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What was the first song of the Pogues you listened to?

Mine has been "Young Ned Of The Hill" in year of our lord 2001.
The loafer´s (in this forum known as Nick Drake) one has been "Summer In Siam".

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i'm not quite sure. it was probably either "a fairytale of new york", "and the band played waltzing matilda", "tuesday morning", or some song labeled "celtic token drinking song" on kazaa which i'm not even sure it was the pogues. but i remember my first favorite was "and the band played waltzing matilda".

"Token Celtic Drinking Song" is not a Pogues song regardless of how many P2P networks claim otherwise. It's a Jimmy George song.

I honestly can't remember my first Pogues song. I do recall that my first Pogues LP was "If I Should Fall From Grace With God", so I could probably extrapolate that my first Pogues song was the song by the same name - "If I Should Fall From Grace With God."

Huh. Good song to start with.

"If I Should Fall From Grace from God" was my first album/song. I was with a friend who was hot to get Sinéad O'Connor's "Lion and Cobra" -- which was the album of the moment in Summer '88 and while she was flipping through the "O"s I spied this album in the "P"s with the James Joyce illustrations and bought it on pure spec. It was about three revolutions into the first track on the turntable and I knew I had made a good choice. By "Turkish Song of the Damned" I was gone.

For the rest of the year, I would take this album to parties and slip it on the stereo, turn it up loud, and then only talk with the people who came over to check it out. One of those people later became my husband.

Back in the day I heard "Fairytale", when it was being played on the radio here in the u.s. More recently I purchased "The Snake" and the first song on the album is "The Church of the Holy Spook", so that was it.

I think it may have been "Drunken Boat" off of Waiting for Herb which completely blew me away...I can also remember how amazed I was the more I got into their back catalogue, and how much better and better the albums were getting as I bought them.

Haunted from the Sid and Nancy soundtrack probably gets it for me..otherwise Im not sure.

First song was probably "Fairytale" or "Sally" somtime 1989, it changed my taste in music completley.

ChrisOld97 reminds me that my first song would have been one of the Pogues instrumentals from the Sid and Nancy soundtrack -- a great soundtrack with many bands and I probably didn't pay attention to who played what at the time. My standout song from that was "Love Kills" by the Clash -- but I do remember being riveted by the Pogues instrumental "Junk" when it played in the movie.

But, I'm standing by my earlier story that the first time I truly heard a Pogues song is when I bought "If I Should Fall From Grace with God" on pure impulse while my friend was looking for the Sinead O'Connor album. Prior to the Pogues, my sense of Irish music was based on the Clancy Brothers and a Seamus Ennis Tinwhistle and Pipe album in the family collection. Nothing wrong with those, of course, but with the Pogues I knew I had left my parents' collection of Irish music far, far behind.

The first song I heard was "Johnny comes lately". My father was often listening to a german Country-Radio-Show... ( i'm from germany, so sorry for my bad english). "Johnny comes lately" is an country song, written and performed by Steve Earl. He recorded it together with the Pogues. It's a great song.
I heard the song... but I didn't know, that it were the Pogues, who played this fucking cool song...

Some months (or years) later I heard some song from "Red Roses for me". At this time the Pogues had their best times... about 1988-89...

I bought all their CDs and some videos. As I saw the videotapes and there was a song called "Johnny comes lately". And then I knowed who played this damn song, I've heard some time before....

You'll find "Johnny comes lately" on Steve Earl's "Copperhead Road".

Greetings, Andi
Germany - Munich

I dropped by a friends house one night (this was about 8 years ago) and he was just insane about this CD he found. He was always one to buy stuff on a hunch and be spot on about it. Anyway, he shoved a Guinness in my hand, told me to sit down, keep my mouth shut, and just listen. The CD was "Rum Sodomy and the Lash". He was still completely floored by it, and he had heard it through about 6 times by the time I got there. Words can't describe what I thought as I listened. We sat and listened for a few hours, then went out to the record store and bought every Pogues CD they had.
So, my first song was "The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn".

Im not sure what my first Pogue song was, but whatever Im glad I heard it! Anyways where can I get the "Token Celtic Drinking Song" at? The link to his site works, but I can not play the music. I actually like that song.

I think for me it was "Fairytale". I remeber when I used to go for car rides with my aunt and my cousins and she would put on her "If I Shoul Fall" tape, at that time we were only like 7 or 8, but the summer before last summer I was sitting with my mom and I just randomly remebered them so I asked what the band was called with the "Chriistmas in the drunktank" song, she told me, and dug out and old tape of "Essential" that she had, and so began my life as a pogues fan. sigh....

Hi, i´m not sure about wich was the first Pogues song heared by me.....but my first pogues record was "Red roses for me"....so any song of this album.

Regards from Tenerife (Spain)

Mine was "The Girl From the Wadi Hammamat"
man, i love that song