The Pogues - Dirty Old Town

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  • @philbarber4348
    @philbarber4348 Před 6 měsíci +2345

    RIP Shane, a unique talent. Hope they have Guinness in heaven

    • @shanedjoy8954
      @shanedjoy8954 Před 6 měsíci +38

      He loved a Dublin Guinness.
      Met him a couple of times down Camden Town, a boozer just down from McDonald’s used to sell it. All from Park Royal now…

    • @silentfisher67
      @silentfisher67 Před 6 měsíci +40

      And wiskey in the jar

    • @mylenemarti5983
      @mylenemarti5983 Před 6 měsíci +18

      A pint of the black and a shot of J.

    • @JustaSideOrderOfLove
      @JustaSideOrderOfLove Před 6 měsíci +15

      YOU BET THEY DO! ❤ 😊

    • @ElizabethPeters-qr2kz
      @ElizabethPeters-qr2kz Před 6 měsíci +34

      It wouldn't be heaven without Guinness!

  • @steveOhh68
    @steveOhh68 Před 6 měsíci +999

    This song will resonated in the worlds dirty old towns forever. Thanks Shane , you did bloody well .

  • @angellacanfora
    @angellacanfora Před 6 měsíci +677

    I've been crying all day. The Pogues music literally altered the course of my life, sent me on a journey that saw me taking up mandolin and learning traditional Irish music, inspiring me to move to Cork City, Ireland for a spell, to learn more about my ancestral homeland. None of that would have happened without Shane's brilliant music. RIP Shane.

    • @StLProgressive
      @StLProgressive Před 6 měsíci +20

      I started listening to traditional Irish music and loving my heritage because of them too. I haven’t made it over there yet, unfortunately. So sad about the news today. 😓💚🙏🏻

    • @geraldmcmahon4118
      @geraldmcmahon4118 Před 6 měsíci +10

      Same with me - played the accordion again from my youth 😢

    • @NikoHL
      @NikoHL Před 6 měsíci +11

      Welcome home Angela 🍻

    • @patriciaoneill8053
      @patriciaoneill8053 Před 6 měsíci +4

      Good luck hope all goes well 💚

    • @patriciaoneill8053
      @patriciaoneill8053 Před 6 měsíci +3

      Hope all goes well for you ❤

  • @ShaunDavies-ds9om
    @ShaunDavies-ds9om Před 5 měsíci +112

    Mum passed away recently and this was played at her wake. Everyone was singing along. Rip mum rip Shane x

    • @chanyphilly8266
      @chanyphilly8266 Před 5 měsíci +5

      May your mum rest in peace mate x

    • @SezrahSylvan
      @SezrahSylvan Před 4 měsíci +2

      Sorry for your loss ❤

    • @isakimyonok345
      @isakimyonok345 Před 12 dny

      May your mum rest in peace, God has an angel back in heaven! xx

  • @martintube24
    @martintube24 Před 6 měsíci +1060

    Rest in peace, sir. Thank you for giving us this song 🙏

    • @DanCoffee
      @DanCoffee Před 6 měsíci +12

      Wasn't written by him, though.

    • @aydencaldwell2472
      @aydencaldwell2472 Před 6 měsíci +17

      @@DanCoffeehe didn’t say it was… he sang it though

    • @foxyboiiyt3332
      @foxyboiiyt3332 Před 6 měsíci +16

      They as in the band brought this amazing song to a much larger audience

    • @DanCoffee
      @DanCoffee Před 6 měsíci +4

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Old_Town @@Kevo9t9

    • @remylc6594
      @remylc6594 Před 6 měsíci +10

      another popular voice, who made this song worldwide known, who passed away R.I.P

  • @camembertdalembert6323
    @camembertdalembert6323 Před 6 měsíci +550

    I am a 49 year old french person. When I was a teenager I was a fan of The Pogues. When I started making my own money by working during holiday periods, Rhum, Sodomy and the Lash was one of the very first CD I ever bought. Rest in peace Shane.

    • @ericclemson5263
      @ericclemson5263 Před 6 měsíci +9

      For me, it was one of my first cassettes! And still one of my favourites.

    • @rosabilly
      @rosabilly Před 6 měsíci +28

      47 year old German. My first boyfriend played this song for me in 1992, in Dresden, former East Germany. Then it was a dirty old town. And I felt the change in my body, in my town and in the world. RIP Shane.

    • @nicolasmarchal804
      @nicolasmarchal804 Před 6 měsíci +20

      Je suis vosgiens et j habite en irlande et cette chanson m a fait rever Avant d etre ici.... Merci macgowan

    • @walcibiade1635
      @walcibiade1635 Před 6 měsíci +3

      Les ravages de l'alcool...

    • @mylenemarti5983
      @mylenemarti5983 Před 6 měsíci +5

      ​@@walcibiade1635 so what ...

  • @user-yv7ie8ee2b
    @user-yv7ie8ee2b Před měsícem +35

    This song was played at my grandads funeral last week 😢 you are so loved and truly missed. RIP my beautiful grandad ❤❤❤

  • @goddessraven2128
    @goddessraven2128 Před 6 měsíci +180

    Someone who’s voice made you extra proud to be Irish🍀RIP Shane🍀

    • @ianjenkins5389
      @ianjenkins5389 Před 6 měsíci +4

      Unlike that certain gentleman who is your country's boss man.

    • @jeabphuket
      @jeabphuket Před 3 měsíci +2

      Not bad coming from London eh!!!!

  • @zatoichihanzo9167
    @zatoichihanzo9167 Před 6 měsíci +318

    30.11.23 Tonight I wil get some whisky, play your records, sing aloud, cry with joy, and get drunk in your honor. Thanks for all the poetry and music, Shane. Rest in peace

    • @silentfisher67
      @silentfisher67 Před 6 měsíci +5

      A pare of brown eyes❤

    • @TheSuperKozak
      @TheSuperKozak Před 6 měsíci +5

      I already started with two or three....

