"The Season's Upon Us," Dropkick Murphys (Born & Bred)

A nice slice of Irish-influenced folk-rock about drunken revelry in the family home, which is what got the Puritans mad enough to ban Christmas and the rest of us to write hilarious essays and songs like this one. Gotta love lines like "The eye-rolls and whispers come out from the kitchen/I'd come home more often if they'd just quit bitchin'." If these guys are trying to make people forget the Pogues, well, that's a tall order, but they've made a hell of an effort. Maybe a little dark for some, a little too Irish for others, but it rocks out and that's fine with me. Check it out for yourself: