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How in the hooly fook has this not been done? B'jaysis, people!

1. Fairytale Of New York
2. The Broad Majestic Shannon
3. The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn
4. Sally MacLennane
5. Streets Of Sorrow/Birmingham Six
6. Navigator
7. Young Ned Of The Hill
8. The Auld Triangle
9. The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
10. Thousands Are Sailing

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

1. fairytale of new york
2. dirty old town
3. lorelei
4. thousands are sailing
5. sick bed of cuchulainn
6. streets of sorrow
7. yeah yeah yeah yeah
8. if i should fall from grace with god
9. blue heaven
10. a pair of brown eyes

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

1. Bottle of Smoke
2. If I Should Fall from the Grace of God
3. The Sikbed Of Cuchulainn
4. The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
5. The Body Of An American
6. Transmetropolitan
7. The Sunnyside Of The Street
8. A Pair Of Brown Eyes
9. I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day
10. Dirty Old Town

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

London Girl
Rainy Night in Soho
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Dirty Old Town
The Sick Bed of Cúchulaínn
Bottle of Smoke
Thousands Are Sailing
Fairytale of New York
Bottle of Smoke

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

Bottle Of Smoke = so good it makes your list twice?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

hrmm. yes. and no. substitute "body of an american" and add their "the good, the bad and the ugly" cover from straight to hell, which i do really like for an even 11.

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

I endorse kyle's pox, except substituting "Summer in Siam" for "Streets of Sorrow."

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

1. Thousands Are Sailing
2. Fairytale of New York
3. Dirty Old Town
4. Rake at the Gates of Hell
5. Lorelei
6. The Sunnyside Of The Street
7. London Girl
8. If I Should Fall from Grace With God
9. Summer In Siam
10. A Pair Of Brown Eyes

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

1. the one about christmas in new york where he says faggot (and when RONAN KEATING sings it he doesnt say faggot)
2. BOUND FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA
3. the one where shane mcgowan sounds like he's DRUNK
4. the one where shane mcgowan spits out his last couple of teeth
5. the one where shane mcgowan sings "im drunk and ive lost my fuckin teeth...aaaaaaaahhhhhhhrrrrrrgggghhhhhhooooooaaaaaa!!!!!"

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

"the one where shane mcgowan sounds like he's DRUNK"

Can you narrow the field down just ever so slightly?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

1. The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn
2. Transmetropolitan
3. Young Ned of the Hill
4. Waxie's Dargle
5. Turkish Song of the Damned
6. The Auld Tryangle
7. Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
8. Gridlock
9. Dirty old Town
10. Streams of Whiskey

11. Church of the Holy Spook - Technically a Shane solo track, but sue me.

I miss the Pogues.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

1 Fairytale of New York
2 Lullaby of London
3 If I Should Fall From Grace with God
4 The Ghost of a Smile
5 Bottle of Smoke
6 House of the Gods
7 Sunny Side of the Street
8 Bottle of Smoke
9 The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
10 Dirty Old Town

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

i don't know why I don't have these albums any more. oh because they make me want to be a drunk.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

Technically a Shane solo track, but sue me.

I was really tempted to include Donegal Express.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

when RONAN KEATING sings it he doesnt say faggot

Pussy.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

1. If I should fall from grace with god
2. Transmetropolitan
3. Turkish song of the damned
4. Sally Maclennane
5. Pair of Brown Eyes
6. Bottle of Smoke
7. Fairytale of New York
8. White City
9. Everyman is a king
10. Thousands are sailing

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 06:05 (twenty years ago)

If Shane solo tracks are allowed, then "Haunted" for sure. "You were so cool, you could have put out Vietnam" is maybe my favorite Shane lyric ever, and Sinead is so great on that song.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

1. If I should fall from grace with god
2. Turkish song of the damned
3. Fairytale of New York
4. Bottle of Smoke
5. The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
6. Miss Otis Regrets/Just One Of Those Things
7. The Sick Bed of Cúchulaínn
8. Sunny Side OF The Street
9. Fiesta
10. Thousands are sailing

― Randy Reiss (undeadsinatra), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

1. The Broad Majestic Shannon
2. Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six
3. Fairytale of Newyork
4. Sally Maclennane
5. Thousands are Sailing
6. If I should fall from grace with God
7. And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
8. Lorelei
9. A Pair of Brown Eyes
10. The Sickbed of Cuchculainn

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

i don't know why I don't have these albums any more. oh because they make me want to be a drunk.

Has Shane MacGowan Ever Drunk Alcohol?

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

Waxie's Dargle
Boys from the County Hell
Streams of Whiskey
The Sick Bed of Cúchulaínn
The Old Main Drag
I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Rainy Night in Soho
Fairytale of New York
The Broad Majestic Shannon

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

The Broad Majestic Shannon
A Pair Of Brown Eyes
The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn
Thousands Are Sailing
Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six
Turkish Song of the Damned
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Bottle Of Smoke
Dirty Old Town

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

If Shane solo tracks are allowed, then "Haunted" for sure. "You were so cool, you could have put out Vietnam" is maybe my favorite Shane lyric ever, and Sinead is so great on that song.

So you prefer this to the Cait version on the 1986 single? Con-tro-vers-ial.

My own list would go:

A Pair of Brown Eyes

Body of an American

Hot Dogs with Everything

Summer in Siam

The Limerick Rake

The Broad Majestic Shannon

Sally MacLennane

Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six

Bottle of Smoke

Kitty

...but there's one Pogues track I'd give a great deal to hear. Around the time of Peace And Love, there was a newspaper article saying that the other Pogues were becoming increasingly frustrated with Shane for spending too much time on an (unfinished) 20-minute acid house track called something like "You've Got To Get Connected". Anyone?

