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Here a tower shinning bright
Once stood gleaming in the night
Where now there's just the rubble
In the hole here the paddies and the frogs
Came to gamble on the dogs
Came to gamble on the dogs not long ago
Oh the torn up ticket stubs
From a hundred thousand mugs
Now washed away with dead dreams in the rain
And the car-parks going up
And they're pulling down the pubs
And its just another bloody rainy day
Oh sweet city of my dreams
Of speed and skill and schemes
Like Atlantis you just disappeared from view
And the hare upon the wire
Has been burnt upon your pyre
Like the black dog that once raced
Out from trap two
| scrubbrush (All lost in the supermarket) | Posted: Mar 07, 2013 - 15:14 More Pogues please. |
| ScottFromWyoming (Powell) | Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 14:44  Peace and Love (1989) |
| BibKiller (seattle) | Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 14:42 Aaah yes! the Pogues rock!   |
| Boy_Wonder (Bath, back in the UK) | Posted: Aug 31, 2012 - 07:35 Bit of a Brit-friendly feel to RP this afternoon... 801 - Tomorrow never knows Joe Cocker The Jam and now Shane and his bunch of rabble rousers... not their best song, but certainly up there... |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Jul 30, 2012 - 21:35 Phlegmaticman wrote: People complain that modern music is all based on looks. People make fun of the way musicians look. Are these the same people? I don't know, do they also play music? |
| Phlegmaticman (270 miles south of Paradise, CA) | Posted: Jun 29, 2012 - 11:14 People complain that modern music is all based on looks. People make fun of the way musicians look. Are these the same people? |
| kcar | Posted: May 28, 2012 - 13:56 jhorton wrote:  Lord, even his dentures are clapped out. How is this man still alive? Does he have new livers swapped in like fresh batteries? |
| railroadwail (Deep in Penn's Woods) | Posted: May 28, 2012 - 13:49 Shane and the Pogues! |
| toterola (Further) | Posted: Jan 22, 2012 - 17:23 I love these guys, even if they're walking adverts for oral hygiene. Sláinte, Shane, you sodden prick!  |
| scrubbrush (Sea of Calm) | Posted: Apr 13, 2011 - 09:55 jhorton wrote: Better than the originals!  |
| iam_overlord (Brighton, MA) | Posted: Apr 13, 2011 - 09:53 Ah, the Pogues. It's been too long! |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Aug 03, 2010 - 08:47 Pòg mo thòin   I saw this bunch at a Nottingham festival last year, and Shane McGowan was absolutely pissed as a fart, such that he had to be led off the stage at one point to be replaced by someone who could sing. The band themselves were troupers who carried on despite Shane's babbling. Sadly I couldn't last the whole of the gig as I'd come down with feckin' swine flu so had to leave early :( |
| ick (S.E. La Jolla) | Posted: Jul 02, 2010 - 11:48 See comment posted Aug 06, 2008 - 10:50. |
| Poacher (Brighton, UK) | Posted: Mar 29, 2010 - 07:38 jhorton wrote: Thank you |
| Bleyfusz | Posted: Nov 23, 2009 - 10:40 Bleyfusz wrote: Way underplayed on RP: The Pogues. iscoot4peace wrote: I completely agree with you! ....on such a great station, I forgot to add. |
| rtb (NE corner of Work and Boredom) | Posted: Nov 23, 2009 - 10:39 Bleyfusz wrote: Way underplayed on RP: The Pogues. +1 |
| CyberCoyote (Central Cali Coast) | Posted: Oct 23, 2009 - 01:07 Awesome.. now how 'bout some locals who do Celtic music.. The Black Irish band |
| iscoot4peace | Posted: Sep 21, 2009 - 11:32 Bleyfusz wrote: Way underplayed on RP: The Pogues. I completely agree with you! |
| Bleyfusz | Posted: Jul 20, 2009 - 08:26 Way underplayed on RP: The Pogues. |
