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Flogging Molly — Lightning Storm
Album: Float
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Released: 2008
Length: 3:23
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This lonely existence paves the way
For the heart of hearts must beat be brave
While this quiet lightning storm
Wrecks the harvest gold we tried to sow

So it begins, the way the blood still dances beneath the skin
As the messenger from hell says we're bound to win
As the days, they come, but the years, they go
So take care of your freedom they'll never know

I sit on the wing for a blackbird's song
To tell me where and when this all went wrong
There's no resolution without remorse
With ignorance, bliss, defend, let's stay the course

Puncture the skin and see its blood run cold on desert sand
Come hear the men from mothers with childless hands
As the days, they come, but the years, they go
So take care of your freedom they'll never know

Take good care of your freedom
They'll never know

Take what you give until there is nothing left, but forever live
And night descends on shadows without their kill
As the days, they come, but the years, they go
So take care of your freedom they'll never know

Yeah, take good care of your freedom
They'll never know

As the days, they come
But the years, they go
So take care of your freedom
They'll never know
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Seems very apropos for these times
Posted 5 years ago by haresfur    [ Reply ]
It would be nice to hear his first band - Fastway - Say What You Will on RP
Posted 5 years ago by jmsmy    [ Reply ]
Not my type of performer; however I saw them live and they sure know how to put on a show!
Posted 5 years ago by crossedsenses    [ Reply ]
Polka rock!
Posted 5 years ago by LaurieinTucson    [ Reply ]
Singer's voice reminds me of that of the Scorpions' singer! Weird! Nice tune though.
Posted 5 years ago by Egctheow    [ Reply ]
 lemmoth wrote:
How 'bout some Black 47 for a little East Coast  West Coast rivalry.
 
I used to go see Black 47 at Paddy Reilly's on 2nd Avenue many years ago.  Fun band.
Posted 5 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
 sirdroseph wrote:
I like Molly ok, but this one sounds too much like Bon Jovi.
 

Oh, I was going to say it reminds me of "Seamus" from Pink Floyd's "Meddle" album.   Then again, everything sounds like Pink Floyd, right?
Posted 6 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Before Flogging Molly - Dave King was in this awesome 80's (Led Zeppelin) band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5_oPyavUaw



 Say What You Will - Fastway


Posted 6 years ago by jmsmy    [ Reply ]
 bluedot wrote:
I saw this band...all the songs sounded exactly the same. It was excruciating. Sounds pretty good right now, tho! lol


 
They grow on ya
Posted 6 years ago by pigtail    [ Reply ]
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/36/99410606_aedd11c01f.jpg
Posted 8 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcFR_V-t-jI
Posted 8 years ago by Mattan    [ Reply ]
Play Hendrix after Beethoven is genial, but play this after Hendrix is terrible. {#Beat}
Posted 8 years ago by otaznick    [ Reply ]
 sirdroseph wrote:
I like Molly ok, but this one sounds too much like Bon Jovi.

 
looks like the people on the cover picture are thinking maybe the same thing
Posted 8 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
 vandal wrote:

Yeah, wouldn't it be awesome to hear Maria's Wedding? 

 
Yes, it would.
Posted 8 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
I like Molly ok, but this one sounds too much like Bon Jovi.
Posted 13 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
 Carl wrote:
Glad to have that cleared up; thought maybe "Molly" was slang for a male member. {#Cheesygrin}
 
Perhaps it is...https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flogging%20molly&page=2

Posted 13 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
 lemmoth wrote:
How 'bout some Black 47 for a little East Coast  West Coast rivalry.
 
Yeah, wouldn't it be awesome to hear Maria's Wedding? 
 
Posted 13 years ago by vandal    [ Reply ]
 Decoy wrote:
Flogging Molly in the morning?, works for today.
 
