the life and career of Micky Ward
Micky Ward
Micky Ward , nicknamed Irish, is a retired American junior welterweight professional boxer and a former WBU champion from Lowell, Massachusetts...
, the boxer on the cover of The Warrior's Code album, and starred Mark Wahlberg
Mark Wahlberg
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg is an American actor, film and television producer, and former rapper. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years, and became famous for his 1991 debut as a musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He was named No. 1 on VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of...
and Christian Bale
Christian Bale
Christian Charles Philip Bale is an English actor. Best known for his roles in American films, Bale has starred in both big budget Hollywood films and the smaller projects from independent producers and art houses....
. The Warrior's Code is also featured in the trailer for the 2011 comedy, Your Highness
Your Highness
Your Highness is a 2011 fantasy comedy film directed by David Gordon Green, written by Danny McBride and Ben Best, and starring McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, and Zooey Deschanel. Filming began in the summer of 2009 in Northern Ireland and concluded in October 2009...
.
In 2011, the band's song, "Barroom Hero" was featured in the Academy Award nominated documentary, Restrepo
Restrepo (film)
Restrepo is a 2010 documentary film about the Afghanistan war, directed by American journalist Sebastian Junger and British/American photojournalist Tim Hetherington....
making it the band's third song to be featured in a Academy Award nominated film.
The band released their seventh studio album, Going Out In Style
Going Out in Style
Going Out in Style is the seventh studio album by the Dropkick Murphys and was released on March 1, 2011. It was the band's second studio release on their Born & Bred Records label, and marks the longest gap between two Dropkick Murphys albums, as it was released almost four years after 2007's The...
on March 1, 2011. The album is the highest chart position ever for Dropkick Murphys – debuting at #6 and selling 43,259 in the U.S. in its first week. The album was produced by Ted Hutt
Ted Hutt
Ted Hutt is a British music producer, musician, and song writer residing in Los Angeles, CA. He was the original guitar player and one of the founding members for Flogging Molly...
, and features guest appearances by Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...
, Fat Mike, Chris Cheney
Chris Cheney
Christopher John Cheney is the guitarist, main songwriter and lead vocalist in the Australian rock band, The Living End. His trademark guitar is a Gretsch White Falcon and he uses mainly distortion and modulation effects...
, and Lenny Clarke
Lenny Clarke
Lenny Clarke is an American comedian and actor, famous for his thick Boston accent and role as Uncle Teddy on the series Rescue Me. During the 1970s, as related in the Comedy Central roast of Clarke's friend Denis Leary, Clarke ran for mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts. When asked by Leary what...
. The title track will be the first single and the music video was also released on March 1, 2011
On March 17, 2011, the band released the music video for "Memorial Day."
Musical style and influences
The bands early influences were 1970s British punk bands like , The ClashThe Clash
The Clash were an English punk rock band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk. Along with punk, their music incorporated elements of reggae, ska, dub, funk, rap, dance, and rockabilly...
, and Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians...
, as well as Irish rock band The Pogues
The Pogues
The Pogues are a Celtic punk band, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan. The band reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. MacGowan left the band in 1991 due to drinking problems but the band continued first with Joe Strummer and then with Spider Stacy on vocals before...
When they wrote their first song, Barroom Hero, they were surprised to hear how much the vocal melody sounded like those from old Irish music they heard as children, something the bandmembers at one time tried to reject. "It dawned on us that Irish music was a bigger influence on all of us than we'd realized," said Ken Casey. "Growing up in Boston, every time you went to a wedding or a wake or your grandparents' house, you heard that music. I went through a phase of hating it just because it's what my (folks) listened to."
While frequently referred to as a Celtic punk
Celtic punk
Celtic punk is punk rock mixed with traditional Celtic music. The genre was founded in the 1980s by The Pogues, a band of punk musicians in London who celebrated their Irish heritage. Celtic punk bands often play covers of traditional Irish folk and political songs, as well as original compositions...
band, some of their earlier material has also been classified under other punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
subgenres like Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...
and Oi!
Oi!