― A.C.M.E. (A.C.M.E.), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

a pair of brown eyes
if i should fall from grace w/ god
the body of an american
sally maclenanne
i'm a man you don't meet every day
the sickbed of cuchulainn
thousands are sailing
south australia
waxie's dargle
bottle of smoke

― zzxjoanw, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

1. The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn
2. Medly
3. Fiesta
4. Boys From County Hell
5. Bottle of Smoke
6. Summer in Siam
7. Hells Ditch
8. If i should Fall from Grace...
9. Waxy's Dargle
10.Dirty Old Town

and about 10 more.

I recal talk of Shane's dance mumbah..but never knew it to get finished

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

no mention of The Old Main Drag? I'm shocked

"And now I am lying here, I've had too much booze
I've been spat on and shat on and raped and abused".

grim but brilliant...

― fader, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Lipogram's got it. Probably made a lot of folks' POXV but I would have expected more love too. My Own Private Idaho backlash?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

So you prefer this to the Cait version on the 1986 single? Con-tro-vers-ial.

I missed that version completely, although I see it's on the Sid and Nancy soundtrack. One more thing to track down. Although it's hard for me to imagine improving on the Trevor Horn production.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

(although i like saying although)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Without reading anyone else's first, and off the top of my head:

Boys From The County Hell
Sick Bed of Cuchulainn
Sally McLennane
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Transmetropolitan
Streams of Whiskey
White City
Bottle of Smoke
A Rainy Night in Soho
And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

That was really difficult. Really REALLY difficult. I could do another ten totally different, and still have a top drawer list.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

In no particular order:

A Pair Of Brown Eyes
Transmetropolitan
Down In the Ground Where The Dead Men Go
Sally Maclennane
Dirty Old Town
The Wild Rover
The Leaving Of Liverpool
Turkish Song Of The Damned
Fiesta
Fairytale Of New York

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

"I miss the Pogues."

Me too.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

1. A Pair of Brown Eyes
2. The Sunny Side of the Street
3. The Old Main Drag
4. White City
5. Lorca's Novena
6. The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
7. Fairytale of Old New York
8. Sickbed of Cuchulain
9. Misty Morning/Albert Bridge
10. If I Should Fall from Grace with God

― steve ketchup, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

ah, hotdogs with everything acme!

i would be eternally grateful if someonee with the world at their fingertips could YSI hotdogs with everything for me

― daavis sztakayenszzr, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

1. Fairytale of New York
2. If I Should Fall from Grace with God (1 and 2 are close)
3. Sally MacLennane
4. A Pair of Brown Eyes
5. Young Ned of the Hill
6. Turkish Song of the Damned
7. Dirty Old Town
8. Fiesta
9. Boys From the County Hell
10. Medley

I miss the Pogues and I didn't even know them when they were around (the first time...).

― PB, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

i thought they were getting back together?

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Fuck it, there's about 10 songs on Rum, Sodomy & The Lash isn't there? That'll do me for life. (But I still fondly "remember" their GREAT rendition of "London Calling" w/Joe Strummer, Detroit '87.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

they did a damn good "honky tonk women" live, too....

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

i thought they were getting back together?

They did; it fell apart for extremely predictable reasons.

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

I saw them tour without Shane McGowan a few years back, Spider Stacy took over vocal duties and they were still exceedingly good fun, probably more so than the shambolic nature of Shane-fronted gigs in recent years.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 24 November 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

has everyone seen the Shane DVD from a few years back? it's pretty sad, but in a sort of endearing way (i.e. even as he's imploding before your eyes, you kind of want to hug him).

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 24 November 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

I really like Shane McGowan. He does sort of elicit hugging sentiments. I haven't seen that DVD yet, but it's going straight on my wish list.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 24 November 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

It has to be the version of "If I Should Fall from Grace with God" from the "Straight to Hell" soundtrack, thjough...

― mike weber, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

Couldn't get it down to 10. Here are 12.

"Limerick Rake"
"Whiskey You're The Devil"
"Rake at the Gates of Hell"
"London You're a Lady"
"Sick Bed of Cuchulainn"
"White City"
"Sunny Side of the Street"
"Sayonara"
"Dark Streets of London"
"Fairytale of New York"
"Lullaby of London"
"NW3" (available on the Falconer demos-- this song is fucking great. Search it out, because it's easily in the top 10 of this list despite the poor sound quality. Also I can YSI it if anyone wants it.)

― punis (punis), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Around the time of Peace And Love, there was a newspaper article saying that the other Pogues were becoming increasingly frustrated with Shane for spending too much time on an (unfinished) 20-minute acid house track called something like "You've Got To Get Connected". Anyone?

I read about that in Nick Kent's piece on the Pogues in The Dark Stuff, but I'm pretty sure that never leaked out. In fact, you can see Phil Chevron's amusing response about where to find it here.

― punis (punis), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Here's what Phil Chevron says about "NW3":

If Shane had ever finished a lead vocal for NW3 it would have made it past anyone else's songwriting contribution, no contest. The fact is, he didn't, for reasons known only to himself. There is a good vocal on the Falconer Demo but the overall sound on those demos was not in the same class as the Hell's Ditch material - for which the backing track of NW3 was in fact recorded. If the demo had passed muster with the overall feel of Hell's Ditch, I feel sure we would have included it.

Shane has always had some revisionist pleasure out of demonising the rest of us for any number of perceived evils and slights. In fact, the majority of apparently egregious mysteries were of his own making, as was the case with NW3, which we all thought was one of his best ever songs.

― punis (punis), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

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