Dropkick Murphys - Live on St. Patrick's Day from Boston, MA at the Avalon Ballroom

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Music Review: Great album, but I miss Mike
Rating: 3 Stars

With that said, let's get down to this Greatest hits/live album deal. Just about everyone of their best songs are on here. Everything is fast paced and clear. It's awesome that the CD has the monolagues in between the songs to show what it is like at a Dropkick show.

Here's my problem. If I wasn't a hardkore Dropkick Murphy's fan, I'd give this album 5 stars. But I am a huge fan and i love Mike, the original singer. Nobody can bring it like he did it. Mike is the singer for this band. Do or Die made this band. Mike has an awesome voice for what the band was trying to do. On Do or Die, they were a very political band ready to do big things. But, Al Barr just doesn't have it in him and when he sings the songs off of Do or Die, it shows.

What really pisses me off is that it seems like he doesn't care about the old songs because they aren't his. During songs like Boys on the Docks, he lets the croud do more singing than he does. He ruined Finnigans wake by trying to make it super fast and aggressive instead of keeping it a folky Irish song.

The songs from Sing Loud, Sing Proud were fine. I had no problems with them. Those are his songs so of course he's gonna sound better on them. But PLEASE RESPECT THE OLD STUFF. I LOVE THIS BAND AND I DON'T WANT TO WATCH IT FALL LIKE SO MANY BANDS OUT TODAY.

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