This is a companion piece to a similarly-themed article on Pete’s site which, all things being equal, should be published at roughly the same time.
I bravely listened to the Pogues for a whole working day. I had to delete the first couple of tracks from the playlist because they were so bloody awful. That left several tracks that were still quite awful, and Fairytale of New York. I can only assume that Kirsty McColl makes this song acceptable. Or perhaps it just seems good because it is normally heard in the context of Slade and that whiny bloke who wants to go home for Christmas.
No, I’m sorry, I can’t get on with the Pogues at all. I really don’t have anything nice to say.
Next week’s playlist is all about disco. Pete smirked when he emailed to tell me.
I like the pogues! (In small doses.) That one about rain in soho is really nice. Honest.
How do you know he smirked? could you see him or did he send a smirk emoticon? a smirkicon? There was a time in my life when I listened to Rum, Sodomy and the Lash quite a lot. I like disco too.
Pete doesn’t do emoticons, really. I could just tell from the tone of his typing.