Horslips - Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part '1972 [2008]

Tracks list

Get ready for the ride of your life through Irish folk-rock styles. The opening
track of the groups debut album, with its pipes, button accordion, and
percussion, could pass for any Chieftains record, but then the electricity kicks
in on Hall of Mirrors, and the rest is melodic rock, not so much folk-rock as
folkish rock, recalling early Genesis. John Fean sounds like hes playing folk
melodies even as he plays runs on his electric guitar on The Clergys
Lamentation, and the group follows this with an anthem-like piece of Gaelic rock
(An Bratach Ban) with a dance-like instrumental break. Bim Istigh Ag Ol is
probably the best track on the album, and Hall of Mirrors and Furniture remained
in their stage act for years, the latter, with its superb middle section
– favorably recalling Steve Howes playing with Yes on their early albums
– transformed into a 15-minute epic. And just when you think youve got
them pegged as a progressive folk-rock outfit, they deliver the exquisitely
languid, almost impressionistic The Shamrock Shore and the playful Dance for Yer
Daddy, which sounds like the Chieftains with vocals until Feans electric guitar
kicks in. And Feans playing on The Musical Priest, by itself, is worth the price
of the album.

Tracks:

01. Happy to Meet (0:48)
02. Hall of Mirrors (5:30)
03. The Clergys Lamentation (4:39)
04. An Bratach Bán (2:05)
05. The Shamrock Shore (4:35)
06. Flower Amang Them All (2:04)
07. Bím Istigh Ag ól (3:43)
08. Furniture (5:14)
09. Ace And Deuce (3:36)
10. Dance To Yer Daddy (4:38)
11. Scalloway Ripoff (1:55)
12. The Musical Priest (4:34)
13. Sorry to Part (1:33)

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