The Medusa Fora

had another great forty minutes (or so) on Saturday, re-watching Poguevision... Did Charlie really play accordion ot he was just posing for video?

And whose eyes were star(r)ing in A Pair of Brown Eyes?

YEAH YEAH YEAH -- getting back to this track. I love this track too and bought it the day it came out. To whoever said it was a bunch of cliche lyrics thrown together - WRONG! Because it has Shane's incorrigable, unique, irreverrant stamp all over it and listen to the great 12" remix to get the full flavour. I love your breasts! I love your breasts! I love your breasts! Shane shouting this over and over. To hear this coming out of the radio in 1988 and then hear the DJ go, did anyone else hear what he was singing? was funny:) The 12" was also a great release, featuring one Irish trad track, one dance track, one rock nroll classic. I'm with DZM on Honky Tonk. I liked it too. The single showed the direction the Pogues were to take next with Peace + Love. And it was exciting at the time to hear these new sounds from the band. Everyone I knew bought the single. But when P+L finally came out it fell flat for me. YYYY was the last perfect Pogues record.

I'm glad to hear it was Shane who brought it back into the Reunion set, because when launching his back-to-basics solo band, it was one of the tracks (along with Fiesta) that he tended to single out as examples of the Pogues gone wrong.

Also I wish they'd kept Darryl's great interlude in the reunion YYYY? The song used to go into various reggae classics half way through.

It did didnt it!
I liked that it turned into Lip Up Fatty amongst others i thuink.And Young Ned Of The Hill used to morph intio an extended ska version .I missed thast at the reunion.Anyone else?

"White City" is my favorite catchy tune, but "The Irish Rover" is the one I can't listen to less than 4 hours before going to bed or else it keeps me awake because it's going through my head over and over and over and over.

Rich, i know how you feel, i have exactly the same problem- but with waxie's dargle!

(if i go to sleep straight away, i dream of hitting people over the head with beer trays - strange huh!)

It's Dark Streets Of London that sort of lives in my head much of the time.

uncanny that i was just thinking "i like to walk in the summer breeze ..."
i have different lines from this song going through my head from season to season
"the dirty delightful old drunken aul days....."
"winter comes down and i cant stand the chill ....."
"and bugger tyhe nation and i havent got a penny ...."

there must be a line for every day of the year in thaT ONE

the drugged up psychos with death in theo eyes
and alll of this reallly means nothing to me."

duncan disorderly wrote:uncanny that i was just thinking "i like to walk in the summer breeze ..."
i have different lines from this song going through my head from season to season

Tis a great song (strangely overlooked in compilations), with brilliant lyrics. Worth checking out the full lyrics (on the discography section of this site!).

My favorite tune is Dingle Regatta, all those excellent instruments being played expertly I can't help bob my heap to side to side and my step has a bit of extra spring in it when I am listening to this brillant Instrumental.

duncan disorderly wrote:It did didnt it!
I liked that it turned into Lip Up Fatty amongst others i thuink.And Young Ned Of The Hill used to morph intio an extended ska version .I missed thast at the reunion.Anyone else?

I've only just seen this. Couldn't agree more. The "extended" live versions of Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah and Young Ned were awesome. Also, for a while, there was an extended intro at the start of Turkish song Of The Damned which was superb.

With the company I keep, i don't get often to say this..

Micheal - you are a geek!

MissWalshy wrote:With the company I keep, i don't get often to say this..

Micheal - you are a geek!

That's a bit much coming from a woman who collects Crystal Palace ticket stubs.

Michaelo wrote:

MissWalshy wrote:With the company I keep, i don't get often to say this..

Micheal - you are a geek!

That's a bit much coming from a woman who collects Crystal Palace ticket stubs.

My favourite catchy Pogues tune:
Boys From The County Hell
or
Sally MacLennane

Thanks Michealo for bringing this thread back from the dead (a year and a day later).

I hum, mumble, or outright sing "Streams of Whiskey" nearly daily, so that's top of the catchy list for me on a deep, personal level ( ).

But when I hear "Jack's Heroes", it stays with me for a while.

OT: I never knew "ShanesTeeth", but his/her sig brought me back a looooooong way. That was punk.

Most catchy tune for me is "When the ship comes in".