• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • About
  • Archives
  • Contact

Medialoper

We're Not Who You Think We Are

Shane MacGowan and the Popes

Certain Songs #2191: Shane MacGowan & Sinéad O’Connor – “Haunted”

September 23, 2021 by Jim Connelly

Album: The Snake (U.S.)
Year: 1995

. . .

After being drummed out of the Pogues for failing to show up for the gigs supporting the incredibly underrated Hell’s Ditch, Shane MacGowan resurfaced in 1994 with a new backing band, with the shade-throwing name of The Popes.

The first album by Shane MacGowan and the Popes was called The Snake, and while it was closer to the classic Pogues sound than the first post-MacGowan Pogues album, Waiting For Herb, it did feature crunchier guitars throughout. And while nobody was ever going to mistake it for, say, If I Should Fall From Grace With God, if you loved MacGowan’s raggedy voice and sharp songwriting, you could find things to enjoy in The Snake, like the opener “Church of the Holy Spook” or the self-depreciating “I’ll Be Your Handbag.”

[Read more…] about Certain Songs #2191: Shane MacGowan & Sinéad O’Connor – “Haunted”

Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Haunted, Shane MacGowan and the Popes, Sinead O'Connor

Primary Sidebar

Lopy

Search

Previously on Medialoper

  • Certain Songs #2367: Sonic Youth – “Anagrama”
  • Certain Songs #2366: Sonic Youth – “Skip Tracer (Germany, 1996)”
  • Certain Songs #2365: Sonic Youth – “The Diamond Sea”
  • Certain Songs #2364: Sonic Youth – “Little Trouble Girl”
  • Certain Songs #2363: Sonic Youth – “Washing Machine”

Copyright © 2022 · Medialoper