Track Listing 1. Your Spirit's Alive 2. Warrior's Code 3. Captain Kelly's Kitchen 4. Walking Dead 5. Sunshine Highway 6. Wicked Sensitive Crew 7. Burden 8. Citizen C.I.A. 9. Green Fields of France 10. Take It and Run 11. I'm Shipping up to Boston 12. Auld Triangle 13. Last Letter Home 14. Tessie (Bonus Track) 15. Hatebomb (Bonus Track)
| Details | | Distributor: | MSI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes CD contains 1 bonus track. Like The Pogues before them, the Dropkick Murphys successfully combine traditional Irish music, (lusty, barroom choruses plus accordion and bagpipes) and punk rock (choppy guitar riffs, speedy drumming) into the kind of Celt-punk that's at the heart of their fifth album, THE WARRIOR'S CODE. Amid the folkie "Captain Kelly's Kitchen" and "I'm Shipping Up to Boston," (based around previously unreleased Woody Guthrie lyrics) and Australian troubadour Eric Bogle's anti-war anthem "The Green Fields of France," modern-day punk energy is a constant. Scruffy Wallace's aforementioned bagpipes fuse well with James Lynch and Marc Orrell's raging guitars on a title track dedicated to Massachusetts welterweight "Irish" Mickey Ward, while the raucous "Wicked Sensitive Crew" makes light of the DMs being "touchy feely sensitive guys." Most touching is "Last Letter Home," an homage to Sgt. Andrew Farrar, a die-hard fan who died serving in Iraq (the band played at his funeral).
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