Horslips...The Book Of Invasions...Full Album
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- The Book of Invasions: A Celtic Symphony
"Geantrai" (Tracks 1--8),
"Goltrai" (Tracks 9--11)
"Suantrai" (Tracks 12--14)
"Daybreak"
"March Into Trouble"
"Trouble (With a Capital T)"
"The Power and the Glory"
"The Rocks Remain"
"Dusk"
"Sword of Light"
"Dark"
"Warm Sweet Breath of Love"
"Fantasia (My Lagan Love)"
"King of Morning, Queen of Day"
"Sideways to the Sun"
"Drive the Cold Winter Away"
"Ride to Hell" - เพลง
One of Ireland's greatest musical achievements on vinyl, in any genre...
Saw them mid 70s..Finsbury park, Rainbow.. New sound 🔊 to London.
I'm sitting here with tears rolling down my face. My father introduced this album to me when I was a kid in the 70's and I haven't heard it since. He died a couple of years ago and this just brings it all back. Thank you for posting.
Sorry for your loss John. Your father had great taste in music, that's for sure. May he rest in peace. I was lucky to see this band in Toronto, quite a few years ago. I was able to meet them and they were great musicians and even better human beings. Take care lad. All the best.
I think someone somewhere is smiling that you remember and are here John.
R.I.P. your Dad John - my sympathy. On a positive note, my first real girlfriend (I was 16) realised just how good Horslips was/still is (after we went to the Celtic Symphony gig in December 1976 - The Stadium, Dublin), so try to focus on the positive, bro.
@@delby66 Agreed. The lads would mingle after every gig and just be themselves - hangin' out at the bar and really interact. Legend!
I used to be a baker when I was 20. (40 years ago) I took this album in as it was early-morning friendly. I met some lads recently who tell me they bought the album after hearing it in the bakery. It's a lovey memory of your dad, John. As for me, I first heard Trouble with a Capital T wafting out of a music shop in Glasgow.
This is the only record I've ever owned that I actually wore out - twice!! It's still my fave Horslips album. Thanks for the excellent post!
R.I.P. Johnny Fean. Thanks for all the great music and brilliant shows that I got to attend.
What a brilliant album. I loved this masterpiece in the 70's and still do. At the time everyone seemed to have 3 core albums, 'Rumours' by Fleetwood Mac, 'Bat out of Hell' by Meat Loaf and 'The Book of Invasions' by Horslips.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the world who knows Horslips. Not known much in Canada, but I've loved them since the 70's
After all these years this still deserves its place in my all time top 10 albums.
Always a pleasure.
Rich Carter. October 2023.
Rest in peace, Johnny Fean. True Legend!
Yes, RIP Johnny. You're missed but you will never be forgotten. Your music lives on.
I'm 12 and i love this album
Such a Nice time at my garden in Cusco Perú listening this Absolut brillant álbum. Salud to the irish people there and everywhere
Happy Saint Patrick's day :)
Sideways to the Sun.......absolutely BRILLIANT!!!!!!!! tune. This band were Incredible.
This album was Horslip's finest hour in my opinion. It marked their transition from trad rock to more contemporary music. I love the lyrics, the music, the uplifting effect it generates forty+ years on. Truly a masterpiece! Johnny is still rocking and winning new converts to this style with his own band as of July 2016.
Saw JF in a pub in Rush, Co. Dublin with Bass and Drums 10 yrs ago. Magic gig. International Talent, along side Rory, Phil, Gary, Chieftans, Luke, Clancys, Planxty et al.....
Had the pleaser of listening to Johnny play in JJ Aungier Street Dublin last year. A great music Bar. Had many a great night there with many fond memories. Sadly like old Dublin gone but not forgotten.
Declan, what is the name of Johnny's new band? I'd love to know it. I would love to hear them, if they have an album out. I'm in Canada. I loved Horslips, so much. They were BRILLIANT!!!!!
Ldiers
Horse slips on the gallop, new wave old times. Old Ireland live on. Protect your heritage and protect your dream. Four hundred years. Don't let them rove you 8nto thinking your a push over. This is our Country. Suit is hitting the fan, but its not my proble😢. Tiny nation on the Atlantic Coast, tiny nation. I want my nation to stay to my roots. If you want to take over you better think again. For four h7ndr3d years we fought to be free from imperialism, and now young people people think I'm rastafarian
Thank god for you tube. I've hunted high and low for this LP. I don't know where i put it. I'm 61 now and I must have been 18 when I purchased it. I've moved, got married, moved again and again. Some how it got lost in transit. I'm listening to this for the first time in a long time. What an incredible album. It brings back so may fond memories.
