Milestones [Original recording remastered]

The Dubliners | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 8, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Sbme Castle Us
• ASIN: B00006JYA3
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #355,759 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Whiskey in the Jar

2. Rocky Road to Dublin

3. Raglan Road

4. Leaving of Liverpool

5. Marino Waltz

6. Roddy MacCorley

7. I'm Asking You Sergeant Where's Mine

8. Zoological Gardens

9. The Sick Note

10. Reels: Cooleys/The Dawn/Mullingar Races

11. Monto

12. I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day

13. Home Boys Home

14. Spanish Lady

15. The Mason's Apron

16. Barley and Grape Rag

17. Preab San Ol

18. The Irish Rover

19. The Auld Triangle

20. 7 Drunken Nights

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very early and very late material get together as one..., March 26, 2003

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Eamon Hanley (Southern Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Milestones (Audio CD)

"Milestones", I believe, would not be called your average Dubliners compilation album. I've noticed that there are many compilations containing only material recorded in the 60s, and others containing only 70s recordings. Yet "Milestones" is quite significant in that it contains tracks from the first three albums ("The Dubliners", "In Concert", and "Finnegan Wakes") likewise from the three latest albums ("25 Years Celebration", "Dubliners' Dublin", and "30 Years A-Greying"), plus one track from the 1985 "Live In Carré".

Here, listeners can enjoy hearing the original takes of "Home Boys Home", "The Rocky Road To Dublin", "Roddy McCorley", "Preab San Ól", "The Mason's Apron", "The Leaving Of Liverpool", and "Monto", as well as later material like "The Irish Rover", "Marino Waltz", "Cooleys/The Dawn/Mullingar Races", "The Sick Note", "I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day", "I'm Asking You Sergeant Where's Mine", featuring Billy Connolly on vocals, and a duet between Ronnie Drew and Rory Gallagher in the blues-oriented "Barley And Grape Rag", plus re-recordings of old 60s classics "Seven Drunken Nights", "The Zoological Gardens", and "Whiskey In The Jar" (with The Pogues) and 70s standards "Raglan Road" and "The Spanish Lady". And one should not miss out on Luke Kelly's introduction to an exclusive live version of "The Auld Triangle" recorded in Amsterdam a few months prior to his death.

This is a quite significant achievement as to how you might notice how much The Dubliners have changed through the years. It's quite obvious that they'll never be the same again without either Luke Kelly or Ciarán Bourke (one of very few duets between them where they sing both English and Irish is featured here"), but still there's Barney McKenna and John Sheahan, who have served as the driving force in many of their instrumentals, and the legendary Ronnie Drew, who left in late 1995 to be replaced by Paddy Reilly, did manage to keep the group's potential stable up until then. With the addition of Seán Cannon and Eamonn Campbell, The Dubliners have enjoyed a fresh revival and are still continuing to tour and drink to their hearts' content. The "new" Dubliners have proved to match up to the status of the "old" Dubliners, and yet have quite a long way to go to accomplish that feat. And "Milestones", in the meantime, is itself a milestone which marks the past and present times of their careers and comparing and contrasting the songs of those times helps to understand their incredible potential. Nice work, me lads! Keep on rollin'!

5.0 out of 5 stars A great young collection of April, December 14, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Milestones (Audio CD)

A collection that mizes old songs like "Rocky Road to Dublin", "Roddy McCorley" and "Seven Drunken Nights" with newer songs like "Barley and Grape Rag" and my personal favortie "I'm Lyin In Bed, I'm in Room 26, Thinkin' on things that I've Done, Like Drinkin with Squaddies and Bullin' my Boots, I'm countin the medals I've won, these hospital wards are all drab lookin joints, but the ceiling is all that I see, It could do with a wee touch of paper and paint, but then again maybe that's me". Plus it has Zoological Gardens which is of ape.

4.0 out of 5 stars Very early and very late material get together as one..., March 26, 2003

By 

Eamon Hanley (Southern Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Milestones (Audio CD)

"Milestones", I believe, would not be called your average Dubliners compilation album. I've noticed that there are many compilations containing only material recorded in the 60s, and others containing only 70s recordings. Yet "Milestones" is quite significant in that it contains tracks from the first three albums ("The Dubliners", "In Concert", and "Finnegan Wakes") likewise from the three latest albums ("25 Years Celebration", "Dubliners' Dublin", and "30 Years A-Greying"), plus one track from the 1985 "Live In Carré".

Here, listeners can enjoy hearing the original takes of "Home Boys Home", "The Rocky Road To Dublin", "Roddy McCorley", "Preab San Ól", "The Mason's Apron", "The Leaving Of Liverpool", and "Monto", as well as later material like "The Irish Rover", "Marino Waltz", "Cooleys/The Dawn/Mullingar Races", "The Sick Note", "I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day", and "I'm Asking You Sergeant Where's Mine", plus re-recordings of old 60s classics "Seven Drunken Nights", "The Zoological Gardens", and "Whiskey In The Jar" (with The Pogues) and 70s standards "Raglan Road" and "The Spanish Lady". And one should not miss out on Luke Kelly's introduction to an exclusive live version of "The Auld Triangle" recorded in Amsterdam a few months prior to his death.

This is a quite significant achievement as to how you might notice how much The Dubliners have changed through the years. It's quite obvious that they'll never be the same again without either Luke Kelly or Ciarán Bourke (one of very few duets between them where they sing both English and Irish is featured here"), but still there's Barney McKenna and John Sheahan, who have served as the driving force in many of their instrumentals, and the legendary Ronnie Drew, who left in late 1995 to be replaced by Paddy Reilly, did manage to keep the group's potential stable up until then. With the addition of Seán Cannon and Eamonn Campbell, The Dubliners have enjoyed a fresh revival and are still continuing to tour and drink to their hearts' content. The "new" Dubliners have proved to match up to the status of the "old" Dubliners, and yet have quite a long way to go to accomplish that feat. And "Milestones", in the meantime, is itself a milestone which marks the past and present times of their careers and comparing and contrasting the songs of those times helps to understand their incredible potential. Nice work, me lads! Keep on rollin'!