Can't believe it's twenty years ago since this great tune was released... Wow how time flys by but great memories.. I Remember shortly after the release mundy played live at a summer festival from where I'm from and what a night drank until dawn lol.. every chippy closed how come it's two things one craves for after a session either a takeaway or tayto crisps lol 😂 😂 here's to another beautiful summer 2022 🍻 🍻
on an english learning camp in galway a damn awesome teacher made us sing this song, i stil remember to this day that summer and this song has encapsulated all those memories. thanks
2019 ,love it .my daughters birthday is july I used sing this to her .now 18 years later it's also my 2 year old sons birthday. I love it .I get to sing badly for another few years 💕☘
Mundy is a legand! Love this tune. My better half intoduced me to this great man. This was the first song he ever played to me and now im hooked. Have had the pleasure of meeting Mundy too. What a lovely man. Wish you the very best
I was talking the other week to the great Irish comedian, Aidan Killian, (one of the stars of the movie 32 Counties, which I posted last weekend) and it emerged that we both had the same view of Mundy’s song, ‘July’: that it is possibly the greatest Irish pop song of all time, and, on a clear day in an Irish July, sung in front of a commotion of sun-starved Irish young people, may even be the greatest pop song in the world ever. It’s not a hard case to make and win - all you have to do is play the song - and yet you do not often hear it said. Why not? Probably because ‘July’ was never a ‘hit’ outside of Ireland, a fate that has afflicted some of our greatest works and their creators, talent or genius notwithstanding. I am thinking in particular of Tom Murphy, and Patrick Kavanagh, and Mike McCormack, and Rory Gallagher, and Phil Lynott, (to rhyme with why-not?), and Seán Maguire, and Billy Brown. Van is acknowledged across the globe, so there is no need to mention him, but I will anyway, because he, more than anyone, has remained true to his artistic vocation. July' is a particular kind of song - not immediately identifiable as substantial, precisely because it is so great within its own idiom. It is a great pop song because it does so well what every great pop song does which is essentially to take an aspect of reality that has already gripped the public imagination but has not yet been described in a manner utterly evocative of itself. The month of July has inspired many poems, from such as John Clare (The Shepherd's Calendar: July’), George Meredith (‘July’), Emily Dickinson (‘Answer July’), Patrick Kavanagh (‘Inniskeen Road: July Evening’) and Sylvia Plath (‘Poppies in July’). But I do not think that any of them has captured, as Mundy has, the intensity of the feeling the word ‘July’ evokes in a sun-starved Irish heart. He has done this by writing, possibly on the back of an unsent postcard, a pen-picture of July that has proved itself capable of transmission through innumerable loops of wires, circuits, capacitors, coils, and magnets - to say nothing of diaphragms, manmade and otherwise. The lyric simply sketches a scene that the music, especially the chorus, breathes into life as the essence of the song that is greater than the sum of its various dimensions: July please/ I'm on my knees/ The smell of your fresh cut grass . . . The lyric has a one-track mind, but that’s beside the point, which is evocation of the peripherals. Taken holistically, the song possesses a unity that refuses any element the right to be deemed the magical part. It is a blast of less than five minutes that nails for all time something we already knew but never had an adequate way of saying. I daresay it is the greatest song about a month ever written by anybody. There are numerous versions of Mundy singing the song on TH-cam. I chose the one linked below, from the Oxygen festival, an indeterminate number of years ago. The sound is not the clearest, and yet the performance is better than even a perfect studio version because, in the way it displays the qualities of the song reflected in the audience, it can hardly be improved upon. It is clear: What those present are hearing is not a song but the aural representation of their own feelings, previously inexpressible, emerging in relief and delight. From John Waters substack th-cam.com/video/xQ7C2xJTitc/w-d-xo.html
this song is about any summer from about 94 to about 99 when in dublin the style was all about levis and kicker shoes and pringle jumpers with a ben sherman shirt under neath
forgive my "ignorance" but... what's wrong with being from offaly??? I don't know irish history or anything about it, I looked for it, but didn't find anything :S can someone explain me a little of it?? thanks! and sorry again! u.u
The last day of July 2022. Not a great one this year in terms of both weather and personal experience, but this song acts as the symbol for what can be. I'll see you again next year, July. And I know you'll be there. Oh my my my my July.
would say it to their face and have, and whos making the nasty comments now eh? Ah arguing on the internet is possibly the most pointless thing since an offaly man decided to make something of himself
i never said that you have to follow a band from the beginnng to appreciate their music. What I said was most people are too idiotic to appreciate good music until an artist changes his/her style to the generic crap thats broadcased on 99% of radio stations daily. And unfortunatly music has deterioratedto the state that only elite bands...the verve, radiohead, the national, editors produce good music. So please do not give me this all music is equal crap.
Here for Nicola
Mulher eu vim ver pq ela postou também, MDS kkkk
Here because of Nicola s post
ME TOO
Nicola Coughlan reference ❤️✨️
July 1st, 2024. Still a great song. ❤
We hav great taste in music lol happy 1st of July 😅
I'm here listening on the morning of the 1st of July 2021. 🎶
Yup
Me too. Cos its me birthday! It's me birthday! :)
Me too...Birthday month🥳
Happy Birthday to all celebrating birthday's in July. My birthday is in May but I love the song and the month of July!