Spread the word brother
The world needs more healing music of this type and not the autotune rubbish.
all the best.
I have been listening to them from 1975 Stephen their music just gets better fabulous musicians
@@JohnSmith-zp5gn I couldn't have said it better John
Stephen Lisson 62 here, we’re just about the same age. Likewise, it’s been a long time since I heard it again. Awesome record and yes, loads of memories 👍🏻
It might have got stolen. I know I took my Dad's copy. :)
I hear it since I was 16 ore somehow ...now I'm 63 and it is timeless....
"Daybreak" (instrumental) - 0:00
"March Into Trouble" (instrumental) - 2:30
"Trouble (With a Capital T)" - 3:21
"The Power and the Glory" - 6:45
"The Rocks Remain" - 10:42
"Dusk" (instrumental) - 13:30
"Sword of Light" - 14:07
"Dark" (instrumental) - 19:02
Side two
"Warm Sweet Breath of Love" - 20:39
"Fantasia (My Lagan Love)" (instrumental) - 24:05
"King of Morning, Queen of Day" - 27:00
"Sideways to the Sun" - 31:32
"Drive the Cold Winter Away" (instrumental) - 36:19
"Ride to Hell" - 36:54
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I have heard this album in the 70th and I was in several concerts in Germany when I was a teenager. Until today I think that this is one of the best albums ever and I hear it from time to time. One you tube it's easier than to hear the vinyl and I can save it for a longer time because it is a real treasure for me. A part of my youth.
I absolutely love this album..
🎉❤
followed this band in my early teens...watched them in Belfast,Dublin, Donegal,letterkenny,derry,...and anywhere else they where playing,christ those where the days
One of the most important Vinyls in history of rock
It's 30 years plus since I last heard this album. Remembered every word and every riff. Smiling from ear to ear. Wonderful stuff.
I know. I just played it tonight for the first time in about 25 years and I knew every word and rift. I can hardly remember what I did yesterday. Weird
under rated and unbelievable why this was not a bigger impact on music in the 70s
Amazingly underrated. Especially this album. I am amazed that they weren't huge.
+lyonsjsph..Well said..I can remember listening 2this yrs ago..Brilliant..
+Jeremiah Shea fantastic band but no one outside the island would have caught on to them ......Ireland's own ! Both north and south
Definitely Ireland's own, but I was lucky to pickup on them fairly early on. Saw them live in Manchester, and their influence always meant me investigating Irish influenced rock.
No, U2's Bono says in a doco they were their biggest influence. Horslips are demi-gods!
...went to a six week trip to portugal in 1978 with five friends in a vw bully. this horslips cassette would be the soundtrack for the whole journey. i still love this album to death.
A Brilliant opus of an album !!!!
Remembering the Butt Hall with the band who had such a profound effect on all of us all those years ago. We followed them all over Ireland. Thanks Guys you were the greatest.
Quite possibly the most underrated album ever. Too many highlights to list - it's all a highlight, frankly - but my personal shout-out to "Warm Sweet Breath of Love", "Fantasia", and "King of Morning, Queen of Day". One of the best second sides to any album I've ever heard, certainly.
This was a large part of the soundtrack of my life, Long ago.
I feel lucky I did get to see them Play live twice.
All the way across the big pond here in Rochester New York.
Dammit why wasn't i born some 40 years earlier so i could experience growing up with this band. It is truly the greatest!!!
The Celts moved across the continent and finally into Ireland where they eventually went into another dimension.... sideways to the sun !!
YEAH, RIGHT.....
Amen, they are still there.
Brilliant album and Horslips' finest, in my opinion. In these dark days, people need to hear these songs again.
As previously mentioned by one pundit on the classic song 'Sideways to the sun' This is an absolute beauty of a tune. Could listen to the tune all night !!!!!!!!
33 years ago this album got seared into my heart and there it has stayed. I am probably responsible for over 1000 of the play count. But you don't care, you've gone sideways to the sun.
This brings me back to carefree summers in Wexford when this album was constantly playing. They played the Gorey Arts Festival but I was too young to go. I made up for it years and years later when I saw them in Belfast. A great night and this is a great album.