    • @laurarogers6438
      @laurarogers6438 Před 6 měsíci +8

      Sláinte! I'm the same and I'm sure we certainly won't be alone tonight in saluting this legend.

    • @patrickkish2931
      @patrickkish2931 Před 6 měsíci +4

      I start at 10:00 this morning😢

    • @corneliakonschake1027
      @corneliakonschake1027 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Trink einen für mich mit, ich bin weg davon

  • @briankelly5272
    @briankelly5272 Před 6 měsíci +445

    A true Irish man that sang songs with heart. RIP 💚

    • @patrickfarrell5092
      @patrickfarrell5092 Před 6 měsíci +20

      I believe he was English.

    • @pmc237
      @pmc237 Před 6 měsíci +16

      ​@@patrickfarrell5092only by birth

    • @tonymaurice4157
      @tonymaurice4157 Před 6 měsíci +1

      R.I.P God bless.
      Legend!!

    • @sineadcoombs1045
      @sineadcoombs1045 Před 6 měsíci +19

      @@patrickfarrell5092English by birth, Irish by blood. Both parents were Irish.

    • @marmc358
      @marmc358 Před 6 měsíci +7

      @@patrickfarrell5092 Shane was born in England, the son of Irish immigrants.

  • @infinitepossibility
    @infinitepossibility Před 3 měsíci +59

    This song makes me cry. All the lives lived, the aspirations, the romances, and the mundane everyday doldrum - all of it lived out in forgotten and neglected corners of the world... it all rings clear in my mind when this song plays. God bless.

    • @41corsair
      @41corsair Před 2 měsíci +1

      Nicely stated couldn’t agree more you must have an Irish soul

    • @Honda-wf6qj
      @Honda-wf6qj Před měsícem

      Aye....

    • @jamesmason8436
      @jamesmason8436 Před měsícem +1

      ​@@41corsairthis is an English folk song about an English city, Salford.

  • @rossgage9730
    @rossgage9730 Před 6 měsíci +44

    "May the wind that blows from haunted graves
    Never bring you misery
    May the angels bright
    Watch you tonight
    And keep you while you sleep

  • @albertadriftwood3612
    @albertadriftwood3612 Před 3 lety +684

    Not many factories left anymore. I worked in some as a young man. It was deafening, brutal and dirty for the most part, but there always seemed to be one or two pretty young girls about to notice. One winter's late afternoon day I got up the nerve to ask a certain girl if I could walk her home. It was getting dark by then. Somewhere along the way she took my hand and held it until we got to her door. Nothing ever came of it, but holding that sweet girl's hand, whose life was no better than mine, was one of the greatest thrills of my long life. This song reminded me of it.

    • @gerardwhite2689
      @gerardwhite2689 Před 3 lety +29

      I worked in factories all my stinking brutal places with hard work and harder men they suck the life out of you then cast you out your youth and hopes gone forever fuck them forever

    • @vampmode9132
      @vampmode9132 Před 3 lety +29

      God bless you brother

    • @cilliankenny9706
      @cilliankenny9706 Před 3 lety +19

      God bless you all

    • @gerardwhite2689
      @gerardwhite2689 Před 3 lety +28

      I worked in factories in Coventry as a young man your right they were dirty smelly brutal places you had to grow up quickly or get stomped on I saw it all accidents fights there was no such thing as health and safety you took your chance and you carried if you didn't you got no money at the end of the week when your wages were paid in cash we all queud up like robots waited for your weekly wage

    • @deanwindridge896
      @deanwindridge896 Před 3 lety +19

      Beautiful story

  • @Ruminator
    @Ruminator Před 6 měsíci +350

    This song is about my grandad's hometown, Salford, and it's meant a lot to me over the years. Shane made it his own. We've lost a beautiful poet. May his rest in peace.

    • @CESR-
      @CESR- Před 6 měsíci +4

      Am pretty sure it's a song about Glasgow, but it's irrelevant RIP Shane 😢🍀

    • @MaileyMcAslan
      @MaileyMcAslan Před 6 měsíci +22

      Salford 👍 Rest now, Shane and thank you ❤

    • @abraxasjinx5207
      @abraxasjinx5207 Před 6 měsíci +3

      I didn't know that it was a cover. It's one of my favorite Pogues songs.

    • @MaileyMcAslan
      @MaileyMcAslan Před 6 měsíci +2

      @@abraxasjinx5207 i didn’t know it was a cover either!

    • @jean-pierrebernigaud8130
      @jean-pierrebernigaud8130 Před 6 měsíci +12

      Nous avons tous notre dirty old town… Thanks dear Shane

  • @suecollins1991
    @suecollins1991 Před měsícem +7

    I named one of my guinea pigs Pogue Mahone, for reasons good; had to have him put to sleep yesterday. Id sing this song while holding him, sang it for him one last time yesterday. Pogue, hope wherever you are in the hereafter you meet up with Shane McGowan and he can sing it to you in my place!!! A great song.

    • @R_Arizona
      @R_Arizona Před 21 dnem

      Sorry to hear that. I have to put my dog down tomorrow. It sux.

    • @suecollins1991
      @suecollins1991 Před 16 dny

      ​@R_Arizona sorry for you, losing a good pet is never easy.

  • @darrellwhittington4645
    @darrellwhittington4645 Před 3 měsíci +18

    and another one sign I'm old,,,shane gone, I'm 74,, one of the best songs I've ever heard 😢😢😢😢

  • @anahkinhand7431
    @anahkinhand7431 Před 6 měsíci +114

    My mom sang this to me almost every night growing up. RIP Shane

  • @lordofglencoe7084
    @lordofglencoe7084 Před 2 lety +576

    Sometimes, during a family meal my father was taking his harmonica and me my guitar ... he has been gone since 2017 and every time I listen to this song , my throat tightens and tears come ... Life is only memories ...