So not the worst day since yesterday? {#Drummer}
Posted 13 years ago by haresfur    [ Reply ]
How 'bout some Black 47 for a little East Coast  West Coast rivalry.
Posted 13 years ago by lemmoth    [ Reply ]
Flogging Molly in the morning?, works for today.
Posted 13 years ago by Decoy    [ Reply ]
I saw this band...all the songs sounded exactly the same. It was excruciating. Sounds pretty good right now, tho! lol

Posted 13 years ago by bluedot    [ Reply ]
 Cynaera wrote:
I have GOT to get this on my wake-up alarm. NO ONE could sleep through this, even if they wanted to - and I can't imagine anyone wanting to sleep through it. So fun, riotous and reckless... Yep, I love it. Flogging Molly - how could anyone not love that title? {#Bananasplit}
 
Molly? ;)

This is just so feckin' good, pure distilled craic.

Edit: I bought this CD and the other tracks are nearly all as high-octane and frantic as this, bar one relatively slower number. This is not lullaby music for going bye-byes to, right enough. Feck, I'd love to see this lot live, with the beer and whiskey flowing :*)


Posted 13 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
I have GOT to get this on my wake-up alarm. NO ONE could sleep through this, even if they wanted to - and I can't imagine anyone wanting to sleep through it. So fun, riotous and reckless... Yep, I love it. Flogging Molly - how could anyone not love that title? {#Bananasplit}
Posted 14 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
{#Yell}
Posted 14 years ago by whtahtefcuk    [ Reply ]
 ddbz wrote:
reminds me of the Civil War?... but I was not there??
 
Do you have someone who can back up your alibi?

Posted 14 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
 Jelani wrote:
Muse with an accordion(or is it a violin or both?) - sped up

 
Good call!  I heard that similarity too.  {#Yes}
Posted 14 years ago by socalhol    [ Reply ]
Muse with an accordion(or is it a violin or both?) - sped up

Posted 14 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
Like the concept, but this particular track, not so much the execution.
Posted 14 years ago by tblock    [ Reply ]

{#Headbanging banana}

Posted 14 years ago by DaMoGan    [ Reply ]
reminds me of the Civil War?... but I was not there??
Posted 14 years ago by ddbz    [ Reply ]
Molly would not wish to be flogged to this. Bleh.
Posted 14 years ago by michaelgmitchell    [ Reply ]
try as I might, this does not work for me.
Posted 14 years ago by tryallmusic    [ Reply ]
 cathstewart94 wrote:
great tune, and even better live!
 
I'd love to hear this bunch live with loads of room to mosh and of course a well-stocked bar. Craic gu leòr! The Pogues with a tuneful singer. 9 from the foot-tapping Nottingham jury.

Posted 14 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
 DaveInVA wrote:
Sounds like the Pogues, only faster..
 
On speed, sorry but I can´t stand this crap.
Posted 14 years ago by nalle    [ Reply ]
What a mess!

And it quotes "Like a Hurricane" too.... 
Posted 14 years ago by Zep    [ Reply ]
I dig the Flogging Molly.  We need some more variety, though, Bill!  Getting tired of the same 3-4 songs.
Posted 14 years ago by dggeek    [ Reply ]
Listening to this, I look like the bloke sitting at the table on the cover with a pained expression.

2 for the song, 8 for the lurid thought about flogging molly.


Posted 14 years ago by SquiddlyDiddly    [ Reply ]
Kinda reminds me of Stan Ridgway.  
Posted 14 years ago by factotum    [ Reply ]
great tune, and even better live!
Posted 14 years ago by cathstewart94    [ Reply ]
 newwavegurly wrote:
I'm sorry, I just can't get into this. It sounds like a strange sped up version of Weird Al doing a Neil Young song.

 
Which one?

Posted 14 years ago by RedGuitar    [ Reply ]
 kaybee wrote:
For once a piece from Flogging Molly that sounds nice.  Too bad about the accordion - otherwise I would have given it a 7.
 
Somehow an accordion sounds much more pleasant with  the fiddle riding on it like this.

(Those wacky Gaelic folks figured that out.)

Posted 14 years ago by conglif    [ Reply ]
 vandal wrote:


A cool, creamy Guinness. . .
 

