What Is Your No. 1 Favourite Pogues Song?

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Re: What Is Your No. 1 Favourite Pogues Song?

Post by Low D Mon Jan 25, 2016 3:10 am

poguephile wrote:Wow this post is old but I can't help but adding my two cents.

I love I'm a Man You Don't Meet Everyday. The lyrics are so eerie and melancholy and Cait's singing is angelic.


To pick a fave Pogues song is a difficult thing indeed, but this is definitely my favourite of the traditionals/covers, for the reasons you've said.

Favourite instrumental would be "A Pistol For Paddy Garcia".

Favourite ballad is "Rainy Night In Soho."

Favourite overall is "Sickbed of Cuchulain".

Clearly the Rum/Poguetry era is my favourite, although there are many many many close seconds in all of these categories, and even my picking a ballad & "overall" is really just a way of saying tied for first place.

Re: What Is Your No. 1 Favourite Pogues Song?

Post by Fr. McGreer Sun Jan 24, 2016 9:04 pm

poguephile wrote:Wow this post is old but I can't help but adding my two cents.

I love I'm a Man You Don't Meet Everyday. The lyrics are so eerie and melancholy and Cait's singing is angelic.

But my favorite original Pogues' song would either be Bastard Landlord or Boys from the County Hell. Love the entirety of Bastard Landlord, but those two verses of BFCH really make the song. You know:

But now I've the most charming of verandas
I sit and watch the junkies, the drunks, the pimps, the whores
Five green bottles sitting on the floor
I wish to Christ, I wish to Christ that I had fifteen more...
The boys and me are drunk and looking for you
We'll eat your frigging entrails and we won't give a damn
Me daddy was a blue shirt and my mother a madam
My brother earned his medals at My Lei in Vietnam


Actually now that I think over it more, all of BFCH is absolutely ingenious. I can hardly choose between the three, but I guess I'll have to pick AMYDME as my absolute all time favorite. And there are so many more I wish I could add...


Good choice and welcome aboard The Raft. BFTCH is one of my all time favourites also. Picking a cover version, I'd have to go for The Parting Glass or The Limerick Rake.

Re: What Is Your No. 1 Favourite Pogues Song?

Post by poguephile Sat Jan 23, 2016 10:11 pm

Wow this post is old but I can't help but adding my two cents.

I love I'm a Man You Don't Meet Everyday. The lyrics are so eerie and melancholy and Cait's singing is angelic.

But my favorite original Pogues' song would either be Bastard Landlord or Boys from the County Hell. Love the entirety of Bastard Landlord, but those two verses of BFCH really make the song. You know:

But now I've the most charming of verandas
I sit and watch the junkies, the drunks, the pimps, the whores
Five green bottles sitting on the floor
I wish to Christ, I wish to Christ that I had fifteen more...
The boys and me are drunk and looking for you
We'll eat your frigging entrails and we won't give a damn
Me daddy was a blue shirt and my mother a madam
My brother earned his medals at My Lei in Vietnam


Actually now that I think over it more, all of BFCH is absolutely ingenious. I can hardly choose between the three, but I guess I'll have to pick AMYDME as my absolute all time favorite. And there are so many more I wish I could add...

Re: What Is Your No. 1 Favourite Pogues Song?

Post by leadshoes Thu Sep 26, 2013 1:13 pm

Clash Cadillac wrote:This question is reminiscent of the movie Sophie's Choice.


Yes, that's exactly it. :)

Re: What Is Your No. 1 Favourite Pogues Song?

Post by Clash Cadillac Thu Sep 26, 2013 1:19 am

This question is reminiscent of the movie Sophie's Choice.

Re: What Is Your No. 1 Favourite Pogues Song?

Post by NewJerseyRich Wed Sep 25, 2013 12:35 am

If it's one...just one,,,it's
Broad Majestic Shannon

Re: What Is Your No. 1 Favourite Pogues Song?

Post by leadshoes Tue Sep 24, 2013 11:52 pm

Frances wrote:
Low D wrote:Image
This is terrifying.


Somehow that picture works for me.

Re: What Is Your No. 1 Favourite Pogues Song?

Post by leadshoes Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:32 pm

Has to be Rainy Night in Soho for all time, with The Auld Triangle second, but there's always another 2 or 3 or 5 I crave hearing on any given day. Recently it's been these rotating...

Rocky Road to Dublin
Bottle of Smoke
Body of an American
Rake at the Gates of Hell
Medley with The Recruiting Sergeant/Rocky Road/Galway Races
Birmingham Six
Misty Morning, Albert Bridge
The Irish Rover
Shanne Bradley
Maidrin Rua

These, too:

Boat Train demo
NW3
Broad Majestic Shannon
Lullaby of London demo
Infinity
White City
Boys from the County Hell
Mountain Dew
Jack's Heroes
Haunted
London Girl
A Pair of Brown Eyes
Sick Bed of Cuchulainn
Poor Paddy

So basically I can't answer this question. Well, I can, as seen above, but I don't really want to. :)

Re: What Is Your No. 1 Favourite Pogues Song?

Post by Frances Sat Sep 21, 2013 6:07 pm

Low D wrote:
DzM wrote:Mr. Astley gets invoked far more than you might realize (though less now than five years ago).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rickroll


I stand corrected. He's now a popular joke. :D


Nice picture of a wall with two heads.
Image
Wait, this was actually used as a recent reissue cover because Bowie wouldn't allow a picture of the two together?

Image
This is terrifying.




The Auld Triangle
Broad Majestic Shannon
Old Main Drag
Bottle of Smoke

I feel like I've heard Auld Triangle once live. I think. Never heard Rain Street, which I love.

Re: What Is Your No. 1 Favourite Pogues Song?

Post by Iggy Lady Sat Sep 21, 2013 12:05 am

Have to fess up to the adrenalin rush through crashhing deleriously to fab encores - Sally Mac, Fiesta, Paddy...

Thought provoking lyrics all round, especially And The Band Played Walzing Matilda

Re: What Is Your No. 1 Favourite Pogues Song?

Post by that dude Wed Sep 18, 2013 7:01 pm

I've always been partial to 'Body of an American'.

Re: What Is Your No. 1 Favourite Pogues Song?

Post by Villajohn Tue Sep 17, 2013 12:58 pm

Steams of Whiskey.

Re: What Is Your No. 1 Favourite Pogues Song?

Post by Doktor Avalanche Mon Sep 16, 2013 11:06 am

Low D wrote:
DzM wrote:Mr. Astley gets invoked far more than you might realize (though less now than five years ago).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rickroll


I stand corrected. He's now a popular joke. :D

What's truly sad/shocking/nauseating is my 14 year-old son has "Never Gonna Give You Up" on his iPod (got turned onto it from the whole Rickroll thing last year) and will torture his parents by singing it often.

Re: What Is Your No. 1 Favourite Pogues Song?

Post by Low D Sat Sep 14, 2013 6:19 pm

DzM wrote:Mr. Astley gets invoked far more than you might realize (though less now than five years ago).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rickroll


I stand corrected. He's now a popular joke. :D

Re: What Is Your No. 1 Favourite Pogues Song?

Post by DzM Sat Sep 14, 2013 6:01 pm

Low D wrote:
LibbyR26 wrote:Thank God I came across IISFFGWG as a 13 year old when the alternatives were Rick Astley etc (shudder)

Now THERE's a name a haven't heard in a looong time, we must be around the same age. It's heartening to see The Pogues still going strong and who the hell even talks about Rick Astley any more?

Mr. Astley gets invoked far more than you might realize (though less now than five years ago).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rickroll

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