OH MY GOSH!| FIRST TIME HEARING The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York REACTION

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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025

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  • @markgodwin1777
    @markgodwin1777 Год назад +668

    Kirsty maccoll is definitely worth a reaction. Great singer who sadly died saving her son pushing him out of the way of a speedboat.

    • @Polyglot85to90
      @Polyglot85to90 Год назад +64

      Think she actually saved both her children. Her death was just a week before Christmas

    • @TheSilverPhoenix356
      @TheSilverPhoenix356 Год назад +7

      Didn’t really need to say the second part

    • @TheFullKanani
      @TheFullKanani Год назад +19

      She died in Mexico, no?

    • @travisr82
      @travisr82 Год назад +58

      @@TheFullKananivery sad story , particularly how the driver of the boat got away with it

    • @malingor7042
      @malingor7042 Год назад +6

      Ummm no, she was murdered because she was speaking up for Cuban people

  • @idontsignin
    @idontsignin Год назад +251

    This was sung at his funeral. People where up dancing and having a laugh. It was the most beautiful, It made me tear up with a smile on my face.

    • @nw11
      @nw11 10 месяцев назад +2

      So true, I had tears rolling down my face.

    • @johncoyle8191
      @johncoyle8191 2 месяца назад

      🙏☘️

    • @18Hongo
      @18Hongo Месяц назад +3

      The man's will included several thousand pounds to pay for the booze at his funeral. That's a hell of a way to organise your send-off.

    • @cottoncandyflaps4347
      @cottoncandyflaps4347 Месяц назад +8

      I loved that it was sung at Shane’s funeral and the original words were used not the woke version.

    • @deborahstevens3254
      @deborahstevens3254 Месяц назад

      m.ruclips.net/video/6s8lvnSmISc/видео.html&pp=ygUWc2hhbmUgbWFjZ293YW4gZnVuZXJhbA%3D%3D

  • @SaintPhoenixx
    @SaintPhoenixx Год назад +468

    Probably the most ubiquitous and well-liked Christmas song in the UK and Ireland. I can listen to it a thousand times and not get bored of it, it just embodies Christmas for me and many others.
    It reminds me of my childhood, always hearing it around Christmas time. Any time I hear it, even now, it makes me think of driving around with my family and looking at all the lights and hearing it come on the radio. A simpler time. A happier time. R.I.P. to both Shane and Kirsty, both tragically taken too young.

    • @russelmurphy4868
      @russelmurphy4868 11 месяцев назад +5

      It's also us Irish showing shyte like "White christmas" a massive middle finger. One reason why we like it so much.

    • @tizioincognito5731
      @tizioincognito5731 10 месяцев назад +17

      I am from italy and believe me...this is my generation's xmas song. I was born in the 80's you see, so... cranberries, pogues, sinead... so thanks you irish peoples, thanks u a lot. Thank you for bringin us so wonderful music. And of course... forgive my terribile english.

    • @G02372
      @G02372 7 месяцев назад +3

      @@tizioincognito5731 Well done. sir! 🎩 I am Irish born in London. Just found out that I am 10% Italian! 😂 I know it’s only 10% but it makes sense 😂 you guys have style and substance 😂❤

    • @colindempsey470
      @colindempsey470 Месяц назад

      Incorrect. It's Dominic the Italian Christmas donkey.

    • @stefannils2032
      @stefannils2032 Месяц назад

      Totagre along w😢merry Christmas war by lennon and yoko

  • @nickshields1011
    @nickshields1011 Год назад +211

    “I built my dreams around you.” Gets me every time. Best Xmas song ever.

    • @AmethystDew
      @AmethystDew Месяц назад +4

      'He put them with his own'. My heart!! 😍💕

  • @davidhorn9687
    @davidhorn9687 Год назад +354

    Kirsty MacColl was such a brilliant singer and songwriter. Gone too soon, rest in peace.

    • @SaintPhoenixx
      @SaintPhoenixx Год назад +20

      I still find it insane that out of the two of them, she died young and he made it past 60. Both of their lives were tragic stories, in different ways.

    • @hamper22
      @hamper22 Год назад +1

      Yes please do more Kirsty MacColl, saw her live just before she died.

    • @nickcolby1391
      @nickcolby1391 Год назад

      Imaginehim outliving her 😮

    • @hamper22
      @hamper22 Год назад

      @@nickcolby1391 She died on holiday by a boat 😢

    • @jolenehobson6670
      @jolenehobson6670 11 месяцев назад

      Did you miss Shane's death?

  • @carlh429
    @carlh429 Год назад +396

    This will be heard constantly in the UK and Ireland in the run up to and during Christmas every year.

    • @michaelburggraf2822
      @michaelburggraf2822 Год назад +20

      In Germany too.

    • @williamyates694
      @williamyates694 Год назад +26

      Don't forget Scotland...🍻

    • @fayesouthall6604
      @fayesouthall6604 Год назад +12

      Charts almost every Christmas as different people find this song.