No too much into the song, much more into the glass of guiness up here,  and god this one seems so close, and yet too far. Ouch!
Posted 14 years ago by ambrebalte    [ Reply ]
Argh!
Posted 14 years ago by mirland    [ Reply ]
For once a piece from Flogging Molly that sounds nice.  Too bad about the accordion - otherwise I would have given it a 7.
Posted 15 years ago by kaybee    [ Reply ]

A cool, creamy Guinness...
Posted 15 years ago by vandal    [ Reply ]
 Netto wrote:
That is a nice cover art! I like it.
 
It makes me thirsty!

Posted 15 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
That is a nice cover art! I like it.
Posted 15 years ago by Netto    [ Reply ]
 Carl wrote:
Glad to have that cleared up; thought maybe "Molly" was slang for a male member. {#Cheesygrin}
 
{#Lol}

Posted 15 years ago by peter_james_bond    [ Reply ]
 peter_james_bond wrote:
If you wondered about the name, like I did, this explanation is from Wikipedia:

In an interview with Kerrang! magazine, King stated that the band's name comes from the bar (Molly Malone's) that faithfully supported the band from the very beginning, "We used to play there every Monday night and we felt like we were flogging it to death, so we called the band Flogging Molly.

 
Glad to have that cleared up; thought maybe "Molly" was slang for a male member. {#Cheesygrin}


Posted 15 years ago by Carl    [ Reply ]
Crazy tribal music

Posted 15 years ago by Geecheeboy    [ Reply ]
Rollicking good stuff.
Posted 15 years ago by Bosami    [ Reply ]
revsully wrote:
I kept thinking he was saying "take care of your penis." {#Eek}

Drink the black stuff...you'll be amazed at it's healing powers...failing that it numbs your brain and you don't care anymore anyway

Posted 15 years ago by EssexTex    [ Reply ]
 Mozart wrote:
An obvious rip-off of Weird Al.
 
Really? I thought it was the Levellers at first. And what is it about folk that they object to musical styles being used? There is nothing original in music-making after all these millennia, so all music is derivative of something. Get used to it and quit slagging artists off by accusing them of "rip-offs".

Posted 15 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
Sounds like the Pogues, only faster..
Posted 15 years ago by DaveInSaoMiguel    [ Reply ]
An obvious rip-off of Weird Al.
Posted 15 years ago by Mozart    [ Reply ]
OK!  Let's polka!!
Posted 15 years ago by cochlear    [ Reply ]
flog< type="text/javascript"><>< type="text/javascript"><>  (flŏg, flôg)   
tr.v.   flogged, flog·ging, flogs
  1. To beat severely with a whip or rod.
  2. Informal To publicize aggressively: flogging a new book.
    I'm glad it sounds like the flogging is the 2nd definition...

Posted 15 years ago by KKeith    [ Reply ]
Madness ska and now Flogging Molly.....................

I appreciate Bill's effort to bring new and unusual tunes to us but every once in a great while ............. I'm reminded why our ancestors left England and ran-off the red coats.

This is ............ is ............. un-unusal ................ {#Grumpy} {#Drunk} {#Puke}

Posted 15 years ago by lwilkinson    [ Reply ]
I'm sorry, I just can't get into this. It sounds like a strange sped up version of Weird Al doing a Neil Young song.

Posted 15 years ago by newwavegurly    [ Reply ]
 Jared wrote:
Anyone else hear a bit of Neil Young's "Like a Hurricane" in some of the backing?
 
oh, yeah! Right away.

Posted 15 years ago by phlattop    [ Reply ]
If you wondered about the name, like I did, this explanation is from Wikipedia:

In an interview with Kerrang! magazine, King stated that the band's name comes from the bar (Molly Malone's) that faithfully supported the band from the very beginning, "We used to play there every Monday night and we felt like we were flogging it to death, so we called the band Flogging Molly.

