I downloaded my first Pogues CD the other day from Itunes. Good stuff. I had all the intentions of having a St. Patrick's Day celebration at my house, only to come to nothing.
Biermann said:I downloaded my first Pogues CD the other day from Itunes. Good stuff. I had all the intentions of having a St. Patrick's Day celebration at my house, only to come to nothing.
XELA said:i got about 10 or so tracks cuz my ex bought me a cd from london!
Yes, was, greatmot said:shane is great..no one could sing like him, nor write a song like him.
knights of Gambrinus said:Yes, was, great
I agree he was a great singer/ songwriter.
I saw the Pogues 2 weeks ago in Boston. It was great, but I couldn't help but feel bad lookin' at Shane. Could not understand a word he said between songs, and he really looked like sh!te. He did not really seem to be there. I guess I expected that, but it was worse than I imagined. Kind of felt bad for the rest of the band too. In a way he upstaged them without really being all that great.
Still one of my all time favorite bands though, so it was great to see them. I guess it is just the realization that the will never put out any new material, least not as good as they have.
knights of Gambrinus said:Yes, was, great
I agree he was a great singer/ songwriter.
XELA said:you have to live there and love ireland to be irish
seefresh said:I'd rather hear Christy sing, honestly. Much props to Shane, but I don't like the Pogues. I think turning traditional irish music into punk sounds terrible, and it kinda pisses me off a bit. Just my opinion, and everyone knows opinions are like a$$holes: everyone has one, must of em stink.
delboy said:I love the way we have been able to pull the wool over the eyes of the world and package up folk music as 'irish folk', believe it or not they have a very active folk seen in the U.K. (you don't just throw all that tradation away).
I think what sells the notion of 'irish' folk music is the misty eyed memories of the green isle that immagrants took with them to the states.
Personally i find folk (esp irish) music too sentimental and saccarhine sweet, i prefer the other incarnation of folk music, (hillbilly) all that barn dancing, fiddles at the fore and stuff just has so much more energy.
delboy said:He has the perfect face for radio, turns me even looking at the man (you could stick him to the wall as we say here).
Christys not much better, the man is one oversized sweat gland he just exudes the stuff and its not like he's doing anything streneous, sitting on his hole strumming a guitar .
seefresh said:Well, they do push the irish part of their music pretty hard, I know they do other stuff as well and they play a hell of an acoustic set, but what they are famous for is their punkish music which a lot is done-up traditional irish songs.
I never said folk was all irish, folk is huge and branches many many ways and has a large part of its roots from Africa.
I love bluegrass as well, what you call hillbilly music, I grew up around the appalachians and that that's the home of the finest bluegrass you will hear. Some may argue Kentucky as well. I'm not irish, but I am proud of my Irish heritage, and classic, irish music is some of my favorite, and I just can't stand to hear all electrified.
seefresh said:Dude, just read this post. Shouldn't talk about Christy that way. He is an amazingly talented singer/song-writer. He plays the guitar quite well too. Singing the way he does, being on stage, stage-lights, and being overweight can make anyone sweat profusely. He's very talented and his voice is awesome, and I enjoy watching him really get into his songs.
XELA said:what do looks have to do with anything?
Ye are all comparing apples with oranges. 2 totally different types of songwriter and performer.XELA said:christy will never be as good a song writter as shane,
im sure evan christy would agree to that
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