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Post by Lord Emsworth on Nov 30, 2023 12:24:51 GMT
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Post by smogquixote on Nov 30, 2023 12:57:12 GMT
Messaged my dad saying he wouldn’t see “another one” about three weeks ago, he was extremely fucked up for a person his age. RIP to him, tho, “Fairytale” is the best Christmas track ever and I’ll ge spinning it for decades to come.
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Post by personunknown on Nov 30, 2023 13:15:05 GMT
Ah, we all knew it was coming. Though a musician, he will be up there with
WB Yeats, O'Casey, Behan etc as one of the greatest Irish wordsmiths.
"We'll have another round"
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Nov 30, 2023 14:28:13 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Nov 30, 2023 14:43:31 GMT
It's hit me quite hard actually (up there with Bolan and Bowie)
I spent a long night in a bar with him back in the day - he had a great laugh
I saw The Pogues headline the Fleadh in Finsbury Park in 1990, 91(?) and 94 - they merge into one but I will always remember and cherish the wild drunken abandon of dancing down the front from start to finish
Everyone loves Fairytale but it’s Rainy Night In Soho that will always be my personal favourite and brings a tear to my eye every time - actually the whole Poguetry in Motion EP is solid gold
So many classic tunes though. What a songwriter
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Post by personunknown on Nov 30, 2023 15:03:49 GMT
I've just played Sick Bed of Cuchulainn, possibly my MacGowan Pogues favourite.
Punk folk venom and nobody could write a lyric like that today without the sensitive crowd misunderstanding it.
The balancing of:
'Now you'll sing a song of liberty for blacks and paks and jocks...."
is pure lyrical genius.
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Post by zeopold on Nov 30, 2023 21:46:36 GMT
A one-off. RIP
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Post by stuw on Nov 30, 2023 22:06:29 GMT
cancel what I said about Alexa - all that stuff has gone now - some of it was pretty raw and I hadn't heard it before...it was interesting. ooops my original post didn't post.....as I was saying....Sickbed is perfect Macgowan mate...bile, shite, lust for life,death,fun....I'm sad that he will be remembered mainly for the Christmas one, nice enough, but a fraction of what this guy was capable of. I'm sad that he'll be remembered mainly for the booze. He was far more important than that. I'm sad that most of the people who like the Christmas song, would hate the proper Pogues and Macgowan output. At his best, he was a blistering storm of telling the worst and best of human experience, make you laugh one minute and wince or cry the next. Beautifully Brutal. And sometimes perfect. Rainy Night...just perfect...My wife walked down the aisle to it - fuck here comes the bride. For all the sad stuff, I'm bloody glad to have been around when he was banging stuff out and couldn't wait for the next Pogues product. I'm glad to have been around to see them a few times. I'm glad my Pogues journey started with a lass that I had been encouraged to write to as she was also weird???. Write I did, and after a couple of weeks a tape popped through the letter box...1984 I think - with Red Roses and Sodomy on. I stuck it on the player...heard the first 3 notes and thought "fuck it this is old man folk music - mum and dad will piss themselves" so I turned it off. I stuck it on my walkman or something and was hooked. Transmetropolitan - got me like the first time I heard a Clash record - side 3 london calling, death or glory as it happens..yes I'm a toddler..but that cassette hooked me...I'm lucky...so lucky..to have been alive when Shane was at his best. An extraordinary talent, plus the band were pretty damn good too - don't forget that.
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Post by jsm on Nov 30, 2023 22:17:37 GMT
I only ever saw The Pogues once: Enmore Theatre, Sydney, 1988. I watched the show from the balcony but the crowd down the front were having so much fun, the dance floor collapsed.
RIP Shane
Check the sidebar in the article below about Fairy Tale in NY. I never realised it had so many detractors
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Post by personunknown on Dec 2, 2023 17:24:04 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 2, 2023 17:55:45 GMT
Criminal PU
I'd have The Body of an American in the ten best too
The Pogues - Body of an American
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Post by personunknown on Dec 8, 2023 19:29:36 GMT
What a send off. That's Shane's sister dancing in the aisle at the end.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 8, 2023 22:48:04 GMT
Fabulous
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