    • @davidhuggan6315
      @davidhuggan6315 Год назад +5

      @@fayesouthall6604 There were 37 Christmas songs in the UK top 40 the week of Christmas Day!

    • @smalon75
      @smalon75 Год назад +30

      @@williamyates694 last time I checked, Scotland was part of the UK.

  • @AdamJackson-k9c
    @AdamJackson-k9c 26 дней назад +40

    For one month a year this is the UK’s national anthem.

    • @micko6393
      @micko6393 2 дня назад

      Fair enough. Ireland and UK Christmas song. The Pogues were a London Irish punk outfit. Kirsty MacColl was the biz, (not Irish) sadly lost too soon.(RIP).

  • @andrewroberts4736
    @andrewroberts4736 Год назад +136

    I've lost count of how many times I have sung this in a pub on Christmas eve with a group of drunk friends.

    • @williamyates694
      @williamyates694 Год назад +3

      PREACH! Same here. My former local pub played this a lot when I lived in BOSTON!!! GO BRUINS and RED SOX!!! I miss that torn... 🍻🤟👏

    • @Motbilder
      @Motbilder Год назад +4

      We had a wave of Irish music in Sweden when The Pogues first started a weird mix of punks and old folksong leftists who went to concerts. I can't hear this one without going back to that time. Not pubs, but trashed out living rooms. Toy Dolls, Ramones, random Swedish stuff and then suddenly this one causing a mix of melancholy, joy, screaming the lyrics and giving hugs.

    • @SJ19_998
      @SJ19_998 11 месяцев назад +1

      Every Christmas, it is a rite of Christmas

  • @I.am.Iain-81
    @I.am.Iain-81 Год назад +179

    We sadly lost Shane just before Christmas last year and Kirsty McColl in 2000. Its an amazing song that gets played every Christmas here in the UK.
    You'll love 'Irish Rover' by these guys

    • @freyjagudjonsdottir4261
      @freyjagudjonsdottir4261 Год назад +8

      One of my favorite christmas song. This is always played here in Iceland every christmas and is always popular.

    • @I.am.Iain-81
      @I.am.Iain-81 Год назад +2

      @freyjagudjonsdottir4261 that's really cool to hear its popular in Iceland. That's great taste right there 👌

    • @tomflorio3639
      @tomflorio3639 Год назад

      It's played every year in the US too. Some stations will edit the word "faggot" when it's played, but it gets played.

    • @rachelpenny5165
      @rachelpenny5165 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@tomflorio3639Yes it has been replaced with the phrase you're old and you're haggard. I still sing (badly) the original lyrics.

    • @thesmithersy
      @thesmithersy Месяц назад +2

      @@rachelpenny5165 I make it my duty to sing the original lyrics as loud as possible when I hear it.

  • @DEWDLES
    @DEWDLES Год назад +45

    I will never tire of hearing this song.

  • @W4TB
    @W4TB Год назад +253

    Some more songs by the Pogues:
    1. "Dirty Old Town"
    2. "A Pair of Brown Eyes"
    3. "Sally MacLennane"
    4. "Streams of Whiskey"
    5. "If I Should Fall from Grace with God"
    6. "The Body of an American"
    7. "Rain Street"
    8. "Fiesta"
    9. "Summer in Siam"
    10. "Turkish Song of the Damned"

    • @CharCanuck14
      @CharCanuck14 Год назад +39

      Don't forget to toss in "Rainy Night in Soho", either versions.

    • @seansersmylie
      @seansersmylie Год назад +5

      Well played!

    • @rosanajaquez3274
      @rosanajaquez3274 Год назад +4

      Love ‘‘em all!

    • @denniswendy11
      @denniswendy11 Год назад +8

      Rest in Peace Shane Macgowan

    • @fayesouthall6604
      @fayesouthall6604 Год назад +20

      Of course, Dirty Old Town was about Manchester and written by Kirsty McColls father Ewan. Miss both Kirsty and now Shane

  • @Rollin_L
    @Rollin_L Год назад +51

    Adding another vote to react to Kirsty MacColl, one of the finest singer songwriters of her time. She's been gone 23 years now, and was on the verge of breaking through after years of ups and downs as a singer. She was so well known and utilized in the British music industry, be it her songs or her vocals backing other artists. She hadn't become well known in America, yet was about to tour a brilliant new album that I think would have really caught on here. Then she was gone, by the tragic negligence of another party. She wrote some of the most clever, sometimes funny yet extremely poignant lyrics you will ever here. Definitely worth giving her work a try.

  • @mkmstillstackin
    @mkmstillstackin Год назад +79

    I'm blown away you guys are reacting to this!! This song has always had a special place in my heart around the holidays! Very sad news of MacGowan's recent passing. May he RIP. I was also a fan of Kirsty MacColl who passed away many years before. "Walking Down Madison" is a really groovy tune of hers that I still enjoy to this day.