Oi! is a working class subgenre of punk rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The music and its associated subculture had the goal of bringing together punks, skinheads and other working-class youths ....
.
They frequently cite AC/DC
AC/DC
AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...
as an influence to their formula of maintaining a specific style, with Casey once saying "I think our goal is to be the AC/DC of Celtic punk rock. The worst thing we can do to the local fans who have stuck with us is to all of a sudden try to be Fall Out Boy
Fall Out Boy
Fall Out Boy is an American rock band from Wilmette, Illinois, formed in 2001. The band consists of vocalist, guitarist and composer Patrick Stump, bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz, guitarist Joe Trohman, and drummer Andy Hurley. The band released five studio albums from 2003–2008...
with bagpipes." Al Barr commented "We've always said we're like The Ramones or AC/DC with what we do; if it ain't broke, don't fix it. But at the same time, we have to keep challenging ourselves. And if we find that tunes we're putting together for a record are boring us, we're not going to record them."
Political causes
Dropkick Murphys have been known for supporting working classWorking class
Working class is a term used in the social sciences and in ordinary conversation to describe those employed in lower tier jobs , often extending to those in unemployment or otherwise possessing below-average incomes...
and union
Trade union
A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...
causes, and have a strong relationship with the AFL-CIO
AFL-CIO
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly AFL–CIO, is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of 56 national and international unions, together representing more than 11 million workers...
. The band has said that they are all Democrats
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
, and during the 2004 United States presidential election
United States presidential election, 2004
The United States presidential election of 2004 was the United States' 55th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Republican Party candidate and incumbent President George W. Bush defeated Democratic Party candidate John Kerry, the then-junior U.S. Senator...
were part of Punkvoter, a political activist group dedicated to defeating George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
. That year they also appeared on the Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2
Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2
Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2 is the second Rock Against Bush compilation album released on the Fat Wreck Chords record label. It contains a collection of songs by various punk rock artists, some of which were previously unreleased. It also includes a bonus DVD with political facts, commentary...
compilation contributing the song "We Got the Power".
On February 22, 2011, in support of Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...
workers' rights, the band released their song "Take 'Em Down" from the album "Going Out In Style" on their website along with creating a limited edition "Take 'Em Down" t-shirt which will benefit the Workers’ Rights Emergency Response Fund. Thousands of Wisconsin public Union workers have been protesting the current budget plan of Governor Scott Walker
Scott Walker (politician)
Scott Kevin Walker is an American Republican politician who began serving as the 45th Governor of Wisconsin on January 3, 2011, after defeating Democratic candidate Tom Barrett, 52 percent to 47 percent in the November 2010 general election...
. Two days later on the MSNBC
MSNBC
MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
news show, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell is an hour-long weeknight news and political commentary program on MSNBC. The program airs live at 10:00 P.M. Eastern Time Monday-Thursday, and is hosted by Lawrence O'Donnell...
, "Take 'Em Down" was used as a intro song to a news story on the Wisconsin workers protest.
On Saturday August 13, 2011, Dropkick Murphys issued a statement of solidarity with the 45,000 Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) on strike from Verizon Communications, Inc.
Current
- Al BarrAl BarrAlexander Martin "Al" Barr is the lead singer of the Dropkick Murphys. He was also a founder and lead singer for The Bruisers, which he helped form in 1988 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His first band circa 1984, was called D.V.A....
– lead vocals (1998–present) - Ken CaseyKen CaseyKen Casey is the bass guitarist and a vocalist of the Boston Celtic punk group Dropkick Murphys. Casey was one of the original members, starting it in 1996 with Rick Barton and Mike McColgan. He is the only original member of the Dropkick Murphys left in the band, though drummer Matt Kelly joined...
– bass guitar, lead vocals (1996–present) - Matt Kelly – drums, bodhranBodhránThe bodhrán is an Irish frame drum ranging from 25 to 65 cm in diameter, with most drums measuring 35 to 45 cm . The sides of the drum are 9 to 20 cm deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side...
, vocals (1997–present) - James Lynch – guitar, vocals (2000–present)
- Josh "Scruffy" Wallace – bagpipesBagpipesBagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones, using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes of many different types come from...
, tin whistleTin whistleThe tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, English Flageolet, Scottish penny whistle, Tin Flageolet, Irish whistle and Clarke London Flageolet is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is an end blown fipple flute, putting it in the same category as the recorder, American Indian flute, and...
(2003–present) - Tim Brennan – guitar (2008–present), mandolin accordionAccordionThe accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
, vocals (2003–present) - Jeff DaRosaJeff DaRosaJeffrey DaRosa is a rock multi-instrumentalist. Growing up in Watertown, Massachusetts and Somerville, Massachusetts , DaRosa later moved to New York, where he joined The Exit...
– acoustic guitar, banjoBanjoIn the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...
, bouzoukiBouzoukiThe bouzouki , is a musical instrument with Greek origin in the lute family. A mainstay of modern Greek music, the front of the body is flat and is usually heavily inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The instrument is played with a plectrum and has a sharp metallic sound, reminiscent of a mandolin but...
, keyboard, mandolinMandolinA mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
, whistle, organ, vocals (2008–Present)
Former
- Marc OrrellMarc OrrellMarc "The Kid" Orrell is an American guitarist, best known as a former member of the Boston Celtic Punk band the Dropkick Murphys. Originally from Grafton, Massachusetts, he joined the band in 2000 when the band was recording Sing Loud, Sing Proud...
– guitar, accordion, piano (2000–2008) - Spicy McHaggis (Robbie Mederios) – bagpipes (2000–2003)
- Ryan FoltzRyan FoltzRyan Foltz is an American producer, audio engineer and musician from Cleveland, Ohio. A former member of Dropkick Murphys and Motel Blonde , Foltz has also played tin whistle, trumpet, , in renowned The Pogues cover band, for ten years...
– mandolin, tin whistle (2000–2003) - Rick BartonRick BartonRick Barton was the original guitarist for Dropkick Murphys. He played on Boys on the Docks EP, Do or Die, The Gang's All Here, and the Mob Mentality split album with The Business. He no longer plays for Dropkick Murphys, working now with the newer band "Everybody Out!"...
– guitar (1996–2000) - Mike McColganMike McColganMichael "Mike" McColgan is best known as the original lead singer of the Irish American outfit Dropkick Murphys and the current lead singer of the Street Dogs....
– lead vocals (1996–1998) - Jeff ErnaJeff ErnaJeff Erna is an American drummer, most notable for being the original drummer for Dropkick Murphys .While with the Dropkick Murphys, he played drums on their Boys on the Docks EP . He also played on The Early Years, Fire and Brimstone, Tattoos and Scally Caps and Dropkick Murphys/Ducky Boys Split 7...
– drums (1996–1997) - Joe Delaney – bagpipes (1998–2003)
Studio albums
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||
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| AUT Ö3 Austria Top 40 Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the name of the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3. The show presents the Austrian singles, ringtones and downloads chart. It premiered on 26 November 1968 as Disc Parade and was presented by Ernst Grissemann... |
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GER Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie... |
IRL Irish Albums Chart The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically... |
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US Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
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| 1998 | Do or Die | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1999 | The Gang's All Here | — | — | — | — | — | 184 |
| 2001 | Sing Loud Sing Proud | — | 37 | — | — | — | 144 |
| 2003 | Blackout Blackout (Dropkick Murphys album) Blackout is the fourth studio album from Dropkick Murphys, released in 2003. It was released with a DVD, which contained live videos for "Rocky Road to Dublin" and "Boys on the Dock", a music video for "Gonna Be a Blackout Tonight", and a trailer for their then upcoming untitled full-length DVD,... |
— | — | — | — | — | 83 |
| 2005 | The Warrior's Code The Warrior's Code The Warrior's Code is the fifth studio album by the Irish-American Celtic punk band, the Dropkick Murphys. Released in June 2005, it is also their bestselling. It features a dedication to Lowell's own "Irish" Micky Ward... |
72 | — | 51 | — | — | 48 |
| 2007 | The Meanest of Times The Meanest of Times The Meanest of Times is the sixth album by the Dropkick Murphys. It was released on September 18, 2007 by their new vanity label, Born & Bred Records, a division of Cooking Vinyl Records... |
— | — | — | 98 | — | 20 |
| 2011 | Going Out In Style Going Out in Style Going Out in Style is the seventh studio album by the Dropkick Murphys and was released on March 1, 2011. It was the band's second studio release on their Born & Bred Records label, and marks the longest gap between two Dropkick Murphys albums, as it was released almost four years after 2007's The... |
33 | 45 | 19 | 54 | 38 | 6 |
| "—" denotes a title that did not chart. | |||||||
Compilation albums
- The Early YearsThe Early Years (Dropkick Murphys album)A compilation album by Dropkick Murphys. Released in 1998 on Sidekicks Records.#"John Law" from Tattoos and Scally Caps#"Regular Guy" from Tattoos and Scally Caps...
