Horslips - Man Who Built America

[labbai]

One of the greatest bands ever... Dunno, but the Book of Invasions is one of the best albums made. This is soo good too!

[montaukirish]

IRELAND FOR THE IRISH-----IRELAND FOREVER



[donnyab]

@montaukirish

Fuck Ireland and all who sail in her!

[FlyUnicornsFly]

I just listened to this album today/tonight. The song that leads off the album is even more smokin' than this one. Good good stuff.

[mickigoe]

Horslips wrote this in my honour - I worked on the buildings in Philly in 1970 - not a lot of people know this.

[jaymz74z]

pure pixie music that will be never a myth.

[akibubba1]

they don't make em' like this anymore -- very nice tune

[stratphil]

Who r they referrin to .... Kennedy?

[Dirkchucklebutty]

like it

[MrProster]

I remember buying this album for 5 cents in Peaches records bargain bin. Well worth it I'd say :)

[BohemianConspiracy]

@MrProster i'd say that it's insulting... when i see the price of the Eagles magnificent Hotel california album at only the equivalent of 5 dollars (here in switzerland) i found it already insulting for a masterpiece... but well ...at least they sold millions... this is not the case of "The man who built america" ...i think that it's one of Horslips best albums...frankly it should be at 20 dollars ... if we remember the first days of the CD's after all it s not so expensive...

[homelesshandz]

horslips are a flower, too.

[AIDANQUINN]

This has not lost a single bit of its quality after all the years, pure classic!!! The sound of the flute really sets it off.

[AIDANQUINN]

This has not lost a single bit of its quality after all the years, pure classic!!!

[cometdust]

Horse lips? Whore slips? Cool song tho.

[cometdust]

Horse lips? Whore slips/ Cool song tho.

[neilcoyne00]

Its Ron Burgundy playing jazz flute!! Love this song love this band me dad used to always play them! Got me hooked.

[DoojeenDoonican]

Fantastically brilliant - love the threads, very 1980!

[pipesncoffee]

THANK YOU for posting this. Takes me back - good days :) I'm sitting here smiling my face off. Great music. The music then was soooo good - here's proof.

[chicagofrank10]

Yah BABY!!!!!!!!!Horslips Rock!!!! Dergs doom anyone??

[tasteygeezer]

Anyone know where I can listen to the rest of the album online. Got it on vinyl. Superb !

[NLoughran4]

Brings back great memories, hard to believe it's over 30 years ago in venues that generally no longer exist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[40ny]

30+ years old and still sounds good.

[100TEEDEE]

I wonder if Jim Lockhart can play the flute on one leg like Ian Anderson?

[noeljdevine]

good stuff

[noeljdevine]

good stuff

[imdroozillafu]

Loved these guys way back in the day and do so now.

Where are they now?

[BEIRUTETHUNDER5]

SENSACIONAL!!!.......GREAT!

[SmithNorthwest]

I never knew they had a music video for this! I broke this album at my college radio station back in 1979/1980. Always came out of the news during morning drive time at the top of at least one hour out of four.

[gernblensten]

great name,great band,great song!

[usmcfutball]

This song was one of the first 2 or 3 that I ever made a YouTube favorite. And, every coupla' weeks, I go back and crank out this old classic. I always have to remind myself how cool the flute solo is and how metallic the rythym guitar sounds. Saw them live once and Horslips blew me away.

Love their approach; love their delivery.

Kudos to Horslips from this side of the Atlantic. Cheers!

[tullylad]

Really love Horslips, they were way a head of the time, still have the old records.

[Emmetodonnell1980]

This is brilliant still have the tape my dad bought for it in the early 80's

[Aeerobic]

WNKU FM in Northenr Kentucky plays Irish music on Sundays and I am loving it.

[ChrisDutch]

The way they work the flute into the song is great. Good band...from an American of Irish descent.

[buckley54]

I too thought this a great record. No dud tracks. Saw this clip in The Old Grey Whistle Test in '79

[johnmalone76]

i see loads of gary lightbody from snow patrol when i see this video class class song

[cubbagowa]

@johnmalone76 funny - I just started playing this video and my son asked me if it was Snow Patrol

[TheWearsider]

Different class.

[TrickyTolles64]

Awesome band...this album changed my life...

[IrishBRNUSMarine]

What an amazing group!!!!!!!!!!

[declanfox]

Saw them last Sat at O2, first time in 30 years, they played better than ever.

[gmckeown5]

i seen them in the 02 aswel they were class and i didnt reli no them b4 i went!!

[barrycee123]

Saw them last night in the O2 Dublin - Sounding just as good as 30 years ago !

[ardean9000]

surely you mean UP MOORTOWN, HA HA HA!!!!!

[b4u1i1]

Up Barry Devlin and Up Ardboe! BOI!

[martin81d]

Great flute work by the lad Souness there. 110%

[frankomadman]

Yup yup 7up

[inspectorsteff]

Top Turn,Brought Up With This Stuff,And I'm English !

