
Long time MLD readers will remember my brother Ryan's regular " TEN4SEVEN " series. Each and every week for a year he hunted high and low to find the 10 finest songs, until finally bowing out a spent husk of a man back in April 2010. Now he's resurrecting his blog " Stop Me If You Think Youve Heard This One Before " with a broader focus on popular culture. So if you're going to return why not do it with a bang and declare the 50 best songs of all time? Why not? Because its a ridiculous [...]

- the untouchables songs - The Pogues - A rainy night in Soho (1991) Prestate attenzione al video. La rarità sta nel fatto che, seppur avvolto nella penombra e non perfettamente a fuoco, uno Shane MacGowan tanto compassato ed elegante chansonnier è difficile trovarlo altrove.

Shane MacGowan is unquestionably a hugely respected figure in modern music: as The Pogues frontman he brought together Irish music and punk, and more importantly lent his own particular voice and lyricism to music. That's all well and good, but two of our favorite Shane moments here at HAD are perhaps two of the lesser known - we figured we'd share. The first is "Haunted", a 1995 duet with Sinead O'Connor off of MacGowan's 1995 record The Snake (which deserves a full listen if you haven't already). The tune is [...]