Listening to my 'Discover Weekly' playlist on Spotify and it's very weird, as you'd expect. Perhaps slightly weirder than average, but not unusually so - starting off strong with some funk, then a shitty folk song, then bouncing across genres from heavy psych to golden oldies to shitty noise rock to country to old school heavy metal and then, out of freakin' nowhere, comes a few bursts of tinny gunfire followed by a folk ballad from The Irish Brigade, with the charming title of "My Little Armalite".
I don't even know how Irish folk wound up on my playlist, let alone a bloodthirsty little ditty like that, haha. I guess I might have listened to, like, a single track of celtic folk on one of my Spotify trawls? Or maybe, since my Spotify account is linked to Facebook, they know I dig Karan Casey? Either one of those is a far cry from this sort of thing, though.
...Annnnd now I'm tapping my foot to the lyrics "a comrade on me left side, another one on me right, a clip of ammunition for me little Armalite". Wtf are you doing to me, Spotify? At least it's better than the fucking RAtM song that somehow wound up in the same playlist. Since when do I listen to shitty rap-rock? Go home Spottas, yer drunk.
Trust the Irish to pen such a cheerful, whimsical tune about a grim topic like the Troubles. Though I guess that's a pretty long-standing tradition, huh.