RIP Shane MacGowan- The Pogues

[ramonesfreak]

RIP - thanks for decades of drunken memories and being the soundtrack to so many of my celebrations and for writing the best Christmas song ever !

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67546785





Me daddy was a blue shirt and my mother a madam
My brother earned his medals at Mai Lei in Vietnam

[TimT]

I saw The Pogues at a club in NYC years ago,....what a rip roaring drunkfest that was.. I still feel the hangoever

RIP

[ramonesfreak]

how i do wish i could walk down to McSorleys right now, sit by the stove and drink all day, headphones on blasting Pogues as usual - my record is 24 darks and im sure i could do better

:-(

[ramonesfreak]

Sitting at the bar at McSorleys 14 years ago

[drcoastline]

You picked a fitting time of year to catch up with Kirsty.

[masraum]

I saw the other thread, but didn't know who it was.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/1151384-shane-macgowan-rip.html?highlight=macgowan

Looks like Herr-O also got him posted into JoeBob's thread
Ultimate Death Fairy Thread.....semi famous, who cares, people who just died.....

I've heard of the Pogues. I have a Pandora channel that was created from Flogging Molly and the Dropkick Murphys. I think the Pogues have come up in that channel before.

Yep, I decided to queue up my Flogging Molly station. The 7th song that was played was "The Limerick Rake" by the Pogues.

[drcoastline]

Sorry I didn't see the other thread.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by drcoastline

Sorry I didn't see the other thread.

No worries, because of your thread, I now know who he is.

[drcoastline]

Originally Posted by masraum

No worries, because of your thread, I now know who he is.

[Seahawk]

I merged the threads for you Pogue's

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/pogue/

I had no idea but have now a music quest.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

I merged the threads for you Pogue's

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/pogue/

I had no idea but have now a music quest.

I have no idea what introduced me to the music that caused me to create a station full of Irish, Scottish, and maybe some English music, but I love it. If I had to categorize it, I'd probably (in my uneducated mind) call it folk music or pub music, although I'm sure cognoscenti would probably tell me that it's half a dozen different genre.

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Upon further research, It looks like most of the music that is in my station is considered "Celtic punk". According to wikipedia "the genre was popularized in the 1980s by the Pogues."

[drcoastline]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

I merged the threads for you Pogue's

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/pogue/

I had no idea but have now a music quest.

Thanks Seahawk

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

I merged the threads for you Pogue's

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/pogue/

I had no idea but have now a music quest.

That is a strange and frustrating way to mess up the Gaelic word for "kiss".

[TimT]

Well The Pogues

name is just a shortened turn of another phrase

póg mo thóin

the left the my ass off.. though they meant it every time they performed

[unclebilly]

I am a fan. I love Celtic music and go through phases where this is all I listen to.

Celtic music is always WAY better live. Always.

Pogue is also a slang terms for ‘welfare’. So if you are on the Pogue, this means you are getting some form of government aid. I always guessed this was what they named the band after.

RIP Mr. MacGowan.

[drcoastline]

[ramonesfreak]

Tom Waits on Shane MacGowan in 1999:
"Shane has the gift. I believe him. He knows how to tell a story. The Pogues are a roaring, stumbling band. These are the Dead End kids for real. Shane's voice conveys so much… It's whimsical and blasphemous, seasick and sacrilegious."

[ramonesfreak]

Well worth the $4 rental - directed by Julien Temple

https://www.amazon.com/Crock-Gold-Rounds-Shane-MacGowan/dp/B08PC3T3HD?nodl=1&dplnkId=31b459c3-b5ea-4d6a-97e0-b0de8b4b6753

[TimT]

He and Kirsty MacColl were magic in the ditty..

[drcoastline]