Dropkick Murphys-Fairytale of New York[Pogues Cover]

Dropkick Murphys with Stephanie Dougherty covering "Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues at Lowlands Festival 2004.
One of the best Christmas songs ever!

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[chisox100]

ive never heard this before was it ever released on a cd?

[LambruscoKid]

@chisox100 No, they've only ever played this cover live.

[toonuraccoon]

This is mental, this is a mental cover. Awesome and PERFECT Christmas song!

[LambruscoKid]

@toonuraccoon Steph nails it, one of my favorite DKM covers!

[poguemahone1969]

I had the pleasure to experience this live in 2004 :) Thanks again for a great vid!

[LambruscoKid]

@poguemahone1969 As did I! It was awesome. I have a live video of this somewhere. Found some new DKM stuff that hasn't been posted yet, it'll be up soon!

[MontrealExposForever]

Great cover by a great band.

Of course, nothing beats Shane and Kristy.

[GalacticCollision]

@ChimeraAZ Not sure. It's possible, but his singing sounds close to that normally.

[AthThawra]

fucking xmas



[MinimalKraft]

Only good Irish can sing this song.When they were fucking drunken.But this is the best cover I ever heard.

[upthehill1]

Poxxy impression



[ChimeraAZ]

He's sure trying to sound like Shane,isnt he. Never gonna happen.Shane's always going to be the best,..ever. :) I hope you dont mind me saying.

[danielrcresswell]

It's amazing that a song with the lyrics "You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot..." could be such a beautiful Christmas song. Pretty sweet cover -- not quite as good as the original Pogues & Kirsty MacColl version, but still great.

[slowrunn3r88]

Al Barr sounds kinda like Shane McGowan at times throughout the song

[bobsbluebox]

Best cover I've heard of this song. But nothing beats the original.

[loyalinnproductions]

shite band



[Jennah8282]

This is rubbish.

Shane was drunker than this half the time and it still sounded better.

XO

[three54ridestore]

Merry f*cking Christmas

[WhitMcMo]

Look, I love DKM enough to name my second boy Murphy....but leave this song to Shane - you could never match it.

[goth1agw1omw]

Better cover version than that abomination by Ronan Keating and Moya Brennan.

They should really do a studio version of this to make it a bit clearer, but Barr's vocals still need to be rough, it's why the song works, gruff male voice, soft lilting female voice.

[StarraClarke]

Your fella sounds like Fat Bastard from Austin Powers if he was in a drunken karaoke contest

[Liamski06]

Not bad. - The Originator.

[Liamski06]

@MontrealExposForever Yes indeed. Respect and love.

[TyphoonNLD]

No Use For A Name ;) nuff said

[TheKzag]

video? what video? great song tho



[Serfuzz]

Boy, what was that? I guess the Pogues should be honored that every third-grad punk band is trying at their songs.

[awsomeclown007]

They always do the best covers.

[powerzzzzz]

@jrack13 I agree, i prefer NUFANS take on it, this is almost too similar, but nothing could beat the pogues original

[jrack13]

i like nufan's cover better

[cmac1223]

this is terrible, almost killed the song, the girls voice is way to rough and the guy is off tune and nobody knows the song, just sad

[archfat]

@izzac22

1:30 <-click here