(1998) - The Singles Collection, Volume 1The Singles Collection, Volume 1The Singles Collection, Volume 1 is a collection of non-album tracks by Dropkick Murphys. It is the American version of The Early Years which was released in Europe, although with some track changes...
(2000) - Singles Collection, Volume 2Singles Collection, Volume 2Singles Collection Volume 2 is a b-side and rarities compilation album released by Boston punk rock band Dropkick Murphys, on March 8, 2005. It contains songs released on singles, compilations and splits...
(2005)
Live albums
- Live on St. Patrick's Day From Boston, MALive on St. Patrick's Day From Boston, MALive on St. Patrick's Day from Boston, MA is a live album from Boston punk band Dropkick Murphys. It was recorded over three shows at the Avalon Ballroom in, as the name implies, Boston, MA, and was released on September 10, 2002.-Track listing:...
(2002) - Live on Lansdowne, Boston MALive on Lansdowne, Boston MALive on Lansdowne, Boston MA is the second live album and third live DVD of celtic punk band, Dropkick Murphys. Recorded at seven shows over the span of six nights of their annual St Patrick's Day weekend shows in Boston, MA. The album has an entirely different tracklist to their previous live...
(2010)
EPs
- Boys on the DocksBoys on the DocksBoys on the Docks is the debut EP by the Dropkick Murphys."Never Alone" and a Murphys' Pub Version of "Boys on the Docks" were also on their debut album, Do or Die, which was released the next year...
(1997) - Which side are you on? (2000)
- TessieTessie (EP)Tessie is an EP by Dropkick Murphys released in 2004. It features two covers of the official anthem of the Boston Red Sox, "Tessie". Among the songs included on the CD, only "The Burden " and "Tessie " appear exclusively on this release...
(2004)
Singles
- "Fire and BrimstoneFire and brimstoneFire and brimstone is an idiomatic expression of signs of God's wrath in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. In the Bible, they often appear in reference to the fate of the unfaithful. "Brimstone," possibly the ancient name for sulfur, evokes the acrid odor of volcanic activity...
" (1997) - "Tattoos and Scally Caps" (1997)
- "Curse of Fallen Soul" (1998)
- "Good Rats" (2000)
- "Live on a Five" (2000)
- "The Dirty Glass" (2003)
- "Gonna Be a Blackout Tonight" (2003)
- "Walk Away" (2003)
- "Time to Go: Promotional Single" (2003)
- "Fields of Athenry" (2003)
- "Back to the Hub" (2003)
- "TessieTessie"Tessie" is both the anthem of the Boston Red Sox and also the title of a newer song by the punk rock band Dropkick Murphys. The original "Tessie" was from the 1902 Broadway musical The Silver Slipper. The newer song, written in 2004, recounts how the singing of the original "Tessie" by the Royal...
" (2004) (Radio Only, #89 US Modern Rock, #90 US Pop 100) - "Fields of Athenry: Andrew Farrar Memorial" (2005) Memorial single
- "Sunshine Highway" (2005)
- "The Walking Dead" (2005)
- "Last Letter Home" (2006)
- "I'm Shipping Up to BostonI'm Shipping Up to Boston"I'm Shipping Up to Boston" is a song with lyrics written by the folk singer Woody Guthrie and music written and performed by the Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys. It appeared on their 2005 album, The Warrior's Code. An earlier recording of it can be found on the Hellcat Records compilation Give...