    • @fightingforcatalonia
      @fightingforcatalonia Před 2 lety +15

      Cherish these memories. Beautiful scottish highlands

    • @augustusgurtler4388
      @augustusgurtler4388 Před 2 lety +6

      a fraction of life is memories. The ratio of old to new grows larger with every day. I remember my 70 year old grandmother scanning the obituaries... which she had stopped by her death at 99 still sharp as a tack, she just didn't know anyone outside family anymore. I am sorry for your loss
      .

    • @gerardorodas1854
      @gerardorodas1854 Před 2 lety +9

      greetings from Mexico, we thank the brave Irish that fought and died with us defending my country against American invasion.

    • @leewilliam9767
      @leewilliam9767 Před 2 lety +4

      I feel for you my dad looked like the legend lol and it always gets me merry Christmas

    • @beno2662
      @beno2662 Před 2 lety +5

      “Life is only memories” well said my friend🤝

  • @brianbarrett1177
    @brianbarrett1177 Před 6 měsíci +63

    This mans voice brings out emotions I didn't know I had. RIP Shane.

  • @languedo
    @languedo Před 5 měsíci +24

    I"m french, but really, i"m so, so , so sad.... ...RIP Shane , now you are an angel in paradise ! Long live Ireland as free as you always wanted!

  • @stephenhill5131
    @stephenhill5131 Před 6 měsíci +97

    I gave up the booze 6 months ago, but I'll be raising a zero alcohol Guinness for Shane tonight.
    This is my boys favourite song. They always ask me to play it. They're 2 & 3 and are currently bopping around my living room to it.
    RIP 🕊 you were a legend!

    • @user-sf5ww9ez9r
      @user-sf5ww9ez9r Před 6 měsíci +7

      Fair play for giving up the alcohol pal

    • @johncollins4402
      @johncollins4402 Před 6 měsíci +4

      Keep sober buddy.nearly 2 years sober myself now.i know it's not easy.good luck.

    • @brendansheerin8980
      @brendansheerin8980 Před 6 měsíci +5

      The zero alcohol Guinness is brilliant

    • @kristofermontgomerie144
      @kristofermontgomerie144 Před 6 měsíci +6

      Any tips brother? Cocaine addict here, and fucking hate it and myself.

    • @johncollins4402
      @johncollins4402 Před 6 měsíci +6

      @@kristofermontgomerie144 it will change so much.Quiting.For me it was,stop lying to myself.Takung responsibility for every moment from now.But you stop hating yourself.

  • @jackspry9736
    @jackspry9736 Před 6 měsíci +18

    RIP Shane MacGowan (December 25, 1957 - November 30, 2023), aged 65
    You will be remembered as a legend.

  • @luripu
    @luripu Před 6 měsíci +18

    I was Punk,Gothic,Skinhead in the 80s but on every party we played this song.
    Farwell i will never forget you.
    R.I.P.

  • @Dreamyliamyy
    @Dreamyliamyy Před 6 měsíci +26

    RIP, a punk a poet and an Irishman 💔🕊

  • @jennycotterell7818
    @jennycotterell7818 Před 6 lety +349

    Who gives a shit about looks or teeth when you can evoke this emotion and sing with such beauty

    • @richardmorrison9928
      @richardmorrison9928 Před 5 lety +10

      His teeth are great now ... who cares most underated poet i can think of his lyrics are unreal on some songs

    • @juliamhandley271
      @juliamhandley271 Před 5 lety +8

      I think he s fucking great Bad teeth and all xx

    • @leahwhite5910
      @leahwhite5910 Před 4 lety +10

      I wish the fella would look after himself better

    • @rocky7173
      @rocky7173 Před 3 lety +5

      So right love from IRELAND🍀🍀🍀🍀🙋

    • @galleran2640
      @galleran2640 Před 3 lety +2

      i hear thet song every day when i drive to work

  • @bartoncourcier414
    @bartoncourcier414 Před 6 měsíci +160

    Definitely shedding some tears today. I feel like I grew up with Shane and the Pogues during my college years. Making beer every week and getting fluthered listening to the Pogues with friends. Saw them at the Wiltern in LA when Joe Strummer stood in for him. I finally got a chance to see him in San Francisco many years later. He didn't disappoint. May his soul rest peacefully.

    • @RustyNail-gv2by
      @RustyNail-gv2by Před 6 měsíci +2

      Amazing mate! Hold those memories, I'm jealous!

    • @WeeleyTube
      @WeeleyTube Před 6 měsíci +2

      That's such a cool story Strummer standing in and then and Shane at a later date? Imagine something like that today, impossible, they don't do it for the fans like that anymore.

    • @kevinruggiero8773
      @kevinruggiero8773 Před 6 měsíci +5

      I’m a grown ass 45 year old man and cried like a baby listening to this song. Found them in the early 90s. RIP brother. This is music!

  • @Havendukdalf2
    @Havendukdalf2 Před 5 měsíci +16

    I'm a Dutchman and a big fan Shane, will never forget him, he turned things upside down during his concerts. RIP.

  • @ellenzijlstra6305
    @ellenzijlstra6305 Před 5 měsíci +10

    In the eighties as a poor student I bought the Pogues album "If I should fall from grace with God" purely based on seeing the album cover in a shop, reasoning that with all the musical instruments used it must be good value for money. And it was! I have been a big fan of The Pogues ever since

  • @CaesarInVa
    @CaesarInVa Před 8 lety +1701

    This song means so much to me, more than I could ever confide or express. When I was a young man with a full-head of hair and a straight spine i would pick up my girlfriend after she worked her shift as a bartender at a local bar in Old Town, Alexandria, VA. This was back around 1984. On those torpid, steaming-hot summer nights, i would lean up against the red-brick wall while I waited for her and let the still-warm bricks warm my back and whistle this song. Oh, to be 24 again, with life strung out ahead of me like an endless highway, mom and dad there to confide in if things went askew and Tina, my precious bartender/ballerinia waiting for me after work.