| ptooey | Posted: Jun 18, 2009 - 13:21 jhorton wrote: ; "Eek") |
| jhorton | Posted: May 17, 2009 - 19:09 |
| jhorton | Posted: May 17, 2009 - 19:06 WonderLizard wrote: Shane MacGowan—worst teeth in rock'n'roll. Wrong dude-Shane's got shiny new store bought teeth. |
| countyman (sixburgh) | Posted: Mar 15, 2009 - 15:40 I have this cd and I wish Bill had the cover image for all to see. Shane REALLY needs to spend about five hours in a dentist chair. |
| toterola (Somewhere between Shipping and Receiving) | Posted: Dec 10, 2008 - 19:40 God bless Shane, and God bless the Pogues! Erin Go deo!  |
| deadmessengers (Atlanta) | Posted: Oct 08, 2008 - 16:01 Not my favorite Pogues song by a longshot, but this works. |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Aug 06, 2008 - 10:53 Shane MacGowan—worst teeth in rock'n'roll. |
| ick (San Diego, CA) | Posted: Aug 06, 2008 - 10:50 Wow! First the Jam and now the Pogues... I am diggin' it Bill! |
| RadioDoc (Chicagoland) | Posted: Aug 06, 2008 - 10:50 Not normally a Pogues fan, but this one isn't horrid. |
| denmom (Connecticut) | Posted: Jun 04, 2008 - 08:47 Ericac wrote: If you like the Pogues, check out our favorite Newfoundland band, Great Big Sea. Life is much happier listening to their ditties. It's something about the drinking, horses and living on the "rock".
LOVE GBS. I live in a place where we still sing sea chanties in the local bar. Those boys are right up my alley. ...and mighty easy on the eyes, to boot. |
| Ericac (Lakeville, MN) | Posted: Apr 02, 2008 - 10:46 If you like the Pogues, check out our favorite Newfoundland band, Great Big Sea. Life is much happier listening to their ditties. It's something about the drinking, horses and living on the "rock". |
| Tailypoe (In the basement of Otto's Barouque Musick behing the boxes of pickle jars) | Posted: Jan 30, 2008 - 12:31 when you listen to the pogues life is all sorted out and you're best friends with jesus and you ride whales. after white city, U2 sounds like :puke:  :puke:
:puke: :puke: |
| mrcookieface (KCMO) | Posted: Jan 30, 2008 - 11:22 I can never hear enough Pogues on RP.  |
| Bleyfusz | Posted: Jan 30, 2008 - 11:21 Please please please: MORE POGUE MAHONES !!!!! |
| bodhisattva1031 (new jersey) | Posted: Nov 28, 2007 - 15:42 the jam, the pogues; i feel like i'm back at the record store i used to manage. how nice to hear them again.  |
| teapot (in orbit) | Posted: Nov 28, 2007 - 15:41 A toe tappin' tune! Saw these guys last year at the Fillmore, and the only time I could understand what Shane was saying was when he was singing.  |
| prickelpit96 (Hannover, Germany) | Posted: Jul 25, 2007 - 23:35 Hehe... About 20 years ago they played in a small club in my town....and the singer fell off the stage at the end of the concert...due to one bottle of whisky he had consumed along the show. 
I was highly impressed...  |
| Tagish_girl (desperatley seeking hammock) | Posted: Mar 22, 2007 - 06:45 Holy cow.... chair dancing set... The dangerous thing is, the chair has wheels, and coworkers are beginning to worry about my physical well being... happy Thursday everyone! |
| wally42 (Between a Rock and a Hard Place) | Posted: Mar 06, 2007 - 14:50 MinMan wrote: How about Van Morrison or Rory Gallagher for a start? In a different league? I agree, Shane's writing is a cut above those guys. |
| Pazzat (Winchester, England) | Posted: Feb 19, 2007 - 02:07 MinMan wrote: Ugh! These Pogues don't represent the best of Irish culture.
. Maybe not, but they have a specific take on London Irish culture: this is music of the diaspora. |
| Pazzat (Winchester, England) | Posted: Feb 19, 2007 - 01:50 hanssachs wrote: Hmmmm ... is that the same White City Pete Townshend wrote about (aboot)?
