Do you really like the song?

Here’s a beautiful interpretation by the great Nitin Sawhney

x.com/thenitinsawhney/status/1730301774400024789?s=46&t=cR0Pa_B5bkzj2u6O2LXngQ

It is a deep and warm song in our home. It is full of love, pain, sympathy, kindness and yearning - but I do wish shops couldn't play it!

Always loved it !

Grannynannywanny

^I can't stand it. I loathed it when I first heard it. Then came those who wanted to be different and said they loved it.^

Horses for courses but I bet there's a lot who claim to love it don't really.

There's a bit of herd mentality going on

What an odd thing to say. It’s like someone who likes the song saying “Louella just pretends to hate it to be different but she secretly loves it”

Surely we all have different tastes and that’s normal.

Agree Nanny I love it, I’m Irish and I sincerely love the Pogues! What’s wrong with that Louella?!

It's a great song, IMO one of the better Christmas songs.

I love it too. It's how I gauge Christmas starting! If I've head FTONY and had a mince pie, Christmas has begun.

And to hear a crowd singing it yesterday, after the funeral carriage had gone, was incredibly moving.

Certainly top of my list. But then I’m known to be contrary when it comes to popular music choices.

A wonderful performance of Fairytale of NY during the funeral Mass in Tipperary yesterday.

youtu.be/1lg8MCg0N4Y?si=hTEHsN4_6AK_gyKW

And a beautiful rendition of You’re the One sung by Imelda May by special request of Shane’s family.

youtu.be/1lg8MCg0N4Y?si=hTEHsN4_6AK_gyKW

Apologies I think I duplicated links in my previous post. This hopefully is Imelda May singing You’re the One

youtu.be/khHisbryCvg?si=DDGi16TGjShZPnFK

I had never heard this song until Shane MacGowan died recently. I couldn't understand what everyone was raving about. I thought his voice – certainly in this song – was horrible.

I have always loved this song. The instrumentals with drums,bells,whistles,it's great. Always thought of Shane as a troubled soul but having read about his childhood I have a better understanding of his drink and drugs usage. He was given 2 pints of Guinness a day from the age of 5 by his family,no wonder he had problems. Amazing poet and writer of soulful lyrics .

We like it, even though it’s weird. I like Christmas songs except Well here it is, Merry Christmas . . .

polomint

I can't abide the song " fairytale of New York". I know its very popular but I just don't like it. In fact I will leave a shop if it is being played ! Do you really like it or just ordered to like it?

I dislike it too, always have.In fact just said it on the RIP thread about Pogues frontman.
Am surprised to see many older women liking punk rock ( or claiming to)😄

Jaffacake2

I have always loved this song. The instrumentals with drums,bells,whistles,it's great. Always thought of Shane as a troubled soul but having read about his childhood I have a better understanding of his drink and drugs usage. He was given 2 pints of Guinness a day from the age of 5 by his family,no wonder he had problems. Amazing poet and writer of soulful lyrics .

I don’t believe that for one second.Two pints of Guiness a day from the age of 5? 😂

Baggs

I had never heard this song until Shane MacGowan died recently. I couldn't understand what everyone was raving about. I thought his voice – certainly in this song – was horrible.

A poster said something about herd mentality, yep, that explains it and is what happens on forums.
I’d never heard of him and am happy not to have.

Oreo
A poster said something about herd mentality, yep, that explains it and is what happens on forums.

Some fans might regard that as offensive. Personally I don’t, I find it hilarious. This song was released in the late 1980s and I originally had it on a cassette tape. Long before I had heard of internet forums 🤣

It really is ok not to like a song or indeed a performer. But to come on a forum the day after their funeral to accuse fans of herd mentality strikes me as rather bizarre 🤷‍♀️

It doesn’t matter when the song was released really, and there really is such a thing as forum herd mentality just as there is herd mentality in life, think about the late Princess of Wales.
Of course the Pogues had their fans.It’s also a fact that when someone even vaguely famous dies ,people say how marvellous they were.

Oreo read about his childhood in daily mail,Guardian and wikipedia so may be wrong or right. Not 2 pints,it was 2 bottles of Guinness a day. Is a bottle a pint ? Guardian news website also says he was given whiskey as a child.Definitely not a good start for his mental health

There are other horrific incidents in his early life which would have led anyone to have issues. He was deeply troubled from a young age.

Oreo - so many of us have talked about always enjoying/loving Fairytale. I’m one of them, absolutely nothing on here influenced me. I love Fairytale. I love Irish music and I really enjoyed the performance of Fairytale at Shane’s funeral.

I loathe Cliff, always have, that’s not here mentality either. You loathe Fairytale, fair enough

Well well, fairytale definitely is popular among the gransnetters. I stick to my guns though, I don't like it. Glad a few of you agree with me as I was beginning to think I was the only one who thought it was awful. I don't know the story of the person who died

I don't really understand why you would care if people agreed with you or not. Surely you like what you like. I like pasta if everyone around me said I dont like pasta it would have no influence on my liking of pasta. Music in particular is completely personal.

Oreo I don’t think of The Pogues songs in any way as “punk”. They’re all beautifully crafted, both lyrics and music. You might not like the sound of the actual voices but if you Google just the words, you’ll hopefully have a better appreciation of their output.
Also, The Pogues have been around since the early 1980s, so we weren’t “older” women back then. Don’t you still enjoy the music that you liked when you were younger?

Herd mentality? Pretend? No. Absolutely loved this song long before I had heard of GN. Love his gravelly voice. Love the lyrics. Just love the whole thing. Nobody told me too.
I don't understand why some posters are saying these odd things.

I think its very odd to only listen to 50's or 60's music...but thats THEIR choice.We all have different taste I love Irish music except Daniel ODonnell .I appreciate he has a huge fan base but he's just not for me .
The music you listen to is your business .no CR for me either might be a generation thing