Enter The Haggis

For the past two summers, a kid I work with has been insisting that I check out a band named Enter The Haggis; a bunch of Ontario boys and a Scottish bagpiper that play Celtic rock/bluegrass/all-around-fun music. I went as far as downloading a few songs and then forgot about them. (Yes, I steal music. But if I don't like it, I never listen to it again, and if I do like it I buy the CD, so I don't feel like feeling guilty about it.) When I moved out of my last roommate's house, I copied all of my MP3 files onto a couple of CD's so that she could get them off her computer. The collection is extremely random, and it's always a bit scary putting one of them on, but this morning I popped one into my CD/MP3 player as I was leaving to run some errands and then go to work. I skipped through the first several songs - I've heard the beginning of this CD numerous times, but for some reason decided to stop when I heard bagpipe music.

These guys are fun. A lot of fun. No, they'll never be in my top ten, but they definitely warrant a commercial CD or two on my shelf. Now, it's hard to say which of their songs is my favourite. To begin with, I've only heard them once. There's also the problem of trying to compare a ballad, or one of their instrumental numbers, with songs like Donald Where's Yer Trousers or Bagpipes On Mars. It's just not going to happen. However, I can definitely tell you what my favourite lyric was:

".. I could move the world without you
...
But I'd never know just where to move it to"

which is from Echo Of A Whisper. I don't usually go in much for love songs, but this one is a bit different. There's something about that line. It's not your typical "I don't know what I'd do without you", it's more like "I could do amazing things without you, but what's the point?" True the rest of the song is cheesy, but that line... for some reason or another, it's stuck with me all day.