What's your very first memory of hearing the Pogues

[Eric V]

Some would say hard work.... others would say a lovingly executed ceremonial expression of .....something. Like a Japanese tea, making cappuccino, or building a proper mint julep.

[Shant on]

Some would say hard work.... others would say a lovingly executed ceremonial expression of .....something. Like a Japanese tea, making cappuccino, or building a proper mint julep.

Your man sounds like an artist / artisan at work.

Personally I cant bear gin after over indulging on the day I left school.

I was going to ask you if that was a mint julep. I'm in completely uncharted territory here.

Another current favourite is half campari, half martini rosso,ice. Simple, quite bitter, refreshing. Excellent before a meal. Such as breakfast.

[Eric V]

Excellent before a meal. Such as breakfast.

[Eric V]

I was going to ask you if that was a mint julep. I'm in completely uncharted territory here.

naaaa, a julep is basically sugar in a glass, crush up some mint leaves using the sugar to tear the leaves apart while you crush the leaves with a pestle, and then fill with ice and with whiskey. And then sip slowly. And the sun should be up, it should be hot and humid outside, and you should have nothing really important to do for the rest of the day, as the mint in both of these drinks will cause you to do some strange stuff. Like starting a moose calling competition, or wading through a stream with a friend, covered in mud, with spears you fashion out of sticks, with an uprooted clump of grass on your head for camouflage, and stuff like that. Mint -- its powerful stuff.

[CraigBatty]

...and stuff like that. Mint -- its powerful stuff.

"Mint" Yeah, right "Mint"... sounds more like daytura, matey-Jim. And I told you, as your 300-pound Samoan doctor, I cannot condone the use of psilocybin mushrooms as a cocktail garnish - without repeatedly test-sampling it with you to ensure non-toxicity.

[Eric V]

got to be in the right mood for a drink with mint in it. The two afore mentioned drinks are the only two I can think of that I like. And just because its got mint does not mean it must be green. I can't see drinking a green drink. Which brings us back to the Pogues, by way of green beer.

[Eric V]

Wait.... a mojito is a fine mint drink as well. Ok, I'm done.

[Fr. McGreer]

Get back on thread!!!

All great stories then it turns into a chin wag about drinks for f*@ks sake! Now no new posts for 3 weeks.

Anyone got any memories?.....Mr. Chevron?

[rain dog]

that's a bit soft isn't it? a whole week to drink only two bottles of whiskey... apachetear, if you're still having trouble with the whiskey, you're allowed a beer chaser.

back on topic, i can't really recall the first time i hear FoNY, it seems to have always been lingering there, somewhere in the past, showing up on christmas/new years clip shows... however, it never really grabbed a firm hold of me (i hate to say it, but the word 'novelty' is rattling 'round inside my head... albeit, one of the greatest 'novelty' tunes ever written.

my earliest seem to involve going to watch old firm matches down the boozer (come on cetic!) many years back (before i was even legal...), and for the past who-knows-however-man years, they've been my favorite band. i'd always been drawn to 'interesting' voices, growing up listening to waits, cohen, the gospel of the blind boys of alabama, golden gate quartet, the harmonizing four, charles taylor (oh yeah!) and the taylor singers, and in my teens, nick cave.

this is not to mention the old boys of pop like louis armstrong, ray charles and johnny cash, but i grew up waking up to my fathers gospel records (later cd's...).

needless to say, the combination of vocals with a bit of grit, character and a bit of 'living' behind them, amazing, soaring vocals and lyrics that went a little further beyond tales of boy/girl woes is what really got me about the pogues.

i'm a second-generation yugoslav living in australia, so i can identify with songs such as 'thousands are sailing' too, and i know my parents can especially (the slavs are almost like the irish of eastern europe... ruled by invading forces for ages, scattered across the globe, and tearing apart their own homelands from the inside out), and 'south australia' (when WILL the pogues next be bound for south australia?) and of course 'the band played waltzing matilda', a song that so many years later still finds me welling up

i still listen to a bit of waits and the pogues every day (all other music, and i have a lot of it, continually has to make way for these two staples) and my father still wakes me every sunday morning with his beloved gospel... there is no such thing as a sunday morning without mahalia jackson here... cuts through a foggy alcohol like nothing else

sorry about the ramble! the point is i bought 'rum...' years ago, and by the end was left in tears at its conclusion... right back to the start to do it all again

sorry again this took so long!
a drink to the pogues!

[Fr. McGreer]

fair play Rain Dog.

[Fr. McGreer]

Another month gone by, no new stories. 1387 members. anyone got any memories?

[DzM]

Another month gone by, no new stories. 1387 members. anyone got any memories?

I used to but have since forgot them.

[Sam's Cross]

I first heard The Pogues in September 1988, IISFFGWG it was, in Colleen Mooney's dorm room at the University of Michigan. We drank martini's and she was my first love. When we parted a year later she was still as catholic as when we met, but I had been savagely ravaged by The Pogues and remain so to this very day.

[Sam's Cross]

BTW, a mint julip with Knob Creek is great, but you can't drink three of them.

[CraigBatty]

I first heard The Pogues in September 1988, IISFFGWG it was, in Colleen Mooney's dorm room at the University of Michigan. We drank martini's and she was my first love. When we parted a year later she was still as catholic as when we met, but I had been savagely ravaged by The Pogues and remain so to this very day.

Now THERE'S a lyric Sam's! Go write a tune for THAT sucker! Love it!