The Medusa Fora

trashcity wrote: He said it was some shite his gran had brought home.

That's one groovy granny.

soulfinger wrote:That's one groovy granny.

Yeah, she was a sweetheart. Unfortuately her good taste hasnt been inherited by her grandson though, who remains a dyed in the wool Howard Jones fan.

I cant remember a time when i didnt know this song,
Seriously , i cant

Hope the thread is not too old to reply for...

I remembered the day when I went to my record shop because I wanted to buy a record...at any costs.
So I flipped through the boxes and somehow the name "Pogues" came to my mind because I heard it somewhere.
I found the box and the first record there was the "If I should fall..." LP.
I looked at the cover and thought: "Wow...what a cool and also strange looking bunch of blokes ! This could be quite interesting...."
Came home, put the LP on the turntable, heard the first seconds of the the title track and said to myself: "Yes...this is it !"

Memory of when? Memory in general? That's asking a lot after 20+ years of drinkin' (AND 10+ years of marriage)... but I know the song was Streams of Whiskey...

When "Dirty Old Town" was released ('84?)

Bought the single,been a fan ever since.

'88 or '89. I was just a kid. My aunt was into them, so I got to hear all of her records when she still lived near my parents' house.

radioclash wrote:'88 or '89. I was just a kid. My aunt was into them, so I got to hear all of her records when she still lived near my parents' house.

Cool aunty... I think I first heard 'Dirty Old Town' in around 91-92 very acid-hazy-daisy days those ones.

Embarrassingly (for a folk-singer) it was only 2 years ago that I first heard Ewan MacColl's original recording....

Was at a friend's house listening to music in 87/88. He told me to check this cassette out--Red Roses. Transmetropolitan was the first song I heard. Listened to the whole tape that day, and bought it the next day.

The tape was borrwed from a friend of his, of Mexican background. He saw them open for Los Lobos in LA, and said every Mexican-American in the crowd was chanting Pogues, Pogues, Pogues after the set.

Big fan ever since.

After growing up in Florida with nothing but hair bands on the radio I went to Notre Dame in the midwest for college and met kids form Chicago and New York who actually owned cool records (by then it was tapes). One of my housemates had Peace and Love which I literally wore out, but the real killer came in ~88 or 89 when I saw some Irish band in Chicago (they were in the movie Backdraft a few years later) and they played a bunch of Pogues covers. I was blown away by a great song asked my buddy what it was and he said, "It's 'Dirty Old Town' you idjit!" And I have been hooked ever since. I had no idea who Ewan MacColl was but I knew I loved the Pogues version of that song even though it was a cover. Kinda strange but that was when I knew I had to own as many Pogues albums as I could.

My story of discovering The Pogues is a strange one indeed...

For most of my childhood I had no idea who or what The Pogues and Shane MacGowan were. I have always first and foremost been a fan of heavy metal, with a particular interest in the genre of folk metal. One of my favorite folk metal bands, Cruachan, had their album "Folk-Lore" produced by a man named Shane MacGowan. Not only that, he did guest vocals on a couple of tracks - Ride On and Cruachan's version of Spancill Hill. Intrigued by his voice, I googled the name to see if he had been with any other bands or anything like that. Then you can probably figure out what happened from there.

my pogues first time:
it was about 2000 and i was 10, and my uncle was playing it in his car, he had some sort of compilation CD, it had evrything, Irish rover with the dubliners, fairytale of new york, IISFFTGOG too. that was the first time, but i have recemntly started listening alot now, its my ICT teachers fault at school, hes a memeber of this forum too but i dunno his name, EVERY lesson he plays his entire collection of the pogues, in my opiion its great but as you do in high school you get the losers who only know one type of music and have no opinions about antyhing except what they like, yknow, the ones who think the whole world is against them.

I was going with a waitress who worked at a club in Hoboken where The Pogues were making their US debut. There was no string I could pull to get into that club for that show. That's why, to this day, I take a very dim view on strings.

bushsux wrote:...That's why, to this day, I take a very dim view on strings....

So, you'd hate Mantovani's music then. And marionettes. Oh, and shoelaces?

I can't remember exactly when I first discovered the Pogues, but I remember the first album I bought by them. It was The Very Best of The Pogues, and from the moment I first heard Dirty Old Town, I became a fan for life. The first time I heard A Pair of Brown Eyes, I must have hit repeat on my CD player at least ten times. What a fucking feeling. GOD BLESS THE POGUES!!!!!!!!!!!