(Vocal/instrumental group, 1982–present) Formed in North London around gifted songwriter Shane MacGowan (vocals). Other long-term members include Spider Stacey (tin whistle, vocals), Jem Finer (banjo, guitar), Phil Chevron (guitar) and Andrew Ranken (drums). They breathed fresh, punky life into Irish music on excellent albums Rum, Sodomy And The Lash (1985) and If I Should Fall From ...
Rock, jazz, soul; each of these genres, while containing a multiplicity of various offshoots, is defined by some kind of unifying theme. But this miscellaneous section, as any record collector will know, is where everything else ends up. Most of the styles within this ‘genre’ have little in common save the fact that they do ...
(Vocals, 1959–2000) The daughter of folk singer Ewan MacColl, her appealing, wry voice brought her hits with ‘There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis’ (1981), ‘A New England’ (1985) and ‘Days’ (1989). She duetted on The Pogues’ 1987 Christmas smash ‘Fairytale Of New York’. She released warm, witty albums in Electric Landlady (1991) ...
for their second album, 10 Upping Street (1986), before embarking on a solo career that encompassed acting (Mystery Train), soundtracks (Straight To Hell, Sid And Nancy), producing The Pogues and various band projects including Latino Rockabilly War and The Mescaleros. The posthumous legacy of The Clash continued to grow. The Story Of The Clash Volume 1 (1988) made the ...
in his solo career, refused. She formed The Breeders. The Pixies reunited to play ecstatically received gigs in 2004. Styles & Forms | Eighties | Rock Personalities | The Pogues | Eighties | Rock ...
injection of brass into the equation, primarily via The Albion Band and Home Service, opened up another alternative, as did 1980s punk folk bands such as The Pogues, The Men They Couldn’t Hang and the more country-influenced Boothill Foot-Tappers. The growth of importance in technology in recording studios opened another hornet’s nest for an organic music that ...
song anyone’s ever written.’ Irving Berlin on ‘White Christmas’ Leading Exponents Bing Crosby Phil Spector Slade Roy Wood with Wizzard Johnny Mathis Band Aid Cliff Richard Wham! The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl Backstreet Boys John Lennon & Yoko Ono Christmas Songs Style Christmas hits have catchy melodies, quite often accompanied by sleigh-bell rhythms that are easy to sing ...
story songs often seemed like modern parables. Perhaps the most important contemporary folk writer of modern times, however, is Shane MacGowan. Raised on punk, MacGowan formed The Pogues as a loud, brash, hard-drinking, devil-may-care stage act, taking the templates of The Clancy Brothers and The Dubliners, and increasing the volume, speed and ...
it up with ‘Black Velvet Band’. It was 20 years before they made the charts again, in a collaboration with one of the bands they helped inspire, The Pogues, on a raucous treatment of the popular pub song ‘Irish Rover’. The Pogues themselves scored one of the most memorable folk-inspired hits of all with their classic, bittersweet ...
multiplied in form and merged with types of music that were once supposed to be its deadliest enemies, such as disco or avant-garde, or even – as The Pogues so powerfully demonstrated – the traditional Irish folk song. A classical musician, Nigel Kennedy, can be a ‘punk violinist’. Within weeks of punk rock erupting, there were ...
New age music has become the most popular form of contemporary electronic music. Unlike the other variants, new age has become popular with a global mainstream audience, even more so than the most commercial strains of contemporary chill out. Although similarities do exist between new age and ambient music – both styles were influenced by the same pioneers, ...
For many veterans of the punk era, new wave is not a genre at all. The term was coined by the music press to encompass acts who were influenced by punk, but less overtly rebellious and with more traditionally crafted pop skills. New wave acts traded largely on a back-to-basics desire to revive the short, sharp thrill of ...
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