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 Kilt? Check. Some guys wearing green? Check. Yup, they're Irish. Influences: The Dropkick Murphys are a well known Celtic Punk band from Quincy, Massachusetts, named after a rehab center near where the first members grew up. They have released eight 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 themselves fans of the band.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:
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