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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
It took me the longest time to appreciate the Pogues and Macgowan in particular, I'd grown up loving the Chieftan's, to this day Bonapartes Retreat is one my top ten albums, my first reaction to the Pogues was it was being disrespectful to the beauty of traditional airs and reels it came from, that it was almost a parody of its source, it took me the longest time to realize that MacGowan was being utterly honest, that he was a brilliant song writer and also a hellraising drunken buffoon, that it wasnt an act it was who he was, my inclination is that it was sad and it took him to early but he seemed to love his life so who am I to judge or feel sadness
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I was the other way. In my teens when I first heart the Pogues. I was still in my punk phase and loved them right off.
I turned my nose up at more traditional acts like the Chieftan's as I didn't need that boring old peoples crap.
Took me a few years before I matured enough to also enjoy traditional folk.
Have to admit I think "If I should Fall From Grace with God" is the last Pogues album that I thought was good.