Spanish language Irish drinking song?

May 25, 2011 11:42 AM

Spanish language Irish drinking song?

I heard a song in a club in Mexico a month or so ago that sounded sort of like an Irish Drinking Song. I liked it and asked the DJ what it was and I thought he told me it was Mettalico (with an O). I wasn't sure if that was the name of the band, or song, but figured that would be enough for Google to help me out. Turns out it wasn't. Anyone have any idea what song/band that might have been?

posted by gummo to Media & Arts (10 answers total)

Spanish language version of Metallica's semi-cover of Thin Lizzy's rendition of "Whiskey in the Jar"?
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 12:00 PM on May 25, 2011

I've heard a Spanish cover of Metalica's version of Whiskey in the Jar while in Mexico.
posted by birdherder at 12:02 PM on May 25, 2011

Whiskey in the Jar" sounds significantly different from Irish Drinking Song (Drink and Fight) by Buck O Nine (and not Flogging Molly, or Dropkick Murphys, as it is often mis-credited.) If you can nail it down a bit to what the song sounded like, that could help. Did it have that sort of ska sound to it, like Irish Drinking Song? Was it more rock?
posted by xedrik at 12:12 PM on May 25, 2011

Of course, there's the old joke about the World Cup held in the US some years ago, with Spain playing Ireland. Spanish fans started singing, "Ole, ole, ole, ole" ans a sort of cheer. The Irish thought this was hilarious, since in Irish gaelic, "Ol e" means "drink it". So it was a chant for both sides! Could someone have done a remix or something?
posted by LN at 12:13 PM on May 25, 2011

There is a band called "Los Metalicos"(no double-t in Spanish). I haven't got the patience to wade through all their work (most of what I heard sounded like pretty typical dance music to me), but maybe?
posted by Ys at 1:24 PM on May 25, 2011

Here's a cover of Whiskey in the Jar in Spanish.
posted by SomeTrickPony at 1:59 PM on May 25, 2011

Doh, birdherder.
posted by SomeTrickPony at 1:59 PM on May 25, 2011

Could it be Moderatto?
posted by clearlydemon at 4:40 PM on May 25, 2011

Response by poster: It definitely SOUNDED nothing like Metallica. Much more like the Drink and Fight song above. Fast song, yelling, horns. That sort of thing. Only is Spanish.
posted by gummo at 7:18 PM on May 25, 2011

Best answer: Wow. I think I just found it. I had the idea to search borracho cancion (spanish for drunk song) in Youtube and this was the first song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM_TkDyzvB4

And it's by a band called Genitallica which is close enough to what I thought I heard that I have to assume that it's correct.
posted by gummo at 7:23 PM on May 25, 2011