Bloody hell, it's been 20 years?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 8 October 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
was there a different version of "Rainy Night in Soho" on the US version of Poguetry in Motion? I don't remember the arrangement being so treacly as the version that's on spotify.
Not sure what's on US Spotify but afaik there are three widely available versions:
From the UK Poguetry in Motion EP (Shane's preferred version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNdeQda2fDg
From the US/Canadian Poguetry in Motion EP (Elvis Costello's preferred version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwPJDfvV6Fc
1991 remix by Steve Lillywhite from the reissue of the EP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSyL-TrD_2g
― Number None, Saturday, 15 October 2022 14:34 (one year ago) link
yes! that second version is the one i remember. elvis is right!
i guess the lillywhite version splits the difference.
thanks!
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Saturday, 15 October 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
The picture I saw of Shane just now looked so terrible I 1) won't post it and 2) first thought it had been altered. Sad.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 25 November 2023 23:52 (five months ago) link
Pretty much every photo I've seen of Shane (including the ones from Springsteen's visit) were a shock to me. I didn't realize he was in such poor health.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 26 November 2023 03:39 (five months ago) link
This one was *far* worse than the Springsteen one ...
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 26 November 2023 04:21 (five months ago) link
He's being released from hospital though, at least there's that
― StanM, Sunday, 26 November 2023 16:33 (five months ago) link
Of course I love his music, but he's been physically declining for quite a while.
Being constantly drunk and ravaged and a bit unhinged has been his brand for decades.
Obviously I wish peace and love to him and his family and friends and fans. But you can't simultaneously dance on the edge of the abyss and be offended about the existence of the abyss.
― Iris Demented (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 26 November 2023 18:53 (five months ago) link
I thought that picture was going to be worse, he looks about as good as I'd expect given everything
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 26 November 2023 20:13 (five months ago) link
maybe it's a different photo? they've always been degrees of bad, for decades. The one I saw looked like he had just gotten out of a prison camp.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 26 November 2023 22:52 (five months ago) link
He's been living on borrowed time since at least the early 90s.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 27 November 2023 18:58 (five months ago) link
I guess you'll be hearing fairytale of new york a lot this year:https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/11/30/shane-macgowan-fairytale-of-new-york-singer-dies-aged-65/
― plax (ico), Thursday, 30 November 2023 12:03 (five months ago) link
Classic. RIP.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 November 2023 12:45 (five months ago) link
Yea was gonna say Fairytale is going to hit diff this year. Saw the man perform twice and he was a mess both times. 20 years ago we were regulars at the Tuesday night music-themed pub quiz at the pub he owned. He was often there and I once watched him order a round of drinks while talking about himself in the 3rd person and then realized they were all for him. RIP.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 30 November 2023 12:54 (five months ago) link
rest in peace to a brilliant songwriter, interpreter, etc.
i’d say it’s time to pour one out, but really it’s time to pour out 10-15
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 November 2023 13:07 (five months ago) link
Back in the 80s every article I read about him mentioned his imminent death. I guess making it to Senior Citizen age is something of a win for the human body.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 30 November 2023 13:13 (five months ago) link
I once watched him order a round of drinks while talking about himself in the 3rd person and then realized they were all for him. RIP.
