by CraigBatty Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:28 pm
I kind of know where people are coming from with this train of thought, but I've gotta say I have pretty much a complete collection of both Pogues and DKM (amongst a whole world of Irish/Celtic stuff), and I don't really see that DKM are somehow 'copying' The Pogues directly, apart from the bleedingly obvious cultural thematic similarities.
The DKM are great fun to listen to and watch, but to me their music is very young, brash, American punk of a very different flavour to the smokey, mellowed, sonic-texturally-lush, European, ThreepennyOpera-esque vibe of The Pogues. Maybe it's just me. Like 'em both, just in different ways.
But as a musician, I must say, it would be awful to be playing a genre of music that you really like, and be constantly judged as being unworthy of comparison to said genres fabled progenitors. Or something.

I kind of know where people are coming from with this train of thought, but I've gotta say I have pretty much a complete collection of both Pogues and DKM (amongst a whole world of Irish/Celtic stuff), and I don't really see that DKM are somehow 'copying' The Pogues directly, apart from the bleedingly obvious cultural thematic similarities.
The DKM are great fun to listen to and watch, but to me their music is very young, brash, American punk of a very different flavour to the smokey, mellowed, sonic-texturally-lush, European, ThreepennyOpera-esque vibe of The Pogues. Maybe it's just me. Like 'em both, just in different ways.
But as a musician, I must say, it would be awful to be playing a genre of music that you really like, and be constantly judged as being unworthy of comparison to said genres fabled progenitors. Or something. :)