Gonna be bendin' an elbow, turnin' a few up for St. Patty's Day tonight? (Don't drink the green beer, pleeeze.)

To get yourself in the proper mood, have a look at a couple of videos by THE BEST Irish rock band ever, the standard-bearer, a group not from Boston or Chicago, but Ahhr-land: The Pogues.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=DrBLqp-s__o%26hl%3Den%26fs%3D1

This article appears in Mar 11-17, 2009.

Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg...