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Swagger is the first full studio
Studio
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 album
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 by the Irish
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-American
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 Celtic punk
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 band Flogging Molly
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, mixed
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 by Steve Albini
Steve Albini
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. It was released in 2000.

Track listing

  1. "Salty Dog" - 2:21
  2. "Selfish Man" - 2:54
  3. "The Worst Day Since Yesterday" - 3:38
  4. "Every Dog Has Its Day" - 4:24
  5. "Life in a Tenement Square" - 3:11
  6. "The Ol' Beggars Bush" - 4:34
  7. "The Likes of You Again" - 4:33
  8. "Black Friday Rule" - 6:57
  9. "Grace of God Go I" - 1:55
  10. "Devil's Dance Floor" - 3:59
  11. "These Exiled Years" - 5:15
  12. "Sentimental Johnny" - 4:47
  13. "Far Away Boys" - 5:06

Personnel

  • Dave King – vocals, acoustic guitar
    Steel-string acoustic guitar
    A steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar descended from the classical guitar, but strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound...


  • Bridget Regan – fiddle
    Fiddle
    The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...

    , tin whistle
    Tin whistle
    The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, English Flageolet, Scottish penny whistle, Tin Flageolet, Irish whistle and Clarke London Flageolet is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is an end blown fipple flute, putting it in the same category as the recorder, American Indian flute, and...

  • Nathen Maxwell – bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Robert Schmidt – mandolin
    Mandolin
    A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

    , banjo
    Banjo
    In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...

  • Matt Hensley – accordion
    Accordion
    The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

  • George Schwindt – drums
    Drum kit
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  • John Donovan – guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

  • Gary Schwindt – trumpet
    Trumpet
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In popular culture

  • "The Worst Day Since Yesterday" was used as the music for the opening and closing montage in Stargate: Universe season 1, episode 9, "Life" (first broadcast November 20, 2009).
  • "The Worst Day Since Yesterday" was heard in the background in the bar scene in Mr. and Mrs. Smith
    Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)
    Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 2005 American romantic comedy action film directed by Doug Liman and written by Simon Kinberg. The original music score was composed by John Powell...

    .
  • "Selfish Man" was used during the closing scene, and over the closing credits, of the fourth episode of Showtime's Brotherhood.
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