" (2006) (#101 Billboard Hot 100, #15 Hot Single Recurrents, #42 Hot Digital Tracks) - "The State of MassachusettsThe State of Massachusetts"The State of Massachusetts" is a song about the effects of drugs on individuals and their families by the Dropkick Murphys and was released as the first single from the album, The Meanest of Times....
" (2007) - "(F)lannigan's BallLanigan's Ball"Lanigan's Ball" is a popular traditional or folk Irish song which has been played throughout the world since at least the 1860's and possibly much longer...
" (2007) - "The Chosen Few" (2008)
- "Going Out In Style" (2011)
- "Memorial Day" (2011)
Splits
- DKM/Ducky Boys Split 7 inchDKM/Ducky Boys Split 7 inchSpilt 7inch is a split EP by Dropkick Murphys and The Ducky Boys. It was released in July 1996 on Flat Records, with 2,000 copies on black vinyl and 1,000 copies on green vinyl. This is the first release by both bands...
(1996) - DKM/Bruisers Split 7 inchDKM/Bruisers Split 7 inchDKM/Bruisers Split 7 inch is a split single released by Dropkick Murphys and the Bruisers. Limited edition, 2000 pressed on black 7" vinyl.Released on Pogostick Records in September 1997....
(1997) - Anti-Heroes vs Dropkick Murphys (1997)
- DKM/Oxymoron Split (1998)
- Mob MentalityMob MentalityMob Mentality is a split 7" and album by Dropkick Murphys and The Business. Originally, the bands put out a split 7" single with the name Mob Mentality. This single consisted of three songs, two which were each band covering one of the other band's songs, and the third was an original song...
7" (Split with The BusinessThe Business (band)The Business are an English Oi!/punk rock band formed in 1979 in Lewisham, South London. Their album Suburban Rebels became influential in the Oi! movement...
) (1999) - Unity (Split with Agnostic FrontAgnostic FrontAgnostic Front is an American hardcore band. The band began playing hardcore similar to their contemporaries, and were thrust to the forefront of the burgeoning New York hardcore scene in the mid-1980s with their widely regarded 1984 classic Victim in Pain before evolving to incorporate thrash...
) (1999) - This Is the East Coast (...Not L.A.) (Split with H2OH2O (American band)-Prologue:Prior to the formation of H2O, in the early-mid-1980s, Todd Morse and Rusty Pistachio were part of the speed punk band "Roadside Petz". This band featured Wayne Williams on drums...
) (2000) - Back On The Streets 10" (Split with A Poor Excuse (Boston), Slang (Japan), Tom and The Bootboys(Japan)) (August 1, 2000)
- Mob MentalityMob MentalityMob Mentality is a split 7" and album by Dropkick Murphys and The Business. Originally, the bands put out a split 7" single with the name Mob Mentality. This single consisted of three songs, two which were each band covering one of the other band's songs, and the third was an original song...
CD (Split with The BusinessThe Business (band)The Business are an English Oi!/punk rock band formed in 1979 in Lewisham, South London. Their album Suburban Rebels became influential in the Oi! movement...
) (2000) - Face to Face vs. Dropkick MurphysFace to Face vs. Dropkick MurphysA split EP released by Face to Face and Dropkick Murphys in February 2002 on Vagrant Records.Of the Dropkick Murphys tracks, "The Dirty Glass" was re-recorded for the band's next album Blackout and the other two songs were featured on the compilation album Singles Collection, Volume 2.-Tracklist:...
(2002) - One For The AgesOne for the Ages"One for the Ages" is a split single released by Dropkick Murphys and The Vandals in 2004 on through This record was limited to 1,000 copies and was given away free with Fat City Magazine #8. A few copies are still available from the magazine's website....
(2004)
Compilation appearances
- I've Got My Friends-Boston/San Francisco Split CD (1996) – Includes "Get Up" and the original version of "Skinhead On The MBTA".