[THINLIZZYFANno1]

ONE OF THE BEST TRACKS EVER!!! my da has it on vinyl. iv been listening to this since i was kne high :)

[zztiki]

lonliness by them rocks

[itsallgood20002]

The first time I heard this song I was 11, and it came on HBO's "Video Jukebox" I now know there's nothing you can't find on YT

[whizbangmusicwerks]

Never knew there was a video for this song. What a rocker!

[SpitNSpat]

I like this group too I wish I had a album of The Man who built America. Wish I knew where to find it.

[Setanta2006]

SpitNSpat: You can find this album on eMusic (legal download). All their stuff has been re-released, now they've fixed upsome legal issues with copyright and so on...

[beerymon]

fantastic song

[mjlotus]

Heard this on WBCN (RIP) in Boston when it came out. Loved it then, haven't heard it in years. A forgotten classic.

[BlodwynFlowers1]

oh yes.

[wigwam622]

Loved this single in my midteens, had the "man" LP and played the crap out of it,Like alot of the other comments here i never understood why this band never made it bigger?. I guess commercial radio has been around longer than we think.but anyway this tune rocks!

[phonedoug]

"The Man Who Built America" by Horslips is still one of my all time favourite albums in any musical genre. I have the album and the CD.

[montelatici]

Great band. Under appreciated.

[jmnsw2300]

great, how good were these guys?!?!?

[tasteygeezer]

Superb song. Horslips should have been the biggest !!

[Raycer14]

Great song... Loneliness is a good one.

[usmcfutball]

OK. Good band, great effin' tune.

But check the bass player at 3:34. A little "dyspepsia..."

[DJfox69]

I agree 900%!  Anytime you can hear or see Horselips is a great day, especially today on St. Patty's day!

[cmunik8r]

I probably shouldn't be, but I'm floored that I can find a Horselips video ANYwhere...so cool...LONG LIVE HORSELIPS!

[jimD80]

Saw them live in a little bar back in 78 in Buffalo NY. Was a great show and never understood why they weren't bigger then they added up!

[DocFlamingo]

I've just discovered this band and I'm a full convert! It sucks beyond words they never seemed to catch-on in the States. Instead we got 20 years of U2; joy... I've been asking everyone I know if they've heard of them and all I get is funny looks.

[adnaruto25]

in france idem , a shame , they never got big worldwide

[heartywhistler]

i'm also from the States, and today is the first time i've heard, and heard of this band - great tunes!

[NeartLeCheile]

Yeah i agree.. There much better than u2.. I fuckin hate them & bono he's an idiot

[helmar1a]

What did poor Bono do to you???

[sparebone]

Thanks for the information man. That was really cool to give me the info. Just being a dude, in writing this immaturely. ha, ha. Thanks.

[anne3362]

Horslips better than u2 in my opinion.

[sparebone]

Their Band name originated from the The four Horseman of the Apocalypse. That interesting that they connected Horse with lypse from Apocalypse. I noticed that just now hearing the pronounciation of both in my mind and cleverly noting that. Anyway can see that though. Their a great band.

[ArdRi79]

How the connection came about is funny. They were in a restaraunt before going on TV for the first time and they had to come up with a perminant name. They said the 4 horsemen and someone at the back said "More like the 4 poxmen of the horslips" hehehe A horslip is a flower btw

[seattlerob7]

underrated band,one of my favorits

[bendobrin]

and nobody ever embraced this band. they had more to say lyrically and musically than 99% of what was out there but instead the usa embraced disco, the bee gees and rr about this time. don't get me wrong. i like the bee gees but the Odessa album's worst song was better than any of their 70s stuff. but i digress. anyone bothering to read this should listen to all Horslips songs graciously posted on here on youtube for which i am thankful. and don't get mad at my beegees comments. listen toodessa

[usmcfutball]

OK. Late 70s and Rush is playing the Syracuse War Memorial in support of the album Hemispheres. Me and my buddy Joe Dwyer have front row seats and some band called Horslips is the opening act. They blew me away...this song REALLY blew me away. Went out and bought the album the next day. Horslips rules!

[esmith4145]

Ditto only in Rochester and they opened for Head East...I still have one of their LP's

[usmcfutball]

Head East. OMG! Brings me back to the days when Cortland's own Dio was singin' lead for a band called Elf (sp?).

"Get me back to L.A., fifty nine!"

[usmcfutball]

Just keyboarding 'LP' makes me feel old. (sigh) Horslips DID put on a great show though...I always thought I heard a little Horslips in Big Country years later. Just my opinion. Cheers!

[alanmorri]

Headeast was a great band...have a few of thier lps myself.

[SnocksRocks]

Before the creation of MTV, HBO used to have "Video Jukebox", a short intermission program between movies, where music videos like this one and "Lonliness" (which I hope someone finds and posts here in the future) were showcased. What a great band this was.

[Uffel80]

Genius, pure genius!

[tonythekingfisher]

To anyone who says U2 are the best Irish band of all time - watch this to see why you are so,so wrong. Horslips - the original, the best!

[kangaroocomedy]

Have to agree, U2 bunch of lightweights

[jduff59]

I hope you'll all be happy to hear that Horslips have reuinted on a part-time basis - what a great (but under-appreciated and overlooked) band!!

