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...eight other years. In the mid-'40s Crosby recorded eight Christmas songs issued in an "album" of four 78 rpm discs, and that was the basis for this 12-song LP, which has never gone out of print. Bing does a little globetrotting here, adding songs with Irish and Hawaiian settings, but it's basically that warm Crosby baritone, equally adept at solemnity (a robust "Adeste Fidelis") and swingin' (the vamps of "Jing-jing-jing-jingle bells" that he swaps with the Andrews Sisters). Among holiday LPs, this is the all-time champ...
Damien Rice needs to lighten up. if not for the sake of his listeners then for the sake of his own mental health. “9,” the Irish thirtysomething’s sophomore release is alternately dense and minimal, forcing the listener to conclude that Rice is on the brink of a nervous breakdown. With despairing melodies and broken-hearted nostalgia permeating nearly every track, “9” might as well be a suicide note...
...Convene at Lir Irish Pub & Restaurant, 903 Boylston St. $200 requested donation. http://www.santaspeedorun.com...
...like Bono! The Joshua Tree, a U2 tribute band named for the real-deal’s eponymous 1987 hit album, performs all your favorites at a fraction of the cost. With five bucks, you can belt out “Bloody Sunday” with a decidedly non-Irish but still pretty talented rock band...
...hand. “I never thought I’d end up at Harvard. I never even went to high school,” said McCourt, beginning a speech that kept the audience laughing. Drawing on material from his memoir, he reflected on his Irish education and childhood as compared with those of his New Yorker students. “We had the victim-type education,” McCourt said of the Irish, which “conditioned” them to believe they were a “fighting race” of Catholics...