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The pogues

Shane MacGowan died today. He led one of Ireland's greatest bands. This July, my dad sang "A Rainy Night in Soho" as my cousin walked down the isle. There wasn't a dry eye. I've been loving you a long time Down all the years, down all the days And I've cried for all your troubles Smiled at your funny little ways We watched our friends grow up together And we saw them as they fell Some of them fell into Heaven Some of them fell into Hell Now this song is nearly over We may never find out what it means Still there's a light I hold before me And you're the measure of my dreams, the measure of my dreams

@peggy

Nov 30, 2023

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5. McAlpine's fusiliers behan by the dubliners

I've listened to so much Irish folk music since Shane MacGowan's passing and it really is a salve like no other. Always rousing and joyful while recounting life's endless hardships. Defiant. Beautiful.

@theblastedtower

Jan 28, 2024

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Chrissie hynde

There at the Kent State shootings. 💔 There at the creation of the Sex Pistols 🔫 There for the birth of alt-rock. 🎶 Still standing. Her voice is perhaps the best of the past forty years - she could sing the dictionary and I would still listen. ‘You arrived like a day, and passed like a cloud/ I made a wish, I said it out loud’ I wish I had written that.

@coreydubrowa

Feb 21, 2024

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When your new book is finally available for preorder ❤️

Hey tyler hopefully this doesn’t violate some PI.FYI golden rule But after nearly two years of writing, editing and arguing, my book about the EP is coming out in May and can be preordered here: https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/ The book is about the origins, history and cultural impact of the EP since these little objects first started coming out in the 50s. Over 50 of my music biz friends then helped me shape the list and review the top 200 ever released, according to us (ha). For those of you who are into this kind of geekery/snobbery, I can’t wait to hear what you think. A labor of love, as all books are! ❤️

@coreydubrowa

Mar 27, 2024

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The cure announcing their first album in 16 years by PUTTING up a single poster outside the pub in crawley UK where they played their first gig

“Songs Of a Lost World” coming to a goth listening station near you Nov 1 🖤 The fr FW Me Friday the 13th the world was looking for

@coreydubrowa

Sep 14, 2024

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Unwound

I will fail to explain just how much this band meant to me in the 90s. So I will borrow from AV Club who did a fine job of distilling it: “Unwound is the best band of the ’90s. Not just because of how prolific, consistent, and uncompromising it was, but because of how perfectly Unwound nested in a unique space between some of the most vital forms of music that decade: punk, post-rock, indie rock, post-hardcore, slow-core, and experimental noise. That jumble of subgenres doesn’t say much; in fact, it falls far short of what Unwound truly synthesized and stood for. Unwound stood for Unwound. But in a decade where most bands were either stridently earnest or stridently ironic, Unwound wasn’t stridently anything. It was only itself. In one sense Unwound was the quietest band of the ’90s, skulking around like a nerdy terror cell. In another sense it was the loudest, sculpting raw noise into contorted visions of inner turmoil and frustration.” R.I.P. Vern Rumsey. This is their finest song, from their finest album. I really can’t say enough about the sheer bloody minded genius of this group. 🖤

@coreydubrowa

Mar 23, 2024

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