- Runt of the Litter, Vol. 2 (1996) – Includes "In The Streets of Boston (live June 29, 1996 @ TT the Bears)"
- Oi! Skampilation Vol. 3 (1997) – Includes "Road of the Righteous" and "Third Man In" (both live)
- Give 'Em the BootGive 'Em the Boot (album)Give 'Em the Boot is the first compilation album in the Give 'Em the Boot series.This, as of 2007, is the only entry not to include the boot design of all of the other covers.-Track listing:# "The Brothels" – Rancid – 2:57...
(1997) – Includes "Barroom Hero (original version)" - Vans Off the Wall Sampler (1998) – Includes "Road of the Righteous"
- Give 'Em the Boot IIGive 'Em the Boot IIGive 'Em the Boot II is the second compilation album in the Give 'Em the Boot series.This was the first entry to feature the standard boot design for the cover...
(1999) – Includes "The Gang's All Here" - Vans Off the Wall Sampler (1999) – Includes "Boston Asphalt"
- Punk Rock Jukebox Vol. 3 (1999) – Includes "Vengeance"
- Built for Speed – A Motorhead Tribute (1999) – Includes "Rock and Roll"
- Punch Drunk (1999) – Includes "You're a Rebel"
- Boston Drops The Gloves: A Tribute to Slapshot (1999) – Includes "I've Had Enough"
- Punch Drunk Vol. 2 (2000) – Includes "Soundtrack to a Killing Spree"
- A Worldwide Tribute to Oi (2000) – Includes "Hey Little Rich Boy" and "Never Again"
- Back on the Streets – Japanese/American Punk Unity (2000) – Includes "Halloween" and "Soundtrack to a Killing Spree"
- Dave Mirra Freestyle BMXDave Mirra Freestyle BMXDave Mirra Freestyle BMX is a video game released in 2000 featuring Dave Mirra and other professional BMX riders. It was developed by Z-Axis Ltd. and published by Acclaim, and was released on the PlayStation, Dreamcast, Game Boy Color and the Windows PC...
(2000) – Includes "Never Alone" - Punk-O-Rama Vol. 5Punk-O-Rama Vol. 5Punk-O-Rama Vol. 5 is the fifth compilation album in the Punk-O-Rama series.All of the tracks were previously released except for "Pump Up the Valium" by NOFX and "Problematic" by All. The latter two tracks were title tracks left off the band's current albums at the time, NOFX's Pump Up the Valuum...
(2000) – Includes "Good Rats (Original Version)" - Punk-O-Rama Vol. 6Punk-O-Rama Vol. 6Punk-O-Rama Vol. 6 is the sixth compilation album in the Punk-O-Rama series.The cover is a reference to a scene in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, as this was the release from the year 2001....
(2001) – Includes "The Gauntlet" - A Tribute to Cock Sparrer (2001) – Includes "Working"
- Give 'Em the Boot IIIGive 'Em the Boot IIIGive 'Em the Boot III is the third compilation album in the Give 'Em the Boot series, released in 2002 .- Track listing :#"Sick of It All" - The Distillers#"The Legend of Finn MacCumhail" - Dropkick Murphys#"Die Alone" - U.S...
(2002) – Includes "The Legend of Finn McCummhail" - Punk-O-Rama Vol. 7Punk-O-Rama Vol. 7Punk-O-Rama Vol. 7 is the seventh compilation album in the Punk-O-Rama series.-Track listing:# "Fingers Crossed" – Millencolin – 2:47# "Wayfarer" – Hot Water Music – 2:58# "Up for Sale" – The Noise Conspiracy – 3:26...
(2002) – Includes "Heroes from Our Past" - Atticus: Dragging the Lake, Vol. 2 (2003) – Includes "Fields of Athenry"
- 2003 Warped Tour Compilation (2003) – Includes "Walk Away"
- Punk-O-Rama Vol. 8Punk-O-Rama Vol. 8Punk-O-Rama Vol. 8 is the eighth compilation album in the Punk-O-Rama series. It was released in 2003.This is the only entry in the series to be a two-disc by containing two CDs. The entries following this had two discs, but they were one CD and one DVD.The song "Quick Death" is on here in two...
