Name your three favourite songs by... [Christy Moore]

[Baile Brigín 2]

Good call.

Songs written and performed by the man from a hole near Athy.

Ordinary Man
VLQB
Lisdoonvarna

[Blowitupref]

Viva la Quinta Brigada
City of Chicago
Black is the Colour

[Ronnie]

Spancilhill (cover)
Joxer goes to Stutfgart
Ride On

[Ronnie]

Black is the Colour if no covers allowed

[weareros]

Bright Blue Rose
Nancy Spain
Lock Hospital

Couldn't do without covers - great interpreter of songs, traditional and from modern songwriters like Jimmy McCarthy.

[Puckoon]

Could revise it over and over and over. I've opted for one of beauty, one of strength, and one of humor - as he has all of that in his repertoire.

Bright Blue Rose
Smoke and Strong Whiskey
Casey

When I think about the songs I'd never have heard or learned, only because of Christy - it's a hell of a catalogue.

[Mourne Red]

Bright Blue Rose
They Never Came Home
Viva la Quinta Brigada

[Windmill abu]

The Time has come
Nancy Spain
City of Chicago

[armaghniac]

Nancy Spain
City of Chicago
Black is the Colour

[Baile Brigín 2]

Black is the Colour if no covers allowed

That is a cover.

I think there will be a lot of this

[Ronnie]

Didn't know that..

[thewobbler]

It's not a hard fast rule, but in general if it's a fast paced song, Christy likely wrote it, and if it's a ballad, Christy likely covered it.

A Top 3 is very difficult here.

Welcome to the Cabaret kind of sums up Christy to me: a simple tune made brilliant through his trademark manic energy and colloquial lyrics.

From the same album (I think), Missing You is a rare thing: an emotional, sentimental, hard-hitting Irish song that nobody else covers and you never hear from a two-piece in a bar. Maybe they all know it can't be done better?

After that I can't name a third outright. For me he does the definitive Only Our Rivers Run Free, so at a push that would be it. But Ordinary Man, Ride On, Black is the Colour, City of Chicago, Go Move Shift, and the Song of Wandering Aenghus might all rank the same. Whilst the Voyage will always drive me mad as I hate it but can never get it out of my head.

[BigGreenField]

Didn't know that..

The Wikipedia page on how far back it goes as a song is worth a look.


Minds Locked Shut
Welcome to the Cabaret
smoke and strong Whiskey

Always liked north and south as well and So Do I.

A lot his best work is at least part of not wholly written by Wally Page. What I like about Moore is he doesn't hide the supporting cast and puts them front and centre.

[Baile Brigín 2]

It's not a hard fast rule, but in general if it's a fast paced song, Christy likely wrote it, and if it's a ballad, Christy likely covered it.

Nicely put.

[AustinPowers]

It's not a hard fast rule, but in general if it's a fast paced song, Christy likely wrote it, and if it's a ballad, Christy likely covered it.

Nicely put.

Except for shovel.

His ballads  , even if he didn't actually write them , stand out more  for me than the fast-paced  Lisdoonvarna, Knock-type  songs. His soft  low voice lulls you in , and  forces you to listen.

Some cracking ones in there , but still I can't  decide my top 3