  • @LGlifeisgood
    @LGlifeisgood 11 месяцев назад +39

    This is the uk top xmas song of all time

  • @joek7606
    @joek7606 Год назад +42

    My favorite “modern” Christmas song ❤❤
    RIP to both Shane and Kirsty

  • @CyberChunk77
    @CyberChunk77 Год назад +41

    RIP Shane and, of course, Kirsty (gone way too soon and whose family has still not seen proper justice). For anyone who hasn't yet check out Shane's service, it has some really quality renditions of some classics including, naturally, this one. It's lovely. Thanks for the reaction guys!

  • @ythomitnellum
    @ythomitnellum Год назад +111

    A song that almost didn’t happen, the record company wanted to release it in time for Christmas which meant it had to be finished by a certain date, but Shane and the band had listened to a dozen or more female session singers, and had rejected them all. With very little time left they were on the brink of abandoning the whole thing when the producer persuaded them to hold off over the weekend. The producer was Kirsty’s then boyfriend and he recorded her in their garage studio. Played it to Shane on the following Monday, and the rest is history.
    Kirsty was a painfully insecure artist in her own right, but you really should check out her solo stuff, in particular her biggest hit, There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis, which sounds like it should be a novelty record, but actually has very meaningful lyrics which I’m sure Amber would appreciate.

    • @anthonydinsdale8783
      @anthonydinsdale8783 Год назад +9

      I love There's a... love her version of New England too

    • @MrHws5mp
      @MrHws5mp Год назад +4

      Her and Steve Lillywhite (the producer) were actually married by then.

    • @MrHws5mp
      @MrHws5mp Год назад +5

      @@anthonydinsdale8783 Billy Bragg always sings her extra verses in memory of her when he does the song now.

    • @GrimlarLex
      @GrimlarLex 11 месяцев назад +4

      And of course theres her hit 'In these shoes?' She had such a sense of humour, you can find it in many of her songs, but the one that always makes me laugh is 'Here comes that man again.'

    • @Godloveszaza
      @Godloveszaza 11 месяцев назад

      They're not checking out anything else from kirsty or Shane and it's pretty clear why. Shane just passed and all of a sudden lots are reacting to his biggest song...

  • @bobmoore2636
    @bobmoore2636 Год назад +18

    I was lucky enough to see the Pogues in 1986 when I was just 15 years old. Saw them again in '91 at an Irish music festival called Feile, and were joined onstage by Kirsty McColl and they performed this song. Absolutely unforgettable experience. The ultimate Christmas song. Rest in power Shane and Kirsty.

  • @kimbirch1202
    @kimbirch1202 Год назад +65

    The Pogues are an awesome band with their Irish roots, superb lyrics, and great instrumentals.
    Fairytale of New York is the most played Christmas song in the UK.

    • @keithwarrington2430
      @keithwarrington2430 Год назад +1

      third. most played after All I Want For Christmas ( the Mariah version ) and Last Christmas but is easily my favourite out of those three.

  • @leppardification
    @leppardification Год назад +34

    You should youtube "Shane McGowen's funeral fairytale of New York". They had a band playing this in the church, and his family and friends were literally dancing and singing in the aisles. The entire country of Ireland celebrated his life and music that day. The streets and pubs were packed, everyone had a drink in their hands and sang Pogues songs until the wee hours. ❤

  • @Seanadun
    @Seanadun Год назад +12

    Irish punk/folk music. Song came out in 1987. Shane was born to irish parents in Britain. Shane loved ireland. It's not Christmas until i hear Fairytale of New York.

  • @JaKrish
    @JaKrish Месяц назад +22

    Song gives me chills every time. The goddamn brilliance of everything about it. Raw. Beautiful. Melodic. Adult. And touching all at once. Just a bloody-hell masterpiece of a song.

  • @Jayneyd
    @Jayneyd Год назад +20

    I saw the pogues twice in concert and they were brilliant. Even though Wembley stadium was packed it still felt like a drunken sing song with Ur mates in your back garden ! The atmosphere was Fantastic . ❤️

  • @DEWDLES
    @DEWDLES Год назад +49

    I’m sure there aren’t many people in GB that don’t know this word for word and haven’t sung along with their mates it’s just everything ❤ in fact I’m laid in bed singing along right now

    • @ImBigDave79
      @ImBigDave79 Год назад +1

      Same

    • @DEWDLES
      @DEWDLES Год назад +6

      Having said that you should also do the Dubliners and the pogues doing the Irish rover ❤️

    • @rachelpenny5165
      @rachelpenny5165 Месяц назад +1

      I can't sing in tune, but I was still singing along 😅

    • @rachelpenny5165
      @rachelpenny5165 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@DEWDLESThat's a good song

  • @swingsloth
    @swingsloth Год назад +9

    The melancholy the Pogues lay down brings me to tears at the most unexpected times. A beautiful song every time I listen no matter the mindset each time.

