or iTunes Price: $9.99 Genre: Singer/Songwriter Released: 2002 Customer Ratings () |
Streams of Whiskey – Live In Leysin, Switzerland 1991 – The PoguesBiographyFormed: 1982 in Kings Cross, London, EnglandGenre: Alternative Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s By demonstrating that the spirit of punk could live in traditional Irish folk music, the Pogues were one of the most radical bands of the mid-'80s. Led by Shane MacGowan, whose slurred, incomprehensible voice often disguised the sheer poetry of his songs, the Pogues were undeniably political — not only were many of their songs explicitly in favor of working-class liberalism, but the wild, careening sound of their punk-injected folk was implicitly radical. While the band was clearly radical,...
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