What Is Your No. 1 Favourite Pogues Song?

[Fr. McGreer]

Wow this post is old but I can't help but adding my two cents.

I love I'm a Man You Don't Meet Everyday. The lyrics are so eerie and melancholy and Cait's singing is angelic.

But my favorite original Pogues' song would either be Bastard Landlord or Boys from the County Hell. Love the entirety of Bastard Landlord, but those two verses of BFCH really make the song. You know:

But now I've the most charming of verandas
I sit and watch the junkies, the drunks, the pimps, the whores
Five green bottles sitting on the floor
I wish to Christ, I wish to Christ that I had fifteen more...
The boys and me are drunk and looking for you
We'll eat your frigging entrails and we won't give a damn
Me daddy was a blue shirt and my mother a madam
My brother earned his medals at My Lei in Vietnam

Actually now that I think over it more, all of BFCH is absolutely ingenious. I can hardly choose between the three, but I guess I'll have to pick AMYDME as my absolute all time favorite. And there are so many more I wish I could add...

Good choice and welcome aboard The Raft. BFTCH is one of my all time favourites also. Picking a cover version, I'd have to go for The Parting Glass or The Limerick Rake.

[Low D]

Wow this post is old but I can't help but adding my two cents.

I love I'm a Man You Don't Meet Everyday. The lyrics are so eerie and melancholy and Cait's singing is angelic.

To pick a fave Pogues song is a difficult thing indeed, but this is definitely my favourite of the traditionals/covers, for the reasons you've said.

Favourite instrumental would be "A Pistol For Paddy Garcia".

Favourite ballad is "Rainy Night In Soho."

Favourite overall is "Sickbed of Cuchulain".

Clearly the Rum/Poguetry era is my favourite, although there are many many many close seconds in all of these categories, and even my picking a ballad & "overall" is really just a way of saying tied for first place.