  • @ENQUIRER808
    @ENQUIRER808 Год назад +24

    My favourite Christmas song, it tells you how Christmas really is.

  • @ozkaz13
    @ozkaz13 Год назад +16

    The version of this song at Shane’s funeral is like nothing you’ve seen before, it will move you and make you smile❤ love you guys

    • @LibraKing3121
      @LibraKing3121 11 месяцев назад +3

      I want to post the link to the performance at his funeral, but posts containing links get removed or deleted.
      Anyway, the video was so amazing and wonderful to see, especially when his family members climbed over the 1st pew & started dancing with each other.
      I also heard that he left a $10k for the bar tab at his own funeral.

  • @elizabethhancock8143
    @elizabethhancock8143 Год назад +19

    This tops the list of favourite Christmas tunes in the UK, well it's certainly mine. Thank you for finally getting around to reacting to it. ❤❤❤

  • @Guildofarcanelore
    @Guildofarcanelore Год назад +19

    We listen to this every Christmas Eve.

  • @philomenawhitehead7840
    @philomenawhitehead7840 Месяц назад +12

    I'm pretty sure that 'Fairytale of New York' is the UK's most favourite Christmas song. I'm British and I know it's definitely my favourite.

  • @isabelsilva62023
    @isabelsilva62023 Год назад +5

    The NYPD have never had a choir but about a month before Shane passed away they got a group of retired officers together with an amateur choir and recorded a rendition of Galway Bay, it is really sweet.

  • @kaspinet
    @kaspinet Год назад +9

    I've always loved the line, "When I first found you." and how McColl sings it with such tender melancholy.

  • @nigelharris8173
    @nigelharris8173 25 дней назад +5

    For many in the UK christmas does not start until we hear this song, rip to both of em ur music will live on forever!! god bless x

  • @CarolePrater
    @CarolePrater 17 дней назад +2

    Both gone , but not forgotten, always This song will remind me of them

  • @maureenfinucane147
    @maureenfinucane147 27 дней назад +10

    This is the best Irish Christmas song ever!! Us Irish never tire of it !

    • @ray-wm7yd
      @ray-wm7yd 26 дней назад +1

      None of the Pogues were born in Ireland and nor was Kirsty McColl

    • @SteveMurray-z5d
      @SteveMurray-z5d 22 дня назад +1

      @@maureenfinucane147 And which of the Irish counties would New York be in then?

  • @junction6_m27VNC
    @junction6_m27VNC Год назад +22

    The greatest Xmas song ever, when Kirsty sing “well so could anyone” it’s spine chilling, such a fantastic song. You must do Kirsty McCalls New England it’s a classic in Britain

    • @ViDuhy
      @ViDuhy 6 дней назад +1

      Listen to Lyra The magic of Christmas

  • @brendamason238
    @brendamason238 Год назад +19

    For more Pogues listen to my personal favorite, Dirty Old Town. It was written by Ewan MacColl, the father of Kirsty MacColl who sang the duet with Shane in Fairytale.

  • @chriswinwood6501
    @chriswinwood6501 27 дней назад +6

    Poor Kirsty. Whoever would have thought Shane would outlive her. Her voice is so sharp and brutal on the line “well so could anyone”. The 24th anniversary of her death this week.

  • @williamgreco3046
    @williamgreco3046 Год назад +31

    It's high time to finally do the Corrs. Some may say Breathless but not me. I say the Irish instrumentals, Toss the Feathers, Haste to the Wedding, or Joy of Life. For singing songs: I Never Loved You Anyway, So Young, Forgiven Not Forgotten, Somebody For Someone. And their unplugged version of Little Wing is utterly fantastic. Their cover of Ruby Tuesday (with Ron Wood) or Summer Wine (with Bono).

    • @jimgeorge9476
      @jimgeorge9476 Год назад +2

      I would add in their cover of Everybody Hurts.

    • @williamgreco3046
      @williamgreco3046 Год назад

      @@jimgeorge9476 and My Lagan Love

    • @Jemini4228
      @Jemini4228 Год назад +2

      I love Queen of Hollywood.

    • @aaronherbison7316
      @aaronherbison7316 Год назад +1

      The Cirrs version of Toss the feathers is the best by a mile.. Simon Philips plays drums on their studio version.

    • @hamper22
      @hamper22 Год назад

      The Corrs yes!!!

  • @rosanajaquez3274
    @rosanajaquez3274 Год назад +38

    I grew up in an Irish-Dominican neighborhood so this song has been in my rotation for years upon years. This is the first time, though, that is really made me cry as both leads are now gone. RIP Kirsty and RIP Shane. We built our dreams around you.
    Great song by the Pogues and one of the best love songs ever is “A Rainy Night in Soho”. You’d love it ❤

    • @laurencescott1875
      @laurencescott1875 Год назад +1

      Inwood?