    • @mimlo7534
      @mimlo7534 Před 7 lety +76

      You're a poet!!

    • @CaesarInVa
      @CaesarInVa Před 7 lety +50

      That's very kind of you, but I doubt if Tina or anyone else shares your opinion! Still, thank you all the same.

    • @711stevieray
      @711stevieray Před 7 lety +5

      lived in dc, van doren st, area as which spoke of you did....many a great times, & fun Music nights back in the day, was there bout the same time, & there is only 1, old-town Alexandria....was there I was.....good post,...:)

    • @CaesarInVa
      @CaesarInVa Před 7 lety +12

      Thanks Steve. Looks like I'll be seeing OT again, sooner than I expected when I wrote that comment. My wife and I are going back to visit family for Xmas and I think I'm going to stay there (my wife's company transferred her down to Houston two years ago and I've been out of work ever since so I figure if I'm going to be unemployed, it ought to be someplace where I can find work). Really looking forward to drinking a beer at Murphy's, or a bowl of Seafood Stew in the Fish Market. Winter in Old Town, friggin awesome!!!

    • @zenhaelcero8481
      @zenhaelcero8481 Před 7 lety +14

      Brilliant memory. What ever happened to you and Tina? I have to know.

  • @DazzaBo
    @DazzaBo Před 3 lety +363

    My grandfather was born and raised in Salford before shipping off to France at the age of 17 to fight in the second world war. After being captured by the Germans twice and escaping twice he was hidden by the French and Belgian resistance for more than 4 years, at great expense to themselves. The town he was hiding in was eventually liberated and he was sent back home to Salford. Maybe being back home was too much for him after the war but he moved to Australia shortly after and raised a family over here. He passed away last year at the ripe old age of 98. I can't hear the opening harmonica of this song without immediately tearing up thinking about him.

    • @danmcgrath7129
      @danmcgrath7129 Před 2 lety +8

      God Love 'em.

    • @davemustabstain7093
      @davemustabstain7093 Před 2 lety +13

      May he rest in peace.

    • @golem3080
      @golem3080 Před 2 lety +20

      nice story Mark, my grandpa was in Wehrmacht and he also loved Pogues, he died almost 30 years ago but I guess no one likes to hear his side of the story

    • @TheLoxapac
      @TheLoxapac Před 2 lety +15

      @@golem3080 i would like to hear it.
      My gand dad was in th the first foreign cavalry regiment , 5th armored div, 1st free french army, from 1942 to 46', and he had a lot of respect for german soldiers.
      May we never be at war again.

    • @gui18bif
      @gui18bif Před 2 lety +11

      And now the people he fought for want to delete old towns and replace them with globo-topias.

  • @masadarico7412
    @masadarico7412 Před 6 měsíci +9

    J'ai 51a et je viens aussi d'une Dirty Old Town d'un bassin industriel "John Cockerill" en Belgique...
    J'étais ado dans les 80s et heureux d'avoir vécu ces années avec tous ces artistes comme The Pogues !
    Ce 02 Décembre 2023... R.I.P Shane 🕊️

  • @livvysmith3271
    @livvysmith3271 Před 6 měsíci +64

    Many tears will be shed for you Shane. Thank you for sharing your beautiful mind and lyrics with us

  • @LashyYT
    @LashyYT Před 3 lety +227

    Just had this song in my dads funeral because he loved this song so much it means so much to me this song does

  • @danielknowles8760
    @danielknowles8760 Před 6 měsíci +76

    Just a highly talented unique Singer, they dont make them like him anymore. RIP Shayne ♥

    • @RustyNail-gv2by
      @RustyNail-gv2by Před 6 měsíci +1

      Definitely, and sounded like where he came from. Rare breed.

  • @markanthony284
    @markanthony284 Před 6 měsíci +30

    A Poet, Writer, Lyricist, Singer, Rebel, and all round man of his convictions .......... God Bless you mate

  • @gunnerboyd
    @gunnerboyd Před 6 měsíci +16

    RIP You absolute legend.
    Christmas will never be the same knowing the man who sang the single greatest Christmas song is no longer with us.

  • @deflatedfruit4716
    @deflatedfruit4716 Před 7 lety +248

    I remember finding a Pogues CD in a car park when i was a kid. I took it home and cleaned it and this was one of the songs on it. Never thought I'd be able to find it again, but here it is.

    • @TheGrrson
      @TheGrrson Před 2 lety +14

      Glad you found it.

    • @heavnnnsent
      @heavnnnsent Před 2 lety +5

      Synchronicity! My mom used to say everything happens for a reason but at the time I was pretty skeptical about that

    • @fabiomorando459
      @fabiomorando459 Před rokem

      😊

    • @tonybrown8006
      @tonybrown8006 Před 11 měsíci +2

      This is a great album.

  • @paullynch4021
    @paullynch4021 Před 6 měsíci +36

    I always felt this was about my dirty ol'town of Belfast... but I'm sure many people feel it's about their home towns. Rest in Peace Shane, ye'beautiful ol'poet ye.

    • @joffc567
      @joffc567 Před 6 měsíci +2

      It’s written about Salford

  • @mrjmejoe78
    @mrjmejoe78 Před 4 měsíci +6

    I'm having a Guinness in Shane's memory!! R.i.p. A celtic punk legend. You are missed. Rest easy my friend!!