Wow!!!! Leo. My mate and I were in Wexford in 1976. We went touring all of Ireland.....we both had family still there....a small village called Athurstown and Ballyhack. Noel and I were big fans of this great band. They came to Canada, Toronto to be exact and we went to see them. My mate lives in the US now...near Boston and I still live in Canada near Toronto and we have stayed friends all this time. Noel and his wife have been back a few times. I have no family there anymore, but I sure would like to go back sometime. My wife is English, from Liverpool and she hasn't been home either. Hopefully someday soon, I will return to the most beautiful place on earth. Sorry for writing so much about this, but when I saw that you spent your carefree summers in Wexford, I had to respond. Tabhair aire lad , especially with what's going on this world.
Classic album
The drumming on Sword of Light is so perfect.
+Karl Simon as a guitarist, I was also impressed by the drumming. Is that early double bass playing on Ride To Hell?
Karl, Eamonn was a brilliant drummer.
An Album that was part of my life! Saw them two or 3 times at The Apollo in Glasgow in the late 70s.
The last time being ‘79 when my pals and I bumped into them in Royal Exchange square in Glasgow the night before the gig,Eamon was looking for a “Chipper”.We took them to the Chip Shop and Barry and the boys asked us to come as their guests to the gig the following night.The gig was fantastic as usual in Glasgow and we were backstage in The Apollo with them for beers after the gig!What memories.Nobody ever sat in their seats at a Horslips gig.This was my fav album of them all!
Definitley one of the best albumss ever. And Horslips were magic to dance to back in the 70s. How did the Astoria in Bundoran ever survive all the crazy dancing!
God listening to this album takes me back to the '70s. Horslips as I remember them were mighty! Just like Moving Hearts, but groups should have gone bigger than they did. Horslips definitely influenced a new direction for music in Ireland. It was awesome & when I hear someone playing or a duet playing I can hear Horslips in their music. Pity they wouldn't make a comeback. Glad to say I am Irish when I listen to these lads. Sing & play on forever.
You are so right Liz. They certainly influenced a lot of bands back in the day. They were way ahead of their time.
As was Rory Gallagher. Man he was mighty, then Moving Hearts came along in the mid '80s when I first heard them coming home after 15 years in Africa. Heard Moving Hearts again in their return Concert again coming home from the continent. They were something else. You had Davy Spillane on low d key whistle and uilleann pipes, Keith Donal on sax. Man they were something else too. I truly miss the music of Horselips, Thin Lizzie, Rory Gallagher, Moving Hearts. All way ahead of the times but it was brilliant. Oh to have those days back. Cheers from Irish emigrant in Canada. Homesick as hell! Liz
@@lizobrien4425 I hope you are well, how things have changed here on the oul sod. There too no doubt.
Took me back.
Ah - Moving Hearts: hell yeah! Thing is, the production values on this album are seriously excellent - just listen to Power and the Glory through headphones - you'll get it. Enjoy!
Awesome album!! Went out and bought it after I saw them playing Warm Sweet Breath of Love on BBC's Top of the Pops back in the day. Couldn't wait to lend it out to my close circle of friends for them to have a listen - was more than a little surprised to find out they were not at all impressed. Guess they were too wrapped up listening to more sophisticated pomp, err I mean prog rock by the likes of Genesis, Yes, ELP etc. Anyway, it still gets regular spins on my turntable. Never heard the CD version, but for the vinyl heads here - the original UK vinyl sounds great - highly recommended.
Fortunately when one of my mates played it for me in the 80s pomp rock ;) never got a look in, great group, great album. Delved into the murky Horslip bootleg tape and album world since, found some classics.
A personal favorite
I've played my vinyl a thousand times and now on TH-cam too. Timeless, wonderful, emotive. Takes me back a long, long way to days gone by. I truly love every single second of this beautiful album.
"This beautiful album" - couldn't have put it better myself (and I'm from Dublin and a Horslips fan since 1973). Well said, Mark.
Nothing or know one could make music like that today.back in the 70s myself and two friends travelled ireland top to bottom to watch them.just brill.
I love this band ..
they kick ass
The simplicity and directness of the music make it worth the listen. Celtic Rock certainly has its charms.
A masterpiece!
Fantasia is one of my go to riffs when I pick up my guitar. Love this album
LOL, brings back so many memories of growing up in Dublin and going to Lochearts Butchers. Hearing the boys rehearsing upstairs while Jim's Father served us with a smile and a bit extra in the weekly shopping list (wink-wink), miss those days in St. James st. Boy, we were all so poor but the friendships have lasted a lifetime. Love the music, thanks for sharing.
What a sublime album.
Johnny Fean, long-time guitarist with Irish Celtic rock band Horslips, has died aged 71. 28/04/2023. R.I.P Johnny
What an amazing, superb album this is. I have loved it since it came out in 1976.