    • @rosanajaquez3274
      @rosanajaquez3274 Год назад +1

      @@laurencescott1875 Yep!

    • @seanmcmichael2551
      @seanmcmichael2551 Год назад +2

      Ditto that ...
      "A Rainy Night In Soho".
      Another song that was up and front during Shane's Dublin cortege and Tipperary funeral.

  • @BrendanAshton
    @BrendanAshton Год назад +11

    Kirsty MacColl is a great artist in her own right and unfortunately we lost at an early age and her father was Ewan MacColl who is a folk legend who wrote the song first time ever I saw your face

  • @josmith4173
    @josmith4173 Год назад +20

    Check out more of Kirsty McCole - ‘the guy work down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis’ ‘Caroline’‘miss ottis regrets’ ‘don’t come the cowboy either me’ to name but a few x

    • @davidhuggan6315
      @davidhuggan6315 Год назад +2

      Indeed, Kirsty was not a member of the Pogues, she was an English singer-songwriter.

  • @mattpotter8725
    @mattpotter8725 Год назад +28

    Great Christmas song, great reaction!!! You really should check out the version of this played in the church at Shane McGowan's funeral service, it is amazing and you'll love it I'm sure (they even kept in all the non pc lyrics). A great tribute to a legendary singer. More Pogues please!!!

    • @Rollin_L
      @Rollin_L Год назад +2

      Yes, a brilliant tribute at the funeral. When you see couples dancing at the end, reminiscent of Shane and Kirsty in the original video, if that doesn't bring tears to the eyes then one has no soul.

    • @whitechocolate072
      @whitechocolate072 Год назад +2

      It was a perfect tribute

  • @dariusdodd
    @dariusdodd 11 месяцев назад +1

    As an Aussie living in London I got to see The Pogues on New Years with thousands of wonderful, dancing Irish. We formed huge circles and ran round and round to Dirty Old Town all the while sharing spliffs and whisky. A beautiful dream with a nightmare hangover. Thanks a million Shane and Kirsty. Forever souls.

  • @jonathanmaybury5698
    @jonathanmaybury5698 Год назад +50

    It's the number one Christmas song every year. In the UK and in Ireland, I. I think it's the only thing we can agree on.

    • @davidhuggan6315
      @davidhuggan6315 Год назад +4

      It has actually never been no.1 in the UK, reaching No. 2 a couple of times, but it does make the top 10 every Christmas, and it would be nice if it got the top spot one day. It was also voted Britain's favourite Christmas song about 16 years ago.

    • @keithwarrington2430
      @keithwarrington2430 Год назад

      @@davidhuggan6315 even though going by sales/streams and radio plays it isn't.. .quite

    • @brendanfromireland
      @brendanfromireland Год назад +1

      It's never been number one in the UK unfortunately

    • @gmun2248
      @gmun2248 22 дня назад +2

      I think it's the most loved - Scotland, Ireland, & England & Wales!

    • @jonathanmaybury5698
      @jonathanmaybury5698 22 дня назад +1

      @@brendanfromireland because it's a tragic song around Christmas people never vote it as number one but in our hearts it definitely is #1. That's why they always play things like Slade and Wizard, because they're so upbeat.

  • @pumpwellington6631
    @pumpwellington6631 Год назад +3

    Brings a tear everytime I hear it. And I've heard it 1000 times.

  • @Samjane723
    @Samjane723 19 дней назад +1

    I heard this song every Christmas growing up, as my Irish and Scottish grandparents always played it. It came out in the 80's, but it's still one of the most popular Christmas songs in the UK, and I just adore it. Because obviously it's a great song, but mostly because of the nostalgia, it reminds me of my grandparents. 😢❤

  • @johnmavroudis2054
    @johnmavroudis2054 Год назад +5

    "THOUSANDS ARE SAILING" by the Pogues is every bit this great song's equal. A story of the immigrants that come to America... and,, like "FAIRY TALE OF NEW YORK," it never fails to bring a tear to my eye. A truly BEAUTIFUL song.

  • @anthonypurvis8619
    @anthonypurvis8619 9 месяцев назад +14

    the one song I need to hear for it to be Christmas

    • @JesterFive8
      @JesterFive8 8 месяцев назад

      The ONLY good christmas song.

    • @janestephenson4762
      @janestephenson4762 Месяц назад

      Heard it on the radio yesterday, Christmas has officially started

  • @johnyoung8430
    @johnyoung8430 Год назад +14

    Thousands are sailing is another classic for me but there is a lot to choose from.

    • @CharCanuck14
      @CharCanuck14 Год назад +3

      "Thousands are Sailing" is probably my favourite Pogues song. RIP Philip Chevron, who wrote it.

    • @rbb9753
      @rbb9753 Год назад +2

      This is absolutely the next one they should do.

    • @maryburke5423
      @maryburke5423 28 дней назад

      Makes me bawl my eyes out, that song.

