Horslips
Irish Folk-Rock Band, playing songs and instrumentals, both traditional
and contemporary. Several albums are "concept" albums. Some songs sung in
Gaelic.
(The main members were Jim Lockhart (keyboards, flute, vocals),
Johnny Fean (guitar, vocals), Barry Devlin (bass guitar, vocals),
Eamon Carr (drums, bodhran, percussion), Charles O'Connor (fiddle,
mandolin, concertina, vocals))
Albums.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part |
1972 | Oats | M00 3
|
| [Reissue] | 197? |
Atlantic | 20119 |
|
[Reissue] | 197? |
Atco | 7030 |
|
[Reissue] | 1978 |
DJM | DJF 20544 |
|
[Reissue] | 2005 |
Edsel | |
|
[Reissue] | 2008 |
Wounded Bird | |
| The Tain | 1973 |
Oats | MOO 5
|
| [Reissue] | 197? |
Atlantic | 50034 |
|
[Reissue] | 197? |
Atco | 7039 |
|
[Reissue] | 1978 |
DJM | DJF 20543 |
|
[Reissue] | 2000 |
Edsel | |
|
[Reissue] | 2005 |
Edsel | |
|
[Reissue] | 2008 |
Wounded Bird | |
| Dancehall Sweethearts |
1974 | Oats | MOO 7
|
| [Reissue] | 1974 |
RCA | APLI 0709 |
|
[Reissue] | 2000 |
Edsel | |
| [Reissue] |
2008 |
Outlet | |
| The Unfortunate Cup Of Tea | 1975 |
Oats | MOO 8 |
| [Reissue] |
1975 | RCA | SF
8432 |
| [Reissue] |
2005 | Edsel | |
| Drive The Cold Winter Away | 1975 |
Oats |
MOO 9
|
| [Reissue] | 2000 |
Edsel |
|
| The Book Of Invasions - A Celtic Symphony | 1976 |
DJM |
DJM 10
|
| [Reissue] | 1977 |
DJM |
DJF 20498 |
| [Reissue] |
1982 | DJM |
DJM 22108 |
| [Reissue] |
2008 | Outlet |
|
| Aliens | 1977 |
DJM |
DJM 16
|
| [Reissue] | 1977 |
DJM |
DJF 20519 |
| [Reissue] |
1977 | Atlantic |
64202 |
| [Reissue] |
1982 | DJM |
DJM 22107 |
| [Reissue] |
2000 | Edsel |
|
| Tracks From The Vaults | 1977 |
Oats | MOO 13
|
| [Reissue] | 2003 |
Edsel | |
| The Man Who Built America | 1978 |
DJM | DJM 20
|
| [Reissue] | 1979 |
DJM | DJF 20546 |
|
[Reissue] | 1982 |
DJM | DJM 22108 |
|
[Reissue] | 2001 |
Edsel | |
| Tall Stories, Tall Tales | 1979 |
Mercury | 3809
|
| [Reissue] | 1980 |
Mercury | 9100 070 |
|
[Reissue] | 1995 |
Outlet | |
| Rollback |
2006 |
Horslips | |
Compilations.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Celtic Rock vol 1 | | |
|
| Horslips Collection | | |
|
| Straight From The Horses Mouth | | |
|
| Greatest Hits | | |
|
| [Reissue] | 2002 |
Celtic Connections | |
|
[Reissue] | 2005 | Celtic | |
| Best of | 1982 |
Oats | OASM 0021
|
| [Reissue] (2 CDs) | 2001 |
Edsel | |
| Folk Collection | 1984 |
Stoic | STILP 1001 |
|
Horslips | 1997 |
Celtic Connections | |
| Horslips Story | | Outlet |
|
| Best Tracks (2 CDs) | ? |
This is Music | |
Live Albums.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Horslips Live |
1976 | Homespun |
|
| [Reissue] | 2008 |
Outlet | |
| The Belfast Gigs - Live At Whitla Hall |
1980 | Oats | MOO 20
|
| [Reissue] | 1980 |
Mercury | 3842 |
|
[Reissue] | 2001 |
Edsel | |
DVDs.
| Title
| year.
| Label.
|
| Return of the Dance Hall Sweethearts
| 2005
|
|
DVDs.
| Title | year. | Label.
| No |
|---|
| Come West Along The Road - Irish Traditional
Music - Treasures From RTE TV Archives 1960s - 1980s |
2007 | Standing Room Only |
RTEDVD99 |
| Come West Along The
Road Volume 2 - Irish Traditional Music - Treasures From RTE TV
Archives 1960s - 1980s | 1989 | | |
(Various artists - Frankie Gavin, Jackie Daly, Kevin Burke, Josephine Keegan,
Horslips, Paul Brady, Donal Lunny, Joe Burke, Dubliners, Planxty, Ceoiloiri
Chualann, Ceoltoiri Laighean, Stockton's Wing, De Danann, Liam O'Flynn, Bothy
Band et al).
