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[SONGS OF THE DECADE] #27 Dropkick Murphys – I’m Shipping Up to Boston

Posted on | December 4, 2009 | No Comments

SONGS OF THE DECADE #27

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Dropkick Murphys – I’m Shipping Up to Boston (2005)


Scorsese’s enough of an artist that when he says a song is worth listening to, you listen. The Departed uses rock n roll in the same way most of his previous movies do: using a popular, familiar rock song to set the mood. When this song defined a movie that also featured the Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, and the Allman Brothers, you take notice. And though the lyrics come from Woody Guthrie, it’s not the lyrics that draw you in to “I’m Shipping Up To Boston.”

Niche culture’s dark side is its ability to create the herd mindset it was suppose to destroy. Few critics will admit to liking any song merely because of its use in film. But music fans like it overall, and so do great filmmakers (Scorsese) great TV Shows (The Simpsons), and people from places with historically great minds (Ireland, Boston). If you hate any of those people for whatever reason (being a jerk, being past their prime, being drunk, being an annoying sports fan), you probably don’t like the Dropkick Murphys. If your life is based on love, however, you can look past the negative and admit that this song kicks balls.

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