The Pogues - The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn (Reaction)
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I wish I could listen to The Pogues for the first time ever.
Right?!? When I heard this album, I played it in repeat for weeks.
For real.
@@TheBenperri Yep, had it on tape when I worked nights at Butlins Holiday Camp, Tape ended. Turn over. Tape ended. Turn over.. Repeat ad nauseam for weeks. And the Album name and cover are boss too.
Take a bow, Shane McGowan & gang.
I remember the first time I heard this song. It was a new just released album, and a friend of mine was a big fan. She bought it as soon as it was released. she bought it over to where, was then, the place where I hung out and played the album for me, and my other friends.
Same here.🥃
Good song. I recommend anything off their album 'If I Should Fall From Grace With God'. The guy singing is a legend. One of the best songwriters ever in my opinion. Shane MacGowan is the man.
This is peak MacGowan when he spat out lyrics in waves. There's loads of references here -including the Irishmen who joined the International Brigade who fought in the Spanish Civil War. Cuchulainn was an ancient Irish warrior - one of the berserkers - who sprouted blood from the top of his head with anger.
prolly my favorite pogues song if i had to pick. imo definitely their most punk. just an ownage track that i really resonate with
Accordion and pennywhistle are what you are hearing. The Pogues were a thrilling blend of Irish traditional music and punk rock. This album was the first of theirs that I ever heard and I was enthralled from the first note. Shane McGowan's songwriting is absolutely genius. What a poet. Thank you for this reaction vid!! And you did a great job of pronouncing the Gaelic word Cuchulainn. Koo-KULL-ehn... very close.
me: *bracing myself for a mispronunciation of Cuchullainn*
him: *pronounces it almost perfectly*
Aaaah! Can't believe someone's reacted to this. Great song! Love from Ireland.
Shane McGowan, The Pogues founder and lead singer was a punk rocker of Irish descent. He wanted to create something that would bring Irish music to the people. So the result was this mix of Irish folk music with the intensity of attitude of punk rock. As for instruments, I can't say for certain what you're hearing, but it may be the tin whistle?
It’s a tin whistle and an accordion.
@@amccoy6055 yeah I wasn't sure which instrument he was referring to, but I heard the tin whistle around that spot. Thanks for the clarification
Accordion, Tinwhistle/Pennywhistle, guitar, and banjo, I think.
I'm stoked to see someone reacting to music Ive listened to from basically birth to present.
The Pogues had a very punk feel for irish folk.
Plus drums, bass and spoons
My god, when I first heard The Pogues, it really spoke to me. I hear this (and others) and it gives me a real visceral feeling of being alive, instantly. I will shout sometimes "F£$k Yeah! Come on, come on. Lets go!" I'm ready to party big time man.
There's no point me suggesting any bands here, you're gonna end up listening to every band I've ever liked at some stage anyway! Instruments are accordion, tin whistle, drums, bass, banjo, bouzouki, mandolin, acoustic guitar, and it sounds like someone is playing spoons too. Usually the pipes if there are any in Irish music are Uileann (meaning elbow in Gaelic) pipes. Bagpipes are played by blowing into them. Cú Chulainn was a mythological warrior from the north of Ireland but the song seems to be mostly about getting hammered drunk to me. The narrator in the song may have been an Irish Nationalist who went to Spain during the Spanish civil war.
2:05 it's a penny whistle- a small 6 hole flute, originally made of tin, but now usually comprised of either brass or polymer. Super common in late19th-20th century Irish folk music
It might also be the accordion.
Mandem right here got it it’s tin whistle and accordion players bitches simps pimps blimps (mannie fresh voice) speed freaks alkies junkies basically Shane MacGowan-it’s about to be on and popping like a hot comb you heard?
@@michellechase4753 Yes, most likely it was the accordion he was referring to.
Teez man, when I was in my teens, parties went wild when the Pogues came on. Saw them live once. Irish folk punk was big way back then in Germany.
Irish folk punk. Exactly.
Band Played Waltzing Matilda it's on the same album
Yeah even though it's not an original of Shane's the broken sorrow in their version is great in a depressing way
My favourite Pogues song! No, not a bagpipe. Accordian and penny whistle.
If you ask most people who the biggest band out of Ireland is, they'd almost certainly say U2. If you as an Irishman the same question, they'll say the Pogues.
Although of course, The Pogues were out of London, not Ireland exactly. All the original members were brought up in England! I think only Shane MacGowan is Irish at all.
They would say the dubliners but then the would also say the wolftones, over on the west coast they might tell you the cranberries. All are brilliant and ive listened to them all my life.
@@kevinmulligan5090 Yeah, I think they'd probably say either Dubs, Clancys or Wolftones. Pogues are legendary, but I couldn't bring myself to say they're bigger.
The Chieftains have got to be in there somewhere.
I agree with those who praise If I Should Fall From Grace With God - great punk celtic music - Fairytale of New York always gets a stunned reaction lol
Welcome to the party, bro. Lovely to see someone from a different culture experiencing something from ours. Over here in the UK and Ireland, The Pogues are one of our must treasured bands. You won't find better songwriting and more spirited musical performances. Check out The Body of an American, London Girl, Lorca's Novena, Turkish Song of The Damned ... man, you got so many to check out. Enjoy!
