Summer In Siam

THE POGUES Released ‘HELL’S DITCH’ 30 Years Ago

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6 November 2020

Band: THE POGUES
Active: 1982–1996, 2001–2014

Album: HELL’S DITCH – fifth LP
Released: 6 November 1990 – 30 years ago today

The Courier Journal wrote at the time: “This great new album proves MacGowan has somehow managed to survive without turning into a bore… For all their musical prowess,
the Pogues would be just another pack of jigmasters without lead singer, chief songwriter
and dental-hygiene poster boy Shane MacGowan, whose brilliant, half-muttered singing and blackly sentimental writing are at the heart of this band.” Full review here.

Shane MacGowan: “The most important thing to remember about drunks is that
drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs,
unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop
their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does.”

Turn Up The Volume: Not their most inspired work, yet some remarkable songs on it make it a notable listen like this magnificent ballad Summer In Siam…

Full album…

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Legends THE POGUES Had A Romantic ‘SUMMER IN SIAM’ Back In 1990…

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Clips that have a lasting impact on Turn Up The Volume’s eyes and ears…

Shane MacGowan at its moonstruck best
Unreal romanticism at its very best
And that piano play is just awesome…

When it’s summer in Siam
And the moon is full of rainbows
When it’s summer in Siam
Though we go through many changes

When it’s summer in Siam
Then all I really know is that I truly am

In the summer in Siam
In the summer in Siam
In the summer in Siam

When it’s summer in Siam
And the moon is full of rainbows
When it’s summer in Siam
When we go through many changes

When it’s summer in Siam
Then all I really know is that I truly am


SUMMER IN SIAM – single from their 1990 album HELL’S DITCH 

SOULFUL SUNDAY With A Spellbinding ‘SUMMER IN SIAM’ By THE POGUES…

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Feel good vibes for the laziest day of the week…

A superb song like SUMMER IN SIAM by legends THE POGUES makes me mellow, moody, dreamy and reaching for a bottle of red class Bordeaux. The combination of the starry-eyed melody, the warmhearted saxophone and Shane McGowan‘s unique, drunk voice turns this melancholic ballad into a 18 karat gold jewel. And ‘The Moon Is Full Of Rainbows’…

When it’s summer in Siam
And the moon is full of rainbows
When it’s summer in Siam
Though we go through many changes

When it’s summer in Siam
Then all I really know is that I truly am

In the summer in Siam
In the summer in Siam
In the summer in Siam

When it’s summer in Siam
And the moon is full of rainbows
When it’s summer in Siam
When we go through many changes

When it’s summer in Siam
Then all I really know is that I truly am

From their fifth album HELL’S DITCH released in 1990

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