Snap!
Young, carefree days, down a coffee shop with friends in Cork City, circa 2005. Happy days
Can't believe it's twenty years ago since this great tune was released... Wow how time flys by but great memories.. I Remember shortly after the release mundy played live at a summer festival from where I'm from and what a night drank until dawn lol.. every chippy closed how come it's two things one craves for after a session either a takeaway or tayto crisps lol 😂 😂 here's to another beautiful summer 2022 🍻 🍻
July 2021... still a beautiful song. Always makes me smile when I hear it on the radio on July 1st every year.
on the rare days the sun comes out in Ireland!!... i'm always playing/singing this song!!.... i swear today i nearly broke the replay button
Lol 😁 😂 😂 😂
That's what I call real music
2020. Go on, Mundy. We need this song more than ever this year.
i 100% agree i would go singing this is pubs for an audience it’s actually so good i listen everyday in 2020 to it mundy your a legend
Yeah!!!
1st July 2020, enjoy the summer everyone!
You too.
Timeless song. JUNE 2021 🍻
Suitable for this month and the weather
Happy July 2022
Friday 1st July 2022🙂
on an english learning camp in galway a damn awesome teacher made us sing this song, i stil remember to this day that summer and this song has encapsulated all those memories. thanks
July 2022. Cocktail in hand in the bath. Bliss
July 1st 2023 😊😊😊😊😊✅🎵💚
Ben Sherman, Levis, Kickers and Bulmers on a sunny day in Dublin. Enough said!!
That was me on me confirmation loool
It's only February ('22!) but this is the sound of a summer heading my way, always a delight to hear this track
2019 ,love it .my daughters birthday is july I used sing this to her .now 18 years later it's also my 2 year old sons birthday.
I love it .I get to sing badly for another few years 💕☘
EIRE🇮🇪
Mundy is a legand! Love this tune. My better half intoduced me to this great man. This was the first song he ever played to me and now im hooked. Have had the pleasure of meeting Mundy too. What a lovely man. Wish you the very best
I was talking the other week to the great Irish comedian, Aidan Killian, (one of the stars of the movie 32 Counties, which I posted last weekend) and it emerged that we both had the same view of Mundy’s song, ‘July’: that it is possibly the greatest Irish pop song of all time, and, on a clear day in an Irish July, sung in front of a commotion of sun-starved Irish young people, may even be the greatest pop song in the world ever.
It’s not a hard case to make and win - all you have to do is play the song - and yet you do not often hear it said. Why not? Probably because ‘July’ was never a ‘hit’ outside of Ireland, a fate that has afflicted some of our greatest works and their creators, talent or genius notwithstanding.
I am thinking in particular of Tom Murphy, and Patrick Kavanagh, and Mike McCormack, and Rory Gallagher, and Phil Lynott, (to rhyme with why-not?), and Seán Maguire, and Billy Brown. Van is acknowledged across the globe, so there is no need to mention him, but I will anyway, because he, more than anyone, has remained true to his artistic vocation.
July' is a particular kind of song - not immediately identifiable as substantial, precisely because it is so great within its own idiom. It is a great pop song because it does so well what every great pop song does which is essentially to take an aspect of reality that has already gripped the public imagination but has not yet been described in a manner utterly evocative of itself.
The month of July has inspired many poems, from such as John Clare (The Shepherd's Calendar: July’), George Meredith (‘July’), Emily Dickinson (‘Answer July’), Patrick Kavanagh (‘Inniskeen Road: July Evening’) and Sylvia Plath (‘Poppies in July’). But I do not think that any of them has captured, as Mundy has, the intensity of the feeling the word ‘July’ evokes in a sun-starved Irish heart.
He has done this by writing, possibly on the back of an unsent postcard, a pen-picture of July that has proved itself capable of transmission through innumerable loops of wires, circuits, capacitors, coils, and magnets - to say nothing of diaphragms, manmade and otherwise.
The lyric simply sketches a scene that the music, especially the chorus, breathes into life as the essence of the song that is greater than the sum of its various dimensions: July please/ I'm on my knees/ The smell of your fresh cut grass . . . The lyric has a one-track mind, but that’s beside the point, which is evocation of the peripherals. Taken holistically, the song possesses a unity that refuses any element the right to be deemed the magical part. It is a blast of less than five minutes that nails for all time something we already knew but never had an adequate way of saying. I daresay it is the greatest song about a month ever written by anybody.
There are numerous versions of Mundy singing the song on TH-cam. I chose the one linked below, from the Oxygen festival, an indeterminate number of years ago. The sound is not the clearest, and yet the performance is better than even a perfect studio version because, in the way it displays the qualities of the song reflected in the audience, it can hardly be improved upon. It is clear: What those present are hearing is not a song but the aural representation of their own feelings, previously inexpressible, emerging in relief and delight.