  • @shirleyvmaui
    @shirleyvmaui Před 6 měsíci +27

    A poet from his heart and to the bone. It's a painful loss for us, but I hope you can feel our love from the other side❤️😢❤️

  • @durrmiah
    @durrmiah Před 9 lety +793

    I feel drunk just listening to The Pogues ... Amazing.

  • @AnonAnonAnon
    @AnonAnonAnon Před rokem +75

    Memories of this.... stationed in Belfast as British soldier, and dating a Catholic girl who lived in Holywood. This would always be on the jukebox in the Seaside Tavern and we'd sit inside listening, drinking, cuddling whilst the mayhem of Belfast went on outside a few miles away in the wind and rain. I associate Belfast with this song. Great memories.

    • @NosajKnows
      @NosajKnows Před rokem +3

      Glad you enjoyed it lol

    • @gerryguinn3175
      @gerryguinn3175 Před rokem +1

      Free the monk

    • @jimmyjazz1570
      @jimmyjazz1570 Před rokem +4

      Ha ha been there mate with a prot from Black Mountain Way ... My Grandfather was from Cork City, did his bit in 14 - 18, stayed on as the Army of Occupation in Germany till the early 20's, came home saw what a load of BS the Civil war and Free State created, including acts by his younger brothers , kissed his Ma Goodbye ' and moved to London 2 RGJ - S & B

    • @SlurpyDave254
      @SlurpyDave254 Před rokem +4

      Actually a song about Salford, gtr Manchester

    • @michaeltaylor6782
      @michaeltaylor6782 Před 11 měsíci +1

      What has this song got to do with ireland? It's about salford.

  • @chrisbb8375
    @chrisbb8375 Před 6 měsíci +10

    Memories of my trip to Ireland when I was 15. A Frenchman who loved the Pogues. RIP Shane

  • @jeromelemarchand3727
    @jeromelemarchand3727 Před 6 měsíci +8

    RIP ! Une pensée de terre Celte, sur le sol de France, la Bretagne ne t'oubliera pas Shane ! Vive l'Irlande et la musique Celtique !

  • @josipjagusic7692
    @josipjagusic7692 Před 6 měsíci +111

    Počivao u miru i svjetlost vječna neka ti svjetli! Hvala za pjesme kojima si uljepšao svijet! 🇭🇷

  • @extraintelligence
    @extraintelligence Před 8 lety +4160

    As much as I love The Pogues, one of my greatest fears is to be bitten by Shane MacGowan.

    • @Mike_oxlong213
      @Mike_oxlong213 Před 8 lety +53

      haha

    • @lucypotato5019
      @lucypotato5019 Před 8 lety +45

      He does? post a pix please! I love him & 1 of my wishes is that he would get the balls to get his teeth fixed!

    • @ljp1942
      @ljp1942 Před 8 lety +24

      He certainly has bad teeth.

    • @ljp1942
      @ljp1942 Před 8 lety +11

      He certainly has bad teeth.

    • @jimmitchell7518
      @jimmitchell7518 Před 8 lety +44

      +Johnny Black not any more. all gone.

  • @evanwilliamson3602
    @evanwilliamson3602 Před 19 dny +3

    Rest in Paradise Shane. An enlightening human to say the least. Great talent.

  • @laurarogers6438
    @laurarogers6438 Před 6 měsíci +16

    This was a staple at my teen culchie discos. R.I.P Shane, a true Irish legend. Your music never did and never will let us forget to be proud of who we are. We will never forget you ☘️🇮🇪

    • @nialldoherty5570
      @nialldoherty5570 Před 6 měsíci +1

      We're not culchies just because we're not from the pale and don't forget it, people like us built the world.

  • @joyholt4519
    @joyholt4519 Před 6 lety +128

    Anyone whoever grew up poor, working and in love. Dirty old town. Merry Christmas. 2017

    • @ShanOakley
      @ShanOakley Před 4 lety +4

      grew up poor and ate the best peanut butte and jam sandwiches

    • @crystalcull1373
      @crystalcull1373 Před 4 lety +4

      MERRY
      CHRISTMAS
      2019
      YAYYYYY

    • @crystalcull1373
      @crystalcull1373 Před 4 lety +3

      @@ShanOakley i am today
      Happy n warm n safe though lol

    • @tirsahingalls2776
      @tirsahingalls2776 Před 4 lety +3

      Yep. Still poor. Still working. Married and have a beutiful daughter.

    • @RatsburyRaven74
      @RatsburyRaven74 Před 3 lety +2

      Right there with you brother...

  • @alwaysfourfun1671
    @alwaysfourfun1671 Před rokem +75

    First time I heard from the Poques was that they would warm up for Bob Dylan in the Greek theatre, Berkely, CA, 1989. For some reason they had lost all their instruments. They borrowed what they could and started playing. Unforgettable! Their art remains wonderful after all those years! What a giants.

    • @colingallagher4848
      @colingallagher4848 Před rokem +2

      I graduated from high school in 1989. I think someone said they had a great old time and the great old time they had before the show led to instruments being lost. But they found others and played anyway.

    • @alwaysfourfun1671
      @alwaysfourfun1671 Před rokem +1

      @Fire TV So nice to hear about the "compassion" between our heroes.

    • @Pauly421
      @Pauly421 Před 11 měsíci +3

      They were probably totally wasted and lost them lol.

  • @davorrodic2723
    @davorrodic2723 Před 6 měsíci +15

    R.i.p.Shane.Hvala za sve pjesme lijepa Irska muzika.Blagoslov božji neka te prati .Croatia.

  • @bizzlebee1817
    @bizzlebee1817 Před měsícem +5

    Every time I drive to my hometown I sing this. I hated where I grew up. But it will always be my dirty old town🤍

    • @Wil_Liam1
      @Wil_Liam1 Před měsícem

      I do the same thing every time I travel back "home"..

  • @santiagobenites
    @santiagobenites Před 6 měsíci +22

    RIP Shane MacGowan, and thanks for all of the wonderful music.