[allister1964]

Great song - I have this on 7 inch vinyl, picture sleeve and yellow vinyl - still in very good condition after 29 years!!

[tandinos]

lol thats yer pension sorted

[Jammo58]

Horslips was a real cool band. They started with quite traditional material which they soon developed into their very own sound combining traditional Irish jigs and reels with more modern prog/rock treatments. Finally they produced even clever pop like this but I love almost everything these guys did!

[reeceodaking]

funny how the band started as a joke called "The Beutiful People" and what they became

[palinlfc]

Brilliant , thanks for posting it.

[jspen2]

Before America knew anything about U2 there was Horslips. Too cool! Where is "Oh Loneliness?"

[Slater458000]

U2 Who??; Horslips are THE Irish legends!!!

[LeadAxe]

I second that !! ;)

Peace...

[tandinos]

i 3rd that

[LeadAxe]

A Celtic band to be proud of.

Peace out !!

[LeadAxe]

This single was handed to me when I was but a small child visiting Bristol for the first time. It was in yellow vinyl, totally cool band. First ever single I owned and I had it for free!!

Peace out !!

[gar137]

You wouldn't happen to have the promo for their song 'Loneliness', would you? I remember it was done at the same time as 'The Man Who Built America'- same set, same 'dodgy threads', and a very cool song.

[gar137]

You wouldn't happen to have the promo for their song 'Loneliness', would you? I remember it was done at the same time as 'The Man Who Built America'- same set, same 'dodgy threads', and a very cool song.

[bluefeet]

y'know, all the comments on every video by the horslips on youtube, are home to a bunch of bickering fans.

[terrykozak]

These guys were absolutely cool. Here in Windsor, Ontario in the seventies, when I spun their music to my friends they all came to be fans of the band. Great to hear them again. Thanks for the post.

[cometdust]

Used to groove to this back when everybody was listening to AM radio. I was so cool. Still am.

[darrenismyname]

lol

[Horslips1]

Class song.

[hallinansenior]

Cracking song - one of the best of the era!

[Hemulen40]

Love ya . But , after all , it wasn´t just you irish who built that fuckin place . The scandinavians were there too . We were just as hounded and starved as you , believe me .

The swedes and the scots are ´boundend ´since time immemorial but the swedes /norse and the irish I just don´t know ... And still : WE FOUNDED YOUR FUCKIN CAPITAL CITY . Anyone dare to dispute me ?

[domhnall124]

Whats your point? Its a kip......

[Hemulen40]

What my point is ? Read my comment , laddie. Ye Irish are supposed to be so ultra-literate ,no ? Make an effort ! / Peter Nordstrom

[domhnall124]

I did read your comment,it makes no sense.Who are you angry at?!Why are you angry?! The Danes founded Dublin, so what? Your post is just an incoherent rant.

[paddyleblanc]

No, I dont think anyone will dare to dispute you. Largely because they wouldnt want to engage in meaningless discussion with someone with either a poor grasp of the English language or, more likely, the early stages of senility.

[Hemulen40]

Arrogance is the weapon of the feeble and the feebleminded . Don´t even bother to answer , you

twerp , I´ll just deletë without reading .

[paddyleblanc]

LOL, touched a nerve there!

BTW: arrogance? what would you call this oh simple minded one: "WE FOUNDED YOUR FUCKIN CAPITAL CITY . Anyone dare to dispute me ?"

[shadowvamp13]

ok, you speak the truth, but we dident make u build it, you needed money, and thats how you earned it

[Softrockman]

I remember hearing them on the old Alan Freeman Saturday show and although I only heard it once I still remember the words to one of the songs --- I sat on the doorstep and slowly watched her walk away, she wasn't sad she wasn't angry, but she didn't hear a word I said. Can someone tell me the title???

[exiledalien]

'I'll be waiting' is the song and you can see the video here on youtube from a couple of years ago in Dublin and if you look closely you'll see a famous Irish actor in the audience,by the way its on the 'Man who built America' album/cd

[lmcdaid]

I'll be waiting

[irbob353]

You may have received an answer to this question. The song title was "I'll be waiting"

[SpitNSpat]

I'll be waiting./Horslips

[am2513]

I remember seeing them live in a tiny little club in Providence,RI in 1979. I don't think there were 20 people in the club. I sitll love them almost 30 years later. Where does the time go. Thanks for the post.

[Ddraigmawr]

Saw them in '80 in Coventry Heavy snow so about 20 there, they told us we must be true fans to come out in weather like that - best gig I have ever seen! And I've seen Elton John, Genesis etc. etc.

[browny44]

long time since i heard this one,lonleiness was on the same album,good stuff,thanx for posting

[83colfax]

Remember seeing this video on the Old Grey Whistle Test in 79. Barry Devlin used to live around the corner from me -- wonder what he's doing these days?

[paddyleblanc]

Last I heard he was screen writing for that Ballykissangel malarky... still, if hes happy I suppose

[mrbushy2003]

Very good-thanks for posting!!

[dullsville]

Good craic!

[Junkhead1988]

dodgy indeed! excellent song though.