piapogue
| | Posted: Jan 27, 2013 - 17:23 | |
Love this. I learned this song from the Pogues, then went to Ireland and sang along in a pub to this version. Great memory!
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coloradojohn
(A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver) | | Posted: Jan 27, 2013 - 17:20 | |
This always makes me smile and remember the happy carefree days when I first discovered it...and I'm happy to hear it here!
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ziakut
(Slightly North of Obvlivion) | | Posted: Dec 27, 2012 - 09:04 | |
English. Dirty. Painful. These guys need mouthwash and professional dentistry. Otherwise...they're great!
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onelittlemoose
(Mooseville, Canada) | | Posted: Oct 25, 2012 - 15:40 | |
Proclivities wrote:
I told my boss that very phrase the other day... didn't work out so well. The persistent problem of existence.
Pffft! Almost choked on my beer. You're funny. |
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vanmas
(Leiden, Netherlands) | | Posted: Sep 24, 2012 - 03:28 | |
To early for this over here...
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Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC) | | Posted: Sep 08, 2012 - 19:14 | |
RoelantSiekman wrote:I am not drunk enough, yet.. I told my boss that very phrase the other day... didn't work out so well. The persistent problem of existence. |
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RoelantSiekman
(Rotterdam, The Netherlands) | | Posted: Apr 19, 2012 - 05:31 | |
I am not drunk enough, yet..
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ScottN
(Condo in Gaza full time now. Thank TFSM I saw the divot where the landmine was placed.) | | Posted: Feb 15, 2012 - 18:58 | |
Good song (did Rod Stewart do a version of this back in the 60's?), but a GREAT cd/album title—especially in view of the classic album cover!
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Mozart
(Salzburg) | | Posted: Jan 15, 2012 - 00:22 | |
fredriley wrote:
Quite. Other than the Pogues, the only time I hear this song 'sung' is by loud pissants in pubs or staggering home. Which is fine if you're pissed (note for those across the Pond: pissed = drunk in UK English), but tedious and irritating if you're not.
UK English is English inn't it? Across the Pond they speak 'merican |
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fredriley
(Nottingham, UK) | | Posted: Dec 14, 2011 - 06:36 | |
LongGoneDaddy wrote:it's way to early for this shit...need a few drinks first to deal with this...
Quite. Other than the Pogues, the only time I hear this song 'sung' is by loud pissants in pubs or staggering home. Which is fine if you're pissed (note for those across the Pond: pissed = drunk in UK English), but tedious and irritating if you're not. |
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Poacher
(Brighton, UK) | | Posted: Dec 14, 2011 - 06:33 | |
BBOGDA wrote:OK. Sometimes I wonder why RP doesn't play the occasional or even rare hip-hop or rap song. I realize those generas aren't everyone's cup of tea and also not my favorite, but there are some good songs out there, and I do like to occasionally listen to them. Some are every bit as good as this song. Yuk. Now THAT is a very good point. I'd love to hear some good hip-hip and rap here even though I know it would not be liked by many. It only needs to be on occasionally. . . and would balance out this piece of shite. |
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LongGoneDaddy
| | Posted: Dec 14, 2011 - 06:31 | |
it's way to early for this shit...need a few drinks first to deal with this...
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TerryS
(Another SW) | | Posted: Nov 28, 2011 - 19:42 | |
Wonder what Ewan MacColl would have made of the various versions of his Salford rant.
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Stranglersfan
(Revelstoke, B.C.) | | Posted: Nov 28, 2011 - 19:41 | |
Great Music, Great Album!
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BBOGDA
| | Posted: Nov 12, 2011 - 13:54 | |
OK. Sometimes I wonder why RP doesn't play the occasional or even rare hip-hop or rap song. I realize those generas aren't everyone's cup of tea and also not my favorite, but there are some good songs out there, and I do like to occasionally listen to them. Some are every bit as good as this song. Yuk.
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woodchuk
(Lunar Lagrange point L1) | | Posted: Oct 28, 2011 - 05:24 | |
A most excellent album with a most excellent title!
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MiracleDrug
(Earth) | | Posted: Oct 28, 2011 - 05:22 | |
I CAN NOT hear this song and not think about the series finale of Rescue Me...
arrgh.
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ferwoman
| | Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 00:33 | |
Seriously at first I thought this was a Monty Python "I'm a Lumberjack" singalong.  |
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allabout
(Perth Western Australia) | | Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 00:29 | |
Let's all sing-a-long, Dirty old town
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Mugro
(My body is in Dubai, my heart is in Red Sox Nation) | | Posted: Aug 26, 2011 - 03:47 | |
daveesh wrote:interesting song to play on the day whitey bulger is scheduled to get shipped back to boston to face all those charges.
 Ole Whitey is now a "guest of the Commonwealth" as an old crusty judge I used to appear before used to say. |
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Foot
(NorCal / Wine) | | Posted: Jul 25, 2011 - 18:30 | |
"...give it their best shot & keep on going." Keith Richards as poster child for that comment.
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Captain-Fishy
(more than halfway to paradise) | | Posted: Jun 24, 2011 - 06:35 | |
...and still knocking it out just last weekend at the London Feis
http://youtu.be/EJo8makTdFA
mad as a fish but still a genius!
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daveesh
(birthplace of the american revolution) | | Posted: Jun 24, 2011 - 06:33 | |
interesting song to play on the day whitey bulger is scheduled to get shipped back to boston to face all those charges.
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Alexandra
(Hopefully, departing the Gem City VERY soon) | | Posted: Jun 24, 2011 - 06:29 | |
sirdroseph wrote:By far my favorite Pogues song!  There is a local band that covers this whenever they play our Irish pub! They do a great job, too. |
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jchrise
| | Posted: May 23, 2011 - 14:30 | |
Oh God....just realized...THIS must be where The Decemberists got their sound. Gag!
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bubink
(Bellevue, Nebraska) | | Posted: May 23, 2011 - 14:28 | |
Kind of a deep cut, but a great one! I can't get enough of these guys...
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tpowers
| | Posted: Mar 05, 2011 - 10:27 | |
Saw then last night in Royal Oak.
Probably last time around for the gang.
Older but same old spirit(s).
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Xstar
(Florence, Kentucky) | | Posted: Feb 18, 2011 - 03:14 | |
And this song makes his alcoholism and condition seem all the more sad.  |
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kcar
| | Posted: Feb 02, 2011 - 02:53 | |
How Shane MacGowan still breathes is beyond me. More power to him for it.
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calypsus_1
| | Posted: Jan 07, 2011 - 17:49 | |
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