Straight Outta Ireland

Straight Outta Ireland
Compilation album by
ReleasedMarch 9, 1993
Genres
Length42:44
LabelBMG Rights Management
Producers
  • Aiden Foley
  • Catherine Farley
  • Jimi Zhivago
  • Lir Foley
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Straight Outta Ireland is compilation album featuring the first ever collection of contemporary Irish artists. A play of the 1989 N.W.A album Straight Outta Compton, the project features "the most exceptional new talent to come out of Ireland in the 90's." The album was released by BMG Rights Management on March 9, 1993.

Track listing

Straight Outta Ireland track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)ArtistLength
1."My Radio Sounds Different in the Dark"
  • Eamonn Finnegan
  • Mattie Finnegan
The Would Be's4:03
2."Mama"
Young Dubliners4:58
3."Destiny's Darling"Katell KeinegKatell Keineg3:36
4."Endless Weekend"Simon CarmodyThe Golden Horde3:39
5."Birdland"John RyanSpirit Merchants4:02
6."If I Were You"Susan McKeownSusan McKeown and The Chanting House3:44
7."In a Day"
  • Ronan Byrne
  • David Hopkins
  • Craig Hutchinson
  • Robert Malone
  • David McGuinness
Lir4:59
8."Hand on the Water"
Leslie Dowdall3:52
9."You're the One"
The Men They Couldn't Hang2:49
10."Change of Innocence"Sean SweeneyDiesel Heart3:46
11."Valley of the Dead Cars"Cathal CoughlanThe Fatima Mansions3:16
Total length:42:44

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Various Artists. Straight Outta Ireland, AllMusic. 1993. Accessed November 19, 2025.
  2. ↑ Various Artists, Straight Outta Ireland, CD. Orphans Productions (1993). Discogs. Accessed November 19, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Rock Me, I'm Irish.". Time. April 5, 1993. Google Books. Accessed November 19, 2025.