  • @gammal586
    @gammal586 Před 7 měsíci +52

    One of the most beautiful songs ever. Love from Sweden.

    • @rael1999
      @rael1999 Před 6 měsíci +2

      Written by Ewan MacColl and it's about his home town Salford, Lancashire in 1949.

  • @cathymeys7648
    @cathymeys7648 Před 6 měsíci +34

    Merci pour tout ces bons moments à vous écouter que du bonheur 💓
    Rip Shane

  • @williampower25
    @williampower25 Před 19 dny +5

    Meny good nights in your company god bless you will ❤

  • @rael1999
    @rael1999 Před 6 měsíci +28

    Rest in peace Shane lad...Being born in a mill town in Lancashire (now greater Manchester for some reason) I can relate to this song so much. Wonderful version by Shane and the lads. Gods Speed.

    • @leeclarke2317
      @leeclarke2317 Před 6 měsíci +2

      I’m a Lancashire lad. Born in Oldham.

    • @angelamcdermott7605
      @angelamcdermott7605 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@leeclarke2317Same, a Lancashire Lass, born and bred in Oldham.

  • @JACKnJESUS
    @JACKnJESUS Před 7 lety +311

    Shane did think about fixing his teeth. None other than Julie Andrews contacted him and told him NOT to do it. She had her teeth done, and it changed her singing voice. The mouth has its own acoustics.
    Pogue mahone!

    • @stevemann3080
      @stevemann3080 Před 4 lety +5

      100 % CORRECT 👍👍

    • @melcody5253
      @melcody5253 Před 4 lety +18

      If I remember correctly, Joe Strummer from the The Clash (like there's another Joe Strummer!) had the same issue with his teeth. He had them fixed and couldn't get the same sound, I believe he had them "fixed" back

    • @JACKnJESUS
      @JACKnJESUS Před 4 lety +10

      @@melcody5253 Makes sense. To put it into stereo terms...your mouth is the "room". Change the room...change the sound.

    • @moominpic
      @moominpic Před 3 lety +6

      @jollytunes I think he had to. The bone was crumbling.

    • @MrRekarbenots
      @MrRekarbenots Před 3 lety +13

      i had alcohol/heroin neglected teeth. not crooked but became gnarly early. had all of my teeth extracted at 35. it changed my voice for the better. I used to have an awkward, half-a-note-off, semi-deep voice that just rankled. now it's quite full and rich, but only with my dentures out. with them in it sounds worse than before.

  • @cryptolights6879
    @cryptolights6879 Před 6 měsíci +19

    I just heard and immediately came to see him sing this masterpiece. His voice will last forever!

  • @user97382
    @user97382 Před 2 měsíci +2

    I heard this song in Dublin during St Patrick's Day this year. It was played in literally every pub and I falled in love with it. 💚🍀🇮🇪
    I'm very sad to read in the comment section that the singer of this great song died some months before. R. I. P 😢

  • @solo-rv6si
    @solo-rv6si Před 6 měsíci +17

    What's marvelous about this song and the Pogues is that they could rise up to sublime quality out of misery and the mundane.

  • @MorganCelt1888
    @MorganCelt1888 Před 6 měsíci +14

    RIP Shane MacGowan. One of the very few who weve lost to have made me shed a tear 🍀

  • @matthewx7722
    @matthewx7722 Před 6 měsíci +8

    My BEST live music memory was seeing the Pogues @ LaZona Rosa, circa 2005 in Austin Texas. #1, Period. The scheduled beginning of the show started with the announcement that they had just located Shane in Dallas (175 miles away) and were getting him on the next flight. He took the stage two hours late with a pint glass full of red wine. “Hello San Francisco!” He then called Davy Crockett a cross dresser. Drunk as a skunk, spilling wine all over his shirt, he put on the best performance I've ever witnessed. We watched him stagger to the drum set to beat the cymbals in perfect time, then stagger back to the leed microphone 🎤. You wondered if he would make it in time. He did, and whaled. Kinda like watching a boxer who was a bloody mess but couldn’t be stopped for 13 rounds. I remember seeing very sober musicians, taking themselves very seriously shortly after. No comparison. He was the artist. He only needed to open a vein, and let it bleed.

  • @SquireJumy
    @SquireJumy Před 6 měsíci +5

    Their intro to this auld tune is the reason I picked up a harmonica, and can now pay the mortgage with a tune. RIP Shane, thanks for spreading joy.

  • @geertcortenbosch7923
    @geertcortenbosch7923 Před rokem +6

    Had an half hour chat with shane in 1995 at window rock, belgium, I will never forget this

  • @mickharper3980
    @mickharper3980 Před 6 měsíci +44

    Absolute legend rip Shane your voice will sing forever

  • @tinatakach8727
    @tinatakach8727 Před 3 měsíci +4

    So sorry to only have discovered Shane after his passing. Rest in Eternal Peace...love Dirty old Town.

  • @frederiqueconstant7022
    @frederiqueconstant7022 Před 6 měsíci +9

    Repose en paix Shane! Dans les souvenirs que j’ai de ma vie en Irlande il y a toujours tes chansons en arrière plan. Je trinque à ta mémoire et à l’Irlande ce pays de musiciens et de poètes.

  • @ginieleclerc6268
    @ginieleclerc6268 Před 6 měsíci +44

    Chanson mémorable ❤️
    Quand j'entends cette chanson
    Un sourire me vient aux lèvres
    Le temps de l'insouciance
    Le temps du bien-être
    Un temps, vieux temps

  • @joemay2640
    @joemay2640 Před rokem +67

    Shane has a voice like a freight train, pure raw talent, amazing.

  • @Starlight7079
    @Starlight7079 Před 3 měsíci +2

    This song always gives me chills. R.I.P, you fine Irish trabadour! We will never see his like again.

