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[[File:dropkick-murphys_2245.jpg|frame|Kilt? Check. Some guys wearing green? Check. Yup, they're Irish.]]

The Dropkick Murphys are a well known Celtic Punk band from Quincy, Massachusetts. They have released six studio albums since their founding, gaining a fair amount of popularity for their song "Shipping Up To Boston", which was featured in the 2006 film ''[[The Departed]]'' - as well as ''many'' other sources. This is interesting, as the lyrics were originally by [[Woody Guthrie]], he just never finished it before he died (it wasn't the first time the band had covered an unrecorded Guthrie song, either. They covered his "Gonna Be A Blackout Tonight" on their 2003 album ''Blackout'')

The [[Dropkick Murphys]] are a well known Celtic Punk band from Quincy, Massachusetts. They have released six studio albums since their founding, gaining a fair amount of popularity for their song "Shipping Up To Boston", which was featured in the 2006 film ''[[The Departed]]'' - as well as ''many'' other sources. This is interesting, as the lyrics were originally by [[Woody Guthrie]], he just never finished it before he died (it wasn't the first time the band had covered an unrecorded Guthrie song, either. They covered his "Gonna Be A Blackout Tonight" on their 2003 album ''Blackout'')

Considered to be the semi-official band of baseball's Boston Red Sox, the band's 2004 song "Tessie" (which is ''not'' a cover of the turn-of-the-century Red Sox fight song of the same name as often claimed, but a newly written song about those same turn-of-the-century fans, with the original fight song making up most of the chorus) is often played on Boston radio before Red Sox games as "good luck", especially during the team's 2004 season in which they won their first World Series in 86 years. The band has performed during the team's "Rolling Rally" parade through Boston both times it has won the World Series in recent times (2004 and 2007) and many current Red Sox players consider [[Big Name Fan|themselves fans of the band]].

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Naturally, as a Celtic Punk group, a fair amount of their music/political causes center around the working class and pay homage to their ancestry. As such, they have covered several Irish folk songs - particularly on the album "The Meanest of Times".

~~Their~~ discography ~~consists of:~~

* ''Do or Die'' (1998)

* ''The Gang's All Here'' (1999)

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* ''The Meanest of Times'' (2007)

* ''Going Out In Style'' (2011)

* ''Signed and Sealed in Blood'' (2013)

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* [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]]: Named after a rehab center near where the first members grew up.

* [[Album Title Drop]]: ''Signed and Sealed in Blood'' appears as a lyric in "Rose Tattoo", its third track.

* [[Amazing Freaking Grace]]: A fairly up-beat instrumental version.

* [[Anti-Love Song]]: "Dirty Glass", a vicious argument between a drunk and his [[Anthropomorphic Personification|local pub]].

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* [[Big Beautiful Woman]]: "The Spicy McHaggis Jig"

* [[Concept Album]]: ''Going Out In Style'' follows the life of one guy, as he posthumously narrates his life. The title track is his funeral.

* [[The Cover Changes the Meaning]]: Their version of Pete St.John's "The Fields of Anthenry", which changes a melancholy lament into a ferocious rebel anthem.

* [[The Cover Changes the Meaning]]: Their version of Pete St. John's "The Fields of Anthenry", which changes a melancholy lament into a ferocious rebel anthem.

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Massachusetts is actually a Commonwealth, not a state, and you're never supposed to refer to "The State of Massachusetts"<ref>~~despite~~ this, it's sometimes called "The Bay State" and the capital is still referred to as "The State House" but it's more a case of no one really caring</ref>. It's most likely that the Murphys know this and "Commonwealth" just wouldn't fit the rhyme scheme, or that they specifically used an inaccurate term [[Invoked Trope|to make a point]].

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Massachusetts is actually a Commonwealth, not a state, and you're never supposed to refer to "The State of Massachusetts"<ref>Despite this, it's sometimes called "The Bay State" and the capital is still referred to as "The State House" but it's more a case of no one really caring</ref>. It's most likely that the Murphys know this and "Commonwealth" just wouldn't fit the rhyme scheme, or that they specifically used an inaccurate term [[Invoked Trope|to make a point]].

* [[Drunken Song]]: About half of them.

* [[Everything's Louder with Bagpipes]]

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** "Shipping Up To Boston" is also used this way at Red Sox games. It does an excellent job of riling up the crowd.

* [[The Fun in Funeral]]: "Going Out In Style" is sung from the perspective of a guy who wants his funeral to be this.

* [[Heavy Mithril]]: Although still played in their characteristic ~~celtic punk~~ style, the song "The Legend of Finn Maccumhail" is based on Irish mythology.

* [[Heavy Mithril]]: Although still played in their characteristic Celtic-Punk style, the song "The Legend of Finn Maccumhail" is based on Irish mythology.

* [[In the Style Of]]: With traditional music.

* [[Isn't It Ironic?]]

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* [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]]: The band plays Irish-influenced Celtic punk, and they had some Oi! in the earlier days.

* [[Protest Song]]: Several of their songs have a political message, often related to their shared Irish-American background, and especially to unions and worker's rights.

** The song "Take 'Em Down" (from their ~~most recent~~ album, ''Going Out In Style'') [http://www.dropkickmurphys.com/2011/02/22/take-em-down-the-dropkick-murphys-stand-with-wisconsin/ was dedicated to the striking public employees in Wisconsin.]

** The song "Take 'Em Down" (from their album ''Going Out In Style'') [http://www.dropkickmurphys.com/2011/02/22/take-em-down-the-dropkick-murphys-stand-with-wisconsin/ was dedicated to the striking public employees in Wisconsin.]

* [[Punk Rock]]: Obviously.

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: This is effectively the entire point of the Wicked Sensitive Crew.

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Man I gotta find me some seriously sensitive dudes! }}

* [[Rewritten Pop Version]]

* [[Scotireland]]: Largely averted; any Irish-American celtic punk band really has to know the difference. Although Spicy ~~[[Mc Haggis]]~~ is inspired by a menu item from a Scottish [[McDonald's]].

* [[Scotireland]]: Largely averted; any Irish-American celtic punk band really has to know the difference. Although Spicy McHaggis is inspired by a menu item from a Scottish [[McDonald's]].

** In addition, lead singer Al Barr is actually Scottish-American. It's not really noticeable, though.

* [[Single-Stanza Song]]: "I'm Shipping Up to Boston"

* [[Something About a Rose]]: "Rose Tattoo".

* [[Subdued Section]]: "God Willing", "Boys on the Docks", many others...

* [[Subverted Trope]]: "The Wicked Sensitive Crew" starts out by declaring that the idea that being tough means being stoic and emotionless has lost what little value it ever had through thoughtless imitation. You gotta shake hands with your feelings, in the Wicked Sensitive Crew.

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** Also the subject of "Broken Hymns."

* [[This Trope Is Bleep]]: One version of "Pipebomb On Lansdowne" does this pretty badly.

* [[Three Chords and the Truth]]: Some of the ~~bands~~ earlier Oi!-influenced work fits this trope. Their later output is a bit more complex, especially when they begin to combine the folk and punk elements more organically.

* [[Three Chords and the Truth]]: Some of the band's earlier Oi!-influenced work fits this trope. Their later output is a bit more complex, especially when they begin to combine the folk and punk elements more organically.