What's your very first memory of hearing the Pogues

[Beholder]

15 years old, hearing "London Girl" being played on Irish radio. Was stunned: it sounded exicting, full-on, alive, and completely unlike any of the other shyte that was polluting the airwaves back in the mid eighties (jaysis it was an awful time for music). Through the Pogues I got to know the Clash, and from then on the floodgates were open.

The Pogues saved me from crap music. And if any of them are reading this, thanks, lads!

[philipchevron]

15 years old, hearing "London Girl" being played on Irish radio. Was stunned: it sounded exicting, full-on, alive, and completely unlike any of the other shyte that was polluting the airwaves back in the mid eighties (jaysis it was an awful time for music). Through the Pogues I got to know the Clash, and from then on the floodgates were open.

The Pogues saved me from crap music. And if any of them are reading this, thanks, lads!

"London Girl" was a good record. Welcome to Medusa!

[Beholder]

Welcome to Medusa!

Thanks very much!

[Welshie]

Beholder, don't know if you've read my first memory, but it was very similar. Hearing London Girl and thinking "thats different".
Welcome
Aled

[Beholder]

Beholder, don't know if you've read my first memory, but it was very similar. Hearing London Girl and thinking "thats different".
Welcome
Aled

I can't claim to have read your mind, Welshie, as I have difficulty enough reading my own. London Girl was a cracking little song, though (and still is, for that matter).

[Welshie]

Didnt describe that very well Beholder (English is my 2nd language!) i've left a similar post earlier on in this thread.
London girl cracking song, also enjoyed body of an american as well.
Cheers
Aled

[Chris C]

This is the way I remember it, anyway --

1993 and I was in the US Navy. I'm the right age (41) that I should have been aware of the Pogues as a teenager, but wasn't. A Navy friend and I were in an "Irish Pub" in (I think) Spain, drinking Guinness and the stereo was playing some sort of Celtic/New Age elevator stuff. I was complaining, saying I'd never been to Ireland (I have since) but I'm pretty sure they don't sit around drinking and listening to this crap. He said I should check out the Pogues. He only had Pogues on LPs so he didn't have them shipped over, so he had none to lend me.

A few weeks later we were in Paris and sitting in an Irish Pub (you can see this was a habit). There was a band and they were fine. People came and sat in, we continued drinking and conversing. As different people were sitting it, the energy level just started rising exponentially. I was enjoying it greatly, and my friend repeated that if I liked this, I really needed to check out some Pogues. Later we talked to one of the guys and turns out he (and some of the others) were in the Pogues. To this day I can't tell you who was there - the guy we talked to played whistle, so maybe James McNally. Needless to say, when we finished our trip, I went down to the base exchange and ordered some Pogues CDs. Been a fan ever since. Finally got to see them this year in Dallas.