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>>48012217
>How much fucking booze has Shane drank in his life?

Macgown makes me ashamed to be Irish.

>>48012565
LW

>album: If I Should Fall From Grace With God
>song: Dark Streets Of London or Thousands Are Sailing

>>48012580
What?

>>48012565
How so?
>>48012614
Great taste. Thousands Are Sailing made me fall in love with this band.

>>48012217
>Favourite song?

a pair of brown eyes

>>48012715
That song always hits me. Great one to sing along to.

>>48012650
He's a fucking joke. Pogues haven't done anything good in years and (Irish) people treat them like the second coming of Christ.

>>48012766
here's one to get rowdy to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsUXE3elBpk

this band always makes me thirsty :(

>>48012217
Album: Rum, Sodomy & The Lash
Song: My favourite is A Pair of Brown Eyes, but Lullaby of London is easily their most underrated composition.

>>48012778
I'm Irish and I think he's obviously a troubled individual. His music is very good though.

>>48012778
They may not have done a lot recently but back in the days they made quite a name for themselves and the Irish in general.
>>48012826
Nice one. Has anyone also read his biography in the thumbnail? I did, rushed through it in a day. It was quite a story.

>>48012834
>I'm Irish and I think he's obviously a troubled individual. His music is very good though.

Oh yeah of course, its fucking terrible how people just act like the massive booze / drug intake is somehow normal. Shit even my aunt has a story about people lashing free pints at him in a pub on christmas eve to get him to sing fary tale of New York.

I don't doubt his music is good but I think paddies have a bad habbit of putting their heroes up on pedestals. Its why U2 are still fucking going despite all their tax dodging bullshit.

>>48012967
I think MacGowan's a great songwriter, if he likes to get off his tits every once in a while then that's his business.
Admittedly, it's a shame because he's kind of wasted his talent a bit, but if he'd kept off the sauce and maybe written another Fairytale then you'd never have heard of U2.

Incidentally, what nationality are you, anon?

>>48013108
>if he likes to get off his tits every once in a while
I've read his book. Even his wife doesn't know what a sober Shane looks like. If I remember correctly, he drank from when he was five or eight.

>>48013108
>if he likes to get off his tits every once in a while then that's his business.
Nah, its certainly not once in a while. He certainly did waste it. That might not be here nor there but it kills me how people enable that shit, as if its part of his persona.

I'm Irish btw.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_BwUNmxZv8

(Watch the vid)

>>48013185
He was kicked out school for peddling drugs so far as I know.
Still, he's an artist, and he writes songs. His job isn't really to be a role model. He wrote three great albums and then pissed it up the wall.

>>48013197
This guy is right though, it's fans that encourage MacGowan that annoy me, not MacGowan himself. That video was hard to watch, tbh.
It's like a story about Paul McGrath trying to kick drinking, but everybody kept trying to buy him drinks at every bar in the country.
MacGowan is stuck in this cycle and I'm sure if everybody in a bar saw that video, they wouldn't be so quick to lash pints at him.

>>48013340
>It's like a story about Paul McGrath trying to kick drinking,

Was it true that the rest of the Irish team had to lock him into his hotel room between world cup matches to stop him going on the tear?

It's fucking ridiculous. And you know whats worse? Half these cunts wont even think about that, they just do it so they can boast to their shitty fucking friends that they went out on the 'lash' with him.

I wrecked my dad's new car blasting the Pogues.

>>48013419
I think that's true, the one story I remember was in Roy Keane's autobiography when Mick McCarthy organised a night out, and McGrath said he didn't want to go, for fear he'd be tempted to drink.
McCarthy told him to go or he'd be dropped from the team.
McGrath went, got drunk, and McCarthy dropped him for it.

Like, McCarthy was McGrath's boss, and he didn't even stop to think about how he might hurt him. So what chance does he have out in public where every second person is offering to buy you a drink?

I don't even know exactly how you're meant to help somebody with that, and I feel sorry for the MacGowans and the McGraths and the George Best.
You can help somebody get over a drinking problem but you can't hold their hand day in day out when they're facing that every day.

>>48013543
>You can help somebody get over a drinking problem but you can't hold their hand day in day out when they're facing that every day.
Yeah, I think people in that position need to hit their bottom. Really fuck things up badly and want to change and then change with the right help and good people around them. Except its not all that simple really.

It's never happen to MacGowan 'cause of the weird folklore hero crap and the royalty checks from from fair tale in new york.