(2003) – Includes "Gonna Be a Blackout Tonight" - Give 'Em the Boot IVGive 'Em the Boot IVGive 'Em the Boot IV is the fourth compilation album in the Give 'Em the Boot series, released in 2004 .- Track listing :#"Killing Zone" - Rancid#"Dirty Reggae" - The Aggrolites#"Atomic" - Tiger Army#"Propaganda" - The Slackers...
(2004) – Includes "I'm Shipping Up to Boston (original version)" - Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2 is the second Rock Against Bush compilation album released on the Fat Wreck Chords record label. It contains a collection of songs by various punk rock artists, some of which were previously unreleased. It also includes a bonus DVD with political facts, commentary...
(2004) – Includes "We Got the Power" - Punk-O-Rama Vol. 9Punk-O-Rama Vol. 9Punk-O-Rama Vol. 9 is the ninth compilation album in the Punk-O-Rama series.This is the first of two entries to be released as a two-disc with a DVD. The DVD features current music videos by bands on the CD, with the exception of Randy and Converge who do not appear on the CD...
(2004) – Includes "The Dirty Glass (Darcy's Revenge)" - Punk-O-Rama Vol. 10Punk-O-Rama Vol. 10Punk-O-Rama Vol. 10 is the tenth and final compilation album in the Punk-O-Rama series. The following year saw the start of Epitaph Records' new compilation series, Unsound....
(2005) – Includes "The Warrior's Code" - MVP Baseball 2005MVP Baseball 2005MVP Baseball 2005 is a baseball video game developed and published by Electronic Arts. It features former Boston Red Sox left fielder Manny Ramirez on its game cover. The game features full Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball, and Major League Baseball Players Association licenses. It...
soundtrack (2005) – Includes "Tessie" - Fever PitchFever Pitch (2005 film)Fever Pitch, which was released as The Perfect Catch outside of the United States and Canada, is a 2005 Farrelly brothers romantic comedy film. It is a remake of a 1997 British film of the same name. Both films are loosely based on the Nick Hornby book of the same name, a best-selling memoir in...
soundtrack (2005) – Includes "Tessie" - Tony Hawk's Underground soundtrack (2003) – Includes "Time To Go"
- Tony Hawk's American WastelandTony Hawk's American Wasteland (soundtrack)The Tony Hawk's American Wasteland soundtrack features a lineup of punk-based bands, each covering a song from a classic punk rock or hardcore punk group. The cover art is a parody of the 1979 album London Calling by The Clash. Similarly, the back cover art is also a parody of the back cover art of...
soundtrack (2005) – Includes "Who is Who" - 2005 Warped Tour Compilation (2005) – Includes "Sunshine Highway"
- Give 'Em the Boot VGive 'Em the Boot VGive 'Em the Boot V is the fifth compilation album in the Give 'Em the Boot series, released in 2006 .- Track listing :#"Tattoo" - Rancid#"Warriors Code" - Dropkick Murphys#"Cold Concrete" - Time Again...
(2006) – Includes "Warriors Code" - Whiskey in the Jar: Essential Irish Drinking Songs and Sing Alongs (2006) – Includes "The Fields of Athenry", "The Wild Rover", and "The Dirty Glass"
- The Departed soundtrack (2006) – Includes "I'm Shipping Up to Boston"
- Give 'Em the Boot VIGive 'Em the Boot VIGive 'Em the Boot VI is an unofficial sixth entry in the Give 'Em the Boot series of albums. The compilations are periodically released by "Hellcat Records" and there is no record of it on the label's website. It has been distributed through the use of torrent download websites and features a...
(2007) - Lobster WarsLobster WarsLobster Wars, also known as Deadliest Catch: Lobstermen in the United Kingdom, is a documentary television series on the Discovery Channel. It documents men and one woman fishing for lobsters off the Georges Bank near the northeastern coast of North America...
theme (2007) – "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" - Let Them Know: The Story of Youth Brigade and BYO RecordsLet Them Know: The Story of Youth Brigade and BYO RecordsLet Them Know: The Story of Youth Brigade and BYO Records is a box set put together by BYO Records in honor of their 25th anniversary. It consists of a book documenting the history of the label as well as a DVD with a documentary and a CD consisting of 31 different artists covering songs that have...