  • @pierreaugereau9845
    @pierreaugereau9845 8 дней назад

    Two amazing voices for an amazing song with a lot of feelings, melancholy and joy in the same song and this is so irish. This song was played during Shane Mac Gowan funerals, giving joy to people despite sad circumstances...

  • @matthewthomas7418
    @matthewthomas7418 Год назад +7

    Thank you so much for finally playing my favourite Christmas tune. Sadly now both vocalists, Shane & Kirsty are no longer with us and ironically lost around the Christmas period. This song still brings a tear to my eye.

  • @roverp5car
    @roverp5car Месяц назад +15

    Shane RIP one year on this Saturday, Kirsty gone i don't how long, my wife 7 years one week ago.. A song that used to make smile, now makes me cry every time.

    • @my_neat_stuff
      @my_neat_stuff 28 дней назад +1

      Channel those memories into a smile! Wonderful music has powers like that!

  • @JayneMcDonough-b3d
    @JayneMcDonough-b3d Год назад +3

    Gut wrenching song, that last verse, you took my dreams from me……I kept them with me babe……. He was a poet Shane, had a way with words. It never fails to bring a tear to the eyes.

  • @kevinunderwood4104
    @kevinunderwood4104 11 месяцев назад +2

    The only Christmas song I'll put on repeat during the season. It's my absolute favorite song in the deep winter!

  • @barblessable
    @barblessable Год назад +11

    Kirsty McColl died too young , her dad was folk singer Ewan McColl he wrote The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face which was a big hit for Roberta Flack [ featured in Clint Eastwoods film Play Misty For Me] and Dirty Old Town , Shane and Kirsty will be remembered as Fairy Tale gets lots of radio plays at Xmas here in U.K. .

  • @knucklesupperstudios572
    @knucklesupperstudios572 15 дней назад

    An amazing song by two incredible singers whose lives were both cut short. One by an accident, the other by the drink. Godspeed ❤

  • @franciswall5704
    @franciswall5704 9 месяцев назад +3

    One of my favorite lines: "I could have been someone, well so could anyone..." It captures the whole despair and disgust they both feel. Shane's trying to blame her and their relationship out of spite and hatred and Kristy's response is basically, "Yeah, anyone could be something, you just don't have what it takes, quit blaming me you loser." The juxtaposition of how it started and where it ended all in 3+ minutes. Perfection.

  • @bobburroughs6241
    @bobburroughs6241 Месяц назад +4

    A tear-jerking song.

  • @michaelwelsh776
    @michaelwelsh776 Месяц назад +4

    It's not Christmas till you hear this. Love it. Sadly both now passed.

  • @oliverrimbaud4556
    @oliverrimbaud4556 6 месяцев назад +2

    my favourite christmas song, it just embodies so much love between people from england, ireland and scotland

  • @colettefitzpatrick9412
    @colettefitzpatrick9412 Год назад +6

    One of my favourite Christmas songs 🎄💕The instruments you wanted to know about are the accordion and the tin whistle. They are very typically of the instruments you’ll hear being played here in Ireland especially in the pubs ☘️🪗🎼

  • @juliethompson1786
    @juliethompson1786 25 дней назад +1

    My favourite Christmas song of all. So good, you could listen to it all year. It’s fantastic on a night out and gets everyone singing along. Can’t believe both Kirsty and Shane are gone. What an amazing collaboration this was.

  • @Neil_BT
    @Neil_BT Год назад +5

    They were called the Pogues because they couldn't call themselves póg mo thóin, which is Irish gaelic for "kiss my arse". They played this at Shane's funeral just last month, definitely worth a watch - there was actual dancing in the aisles. RIP Shane, and RIP Kirsty, two absolute stars.

  • @SusanneRenwick-p4r
    @SusanneRenwick-p4r 21 день назад +1

    Diesen song kann man immer und immer wieder hören! Bester Christmas song...

  • @johnmaltbie377
    @johnmaltbie377 Год назад +20

    This is the #1 Christmas song in the UK and Ireland every year, and I love it here in the US too.

  • @stefanlindfors2023
    @stefanlindfors2023 3 месяца назад +2

    A fantastic song,and the way they sing it,gives me goosebumps...have lived in UK for 23 years now,but when I lived in my native Sweden,this was always one of the most played tunes,around Christmas. Hats off,Kirsty and Shane🇸🇪🇬🇧

  • @ianbennett1491
    @ianbennett1491 10 месяцев назад +12

    RIP Kirsty and Shane.😢🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇨🇮

  • @Spedley_2142
    @Spedley_2142 22 дня назад +2

    I knew an alcoholic couple 20 years ago and this song reminds me of them (Ray and Jan). They'd start sober-ish at 7pm and end up slagging each other off by midnight. He was very bright but alcoholic and she was devoted to him but also alcoholic. Occasionally she'd come in with a black eye which was a harsh reality at first but then I learned that life is complex.
    I enjoyed talking and being with them but haven't seen them in well over a decade. He is dead now, drowned in the canal - going for a piss whilst drunk I presume. Don't know what happened to her but I expect she's much better off without him.
    This song replays my time with them in the early 2000s, both were great and could have been so much more but wasted it with each other.

