Horslips - Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part (1972 irish folk rock - flac) 2008 Japan

Artist: Horslips Title: Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part Genre: Folk,Folk Rock Origin: Irish Get ready for the ride of your life through Irish folk-rock styles. The opening track of the group's debut album, with its pipes, button accordion, and percussion, could pass for any Chieftains record, but then the electricity kicks in on "Hall of Mirrors," and the rest is melodic rock, not so much folk-rock as folkish rock, recalling early Genesis. John Fean sounds like he's playing folk melodies even as he plays runs on his electric guitar on "The Clergy's Lamentation," and the group follows this with an anthem-like piece of Gaelic rock ("An Bratach Ban") with a dance-like instrumental break. "Bon Istgh Ag Ol" is probably the best track on the album, and "Hall of Mirrors" and "Furniture" remained in their stage act for years, the latter, with its superb middle section -- favorably recalling Steve Howe's playing with Yes on their early albums -- transformed into a 15-minute epic. And just when you think you've got them pegged as a progressive folk-rock outfit, they deliver the exquisitely languid, almost impressionistic "The Shamrock Shore" and the playful "Dance for Yer Daddy," which sounds like the Chieftains with vocals until Fean's electric guitar kicks in. And Fean's playing on "The Musical Priest," by itself, is worth the price of the album. Track listing: 1. "Happy to Meet" (instrumental) – 0:48 2. "Hall of Mirrors" – 5:29 3. "The Clergy's Lamentation" (instrumental) – 4:39 4. "An Bratach Bán" – 2:04 5. "The Shamrock Shore" – 4:34 6. "Flower Amang Them All" (instrumental) – 2:04 7. "Bím Istigh Ag Ól" – 3:43 8. "Furniture" – 5:13 9. "Ace and Deuce" (instrumental) – 3:35 10. "Dance to Yer Daddy" – 4:37 11. "Scalloway Ripoff" – 1:54 12. "The Musical Priest" (instrumental) – 4:33 13. "Sorry to Part" (instrumental) – 1:32 * Jim Lockhart - organ, concert flute, piano, celesta, Uilleann pipes, pipe organ, tin whistles, backing vocals * Johnny Fean - guitars, banjo, vocals * Charles O'Connor - vocals, fiddle, mandolin, concertina, Northumbrian smallpipe * Barry Devlin - bass guitar, vocals * Eamon Carr - drums, backing vocals http://www.horslips.ie/happy3.html A great album with also great sonics. If you have only small interests in irish folk and celtic rock this, besides "The Book Of Invasions" and "The Tain", shouldn't be missed! IMO all masterpieces of this genre.

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madmac17 (2012-07-20)

Why does it say 1972-2008 if it's just one album?