(2009) – "Fight To Unite" - Untitled 21: A Juvenile Tribute to the Swingin' Utters (2010) – "Strongman"
- NHL 11NHL 11NHL 11 is an ice hockey video game celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the NHL series. The game was developed by EA Canada, published by EA Sports, and released in North America on September 7, 2010, with all other regions receiving the game within two weeks...
soundtrack (2010) – Includes "Shipping up to Boston (Live)" - RestrepoRestrepo (film)Restrepo is a 2010 documentary film about the Afghanistan war, directed by American journalist Sebastian Junger and British/American photojournalist Tim Hetherington....
(2010) – Uses "Barroom Hero" in the movie's credits. - NHL 12NHL 12NHL 12 is an ice hockey video game developed by EA Canada and published by EA Sports. The game was released between September 8–13, 2011, in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and North America. The game was featured in the 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo . Steven Stamkos was announced as the...
soundtrack (2011) – Includes "Hang Em' High"
DVDs
- Vans Warped Tour 2003 (2003) – Includes "Black Velvet Band (Live)"
- Punk-O-Rama Vol. 1Punk-O-Rama Vol. 1Punk-O-Rama is a compilation album released by Epitaph Records on November 18, 1994. Featuring twelve bands from the label's roster, the album was the first installment in the Punk-O-Rama series which continued until 2005.-Track listing:...
(2003) – Includes the videos for "Barroom Hero" and "The Gauntlet" - On the Road with the Dropkick Murphys (2004)
- Punk Rock HolocaustPunk Rock HolocaustPunk Rock Holocaust is a 2004 low-budget slasher film/horror-comedy directed by Doug Sakmann. It is about a serial killer on the loose at the Vans Warped Tour who tries killing off the bands one by one, and features bands such as Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Less Than Jake, The Used, Big D and...
(2004) - Give 'Em the BootGive 'Em the BootGive 'Em the Boot is a series of compilation albums released by Hellcat Records. The first release came out July 29, 1997, and there has been a new release every other year, except for the gap between the second and third releases, which had three years in between...
(2005) – Includes "Good Rats (Live)"
External links
- Dropkick Murphys official web site
- "Dropkick Murphys: Sing Loud, Sing Proud!", from PopMatters magazine
- "Dropkick Murphys: Kickin' It At Warped Tour", from The Trades
- "An Early Review of The Meanest of Times" on Life in a Bungalo
- Dropkick Murphys: Friends to the Working Class article in Dollars & SenseDollars & SenseDollars & Sense is a magazine dedicated to providing left-wing perspectives on economics.Published six times a year since 1974, it is edited by a collective of economists, journalists, and activists committed to the ideals of social justice and economic democracy.It was initially sponsored by the...
magazine - Dropkick Murphys – the long ass interview cover feature Distorted magazine October 2007
- Clip of Jonathan Papelbon dancing with Dropkick Murphys during 2007 World Series victory rally in Boston
- YeboTV.com (Dropkick Murphys Interview)
- http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid46793.aspxBoston Phoenix review of The Meanest of TimesThe Meanest of TimesThe Meanest of Times is the sixth album by the Dropkick Murphys. It was released on September 18, 2007 by their new vanity label, Born & Bred Records, a division of Cooking Vinyl Records...
with band interview] (Mike Miliard, The Best of Times, September 2007)
Interviews
- Interview With Marc and Tim (2006)
- Interview With Marc (2003)
- Dropkick Murphys Interview on Truepunk.com
- Interview with Tim and Marc, 2006
- Interview with Al Barr, from Australian mag Time Off
- Interview with Ken Casey on OnMilwaukee.com (2007)
- Video Interview of Scruffy Wallace by Serene Dominic (2008)
- Interview with Scruffy Wallace on SGM UK Music Webzine 2010
- Interview with Al Barr on TheWaster.com
- Interview with James Lynch on VegasAllNight.com