  • @bettersali
    @bettersali Před 6 měsíci +8

    RIP Shane and thank you for your music!

  • @user-ho8wj2rb2s
    @user-ho8wj2rb2s Před 6 měsíci +35

    RIP Shane, one of the heroes of my youth, forever in my pantheon and in my heart and immortal through the art you have given us. Love from Italy.

  • @KG-mt4mo
    @KG-mt4mo Před 7 lety +80

    Sometimes the most creative and brilliant people drink a lot just to cope with life because they feel things so deeply. I love Shane and I love Brendan Behan... and on that note, I raise a toast to them both!

    • @marquee6
      @marquee6 Před 4 lety

      Karyn Grey Noah was a drunk and look what he did.😃

    • @emilyfriedl8640
      @emilyfriedl8640 Před 3 lety

      tytytyty

    • @johngilmore6525
      @johngilmore6525 Před 2 lety

      Sadly, this is true. Sometimes it's more than coping with pain or loss. I got sober 6 years ago, thinking things will get better. They rapidly became worse. I no longer write, I don't talk or leave the house except to work. My sense of humor is gone. Turns out I have extreme anxiety and ADHD, which most doctors and psych. will only treat one of the two conditions. One condition sets the other condition off. What really sucks is that there are millions of people out there that have it way worse.

    • @KG-mt4mo
      @KG-mt4mo Před 2 lety

      I’m so sorry, John… I think you are right that so many people struggle with this.. and I feel badly in retrospect that I made such a flippant comment a few years ago when it is such a struggle.. I guess everyone is trying to find that balance of how to cope with life.. my best to you and all of us who are doing our best to get by xoxo

    • @johngilmore6525
      @johngilmore6525 Před 2 lety

      I didn't really view your comment in any harmful way. I used to be very creative myself and have about ten novels started that never got much further than character development, ideas and maybe a chapter or two. Hell, feelings I have trouble coping with in general as well. I made it sound as if getting sober was a bad thing. It's damn hard. I just was expecting slightly different results. In fact, Chris Cornell and Chester struggled with addiction, but something deeper was underneath. I believe studies have actually backed your point in the science world. I took no harm or even looked at your comment that way. I wanted to be a writer or journalist and never finished college due to alcohol, which was basically self medication, but I wasn't aware of the fact until decades later.

  • @user-xg3qe5vn6i
    @user-xg3qe5vn6i Před 6 měsíci +21

    You will always bring tears in my eyes with your songs - tears of full love and happiness! RIP, a Giant!

  • @dejanbukvic7602
    @dejanbukvic7602 Před 8 hodinami

    Divna pesma, još boljeg pevača, čoveka koji je predstavljao svoju zemlju uz mnogo ljubavi! Hvala Shane!

  • @lizgraham9986
    @lizgraham9986 Před 5 lety +34

    I grew up in Halifax, Yorkshire. We used to go into Manchester alot. Always thought it was a dirty old town, never went to Salford but couldn't imagine it's any cleaner than Manchester.
    I love it though it's history. The north has a proud industrial Hertiage that drove the industrial revolution.
    You gotta be proud of these dirty places that changed the course of human history.

    • @glennsouthan9091
      @glennsouthan9091 Před 4 lety

      From brighouse myself

    • @rinobisesto3705
      @rinobisesto3705 Před 3 lety +5

      Salford was even worst than Manchester. In the early 70s, when I used to go there every summer from Southern Italy for some strange case of destiny, every single wall was totally smoked, red bricks were black, iron bridges ruined, many factories just abandoned. Empty spaces everywhere walking to Old Trafford from the Precinct, through Ordsall and the docks area. Just beautiful to me: I fell in love with Salford and Manchester. And United of course. Now I'm almost 60, the twin cities changed a lot, and I still love them. Dirty old town...

    • @jackwhiteley1348
      @jackwhiteley1348 Před 2 lety

      @@rinobisesto3705 SAlFORD! ❤️

  • @christiemary976
    @christiemary976 Před 8 lety +121

    This song reminds me of beautiful days and good memories, i love it.

    • @VelvetViolator
      @VelvetViolator Před 8 lety +2

      +Christie Mary Same over here. Greetings! :-)

    • @Mike_oxlong213
      @Mike_oxlong213 Před 8 lety +2

      +Christie Mary me too i agree. it reminds me of the old good times.

    • @bobbyruscoe8683
      @bobbyruscoe8683 Před 8 lety +1

      so do I. I'm a salfordian it's about our tow

    • @mpearson1987
      @mpearson1987 Před 8 lety +1

      +Christie Mary Yes me too, as it's now spring, it reminds me of times past. Beautiful times with a beautiful person I love much.

    • @drewa4325
      @drewa4325 Před 8 lety

      +Christie Mary It makes me more miserable than anything. I usually listen to this song during really bad times though.

  • @nialldoherty5570
    @nialldoherty5570 Před 6 měsíci +5

    He and Kirsty are together again and I'm in tears.

  • @jingalls9142
    @jingalls9142 Před 2 lety +190

    For years this was kind of a social barometer for me I used it when I was going out on dates. If the girl liked the song usually it was a good indication that we were going to have fun together. A long time ago I've played this for my wife before we were married and almost immediately she said "Oh I love The Pogues". I guess that explains part of the reason we're still together...this one's to you my dear Miss Galloway.

    • @mikericardo112
      @mikericardo112 Před 2 lety +3

      A girl who likes the Pouges could go either way. Kind of like a girl who smokes Newport reds. She might b tougher than yourself. I'm glad it worked out mate 🍻

    • @GreatPolishWingedHussars
      @GreatPolishWingedHussars Před 2 lety +2

      One of the best comments I've ever read!

    • @StefanMedici
      @StefanMedici Před 2 lety

      Your wife's a keeper.