  • @charlesthebrick5251
    @charlesthebrick5251 5 месяцев назад +3

    The Greatest Christmas song ever written. So thankful I have a British father. RIP Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl

  • @sheilaoneil18
    @sheilaoneil18 2 месяца назад +2

    It's the Irish. We've got all the best bands!!!All the best tunes!! I am 81 and dancing. This is one of my favourite songs...performances of all. It has never failed to move my soul!

  • @carolmartin4413
    @carolmartin4413 Год назад +4

    Shane McGowan...RIP....such a fun song!

  • @KevinPierce-pu4bd
    @KevinPierce-pu4bd 21 день назад +2

    Somebody finally got to the pogues. 🤗🤗🤗

  • @kengiorlando7119
    @kengiorlando7119 Год назад +4

    In my top ten Christmas songs - - this is so beautiful when you really listen to it.

  • @marykelly5608
    @marykelly5608 14 дней назад

    This song is a lovely tribute to the Irish in New York; so many Irish came from Ireland to Ellis Island to settle in New York, many filled the ranks of the police and continue to this day. Such a lovely connection from Ireland to the U.S.

  • @douglanning4393
    @douglanning4393 Год назад +5

    Delighted ye did this song. Rainy Night in Soho, pair of brown eyes and PLEASE have a go at Thousands Are Sailing.
    Crackin tunes. Unbelievable lyrics. Amazing band.

  • @esclad
    @esclad Год назад +1

    The beginning of the song is just so depressing but then it lights up when Kirsty comes in.
    Every Christmas is groundhog day because this song is everywhere, on every radio station, every day, every year.
    RIP to both of them.

  • @Inmylifecouk
    @Inmylifecouk Год назад +5

    I saw the pogues a few times and they were always good. So many you could check out , streams of whiskey, Sally Maclennane, if I should fall from grace with god etc etc

  • @SharmanSomerset
    @SharmanSomerset Год назад +1

    Yes Squad! More Pogues please, amazing band, always reminds me of my olds after the pub parties, give Fiesta, Sally MacLennane, and a Rainy Night in Soho a play. Shane was an incredible poet, may he rest well x

  • @timlundergan3360
    @timlundergan3360 Год назад +10

    Glad you’ve found the Pogues. For St. Patrick’s Day, check out “Thousands Are Sailing.” Any time, listen to “Body of an American,” “If I Should Fall From Grace With God,” “Broad, Majestic Shannon,” or their covers of “Dirty Old Town” or “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda.” As for Kirsty MacColl, what could be a better Female Friday song than “In These Shoes”?

  • @johnmaynardable
    @johnmaynardable Год назад +1

    The Pogues were such a great band, and Shane McGowan was an amazing leader of this band. I bought all of their albums. Definitely hear more from them.

  • @rynoishere
    @rynoishere Год назад +10

    If you're looking for a contrast in voices, Shane and Sinead O'Conner did a duet called Haunted. Her voice was angelic against his sandpaper vocals and it couldn't have been more perfect.

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno Год назад +2

      The original version with Cait O’Riordan is my favourite version of “Haunted”.

    • @nycdawn5061
      @nycdawn5061 Год назад

      I just mentioned Haunted in a comment before seeing yours. I didn’t realize it was a remake. I will definitely check out the original. I first heard it in The Matchmaker which is one of my favorite movies. So much good music in it.

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno Год назад

      @@nycdawn5061 The original was recorded with the Pogues bass player of the time, Cait O’Riordan on vocals. It was not a duet like the re-recorded version. It was a more jangly, indie style version. They recorded it for the soundtrack of “Sid and Nancy”.

  • @Spiderific
    @Spiderific Год назад +2

    So glad you did this. A lifelong favorite of mine.

  • @niallmcentee9400
    @niallmcentee9400 Год назад +16

    Fun fact - The Pogues got their name from an Irish phrase Póg mo hón. Pronounced Pogue Muh hone which means Kiss My A**. True story 😝

    • @saadasfaq5552
      @saadasfaq5552 10 месяцев назад

      what is the actual meaning in English, or pogues is just a name

    • @niallmcentee9400
      @niallmcentee9400 Месяц назад

      ​@@saadasfaq5552read above

  • @Markygee1
    @Markygee1 Месяц назад +2

    It’s a tin whistle. Sounds like morning birds. Giving out sweet sweet melodies. Love your stuff

  • @travisr82
    @travisr82 Год назад +10

    Kirsty McColl is well worth exploring - she wrote the Tracy Ullman track you reacted to

    • @amyk9175
      @amyk9175 Год назад +3

      And sang the line “Ba-by” in Ullman’s version

  • @jenniferbarber126
    @jenniferbarber126 Год назад +1

    Pogues - Thousands Are Sailing simply the best. I loved this band in College.