As fine a eulogy as anyone could want.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 30 November 2023 13:28 (five months ago) link
oh. that's why he was allowed to leave the hospital... RIP
― StanM, Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:00 (five months ago) link
I am literally fighting back tears. RIP, you bastard.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:00 (five months ago) link
Dammit I loved his music so much, RIP
― meaner stinks meat bake it cone (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:12 (five months ago) link
so many of his lyrics would be fitting eulogies. always seems to be such with fast-living poets
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:23 (five months ago) link
This is payback for Kissinger, I'm convinced. RIP
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:26 (five months ago) link
😥https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q7307IWwr4
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:56 (five months ago) link
RIP :(
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:00 (five months ago) link
couldn't just let us have Kissinger. RIP....Pogues were always one of my favs
hope you've moved on to a Dirty Old Town in the sky ole pal
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:07 (five months ago) link
Crock of Gold is an excellent doc though just gutting, I don't know if I'd recommend it today.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:09 (five months ago) link
first thing I wanted to listen to, this version especially
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDvaHvNQsDw
― StanM, Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:12 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJx5GJFyy9Q
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:18 (five months ago) link
What a singer, what a songwriter, what a presence in the world. Even if he lived the cliche of the self-destructive artist, he never indulged in the pretensions it often encourages. His art was clear-eyed even when it was sentimental. R.I.P. to one of my all-time favorites.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:27 (five months ago) link
fuck. RIP. loved his music so muchme fave:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNtQ5AnRlz8
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:44 (five months ago) link
thanks for the great songs Shane
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:45 (five months ago) link
Ouch but also yeah, kinda figured this was coming
― Iris Demented (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:47 (five months ago) link
He could been someone, and was.
― Iris Demented (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:51 (five months ago) link
I remember Jimmy Tarbuck lauding him as "a brilliant writer"
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:33 (five months ago) link
It's been coming for 25 years. :/
UMS - Haunted is one of my fave songs of all time. Made me so sad earlier when I realized.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:34 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCMoXL-Iq1U
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:35 (five months ago) link
According to James Fearnley's book, at least 35.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:38 (five months ago) link
RIP. He's meant a lot to me over 35 years, partly diaspora/background reasons but really a songwriter like no other, god those London songs alone - Transmetropolitan, Dark Streets of London, Old Main Drag, London Girl etc etc - damn.
Now get back out there and fuck them up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vXMRDs8i5g
― woof, Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:42 (five months ago) link
like the case for a lot of acts, i first became aware of the pogues via an SNL appearance and i was blown away. shane was absolutely unintelligible but completely mesmerizing. so much genius work -- i actually think my favorite for quite awhile was The Snake, i played the hell out of that one.
it is genuinely sad to see him as a young man because he really just looks like a kid around the time the pogues started up, and to see him recently has been depressing. he looked like he was a couple decades older. he had a lot of love in his life, though. so many people stuck by him til the end.
― omar little, Thursday, 30 November 2023 17:29 (five months ago) link
the nipple erector/nips stuff isn't essential but they have some fun stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bDDAOJV1xU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpD4J7ShRDw
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 November 2023 18:17 (five months ago) link
Is Elvis C's production of Rum... his best? I think so.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 November 2023 18:21 (five months ago) link
Rum... was the first album I heard, and I didn't love it; I thought the production was too bass-heavy (though I was listening to it on a cassette, in a Walkman) and there were too many slow songs. It wasn't until I tracked down a copy of Red Roses for Me that they really cracked open for me. Nowadays I love their first three albums and the Poguetry In Motion EP, but never heard anything after that. (And of course they were fine actors as well; anyone who hasn't seen Alex Cox's Straight to Hell should, at least once.)
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 30 November 2023 18:27 (five months ago) link
Poguetry In Motion is my favorite, "A Rainy Night in Soho" in particular.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 November 2023 18:28 (five months ago) link
I thought the production was too bass-heavy
did you have some bass boost switch on like they used to have back then? Cuz it's just not overly bass heavy in terms of the mix on speakers or decent headphones
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 November 2023 18:32 (five months ago) link
i mean it's got bass, sounds really full and good to me but not weirdly so
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 November 2023 18:33 (five months ago) link
Navigator is a pretty good song
― Iris Demented (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 November 2023 18:33 (five months ago) link
"Waxie's Dargle" is full-on mental.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 30 November 2023 18:54 (five months ago) link
My fave album of theirs for a long time was If I Should Fall From Grace With God and we used to blast it as we peeled out of the high school parking lot. I love the maudlin songs too just in a different way. When they were in party mode they were SO much fun.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 November 2023 18:55 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsKa3vcF2Pg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 30 November 2023 18:56 (five months ago) link
I used to LOVE dancing to that song ^^ in my room and was always afraid my jumping would make the plaster fall into the room below me.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 November 2023 18:59 (five months ago) link