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Heard it on the radio today and noticed they changed the words from “ cheap lousy fagg*t” to “you’re cheap and you’re haggered “. I totally understand why this has been done but how did they do it seeing as Kirsty McCall has been dead for a few years.?
favourite cheese mature Cheddar. FFS there is no such thing as the EPL
The fairy tale of New York on 10:34 - Dec 2 by CroydonCaptJack
''I've been here, and I've been there and I've been every fuc**ng where, so what'
B side of Street of London unless I am mistaken?
Certainly was. And shortly after securing my copy at my local HMV, after seeing them play it live supporting The Damned, police (not Sting’s lot) has it withdrawn from shelves due to indecency laws. There’s plenty of other offensive stuff in there, including the ‘c’ bomb in the chorus. Matched only by The Beat (Two Swords) prior & The Libertines (What A Waster) since.
Bravo !
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The fairy tale of New York on 13:02 - Dec 3 with 1515 views
Kirsty MacColl had rerecorded it for TOTP in 1992 as haggard; so there is a studio recording available; and she often sang it live as haggard, regardless of whether it was broadcast or not.
Given that the word offends a great many people, and the song is not diminished by its removal, I don't see what the problem is. One of the Pogues is in my book group; I'll ask him if he gives a shit.
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The fairy tale of New York on 13:16 - Dec 3 with 1493 views
The fairy tale of New York on 09:16 - Dec 3 by qpr1976
Certainly was. And shortly after securing my copy at my local HMV, after seeing them play it live supporting The Damned, police (not Sting’s lot) has it withdrawn from shelves due to indecency laws. There’s plenty of other offensive stuff in there, including the ‘c’ bomb in the chorus. Matched only by The Beat (Two Swords) prior & The Libertines (What A Waster) since.
Bravo !
I am pretty sure I was at that gig mate and I definitely have the single somewhere.
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The fairy tale of New York on 14:28 - Dec 3 with 1451 views
The fairy tale of New York on 13:02 - Dec 3 by NW5Hoop
Kirsty MacColl had rerecorded it for TOTP in 1992 as haggard; so there is a studio recording available; and she often sang it live as haggard, regardless of whether it was broadcast or not.
Given that the word offends a great many people, and the song is not diminished by its removal, I don't see what the problem is. One of the Pogues is in my book group; I'll ask him if he gives a shit.
The problem is Capitalism and it's inevitable related social pressures make us frustrated, unhappy, and scared but because we deem it a huge unmovable monolith we re-direct and project our aggression onto to easier targets such as 'others' that are successful in making changes to their lives. When these 'others' request changes of us, we lash out in a fit of jealous retribution, no matter how inconsequential to us the impact of the request is.
Either that or Political Correctness gone mad.
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The fairy tale of New York on 15:50 - Dec 3 with 1387 views
We sang this at a Christmas Eve do at a friend's house a few years ago (2014?). One woman suggested we perform the song so I re-wrote/ customised the lyrics to suit the assembled group of friends. I also adapted a Karaoke version of the original and I was chosen to sing Shane McGowan's part, not for his looks as I'm obviously very handsome and not really for his voice as mine is reasonably in tune and not so gravelly - but I'm a bloke. Five lovely women including Mrs Hants, all good singers, did the Kirsty McColl choruses. They really seemed to enjoy singing directly to me with great gusto that I was a 'scumbag', 'maggot', 'cheap lousy f@**ot' etc. (especially Mrs Hants)
You know the whole thing sounded really good and we had to do an encore, even repeat it the following year; it's a great song.
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The fairy tale of New York on 16:42 - Dec 3 with 1330 views
The fairy tale of New York on 18:56 - Dec 3 by dolcelatte
Surely I can't be the only person who hates this record. It's pony....
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It's hard to remember if I ever liked the song. It's with me so long now that I can't analyse it dispassionately. It's like a hymn now, or a National Anthem - it's impossible to figure out if I ever liked the music.
I grew up working in the family's hotel and pubs so I've listened to this song, oh, a couple of million times. As a teenager, I used to hate the Pogues for their Oirishness and their endless guff about drinking and vomiting. And then I calmed down a bot and actually listened to more of their tunes and heard the orchestral swoop in 'Rainy Night in Soho' and then I listened to more of the lyrics and for a while every woman I met was 'the measure of my dreams'.
I'm not sure that the Irish had to give the world another tortured genius, but there you go. There's Shane MacGowan.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
The fairy tale of New York on 09:43 - Dec 4 by BrianMcCarthy
It's hard to remember if I ever liked the song. It's with me so long now that I can't analyse it dispassionately. It's like a hymn now, or a National Anthem - it's impossible to figure out if I ever liked the music.
I grew up working in the family's hotel and pubs so I've listened to this song, oh, a couple of million times. As a teenager, I used to hate the Pogues for their Oirishness and their endless guff about drinking and vomiting. And then I calmed down a bot and actually listened to more of their tunes and heard the orchestral swoop in 'Rainy Night in Soho' and then I listened to more of the lyrics and for a while every woman I met was 'the measure of my dreams'.
I'm not sure that the Irish had to give the world another tortured genius, but there you go. There's Shane MacGowan.
Kent’s gift to the world, not Ireland’s. Along with Chaucer, Dickens and Judge Dread.
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The fairy tale of New York on 11:33 - Dec 4 with 967 views
The fairy tale of New York on 11:25 - Dec 4 by MrSheen
Kent’s gift to the world, not Ireland’s. Along with Chaucer, Dickens and Judge Dread.
Chaucer was born and brought up in London; probably at 179 Thames Street.
His father was in the wine trade in London but had a job in Southampton when the Black Death hit London, which may have saved their lives (and certainly made them richer, as several other relatives died and they inherited.)
He didn't move out to Kent until he was middle aged with his children grown up and his wife dead. I think he'd have liked "Fairytale of New York" though, it has a story and one that old Geoff could have written himself.
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The fairy tale of New York on 04:24 - Dec 7 with 731 views
Fa@gots are meatballs made from minced off-cuts and offal, especially pork together with herbs for flavouring and sometimes added bread crumbs. It is a traditional dish in the United Kingdom, especially South and Mid Wales and the English Midlands. Cheap but never lousy.
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