  • @TheClairem75
    @TheClairem75 Год назад +28

    Please do more Kirsty MacColl! She was such a talented singer/songwriter, cruelly killed just over 20 years ago now.
    In These Shoes, A New England, Walking Down Maddison, Don’t Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim & her cover of The Kinks song, Days to get you started.
    She was the daughter of Ewan MacColl, a folk singer famous for his song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

    • @alisonrodger3360
      @alisonrodger3360 Год назад +2

      Not forgetting - There's a Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis 😁

  • @michellesuter9259
    @michellesuter9259 22 дня назад

    It's on my work Playlist all year long. I never get tired of it.

  • @bpfromowc
    @bpfromowc Год назад +23

    Great reaction guys. 👍
    Another superb Irish band are The Dubliners, you should see their duet with The Pogues (live on an Irish chat show). This performance is now legendary. It’s called “The Irish Rover”, and it’s a real must-see.
    Thanks 🙏🏻 From Belfast, Northern Ireland.

  • @chrisnaylor8938
    @chrisnaylor8938 Год назад +2

    So glad you've found this one. There are some wonderful Kirsty Maccoll songs to listen to - A New England, Don't Come The Cowboy With Me, and her gorgeous Kinks cover, Days among many others.

  • @carolstrathern8340
    @carolstrathern8340 Год назад +3

    My brothers favourite Christmas song ❤ Every time I hear it it stops me in my tracks and makes me smile. 🇬🇧 xxx

  • @xrentonx
    @xrentonx Год назад +1

    My favorite Christmas song. Punky Irish folk! Sad and uplifting at the same time.

  • @trevorsongary3431
    @trevorsongary3431 11 месяцев назад +10

    "...you took my dreams from me, when I first found you.."
    "I kept them with me babe, I kept them with my own! Can't make it out alone, I've built my dream around you...."
    Hits me in the feels every time!! Hard!

  • @randyallbee1173
    @randyallbee1173 Год назад +2

    Was it the middle of the 80’s? Went into a record shop in Chico, California-going to college there- and stopped dead in my tracks, never heard crazy punk Irish rock-anything like it, not this mixture-before. Blew me away! Rum, Sodomy and the Lash, by the Pogues-produced by Elvis Costello-was playing , killing it. Immediate fan, thank you forever Shane, and all…

  • @bydavidmitchell
    @bydavidmitchell Год назад +10

    This is the only Christmas song I can stomach. Growing up in Scotland, I heard this song a lot when I was younger, and continued to listen to it and add it to playlists into my adult life. RIP Shane and Kirsty. You both left behind a song that will take some beating. Thanks for the reaction guys.

  • @jjd1799
    @jjd1799 8 месяцев назад +2

    My birthday is Xmas eve born London 1990. This song brings back so many happy memories for me. This is played on every radio station in the UK in December

  • @joiedevivre2005
    @joiedevivre2005 Год назад +4

    YAY!!! FINALLY!!! So glad y'all picked this! HUGE Pogues fan here. I hit the "LIKE" button as soon as I saw the title. This is my ultimate Xmas song (& one of the ultimate love songs, imho). I would also suggest y'all check out their songs "If I Should Fall from Grace With God", "A Rainy Night in Soho", "Streams of Whiskey" , "Love You Till The End" & their versions of "The Parting Glass" & "The Irish Rover". RIP Shane & Kirsty.

    • @joiedevivre2005
      @joiedevivre2005 Год назад

      Side Note: Spider Stacy, one of the Pogues has a home in New Orleans & often performs there with the Cajun band Lost Bayou Ramblers doing a show called "Poguetry in Motion".

  • @sharonalexander4327
    @sharonalexander4327 Месяц назад +2

    You know xmas is due when the fairytale is on the radio 😊

  • @TerryWeir-d4g
    @TerryWeir-d4g Год назад +19

    Hi Jay and Amber, Believe it or not this song is actually my ringtone on my phone 😄😄
    Shane McGowan was the lead singer with The Pogues He very sadly passed away last month sged 65 🙏🙏
    The female singer is Kirsty McColl, who has also sadly passed away 🙏🙏
    RIP Shane McGowan 🙏🙏
    RIP Kirsty McColl 🙏🙏

    • @reddragonready
      @reddragonready Год назад +3

      Well, 65 for McGowan would be like 105 for anybody else to be fair

    • @keithwarrington2430
      @keithwarrington2430 Год назад +1

      how did he last that long?!

    • @reddragonready
      @reddragonready Год назад

      Knowing when to stop I would guess@@keithwarrington2430

    • @patverum9051
      @patverum9051 Год назад

      Finally got his teeth fixed and then died.