Name your three favourite songs by... [Queen]

[Jell 0 Biafra]

It's also on The Popes first album, so maybe a tricky one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1PUm3yANeg

[From the Bunker]

Haunted was done originally by The Pogues with Cait O'Riordan doing co-vocals for the Sid And Nancy original soundtrack.

I always thought the re-recording was pointless, as it virtually mimicked the original, and I much rather Cait's vocals.

[From the Bunker]

Looking back at various Pogues, Popes and solo stuff from Shane the last week. He really was floating the last 35 years. There is a clip from Pinkpop 1995 and it's one of the saddest things you'd ever see, he is completely out of it and has to be helped off stage.

I had almost forgot the damage that drink and drugs had done to him. There was always a sadness when you seen him intermittently over the last couple of decades. Each viewing he became more ghostly.

Because of his genius and popularity he got the opportunity to hang in there past his sell by date and was often recycled, reinvented and abused.

Drink was the making and taking of Shane.

[tonto1888]

Looking back at various Pogues, Popes and solo stuff from Shane the last week. He really was floating the last 35 years. There is a clip from Pinkpop 1995 and it's one of the saddest things you'd ever see, he is completely out of it and has to be helped off stage.

I had almost forgot the damage that drink and drugs had done to him. There was always a sadness when you seen him intermittently over the last couple of decades. Each viewing he became more ghostly.

Because of his genius and popularity he got the opportunity to hang in there past his sell by date and was often recycled, reinvented and abused.

Drink was the making and taking of Shane.

hard to argue with this. That said, I enjoyed the majority of the times I seen him live. Either with the pogues in their Christmas shows or with the popes. I do wish  had seen the pogues in their 80s hey day though.

[AustinPowers]

Haunted was done originally by The Pogues with Cait O'Riordan doing co-vocals for the Sid And Nancy original soundtrack.

I always thought the re-recording was pointless, as it virtually mimicked the original, and I much rather Cait's vocals.

Haunted is a great  song , but I just  can't tolerate Sinead O' Connor's voice on it

I do like  Cait O'Riordan singing on 'I'm a man you don't meet everyday' though.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FJt4y4fH938&pp=ygUpcG9ndWVzIGknbSBhIG1hbiB5b3UgZG9uJ3QgbWVldCBldmVyeWRheSA%3D

[marty34]

Did Shane leave The Pogues or did the group just split up?

[From the Bunker]

Did Shane leave The Pogues or did the group just split up?

From what i remember the lads told him to go. His reply was some like '' What took ye so long?''.

They had to be getting pissed off of Shane not turning up for gigs or in a state that he was not able to perform.

When Shane was asked about the difference in being in The Pogues and The Popes. Shane said the Pogues was a democracy, the Popes is a dictatordhip.

[Harold Disgracey]

Although it's not a Shane MacGowan song, I really liked Tuesday Morning.

[naka]

shanes had some send off
a proper mass
jeez if every mass was like that i might go back

[quit yo jibbajabba]

Jaysus we love an oul funeral in Ireland. What a send off. Legend

[Tony Baloney]

Jaysus we love an oul funeral in Ireland. What a send off. Legend

Been watching clips on Twitter. Some show. A proper celebration of someone's life with a wee bit of anarchy thrown in. I'd say there was/is some session after.

[AustinPowers]

Had a Pogues night . Sat listening to  a lot of their stuff in memory of  Shane

The lyrics , man, just genius. Poetic, heartwarming , sad, patriotic, life-affirming, passionate,  melancholic... the lot. he has left an incredible legacy

Yeats is  dead 84 years.  I really like some of his  poems.  He'll  still be remembered  in another 84 years. So will Shane MacGowan.

[Tubberman]

Haunted was done originally by The Pogues with Cait O'Riordan doing co-vocals for the Sid And Nancy original soundtrack.

I always thought the re-recording was pointless, as it virtually mimicked the original, and I much rather Cait's vocals.

Haunted is a great  song , but I just  can't tolerate Sinead O' Connor's voice on it

I do like  Cait O'Riordan singing on 'I'm a man you don't meet everyday' though.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FJt4y4fH938&pp=ygUpcG9ndWVzIGknbSBhIG1hbiB5b3UgZG9uJ3QgbWVldCBldmVyeWRheSA%3D

Other way round for me.
Lisa O'Neil did a great job on Fairytale of New York today

[Jell 0 Biafra]

Don't think anyone has mentioned it yet, but(after a few nights listening to The Pogues), I find myself singing snatches from the wonderful Lullaby of London.

[Itchy]

The old main drag
Broad Majestic Shannon

Still trying to figure out the 3rd