Old style boston-irish white working class punk . Big into their union. Sort of like an Amercian Angelic Upstarts but better.
I think they are generally alright and they put on a good live show. That said their new album is poor and they have a habit of starting off their songs with irish music to show how in touch with the old country they are, and like most punk bands they have a few disgraceful covers under their belt .
The Workers Song
"Yeh, this one's for the workers who toil night and day
By hand and by brain to earn your pay
Who for centuries long past for no more than your bread
Have bled for your countries and counted your dead
In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines
We've often been told to keep up with the times
For our skills are not needed, they've streamlined the job
And with sliderule and stopwatch our pride they have robbed
[ Chorus: ]
We're the first ones to starve the first ones to die
The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
And always the last when the cream is shared out
And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war
Who's given a gun and then pushed to the fore
And expected to die for the land of our birth
Though we've never owned one lousy handful of earth?
[ Chorus x3 ]
All of these things the worker has done
From tilling the fields to carrying the gun
We've been yoked to the plough since time first began
And always expected to carry the can
For the worker is working when the fat cat's about"
Of course. They have our drinking and fighting down to a t.
Neh, those that like that sorta thing like them. Apart from a few cringeworthy moments they are good. They played a a couple of sell out gigs here last year which were good fun. The crowd singing Solidarity Foverever, the Workers song etc managed to cancel out their rendition of the fields of athenry and kitch Irish thing that they had going.
Given that I don't like a) punk b) "irish trad" music or c) yanks pretending to be oirish, I definitely do not like this band. Saw them a few times about 6 years ago.
They played Dublin in June 2001 and I went down because they brought a Boston hardcore band Reach the Sky over with them, weird choice but Reach the Sky are fucking amazing, such a great band they were.
Dropkick Murphys are a guilty pleasure of mine (same category as Springsteen and Rage Against the Machine). Although I grew up in a city (Philly) with loads of shitty Irish-Punk and Irish-Rock bands. Dropkick Murphys are on the better end of the scale. But then again I also like (good) trad. music, did ceili dancing as a kid (*blush*) and can generally listen to anything (even mainstream country)....so I'm not a good one to ask.
The Dropkick Murphys are actually how the Irish became white.
Fucking hilarious....
Sad but true 
Stare deep into the heart of "Irish" Boston.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbzBTgYOoIg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6eXGDjbWn8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU7R5l8RMp4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-0PLPLpOpo
Ok i defenitly wasnt at the Murphys show at the Metropolis Sat night, but if I was they would have kicked ass...
Shipping up to Boston, if Im not mistaken, is an old Woodie Gutherie song...
Montreal just happened to be playing The Bruins during the show, we won 7-4, the Murphys hd the class to admit a terrible defeat on stage, all were entertained..
So MJ after bad anti american jokes and my love of kitch Irish American punk, can we still be friends???
So MJ after bad anti american jokes and my love of kitch Irish American punk, can we still be friends???
Haha we're still cool.
I live in the town that band is from so it's gotten pretty old. 
But I'll still take the "Irish" over the "Italians" in Boston any day.
Ok i defenitly wasnt at the Murphys show at the Metropolis Sat night, but if I was they would have kicked ass...Shipping up to Boston, if Im not mistaken, is an old Woodie Gutherie song...
It was in Guthrie's unpublished notebooks. His daughter has been releasing bits and pieces of them to people she feels have something in common with her fathers art or politics, most famously Billy Bragg.
the Angelic Upstarts comparison is pretty apt. Not so great "wrong for the right reasons" politics and all.
This band are so fucking oirish it hurts. I remember the first time they came to dublin in 2000 and were shocked that none of the oirish punx were as oirish as them.
So yeh, in conclusion they're shitty fake-irish, fake-punks, playing up to a rediculous notion of what being working class is.
2,500 bus drivers in east, west and central London will be going on strike tomorrow (August 29th) to oppose a below-inflation pay offer.
Harry Cleaver's brilliant seminal work on forming a practical, politcal interpretation of Marx's Capital.
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First issue of an irregular workers' bulletin put together by users of the website, libcom.org. This issue focuses on the 2008 pay dispute over sub-inflation pay offers.
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I have just had word from a very good comrade that he won't be able to make it to a national meeting as he has tickets to see a band called the 'Dropkick Murphies'. Does anyone know anything about them and the quality of their music?
They must be very good indeed.
PS - i hear they have an irish connection, are you big fans Revol68 and Guydebordisdead?