Best folk albums(*).
| Title. | year. |
|---|
| Drive The Cold Winter Away |
1975 |
| The Tain | 1973 |
| Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part |
1972 |
| Dancehall Sweethearts |
1974 |
(*)Based on critical opinion.
Best folk-rock albums(*).
| Title. | year. |
|---|
| The Book of Invasions |
1976 |
| Dancehall Sweethearts |
1974 |
| Best of | 2001 |
(*)Based on critical opinion.
Singles.
| Title.
| year.
| Label.
|
| Johnny's Wedding/ Flower Among Them All
| 1972
| Oats |
| Green Gravel/ Fairy King
| 1972
| Oats |
| The High Reel/ Furniture
| 1973
| Oats
|
| Dearg Doom(*)/ The High Reel
| 1973
| Oats |
| More Than You Can Chew/ Faster Than The Hound
| 1974
| Oats |
| Nighttown Boy/ We Bring The Summer With Us
| 1974
| RCA
|
| King of the Fairies/ Phil The Fluter's Rag
| 1974
| Oats
|
| (If That's What You Want) That's What You Get - Parts 1
& 2
| 1975
| RCA
|
| Daybreak/ Oisin's Tune
| 1976
| Horslips
|
| Trouble With A Capital "T"
| 1976
| DJM
|
| Warm Sweet Breath of Love/ King of Morning, Queen of Day
| 1977
| DJM
|
| The Power And The Glory/ Sir Festus Burke
| 1977
| DJM
|
| Sure The Boy Was Green/ Exiles
| 1977
| DJM
|
| Speed The Plough/ Bridge From Heart To Heart
| 1978
| DJM
|
| The Man who Built America/ Long Weekend
| 1979
| DJM
|
| Guests Of The Nation/ When Night Comes
| 1980
| Horslips
|
| Shakin' All Over (live)/ Sword of Light (live)
| 1980
| Horslips
|
| Horslips Presents Horslips
| 1980
|
|
(*) Drearg Doom was number 1 in Germany.
Hit albums.
| Title. | year. | Highest position. |
|---|
| The Book of
Invasions - A Celtic Symphony | 1977 |
39 |
Popular downloads.
| Title. |
|---|
| Dearg Doom |
|
Trouble (With a Capital T) |
|
The Power and The Glory |
| Sword of
Light |
| Daybreak |
|
March Into Trouble |
Album tracks.
Drive The Cold Winter Away Released 1975. Charles O'Connor
(vocals, mandolin, fiddle, concertina, Northumbrian pipes), Jim Lockart
(harpsichord, celeste, table organ, pipe organ, piano, vocals, Uillean pipes,
flute, tin whistle, recorder), Jim Fean (fiddle, mandolin, banjo, guitars).
Barry Devlin (bass), Eamon Carr (bodhran, Arabian bongo)
|
Title. |
Author.
|
|
1. Rug Muire Mac Do Dhie (Mary Bore a Son to God) | Trad
carol
|
|
2. Sir Festus Burke (instr) | O'Carolan
|
|
3. Planxty Tom Judge (aka Carolan's Frolic) (instr) | Trad
|
|
4. Do'n oiche ud i mbeithil (That Night In Bethlehem) | Gaelic
Carol
|
|
5. The Piper In The Meadow Straying | Unknown
|
| 6. Drive The Cold Winter Away | Playford
|
| 7. Thompson's Reel (instr) | Unknown
|
| 8. Cottage in the Grove (instr) | Unknown
|
| 9. Ny Kyrree fo Naghjtey (The Sheep 'neath the Snow) | Trad
Manx carol
|
| 10. Crabs in the Skillet | Trad
|
| 11. Denis O'Connor | O'Carolan
|
| 12. The Snow That Melts The Soonest | Trad
|
| 13. Lullaby (instr) | Unknown
|
| 14. The Snow and the Frost are all over (instr) | Trad
|
| 15. Paddy Fahey's (instr) | Trad
|
| 16. When a Man's In Love | Trad
|
Last updated on 09/10/2010