Listening to The Pogues makes me want to drink.........

[aquaman]

and not go to the dentist. Great band.

[WCGreen]

1. Fairy Tale of New York.......

Great Great Song....

I also really like If I Should Fall From Grace...

Great Stuff

[aquaman]

2. I recently got back into this band after a long hiatus....

Amazing.....


What I am listening to now.

[WCGreen]

4. They had a special documentary about him

on the Encore Network about six or seven months ago...

Fascinating....

[enigmatic]

8. I saw that

Great docu..

[enigmatic]

6. The Gourds and Sally Timms do an awesome version of that

live; it's never been released, but you can find it on Soulseek...

[Doctor_J]

3. Shane McGowan -

the baritone version of fingernails on the blackboard. Maybe a chair scraping on the floor?

[Bat Boy]

5. Drunkest band I've ever seen live.

I honestly thought a couple of them weren't going to make it to the end.

I loved the SNL performance. Some buffoon decided it would be a great idea to book The Pogues to play Saturday Night Live on St. Patrick's day. Apparently the nitwit new nothing of the band.

For the first song Shane stumbled out onto the stage with a drink in his hand and lurched all over the stage in a desperate attempt to win his ongoing battle with gravity. He mumbled his way through a barely coherent version of "White City."

Then there was a stretch of time when the band was not on camera during which something horrible appears to have happened.

As the band took the stage for the second musical number it became very clear that MacGowen had lost his valiant struggle against gravity. He propelled himself to the edge of the stage and sat down with his feet dangling over the edge, somehow managing to keep the majority of his beverage in the glass. He stayed there for the rest of the song.

The band played "Body." I'm not sure what song Shane sang. Not an intelligible word escaped his lips. His feet may have recognized the song, because he sang it to them.

God, I love The Pogues....

[WCGreen]

9. That, my friends, is rock n roll

[Bat Boy]

10. No shit.

[enigmatic]

7. best version of "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" ever

Shane's da man..

[Swede]

11. I remember a guy on tv saying he went to listen to this great new band,

when he got to the club Shane MacGowan was passed out on the stage.

[driver8]

12. Damn...I was going to add "and not brush my teeth!"

I saw a documentary on IFC a while back. I think Shane MacGowan only has a couple of teeth left.

[dbt]

13. Essential reading for Pogues fans:

The Pogues: The Lost Decade by Ann Scanlon. Read it here and see if you can figure out why Shane MacGowan ain't dead.

Males: see if you don't fall in LOVE with bass player Cait O'Riordan.

[Atlas Mugged]

14. Best....

...AND worst concert I've ever seen; all in one show.