| The Pogues – Transmetropolitan Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| sojo666 is right, the comic was inspired by the song, not viceversa. Ellis is a big fan of the Pogues: http://twitter.com/#!/warrenellis/status/193848341866614784 | |
| The Pogues – Down All The Days Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"I have often had to depend upon / The kindness of strangers" That's a reference to Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, in her last lines in the play, Blanche DuBois says how she "always depended on the kindness of strangers." "But I've never been asked / And I never replied / If I supported the Glasgow Rangers" the Rangers are the Protestant football (soccer) team in Glasgow, Scotland. Their rivals are the Glasgow Celtic Football Club which was the Catholic football club. The fans tended to divide along sectarian lines and if someone asked you if you supported the Rangers or Celtic, then you were being asked if you were Protestant or Catholic. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Song for Dennis Brown Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| The song is about one of Jamaica's best singers. Dennis Brown was called "the Crown Prince of Reggae" by Bob Marley, a title he richly deserved. Brown died of a combination of a coke overdose and a collapsed lung (it's relatively rare for people to die of collapsed lungs anymore, hence the line "it took all the coke in town to bring down Dennis Brown"). | |
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