Thank you ever so much for this. I heard them perform this live at The Bottom Line in NYC once upon a time. A truly brilliant band. They were also great folks to hang out with after the show.
yrtnook..Absolutely excellent Band..Had'nt heard this in yrs..This band were way ahead of their yrs..Very under rated..
As an Irishman born in Ireland, this comment makes me very happy. To hear their impact was far and wide is wonderful, they were a great band, as the music itself speaks. All the best :)
"Sword of Light" is an amazing track....
These lads were so good and very underrated. Saw them in Toronto way back in 70's, at the St. Lawrence market. What a BRILLIANT!!!! performance.
Thank you for supporting the Irish music scene. Bono isnt quite the same
Hello Ian. they were a Brilliant!!!! band. I do like U2 as well. However I believe these guys were the best. Bono has come out and said that Horslips were a big influence on him.
Still. Fucking. Awesome.
Still have this album on vinyl. Sounds good.
Hello Michael...a funny story to tell you about this album. I was listening to it on You Tube because I thought i lost it. I bought it pretty well when it first came out and had it for all those years. I got married and my wife and I had moved plenty a time since then. I thought I lost it in transit. Just last week she was cleaning out one of our many closets and I was on the computer listening to this album. She called me into the other room because she had pulled out a couple of boxes that had all these albums of mine, that I collected over the years. LO AND BEHOLD!!!!! there's Horslips BOOK OF INVASION, along with a few others of theirs. AMAZING!!!!!!....LOL
One of my all time favorite albums. Great live band too!
One of The Best Concept Albums ever recorded
merci thanks brilliant!!!
Thank you for sharing this!
I saw Horslips perform this live in 1977 or '78.
They opened for J. Geils.
And blew them away.
It was an amazing show.
I had "Book of Invasions on vinyl. One of the great albums by a fantastic, under-appreciated band (at least here in the colonies).
Horslips Masterpiece ! 🇨🇮❤
a classic.....much loved.
One of the greatest albums ever. It tells a story, basically, but a story none the less. So why is this not considered a rock opera like The Who's Tommy? Just wondering.
Marketing!
Gary - check out The Táin. Just suggestin'.
@@daveroche6522 I know it well bud another great album
@@garylawlor2288 Cheers Gary - I love the idea that both of us are actually listening to it right now. Nice one, Bro.
I think it's more of a concept album.
Fantastic! Love them so much!!
I haven't heard this for about 36 years. It's actually better than I remember it - thank you. Excellent Transfer. :)
The Scouts Jamboree 1977 - the first time I saw Swedish blondes en masse, followed by Horslips live....
Horslips best album and Celtic rock at its best
Buena música. Medievalista
Funny on my first trip to Ireland, U2 was returning home after their first huge tour for Joshua Tree. Saw them at Croke Park and their warm up music included Dereg Doom. Got to see Lou Reed play Walk on the wild side with Bono. Pogues and the Pretenders and Hot House Flowers.
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genialsten LP's ever!
I was a teen when I bought this album. Book o f invasion. Takes me right back...👈
After all this time I still remember the words. Love the album. Love the band. Still have my vinyl copy of Happy to Meet in the squeezebox shaped cover.
Hello Greg. I still have the same vinyl album in that squeezebox cover. AMAZING!!!!! band.
I miss those days sometimes but I have the CD and keep forgetting to play it! Great album all the way around.
SWORD OF LIGHT!
My god this brings back memories, Newry in about 1978 saw them live, what a show and what a night.THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
A sadly underrated & overlooked band for sure....
Why are and were these guys so good? They had the ability to play over 12 instruments between themselves, create different types of albums and entertain an audience. As to why not as successful as they could have been-there was a lot of musical talent out there to compete against! But they served the local market well from 1972-1980. Actually met them in Donegal town in the 4 lanterns chippy having a fish supper before playing. So the sunnier side of Covid-19 is listening to them all over again.
Thanks Johnny and band for all the great memories when we danced to horselips
this is the greatest album of all time especially if you are irish or celtic.horslips are/were an incredible group.nior chuala me a leithead im mhairtheann.i mo thuairim nil,agus ni bheid,a leithead le cloisint coiche.mochean iad a clos!
People ask why Horslips were not more commercially successful. Maybe it's because they didn't slot into any of the boxes. Too lyrical and too melodic for the rockers . Too complex for the pop rock world. Loved them since I heard the Tain. Which is, by the way, IMHO a better album. Less slick, more raw, but that's not such a bad thing in my opinion. Inspired choice of tunes. I wish I had got to see the stage play.
