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
the devil's in the chair
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Thursday, 30 November 2023 19:24 (five months ago) link
xposts The best Elvis C. production is "Free Nelson Mandela."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 November 2023 19:30 (five months ago) link
One late teenage friendship involved yelling 'what'll you have/I'll have a pint/I'll have a pint with you sir' at each other a lot, often but not exclusively in pubs. My god we were annoying.
― woof, Thursday, 30 November 2023 19:31 (five months ago) link
xps idk the Special's 1st sounds as good (maybe not good-good, but right) if not better than RS&tL to me, but I like the sound he gets on both of them.
― woof, Thursday, 30 November 2023 19:34 (five months ago) link
Agree Poguetry in Motion is peak. There have been annoying uses of Body of an American (yes you The Wire) but fuck that last verse is a beauty
― woof, Thursday, 30 November 2023 19:38 (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. ― omar little, Thursday, 30 November 2023 17:29 (two hours ago) link
― omar little, Thursday, 30 November 2023 17:29 (two hours ago) link
I remember watching this when it was live and my mother, who often had trouble sleeping, would sometimes come downstairs & watch tv with me, was proper horrified by Shane's teeth "my god his teeth!"
UMS & I saw him with the Popes in the late 90s and it was hugely chaotic, drunken affair, I think they had played Chicago the night before and rumor was Shane was still in the greater Cook County area at showtime, he did eventually appear one or two songs into the show but he even though he was upright and singing he was clearly not exactly...er awake. Then about halfway through the song he eyes suddenly opened, he came awake in the middle of singing and the whole crowd roared and his face, he looked like he was amazed to be alive, there was so much joy in his eyes at that moment. RIP
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 30 November 2023 19:54 (five months ago) link
from what it sounds to me Elvis did what you should do with a great live band, mostly get out of the way
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 November 2023 19:54 (five months ago) link
yep -- most producers don't know this wisdom though!
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 November 2023 19:55 (five months ago) link
from what it sounds to me Elvis did what you should do with a great live band, mostly get out of the way marry the bass player― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 November 2023 19:54 (two minutes ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 November 2023 19:54 (two minutes ago) link
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 30 November 2023 19:59 (five months ago) link
I'm sure Cait said in an interview they never actually married?
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:03 (five months ago) link
i didn’t really get into the Pogues until i was at Uni the only song i really knew before i knew them was the covers like Dirty Old Town & Band Played Waltzing Matilda — mostly because my mum was super into Irish folk music & i occasionally went with her to some of the local regional celtic music festivalsbut at Uni we had this bush dance night where they had a live band playing old australian folk songs & sorta square dance things - it was corny & fun & we all got rolling drunk. after the final dances & everyone was leaving but the band were still set up & playing, my friend who was a rabid pogues song asked the band if they knew any pogues songs, they were up for it i guess because they played for maybe 5 or 10 of us and ripped through a bunch of Pogueswe had so much fun & i fell in love w the songs immediately my friend gave me a cassette copy of Rum Sodomy & The Lash the next day and it stayed in my car stereo for years afterwards, excellent for long boring drives back & forth between my home town & uni truly some of the best soul-stirring music for me personallymcgowans version of the band played waltzing matilda still makes me cry every goddamn time
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:17 (five months ago) link
"now come you gentleman soldier, won't you marry me??"
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:19 (five months ago) link
xp Passage from EC's autobiography:
Cait O'Riordan and I were not married in any church or by any legal authority, but our own were once sincere and certainly bound us to each other. ...She played in The Pogues, led by a great songwriter who was utterly contemptuous of me, although I admired him nonetheless. I produced the only good and truthful-sounding record they ever made...
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She played in The Pogues, led by a great songwriter who was utterly contemptuous of me, although I admired him nonetheless. I produced the only good and truthful-sounding record they ever made...
― Tim, Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:31 (five months ago) link
Should be "our vows" not "our own"
Red Roses sounds about as good tbh, like more fun, but fair play EC that Lillywhite sound on If I should fall… has its moments but gets in the way
― woof, Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:36 (five months ago) link
i told my story re being behind shane at a mark stewart gig in the other thread re shane.
there is now photographic evidence ..
no idea if this will work.
https://scontent.fbrs4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/405226775_10227254469802156_1410091209896366032_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=c42490&_nc_ohc=YREGHa5irpQAX8qtn6W&_nc_ht=scontent.fbrs4-2.fna&oh=00_AfB5oUyXjWhuX9OYUUTBfGmwG0q0zSHpYxekyHnH_4Cuag&oe=656D5617
― mark e, Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:43 (five months ago) link
mcgowans version of the band played waltzing matilda still makes me cry every goddamn time― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, November 30, 2023 8:17 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, November 30, 2023 8:17 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I read this post and thought 'yes, brilliant version that I appreciate but I am hard hearted now, no, no tears for me' but it just came on and ofc I'm broken.
― woof, Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:50 (five months ago) link