The Pogues

I'm watching season 3 of The Wire, and watched the 3rd episode from the season tonight, called "Dead Soldiers". Spoiler... one of the cops, a minor character, dies, and a wake is held in a bar, the cop's body laid on the bar clutching a bottle of Jameson's. T hey play a Pogues song and I did not recognize it, nor did they run the name of it in the credits. Anyone know it? ah, wait, I found it on Youtube...

Great Moments in British Broadcast History, #35912

This is almost as brill as requiring Ray Davies to make a trans-Atlantic roundtrip to re-record one line in Lola:

Radio 1 censors Pogues' Christmas hit

(Reuters)
BBC Radio 1 has cut out the word "faggot" from an old Christmas hit in a move the mother of the song's late performer branded "ridiculous".
In "Fairytale of New York", released 20 years ago by Irish band the Pogues and singer Kirsty MacColl, she sings "You scumbag, you

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Sometimes, but not too often, I dislike being left alone with my thoughts. They can be an evil bunch, ganging up on me, overwhelming me, leaving me see to seek the sanctuary of music.>>>The music must be complementary to the mood one seeks.>>>There are folks who will drink themselves blind in the coming twenty-four hours. They are myriad, from every walk of life and every social strata.>>>On May 19th 2008, A report of a study cosigned by 37,000 plus scientists, including ... MORE

OK So do any of you have a particular drinking song to share? I live in a dirty old town and this often causes me to join some of my mates in a drinking session. On a earlier post there was seven drunken nights...I have never managed to be drunk for 7 whole nights...Some may say I haven't lived I say maybe but I am still living! The song was written by Ewan Macoll whose daughter Kirsty sang Fairytale with the Pogues His dirty old town was Salford., which is not in Irelan... MORE

so anyone who reads my mog knows that i just started with verizon wireless as a gov sales rep. my teammember who got reamed out last monday was due to present our business plan to the regional vp. a pretty big deal. well he apparently got "sick". my bosses contact me at 4pm today to haul ass to dallas to present our business plan in his place. mind you im only two weeks outta training and six weeks in with the company, so i basically don't know shit. my bosses tell m... MORE

Ok down to the last 2, love both of them. There both classic'sSo at number 2 The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York After their second album Rum, Sodomy & The Lash, The Pogues wanted to release a Christmas single. Instead of a cover song, lead singer Shane MacGowan and banjo player Jem Finer decided to write one themselves. The first attempts to record this were as a duet with MacGowan and Pogues bass player Cait O'Riordan. They didn't have the so... MORE

While I'm half-Irish on my mother's side, St. Patrick's Day has relatively no positive resonance for me whatsoever. For many years, I lived on the eastern end of 86th Street in Manhattan. As such, my street acted as the veritable alimentary canal for virtually every parade that marched up the Upper East Side. This meant that on every St. Patrick's Day, a mob of green-clad morons would stagger down our street to puke in our gutters and skirmish on our sidewalks. Suffice to ... MORE

How could I have forgotten about this one when I listed the best Christmas songs. McGowan and MacColl rule the season!

The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford The grit of Sam Peckinpah meets the epic sweep of John Ford, with a smidgen of the character-led subtleties which made Robert Altman's McCabe And Mrs Miller a modern western classic. Beautifully shot by the Coen Brothers' regular cinematographer Roger Deakins, the movie also benefits from retaining lengthy passages from Ron Hansen's original book in the narration. Brad Pitt, as Jesse, has never been better, a... MORE

This song by Shane Mcgowan (the pogues) & Kirsty MacColl were banned in several countries when it was released. I think some radio stations still don`t play it!But this one is for YOU, the MOGGERS!!ENJOY THIS FANTASTIC CHRISTMAS SONG!! KIRSTY & SHANE A FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK: It was Christmas Eve babe in the drunk tankAn old man said to me, won't see another oneAnd then he sang a song, The Rare Old Mountain DewAnd I turned my face away and dreamed about youGot on a lu... MORE

Well, i suppose that simply recording a new version of one of your own songs isn't exactly "covering" it (unless you're Joni Mitchell recording Chelsea Morning...), but one of the hallmarks of a good cover is often that it re-imagines the original, casting it in a different light to show us different things about it. The Pogues present us with such a contrast with their song If I Should Fall from Grace with God, which they first recorded for the Straight to Hell soundtra... MORE

It's been a while since I've posted on this thing, but I was feeling particularly enthusiastic about this song just now.
http://www.markryan.ie/ftp/Pogues%20-%20A%20Rainy%20Night%20In%20Soho.mp3
"Rainy Night in Soho" is one of the most gorgeous songs I've heard in a while, and I thought I'd take the time to say that I strongly feel, as strongly as most people feel about "important" matters (i.e. the economy, religion, etc.), that more people should listen to The Pogues. The... MORE