White City was a greyhound and speedway stadium in the West London suburb of Shepherd's Bush. The stadium was originally built for the 1908 Olympic Games, and it hosted athletics for decades until Crystal Palace opened. By the 1970s and 1980s, it was pretty shabby and run-down: this is the period that the Pogues are singing about, using the stadium as the focus for a eulogy on a London that was being replaced by Thatcher's vision for the capital. Here a tower shinning bright Once stood gleaming in the night Where now theres just the rubble In the hole here the paddies and the frogs Came to gamble on the dogs Came to gamble on the dogs not long ago Oh the torn up ticket stubs From a hundred thousand mugs Now washed away with dead dreams in the rain And the car-parks going up And theyre pulling down the pubs And its just another bloody rainy day Oh sweet city of my dreams Of speed and skill and schemes Like atlantis you just disappeared from view And the hare upon the wire Has been burnt upon your pyre Like the black dog that once raced Out from trap two. The site of the stadium now houses the BBC's Media Village. Townshend's White City is the nearby housing estate, a pretty rough area. It's all within a mile of the Goldhawk Road and other places from The Who's early history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_City%2C_London |
| MiketheKnife (Virginia) | Posted: Feb 17, 2007 - 00:04 MiketheKnife wrote: Brill! Great Craic this!
Christ- sorry- was channeling the voice of an Irish Au Pair I Knew in Germany- friend of an old girl friend- the destroyer of many a Hefeweizen glass. |
| MiketheKnife (Virginia) | Posted: Feb 03, 2007 - 19:39 Brill! Great Craic this! |
| wally42 (Between a Rock and a Hard Place) | Posted: Jan 05, 2007 - 14:47 MinMan wrote: How about Van Morrison or Rory Gallagher for a start? In a diffrerent league? Check out a documentary called "If I should fall from Grace" |
| Wilmshurst (My pineal gland) | Posted: Jan 05, 2007 - 14:27  |
| MinMan (Bay Area, CA) | Posted: Dec 11, 2006 - 16:43 wally42 wrote: Actually, Shane Mcgowen is revered as one of Ireland's greatest living poets and songwriters. So, what Irish culture are you referring to? How about Van Morrison or Rory Gallagher for a start? In a diffrerent league? |
| wally42 (Between a Rock and a Hard Place) | Posted: Dec 07, 2006 - 13:10 MinMan wrote: Ugh! These Pogues don't represent the best of Irish culture.
Maybe if they would lay off the Guiness.... naw, it's hopeless stuff. Actually, Shane Mcgowen is revered as one of Ireland's greatest living poets and songwriters. So, what Irish culture are you referring to? |
| MinMan (Bay Area, CA) | Posted: Dec 07, 2006 - 12:19 Ugh! These Pogues don't represent the best of Irish culture. Maybe if they would lay off the Guiness.... naw, it's hopeless stuff. |
| TJOpootertoot (Toronto) | Posted: Dec 07, 2006 - 12:18 Pogues - White City The Jam - Town Called Malice U2 - When Love Comes To Town I'm getting a municipal vibe, here. It's not the right time of year for "Summer in the City" so what else could be next? I hope it's not Mellencamp's "Small Town." TJ |
| Lizard62 (1290km N of Paradise) | Posted: Oct 24, 2006 - 16:34 just saw The Pogues in Vegas last week! - Shane and the boys are in great form! A show to be remembered. |
| quatsch (Honolulu, HI) | Posted: Oct 10, 2006 - 01:06 ThePoose wrote: Is Elvis C.'s ex, Kate, playing bass on this one?
No, this one's from "Peace and Love," which was two albums after "Rum, Sodomy and the Lash," which Costello produced and was the last album she played bass on. For me, this album is the beginning of the end for the Pogues. Funny that all I ever seem to hear on RP is stuff from this album and later. Funnier yet, RP is about the only place where you can hear post-Shane Macgowan Pogues (and that's not necessarily a good thing, even if you don't like Shane). |