Posted 15 years ago by peter_james_bond    [ Reply ]
Just a bit - don't think I would have noticed if it wasn't pointed out.
Posted 15 years ago by mholley    [ Reply ]
Anyone else hear a bit of Neil Young's "Like a Hurricane" in some of the backing?
Posted 15 years ago by Jared    [ Reply ]
 revsully wrote:
I kept thinking he was saying "take care of your penis." {#Eek}
 

 MojoJojo wrote:
Sheesh. Thought he was saying, "take care of your pre-nup".  
  

In some relationships, you'd both be right. 


Posted 15 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
frenetic drumming X10
easy on the starbucks there drummerboy 
Posted 15 years ago by fatcatjb    [ Reply ]
definitely digging it - haven't heard them in quite some time.. nice little energetic surprise on a dreary Monday morning! {#Dancingbanana_2}
Posted 15 years ago by DrGonzo    [ Reply ]
I kept thinking he was saying "take care of your penis." {#Eek}
Posted 15 years ago by revsully    [ Reply ]
Sheesh. Thought he was saying, "take care of your pre-nup". 
Posted 15 years ago by MojoJojo    [ Reply ]
Darn!Missed it!
Posted 15 years ago by SweTex    [ Reply ]
 megisi wrote:
I like it on its own, but I hope it opens the door to more such stuff ... Altan! More Altan!


 
{#High-five} Seconded.

Posted 15 years ago by Stave    [ Reply ]
I like it on its own, but I hope it opens the door to more such stuff ... Altan! More Altan!


Posted 15 years ago by megisi    [ Reply ]
These guys are playing a ground stage at Summerfest on July 4th, probably well worth the $15 admission.

www.summerfest.com
Posted 15 years ago by jlind    [ Reply ]
Like the song, LOVE the band name.
Posted 15 years ago by Pyro    [ Reply ]
 Tosko wrote:
Interesting note about the lead singer of this band, Dave King.  He once-upon-a-time fronted the pop metal band Fastway in the early 80s.  Those of us of the right age might remember the single "Say What You Will."  Interesting re-invention of self for Mr. King.
  Never, ever would have expected that!  Will dust off my vinyl Fastway and give it a listen tonight.

If listeners are digging this, hopefully we'll hear from the Young Dubliners on RP soon.  Similar sound.


Posted 15 years ago by stewliscious    [ Reply ]
Like Pogue Mahone if Shane McGowan could sing in tune (though I love his drunken croaks to bits :)). Music to get rat-arsed and dance to. 7 from the Nottingham jury.
Posted 15 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
Interesting note about the lead singer of this band, Dave King.  He once-upon-a-time fronted the pop metal band Fastway in the early 80s.  Those of us of the right age might remember the single "Say What You Will."  Interesting re-invention of self for Mr. King.
Posted 15 years ago by Tosko    [ Reply ]

This song makes me want to do the running man.{#Guitarist}


Posted 15 years ago by Mandible    [ Reply ]
Just what I needed after that last Yes song....sorry Yes fans. {#Drummer}
Posted 15 years ago by peter_james_bond    [ Reply ]
 jagdriver wrote:

Meh.... I'm not sure it's Molly they're flogging.

 
Maybe they're flogging the Dropkick Murphys.
Posted 15 years ago by rtb    [ Reply ]

Meh.... I'm not sure it's Molly they're flogging.


Posted 15 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
New band for me. I like this - they have a 'theatrical' sound.
Posted 15 years ago by wycado    [ Reply ]
This is my favorite track on this cd. {#Bananajam}
Posted 15 years ago by budgual    [ Reply ]
The more I hear from this group, the more I like. Not really sold on this one though.
Posted 15 years ago by bugleboy624    [ Reply ]
I agree; it's great to hear Flogging Molly on RP. But a strange song choice. How about something off Drunken Lullabies?
Posted 15 years ago by Smoove_D    [ Reply ]
 ick wrote:
'Bout time we got some Flogging Molly on RP!  Thanks Bill!

 
yeah, what he said.

Posted 15 years ago by Cachatons    [ Reply ]
'Bout time we got some Flogging Molly on RP!  Thanks Bill!


Posted 15 years ago by ick    [ Reply ]