Filed under: News , UK The musical snobbery of Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillespie (pictured, right) is being singled out as one of the reasons for the poor sales of the alternative Haiti charity single, 'I Put A Spell On You'. As previously reported on Spinner , Pogues singer Shane MacGowan assembled a stellar cast of alternative rockers including Nick Cave , Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde and former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock. However, despite a high-profile launch [...]
Shane and friends gather to raise money for Haitian relief.
Benefit songs don't always stand the test of time. I have to admit that to this day, hearing the original "We Are the World" still makes my eardrums cry in pain (even WITH Springsteen in it) because it was played soooo daaaamnn much then. And let's be honest, it's not a song you'd listen to on repeat even if you liked it. The smart move would be to find a song that's a classic and get some popular artists to get folks to buy it. As we mentioned a little while back , Nick Cave, Pogues [...]
Filed under: News , Video , New Music As previously reported , Pogues singer Shane MacGowan enlisted a group of alt-rock musicians -- and one famous actor -- to record Screamin' Jay Hawkins ' 1956 hit, 'I Put a Spell on You,' to raise relief money for Haiti. Now MacGowan and Concern.net have released a music video documenting what went on during the song's recording process. Opening with some footage of the devastation in Haiti, the song starts with [...]
There is a betting shop under the house next door who once offered us something like seven or eight grand, or something like that, to build a fire exit out of their place into our back garden. Quite apart from whether or not that compensation would actually match the resulting devaluation of the house, which it probably wouldn't have, the idea of having Ladbrokes employees peering into our garden while we were sitting out there with a cup of tea didn't really sound appealing. Also, they claimed that the door would be alarmed, but we didn't really have [...]
Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan and Mick Jones of The Clash have organized a group of musicians to cover the Screamin Jay Hawkins song "I Put a Spell On You" as a benefit single for Haitian relief. Sort of a punk "alternative" to Simon Cowell, who is also putting out a benefit single, as is Quincy Jones' remake of "We Are the World," Jones and MacGowan brought in other musicians, such as Chrissie Hynde and Sex Pistols Glen Matlock among others, with Nick Cave as producer. The single is [...]
Wild Weekend time again... With the For The Sake Of The Song iPod on shuffle and the eyes on the prize. The outcome? A sixpack of tunes exclusively picked by the ghost in the machine. Here we go. And we´re off, with those blokes you can trust. "It was smaller than a cow, it was bigger than a cat..." Yup, the Cosmic Psychos are here, tackling a typically Australian phenomenon: a dead roo. Which is followed by the exquisite pairing of John Coltrane on tenor sax and Don Cherry on trumpet, performing [...]
This podcast is slightly kinda somewhat about about the myopia of the London media, in particular as to how it pertains to Scotland and Scottish music, and slightly about the Glasgow media. There are a number of different triggers for this, starting with this article in the Scotsman's Under the Radar blog last year about the rejection by the editor of a London glossy of an article on four up-and-coming Scottish bands, made even more offensive by the fact that said editor had requested the damn article in the first place. Of course, anyone who reads [...]
florence and the machine & billy bragg - fairytale of new york ( the pogues & kirsty maccoll cover) (bbc live in session) [one of my all time favorite songs gets a pre-xmas performance on bbc's live in session. i missed this a month ago, but it's never too late to discover a brilliant cover by billy bragg and florence and the machine. i'm totally getting misty!!!] http://feeds.feedburner.com/Wo ngiesMusicWorld
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S omaCow Media is proud to present ComaSow brought to you by a few more Holiday Songs! Bad Religion - First NOel The Vandals - Oi To The World The Pogues - Fairy Tale of New York Vote for your favorite HERE!
Almost every artist in the history of mankind has at least one title in their catalog that is a compilation, a stopgap collection meant to maintain interest between releases (often to boost holiday sales) or to fulfill a contractual obligation. This is the former, a chance to make use, one more time, of a lot of wasted time over the past twelve months. A year ago, I reflected on the annual, childhood tradition of spending New Year's Day with a half dozen blank cassettes as Q102 played back the Top 102 songs of the previous [...]
Holiday Music (done right) One of the Best of All-Time... Fairytale of New York Kirsty McColl (RIP) and The Pogues filmed in 1998, two short year before McColl was killed in Mexico.
the pogues // fairytale of new york aimee mann // calling on mary waitresses // christmas wrapping the hives & cyndi lauper // a christmas duel darlene love // christmas (baby please come home) john lennon & yoko ono // happy christmas (war is over) _ bonus: oscar the grouch // i hate christmas _
Enjoy Billy Bragg and Florence and The Machine covering "Fairytale of New York", my one and only favorite Christmas song. Happy Christmas everyone!
The Pogues ' Spider Stacy tells NME how their Christmas classic 'A Fairytale of New York' came to be. Video: The Pogues - 'A Fairy Tale Of New York' And as a bonus, here's Billy Bragg and Florence & The Machine covering the track as well for BBC Radio One: Video: Billy Bragg and Florence & The Machine - 'A Fairytale of New York' (live on BBC Radio One, December 2009) NME [...]
The Pogues ' Spider Stacy tells NME how their Christmas classic 'Fairytale of New York' came to be. Video: The Pogues - 'Fairytale Of New York' And as a bonus, here's Billy Bragg and Florence & The Machine covering the track as well for BBC Radio One: Video: Billy Bragg and Florence & The Machine - 'Fairytale of New York' (live on BBC Radio One, December 2009) NME brings a new [...]
Lone Wolf - Fairytale Of New York [The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl]
Kälte zum richtigen Zeitpunkt macht Menschen glücklich. Kurz vor Weihnachten muss es klirrend kalt sein, damit es auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt so richtig heimelig brummt und die Glühweintassen wie auf dem Fliessband über die Theken der Buden rauschen. Blaugefrorene Finger greifen danach, schütten das eklige, süss-klebtige Gebräu in breitgrinsende Münder und lassen diese für Sekunden verstummen.
Some of the best holiday songs are ones that don't focus on the religious or spiritual nature of the time, but rather on the emotional resonance of a time of year that is so centered around the idea of sharing things with others - be it gifts, charity or simply time. The Pogues' "Fairytale of [...]
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