    • @ianjames7004
      @ianjames7004 Před 2 lety +1

      For us it was, Year of the Cat.

    • @lordtachanka903
      @lordtachanka903 Před 2 lety +3

      I’m gonna start using that, thanks for the tip mate!

  • @Mary_b
    @Mary_b Před 6 měsíci +10

    RIP, Shane. May the angels meet you. 👼 Condolences to his wife, sister, dad, and fellow bandmates.

  • @marcosepe9956
    @marcosepe9956 Před 6 měsíci +6

    The perfect singer for this song no one can sing it like you did Shane... Rest in peace Man and may the Pints, and Whiskey poor eternally for you in Heaven. Rock and Roll never Forgets.

  • @johnbrown-wi6zy
    @johnbrown-wi6zy Před měsícem +3

    Cried at his passing,RIP Shane...........💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

  • @lucystrauss2989
    @lucystrauss2989 Před 10 měsíci +28

    My mom & me loved this song! It’s so reflective of hard times.I always thought it was about a mining or factory town. Then we moved to a place in Australia & it suited there also, so many dead end towns full of red dust & smog. This song is a true masterpiece!

    • @waynerooney08
      @waynerooney08 Před 9 měsíci +3

      its about my city salford the gas works wall is around the corner from my house so is the canal

  • @Nephilimfields
    @Nephilimfields Před 6 měsíci +5

    Just heard about Shane's passing. RIP, sir. Thank you for the great music.

  • @norbertfistinger1466
    @norbertfistinger1466 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Who'd have thought that an irish bagpipe and a fiddle would go so well together... i grew up in a dirty old town. What a beautiful song!

  • @corneliakonschake1027
    @corneliakonschake1027 Před 5 měsíci +2

    ❤ eine warme Stimme, die alles was ich liebe vereinen konnte: Irish Folk, Punk, Melancholie und er hatte ein großes Herz. Leider war er in der Drogenhölle gefangen. Ein Rebell, Idol, Revolutionär, großer Musiker, Freund und Familienmensch. So schön die Filme zu sehen, die gerade über ihn laufen. Selbst die Beerdigung ist immer meine Einschlafhilfe. Egal in welcher Band er war, immer ein Genie. Ich vermisse dich, Shane. Nun geht einer nach dem anderen aus der verruchten Szene- wiederum läuft in jedem Krimi Punk. Ob Ramones, Chlash oder Pistoles. Punk stirbt nie und meine Kinder sind damit groß geworden 🌹🌹🌹

  • @enricoandreoli2411
    @enricoandreoli2411 Před 4 lety +35

    Happy St. Paddy's day from Italy, I love you all! We're gonna make it

    • @rocky7173
      @rocky7173 Před 3 lety +1

      Happy New year 2021
      Love from IRELAND🍀🍀🍀🍀🙋

    • @dicko55
      @dicko55 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Why, it's an English song

  • @user-zf8jn3hd9f
    @user-zf8jn3hd9f Před 8 lety +190

    Brand new fan right here. These guys are amazing.

  • @GrahamByrne63
    @GrahamByrne63 Před 5 měsíci +12

    Now that is class harmonica playing,we will miss shane,but never forget those beautiful musicians who worked with Shane to bring out those fabulous songs .. big love from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ❤👌

  • @stephodnalro2166
    @stephodnalro2166 Před 6 měsíci +7

    Repose en paix Shane et merci pour toutes ces belles chansons... on vous aime 😢😢😢

  • @Zxcshehwehdjwkdjcj
    @Zxcshehwehdjwkdjcj Před 6 měsíci +21

    Rest in peace to a legend.
    thanks for lovely music, Shane.

  • @flannerymonaghan-morris4825
    @flannerymonaghan-morris4825 Před 6 měsíci +40

    RIP to both Shane (1957-2023), and the writer of this song, Ewan MacColl (1917-1989).
    May both of them be singing songs together in heaven.

  • @angelarogin6015
    @angelarogin6015 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Rest In Peace Shane.Hope you are singing this song in heaven ❤❤

  • @dimitristimplalexis8694
    @dimitristimplalexis8694 Před 5 měsíci +5

    Πόσα χρόνια με συνόδευσες, ποσα ταξιδια, πραγματικά και νοητά έκανα μαζί σου, παντα ταπεινός και λυρικός σε οτι έγραψες...γειά σου για πάντα Shane,

  • @block4401
    @block4401 Před rokem +61

    A song for both heart and soul! Touches me still after a million times listening

    • @evafohlin4857
      @evafohlin4857 Před rokem +1

      Same here...all best from Sweden Gothenburg

    • @kiziorro
      @kiziorro Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@evafohlin4857 :) i have hsp personality... and i know what you are feeling :) Singer have beautiful soul :) all good from Poland :)

    • @alexzannoni1501
      @alexzannoni1501 Před 6 měsíci

      Amen 🇦🇺

  • @user-ed5is3im4r
    @user-ed5is3im4r Před 6 měsíci +5

    He got me through so much heartache and loneliness in my twenties. So strange. I have been listening to the Pogues for the last few weeks now and before that it had been over a decade and now I find out today he has passed on to the other side...Long live Shane..

  • @eugeniegouttebel5919
    @eugeniegouttebel5919 Před 6 měsíci +5

    Une balade qui nous a bercé...nous bercés et nous bercera...longue vie dans nos cœurs Shane

  • @kevinodriscoll3904
    @kevinodriscoll3904 Před 3 měsíci +3

    The Irish Sinatra RIP Shane … still shed a tear and hoist a beer! 😢😅😊❤

  • @a.g.hustlegarland4197
    @a.g.hustlegarland4197 Před 3 lety +24

    I'm from USA this is what real music sounds like

    • @Ray-no8fe
      @Ray-no8fe Před 3 lety +2

      You got some epic music over there aswel though