Shane MacGowan

[robbieshell]

in short : Shane's a genius.

[Papajesuit]

Sounds good but the song sounds incomplete without Spider on the penny whistle

[buster1905]

TURN UP THE VOLUME

[tinalynn80]

Only an Irishman can pull off sounding great this wasted!LoL!! I LOVE it!!!

[jay010471]

for me there aint too many songwriters whose lyrics alone can stand as poetry. this boys can. easily.

[Asalamalika]

Brilliant... Only person who can sound awful and amazing at the same time

[Thesoz66]

god bless you shane we love you

[mamamammy]

a-f**king-men bobivov :)

[bobivov]

He's Shane MacGowan

He drinks

He's brilliant

Stop taking the piss

[Cloondolkoyne]

I love you Shano.... I hope get to feel how much everyone feels the same way before you go... B

[STFCstoneroses]

Amazing Shane

[davenow]

oooooomaly --The ultimate e-thugging douchebag. fuck off already.

[drummiedan]

Arguing the toss over nuttin...ha ha ha

[jobe129]

what is this song about?

[tuccoman]

Einer meiner unerfüllten Träume: mit Shane mal nen Bier trinken gehen und dann etwas Musik machen... :-) great !!

[arsemonkey7]

ein cooler Traum ;)

[tuccoman]

ja ! .... :-)

[iamkillerwhale]

good one

love this singer

[oooooomaly]

shanes great, check out wikipedia on shane, very interesting info, born in england, lives there, started drinking a 4, etc., good reading.

[beziersdude]

He was born in england all right but both parents were irish , I lived near him in ireland for many years, you can see from all his songs and music his great love of the irish culture and music.

[oooooomaly]

Well thank you for your infinitive input, I really don't have to see anything at all from all his songs as I have his/their entire collection since the Nips forward, (i'm a fan sligo) and his parents really don't have anything to do with the subject mentioned, that being his true country of birth. As we say here in Canada, 'If the shit fits, wear it'...

[beziersdude]

ce va. oooooo Im just a french celt with a passion for irish ways, you should get more educated when it come to irish culture (or is that your where ur from too bad you were forced to leave before they educated you) whatever the canadians say , just maybe your full of it !!!!!

[oooooomaly]

I see by your half-breed English you must have made it all the way to grade 6 at least... other than that you don't have the manners of a frog (which you are by your own admission) anyways, how did MY opinion become your fucking business in the first place, or should I contact some of my Belfast relatives to get an answer boyo jings...

[beziersdude]

Ohh The truth beginning to hurt now!!!!

get some books and do some study, is my advice for you, or there is some good basic courses you could do either.

[oooooomaly]

What truth moron? What books? I made a true statement about MacGowan and you go mental. You're showing the public here what kind of idiot you really are. What's really showing up is I know a Hell of a lot more about Shawn MacGowan than you ever will,....YOU get some books fool. Now I'm warning you for the last time,... fuck off and leave US alone, you falla?

[imGay4Real]

Shawn MacGowan?!

[RIProrygallagher]

HAHAHA! Shawn MacGowan! YOu just made a right ass of yourself didn't you? :L:L:L

[IvIw2STiiTCH]

@RIProrygallagher Die u bastard

[RIProrygallagher]

@IvIw2STiiTCH I'm a huge SHANE MacGowan fan. I was referring to the idiot calling him SHAWN MacGowan.

[rorycanadia]

"but when we got back labeled parts 1-3, there was no pair of brown eyes waiting for me." That line is a kick right in the guts. Brutally amazing and amazingly brutal.

[Sandrine71]

This man gives me a lot of emotion when I listen to him..

[lirvana2]

Well pissed! This song is amazing.

[Joymaker13]

evergreen....what more to say...every man for himself...Great Class

[genekt]

A bit problems with higher gravitation forces but this is not singing this is praying for a beter world. He is still great.

[quine63]

I often wonder if he is actually Shaun Ryders older brother... haha.

classic.

[lsdarcy]

anyone wants to know about the life and work of mr macgowan watch this. Its class!

[tetrahedonkey]

i wouldnt be if i could write like that

[littleniamh12]

shane is da fuckin sex m8s......4m only a irish girl herself!!! hu needs teeth wen u got a look lik dat!

[genesis204]

is he evr sober?

[murphyanne]

that breeze in shane's hair is glamorous..

[enticer11]

Brilliant song!!

[garygareth]

If I get into the french foreign legion this is goin to be my champfire song! Fuckin brilliant, shane mcgowan = Ireland

[U2Freak999]

Shane, you are the best! Great!

[casperld]

Dont like the faster tempo. Great song tho.

[Wowbagger86]

Faster tempo?

[Wowbagger86]

Well, when you mention it... his singing is a bit hasty :) But it seems like a pretty good consert. He seems quite sober here, to his standards ...

[Asalamalika]

i sang this song with a drunken old homeless man in dublin. i will never forget him

[Papajesuit]

@Asalamalika That sounds like a memory that would last a lifetime. I would love that

[chrysalisstar]

Shane = brilliant

[gubikal]

is he really singing trough his nose????

[Strifezilla]

hes missing teeth

[connaught2008]

most beautiful song i ever ever heard

[hammertime870]

not at all about 2 men in love.....just like joeregular quoted shane - it's about some ol' bastard in the bar who decides to tell you his life's story, and then how it affects you! and makes you think, and remember!!

[robbieshell]

'A Pair of Brown Eyes' is one of his absolute masterpieces!

[jartura1960]

brillante, un genio....

[slickmeister18]

not my fave song, he said he wrote this about two men in love

[KoolKinchishKat]

what? I'm pretty sure it's about an older man recounting tales of loss to a younger man.

[slickmeister18]

i dunno its about two men in love though shane said it in an interview. thats not the reason i dislike it by the way

[ghostwheel12345]

is it not about world war 2 commarades

[joeregular]

Found this on a different site.

"It's just about a guy getting pissed at a bar round here," says Shane nonchalantly. "He's getting pissed because he's broken up with this bird and... you know how it is when you just go into a pub on your own to drink and it's really quiet and you get this old nutter who comes over and starts rambling on you. So this old guy starts on about how he came back from the war, the First World War. Or the Second.

[onemanbanddan]

first part sets the scene in a pub, but then 'In blood and death 'neath a screaming sky I lay down on the ground, while the arms and legs of other men were scattered all around' -surely thats a provo bomb. I just heard on the radio about the headmaster of westminster in the '70s describing how the boys rushed out one day to collect debris from a car bomb that had just gone off. (a few days after one of them was reported as smelling of canabis, though he wasn't named)

[beziersdude]

?????? are you raving oneman

[thecitizens]

bloody brilliant ,

[No47chopperraven]

lol he's still got a hospital wrist band on,fantastic bloke and best song writer ever to grace music.

[NancyWhiskeyNo1]

Haha nice observation ;)

[SteveUrkle]

God Save Shane MacGowan

[Bletsoburger]

is he English?

[McNubbins1]

He was born in Kent I believe, spent a lot of his life in Tipperary though.

[corkboy2]

Irish Blood Bro! Family moved from Knocknane Co, Tipp to England, Heart Remained in Ireland, spends most of time their,

[lsdarcy]

born in england raised in ireland tillhe was six, then spent the rest of his childhood and teen years and early adulthood in england.

[memonas]

this song makes me sooo sad :/

[some1new]

Great songwriter! Great bloke too. Had the pleasure of bumping into him in Dublin Airport and he had all the time in the world for us.

[corkboy2]

Fuck em all Shane

[nielsnoor]

Great singer, crap band. Good to see he's back with The Pogues. They can play this song so much better than The Popes.

[birdiejoehoaks]

they're so terrible, playing with shane macgowan

[connaught2008]

shut up u fuckin idiot

[Outstep31]

why

[birdiejoehoaks]

sarcasm people. sarcasm.

someone was doubting the popes.

[Outstep31]

mmmmmm well yeah

[birdiejoehoaks]

yeah

[krustyburger66]

uplifting, painfully sad, stirring, glorious, heartbreaking, magical - and all at once. thanks for touching my soul mate.

[Manajuice]

He looks great! Is he sober? RIGHT ON, SHANE!

[JACKYB500]

of corce he aint sober did u hear him at the begining

long live the king that is

SHANE MACGOWAN

[HumGuitar]

I don't think Shane has been sober since he was about 12 years old. Can you imagine how bad his gas smells? That's why they have fans blowing toward the stage. Poor drummer.

[lsdarcy]

lol

[alcest35]

A song of terrible beauty. His voice just grabs my heart. There is nobody compares with him for authenticity and Irish soul. Viva Shane!

[NancyWhiskeyNo1]

i agree wholeheartedly

[stijnclaes29]

buy the dvd it's great !!!

[Totentrekker]

shane!!!!!

[KateMaguire21]

Shane isn't drunk, ha ha ha! That fiddle player was so cute.

[stigmaweb]

Shane doesn't seem to be drunk! Congratulations Shane!!!

[gypsybear]

....You are kidding right?

[liamk1888]

shane macgowan ya mad whore

god bless.mon the hoops

[seanog75]

Im sitting here with a tear rollin down my cheek watching this genius perform!!

[colincoby]

Beautiful song...

Drunk, reflecting on past horrors, missing lost loves...

[bukem06]

A-rovin ill go

[JimboJones100]

RIP Tommy.

[KungKokos]

this is so amazingly great

[siluad]

agreed drummer

there's summat genuine about him, like he's experienced the stuff he sings of (though obviously hasn't with waltzing matilda old main drag etc)

[drummer78]

One of the last of the greats in this shit fake pop obsessed world.

[JackFingTwist]

Amen, buddy. Amen.

[birdiejoehoaks]

amen

[IrishNickO]

shane, such an amazing musician, God bless the man

[discus69]

my god hes awesome man.a poet from hell.gotta like shane.the bst.and i think he sounds pretty good here

[Micakanto]

Shane!! What would music be without him?

Best poet of them all!

[felmote]

god, he's smashed. lol.

[riain98]

legend

[johngamefreak]

the originol irish rover

[charmagh]

the man is a genius

[panterafanslayer]

love the macgowan