From John Waters substack
th-cam.com/video/xQ7C2xJTitc/w-d-xo.html
This song never gets old
Mundy July
2018 Anyone?
@christopher brown 2nd that
2020 and still counting! ;-)
Tiocfaidh ar lá 🇮🇪 🕊️
Yeah
30 degrees here in the Wesht of Ireland. July 2021
this song is about any summer from about 94 to about 99 when in dublin the style was all about levis and kicker shoes and pringle jumpers with a ben sherman shirt under neath
the good days
Exactly, if it had only been only Dublin. This song includes the world. No borders to expression.
+Barry Hawk hfdhfh
cggh
gghfg
Jay Cool and flagans of cider
How good is this song! WE LOVE YOU MUNDY!!
they dont make music like this no more! between this and paddy casey saints and sinners two irish classics!!!
Bang on the button 👌💪
this is the music that’s truly good
i sing this till this day 24/9/20
A forgotten gem of a tune I still remember this being released back in the day…. How time flys
When you look into the lyrics you realise how filthy they are
july 2nd 2021...
1st of July 2024🙏🙏🙏
And we go again....2024
Look at description 😑
Always sing this when I'm walking in the bloom
+ all the offaly people who voted for "brian lets save the banks" brother when the ex taoiseach didn't run, some people shouldn't get a vote
Moate Memories
i love this song,love when it comes on the radio i just turn it up loads,everyone listen ,what a song
forgive my "ignorance" but... what's wrong with being from offaly??? I don't know irish history or anything about it, I looked for it, but didn't find anything :S can someone explain me a little of it?? thanks! and sorry again! u.u
Hello everyone first July keep the heads up b safe and party on ppl up r that from waterford city🇮🇪🙏
It's literally my birthday tomorrow and i only discovered this song because of Nicola's ig story 🥺
This reminds me of the summer's i spent in the park in Birr
good man Mundy the sound of an Irish summer
Heard this song on spotify recommendation couple year's ago. Cant get enough of it
i met him the other night in cosy joes westport performing together like a BOSS! and steve wall
2022 still a jammer ❤️🇮🇪
offaly, the poor bassterd. something died in offaly a long time ago, its name was hope.
my birthdays in july :)
What a tune
Beautiful song but sounds so like Led Zeppelins California
i love the song & i'm not Irish :)
So many memories from when I was much younger and carefree
My birthday is in July and I'm going back to Cork in July! So this is kind of the song of my life at the moment! ^^
July! It's my birthday too! 💐｡◕‿◕｡
wow.. really beautiful. Fantastic. Far out
Love it great song
Mongrels Born in July . ?? Who dat
Love the guitar work - very nice . . .
we forget about all these great irish singers class song
Lovely song lads
The last day of July 2022. Not a great one this year in terms of both weather and personal experience, but this song acts as the symbol for what can be. I'll see you again next year, July. And I know you'll be there. Oh my my my my July.
Aquí sigo.... sufriendo pero bue...💙...cómo un cielo azul...
Absolute banger of tune makes you sad and happy ❤
Miss you Mindy
My Birthday Month!!🎂🎂🎂
i love this song.
its so chilled out!!
BEST EVER IRISH RECORD
Who the hell is Nicola?!
proper birr music :)
rangers till......................
July right now.one of the best song.
1st July 2023. 🙏🙏🙏
Happy july 1st yall ❤🎉
would say it to their face and have, and whos making the nasty comments now eh? Ah arguing on the internet is possibly the most pointless thing since an offaly man decided to make something of himself
coś pięknego ;) amazing song
1st July 2024
Peeps🎉🎉🎉🎉
i never said that you have to follow a band from the beginnng to appreciate their music.
What I said was most people are too idiotic to appreciate good music until an artist changes his/her style to the generic crap thats broadcased on 99% of radio stations daily.
And unfortunatly music has deterioratedto the state that only elite bands...the verve, radiohead, the national, editors produce good music.
So please do not give me this all music is equal crap.
in Bruxselles thursday night excellent
magnificent
July 1, 2024
1st July 2023😊
Class
Ireland and its people rock!
Mae thor - Lol I respect you 🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮
I think he did us an injustice for not writing a song for every month of the year !
Amigo 💃
"July please I'm on my knees the smell of your fresh cut grass"💚
today's my b-day
cool love this song didnt no he sang it doe deadly
yeah but this versions better...i think
awesome...
Love ya Mate! Cheers. Thanks for the great vibs n tunes! Keep smiling! That’s the prize
Also sexual innuendo in the song
Babe-o-rama everywhere. Way to go Ireland
DaNeOMiTe313 what is babe o Rama?
what a song....most most underrated song ever....in my opinion
your dead right larry👍
@Scaubie hahahahahahaha,,,,,, some song though one of the best............
congrats to be in the charts again, esp in JULY.
Enjoy another Irish band com/watch?V=LP9V1q-S_AW
great kissing!!
Waterford long weekend free gig ay letal lets get blazed sniff up oh ye
My daughter was borned in july
Always come back the same time every year
Absolute belter every single day