It's pronounced Coo-Colin. He was a legendary hero of Irish Gaelic mythology.
I'd say Coo-Hullin, but I'm a Nordy.
@@MrBrendanus He was a Nordy too
...and a total badass. All those crazy Norse, Roman, and Greek heroes.... those crazy Celts and their mythos are right up there with them all.
Love the Pogues! A vast over simplification, but you can kind of think of Cuchulainn as the Irish King Arthur. Lot of interesting stories about him.
Niall of the Nine Hostages may be behind Arthur - a mythical but real warlord who spanned Scotland and Ireland. Huge DNA footprint. All the McLaughlins and Campbells to name two of his descended families. The "Ghengis Khan Effect".
Richard Talbot is the irish patron saints of alcoholics. Yes, he's a real saint.
It's Richard TAUBER, who was an Austrian operatic tenor. His fellow singer, Irishman John McCormack, is namechecked in the same line of the song.)
Love The Pogues
Best times of my life were with the Pogues and a few pints of Guinness...
:=8)
Mr. McGee you probably have some Irish blood in you. Welcome to the clan.
😂😂 I just might lol Thank you for having me 🙌
I used to go to see the Pogues every time they swung bye. Epic drunken skirmishes every time. Ha!
Well....that took a left turn! LOL💚
😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂
watch the pogues and the dubliners / irish rover .... great collaboration on old Irish TV show ..2 great bands
I know this comment is 2 years late but for anyone wondering: Cuchaillin is an Irish mythological hero and this song is basically a modern retelling of a fairytail. The song is also antifascist saying "You heard the rattling death trains in cologne (trains to the concentration camps), Frank Ryan (IRA member and Irish leader in the spanish civil war against Franco) bought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid, And you decked some fucking blacksirt (nazi) who was cursing all the yids (jews)." it continues like this singing of liberty for the oppressed (Blacks and Paks and Jocks) basically saying that the great fight for liberty is like the story of the great warrior Cuchaillin. And obviously beyond this it is about getting drunk and having fun in while trying to get back to Ireland.
Masterpiece here love you
Woah, this is a deep cut!!
Agree with the song "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" for St Patrick's Day, and "Fairytale of New York" for Christmas Eve. Probably better songs for reacts. Fairytale of NY is gorgeous and depicts a real Christmas relationship. Trust me.
Fairy Tale instead of John Lennon's preachy So This Is Xmas; of which I'm sick to the back teeth. Every year.
@@susantunbridge4612, Teez did Faiytale for me last Christmas Eve. :)
Rainy night in Soho
Brilliant albums ,they were gods
Cuchullain - sounds like a sneeze
Big hand for the lads
That thing you hear is called a tin whistle, it looks like a recorder from middle school
RIP shane
Thank you
The region is Ireland and it's sort of about punching fascists in the face - but with a shitload of historical references to the 1930s and 1940s when punching fascists in the face was a bit more dangerous.
Ireland!
a fine drinkin' song. nice one son!
Acordian and Tin Whistle
2:00 flute and accordion
Scotish is bag pipe irish is the illin pipe
England has some too, the Northumbrian small pipes.
Its a tin whistle you hear
Irish music was the first rap.
You may be confusing the 'bagpipes' with the accordion.
accordion and penny whistle
Yeeee!!!
Check out songs Bottle of Smoke and Poor Paddy on the Railroad by the Pogues
i hit you with subscribe just because you are listening to my favorite pogues song. i am curious if you listened to any other pogues music after this or not. shane just died a few months ago, this is my favorite pogues song arguably even though there are like 15 other songs that are close to passing it. i really respect you for listening to this. as an american where the pogues are my favorite band other than guided by voices. i have yet to find another american who even knows of the pogues. it's really bizarre. yo teez, if you're still doing react videos you should react to some guided by voices song. czcams.com/video/IlZlst4NBVw/video.html or czcams.com/video/QS4LiA36pGc/video.html proly a good place to start
much love to you. i subbed!!!
peace dude!
irish folk music mixed with punk attitudes.
Good pronouncemtataion
Not bagpipes.. not uilleann pipes.. just a tin whistle.
It's an Irish thing.
It’s a penny whistle
It’s a tin whistle.
Miss Otis regrets Shane and Kirsty Mc Coll
accordion sounds a bit like bagpipes
This guy literally no idea what a bagpipe sounds like
Read the lyrics mate😄
From "Póg mo thóin" which means "kiss my axxx".. 😅
It's an accordion, not bagpipes
"his approach is very interesting..."
his approach is likely very drunk. look up shane McGowan interviews.
Very stoic presence.... Wtf????
😂🤣
@@TeezMcGee It was funny when you paused right then..I was like "just wait bro..just wait"🤣
Tin whistle... you'd know if you'd be bagpiped
Would appear that you spoke too soon lol.
If you like irish folkrock, you might like the bavarian band Tir Nan Og: czcams.com/video/fC9POw-FMNw/video.html
Hang on! Irish lead singer, French or Basque bagpipes, German costumes and a Bavarian band? Good though 😊
So innocent. No idea of the lyrical meaning.
a good anti-fascist song to boot :). Shane MacGowan is brilliant
They have even better songs than this!
you need to know Irish folklore and understand who Cuchulainn was, then this tune might make more sence to you