+greg bradfield-smith see them play live at the savoy in Limerick twice in the 70's.... I'll never forget the experience..
Actually needed to be slightly more educated than your average bear.
Amazing folk-prog band! So unique! Dig them a lot. Pretty cool stuff!
Greetings from Brazil!
I listened to this band in upstate N.Y in late 70's Thanks to my friend Greg B. I love this album !
Pure class - thanks for uploading
Hi my name is Sean - I must be Irish - because I really like this ✌️🤪✋thank you 💥
thanks for posting..... i have this album but all my music is in storage right now due to my crimes against humanity.... only using my fork in my right hand and drinking a coke with dinner. it is what happens when you are raised by a pack of wolves.
Horslips - great Group from Ireland
I love this band so much,every member of Horslips are great, but, I just want to single out one of the band members. Jim Lockhart......what a great keyboard man.
My fave HORSLIPS album... Saw the boys open for UK, March 24,1979, @ The SPECTRUM - Philadelphia, Pa. - A RADIO broadcast of 3-24-1979 of both bands exist out THAR !!
I was at that concert.
I was a student at Swarthmore at the time, and I found another guy in my dorm who was a Horslips fan. I was a fan of both groups, esp. Horslips, so we went to the concert.
The sound system was terrible for Horslips. At the time UK had degenerated into ELP wannabes, and had the sound way too loud. UK sounded OK, but Horslips sounded truly bad. The Book of Invasions stuff was particularly sad. Aliens and Man Who Built America worked better with that sound system.
Later, my friend called me over to his room to listen to the radio broadcast of Horslips at that concert, particularly stuff from Book of Invasions. It was great.
My older brother saw then in a small venue in NYC, along with a bunch of drunken Irishmen, and that was a far, far better way to experience Horslips.
Bob L that's awesome you both got to see them at the spectrum. My first concerts were at the spectrum... I'm a young lad from philly, only 34. My ex father in law used to listen to some very obscure music which was constantly on blast... I was instantly drawn to horselips. I'm into prog rock, and am so glad that I was forced (not always appreciated at the time but so grateful now) to hear all these great bands growing up in his household. Do u have any bands to recommend, I'm constantly on the search for new music, I was born in the wrong decade! Thanks, D.
I think my ex in laws most likely went to that show... we're from philly and they've literally seen almost everyone. So jealous!
Sitting with tears now Johnny has moved on . Long live the King
The rocks remain is so true.
Gaelic pride
Merci!!! Qu'est ce que j'ai pu passer comme temps à écouter ce disque!! Un peu ma "madeleine" :-\
A sort of mix between Wishbone Ash, Jethro Tull and Traditional Irish. Brilliant.
pilgrimpater agreed-love this group and Tull and wishbone . Fantastic !
Except The Horslips came first...
I just love the way they went from very traditional irish music, which i loved, to their irish celtic rock, effortlessly. Amazing band. The only other band that did that was Strawbs.
@@IshtarCelt ,
no they didn't,horslips formed in 1970 and recorded their first album in 1972,jethro tull formed in
1967 and released their first album in 1968,wishbone ash formed in 1969,recorded and released
their first album in 1970.
Ah lads. It’s not a competition. Enjoy all of the music
truly the first time I've heard this..... fucking awesome.
Just listened to the Irish Times this morning and they said Horslips is putting out a 40 cd collection in a few months. I see that Amazon estimates a cost of over $400+ usd. Check out the announcement in The Irish Times.
I was considering my 10 favourite albums (a Facebook trend at the moment, in these strange times) and this was definitely on my list. I've not listened to it in ages, as my only copy is on cassette tape, so hearing it again is a joy. And then I discovered that it was re-issued late last year, and so a freshly pressed piece of vinyl is on my way to me. I can't wait to tee it up on my turntable.
Thank you for uploading this, it was part of my past and only had it on vinyl :-)
awesome..never thought i'd heard this again..it's been so long TaL :)
I booked them for my university in 76. Hung out all day with them. It was all downhill after that!
I saw them play in Done gall mid 70s ......Now 40 yrs later can make long to dance ,rejoice in being Irish
Really enjoyed that, thanks. Glorious music. 👏👏👏👍
Pure Classic, Happy Paddys Day dudes.
Brilliant album. I believe they supported Thin Lizzy on tour and on that basis I saw them on some shit day time tv programme. Bought the record for my girlfriend at the time but could only afford 1 copy as I was still at school. Wonder if she still has it :)
Thin lizzy supported them
@@mikeymadnez they just didn't know they were doing it.😀