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The Meanest Of Times | 
 enlarge | Artist: Dropkick Murphys
Label: Born & Bred Records
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 1435
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 286012
UPC: 075597997057
EAN: 0075597997057
ASIN: B000UGG3A0
Release Date: September 18, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Famous For Nothing | | • | God Willing | | • | The State Of Massachusetts | | • | Tomorrow's Industry | | • | Echoes On "A." Street | | • | Vices And Virtues | | • | Surrender | | • | (F)lannigan's Ball | | • | I'll Begin Again | | • | Fairmount Hill | | • | Loyal To No One | | • | Shattered | | • | Rude Awakenings | | • | Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya | | • | Never Forget |
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Amazon.com
After hitting it semi-big when "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" (from 2005's The Warrior's Code) was prominently featured in Martin Scorcese's Oscar-winner The Departed, Dropkick Murphys return with another round of punch-drunk punk on The Meanest of Times (it's unclear whether the title refers to the current state of world affairs or the scowling Catholic schoolyard hooligans depicted on the record's cover...). Continuing their usual melding of the Pogues' raved-up Celtic strains with the bouncy energy of early Green Day, the result is somewhere on the lines of If I Should Fall from Grace with God getting in a fender-bender with Dookie--seven Boston punks can sure make a lot of noise. Life isn't only a party for the band, however, and there's more than a dash of Springsteen's somber human portraits in the broken-down company men and damaged families observed in songs like "Tomorrow's Industry" and "Surrender". The Meanest of Times' aggressive musical swagger and driving instrumentation don't obscure the fact that the Dropkick Murphys have something insightful to say. --Ben Heege
Album Description
DKM come out swinging with their sixth studio album; a collection of tales about family, loyalty, and remembering where you came from. It contains all the best elements of the band's sound: a complex distillation of classic punk rock, Celtic folk, and American rock 'n' roll. It puts the band's diversity, intensity, and sincerity on full display. Consolidating strong sales history with digital single sales of 250,000 for "I'm Shipping Up To Boston", which was the title track in Martin Scorcese's Academy Award winning film, "The Departed". For fans of The Pogues, The Clash, Stiff Little Fingers, AC/DC, Bruce Springsteen.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 32 more reviews...
 DKM June 10, 2008
I adore all of DKM's efforts including this one, however, Blackout is their zenith. One of the best albums ever produced IMO.
 They finally DID it! May 19, 2008
DKM have finally made an album that blends everything they can do together into a cohesive, fresh sound.
"The Warriors Code" was a range proving album. It showed all sides of the Dropkick Murphys, from blistering hardcore to hearfelt balladry. It had pop songs, punk songs, Irish songs, all matched with the usual heart on their sleeves, brothers till the end lyrics.
But "The Meanest Of Times" does the same thing, only all of it blends all at once! Now you get Irish pop punk, Irish hardcore, hard ballads, punk covers of traditional Irish songs... its a hard thing to explain just right, but like, you know how their albums would have a song that sounded more Irish influenced and heartfelt and then following that song would be a kickin' punk song that didn't sound at all like the last track?
Well now you get those two things IN THE SAME SONG!!!
Remember on "The Warriors Code" how the pop of the "The Burden" rolled right into the shoulda-been-a-Dead-Kennedy's-song hardcore of "Citizen CIA"??? On this album, you get stuff like that put together in the SAME SONG!
Which makes this album more monolithic than their previous ones, but it WORKS! Heck, I'd say its their best album yet! Its like someone stapled the usual Irish stuff to the mostly street punk of "The Gangs All Here!"
Its a very word-heavy album too, the lyrics are darn good but there's so MANY of them that Al Barr and Ken Kasey are practically tripping over each other to spit out every line. That and the guys vocals are sometimes very... priate-y. I don't know how else to explain it, they cross the line from normal, throaty, Oi shouters to pirates in a few songs.
But no matter, the album as a whole is very VERY solid, lots of good hooks and energy and some truly meaningful lyrics. Its nice to finally see these guys nail an entire album. All the previous ones have had their hills and valleys, this one is just all good.
By the way, I caught them on tour for this thing. Good show but the crowd was insane, don't go unless you wanna get stuck in a mosh pit (I didn't want to but I did!). Also, Ken Kasey is getting FAT!
These guys are awesome May 14, 2008
I have started to listen to these guys on the radio and I love them. It sounds like that they have fun playing. Very different then what I have ever heard before.
!!Let's Go Murphy's!! March 6, 2008
Just can't get enough of this band. Just saw them live in Seattle, WOW, it was great to sing along with them to Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya. The State of Massachusetts is fantastic, they make this girl proud to be Irish.
great cd February 14, 2008
It is classic Dropkicks. If you are a Dropkicks fan you will love this one.
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