{"id":4175,"date":"2025-08-01T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/deep-cut-friday-im-a-man-you-dont-meet-every-day-by-the-pogues\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T14:00:00","slug":"deep-cut-friday-im-a-man-you-dont-meet-every-day-by-the-pogues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/deep-cut-friday-im-a-man-you-dont-meet-every-day-by-the-pogues\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Cut Friday: \u2018I\u2019m a Man You Don\u2019t Meet Every Day\u2019 by the Pogues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-1264452391.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"852\" alt=\"The Pogues in 1984. (Credit: Steve Rapport\/Getty Images)\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-sam-carter-of-architects\/\">5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without: Sam Carter of Architects<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/jorgen-releases-first-single-on-spin-records\/\">J\u00f6rgen Releases First Single on SPIN Records<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/chappell-roan-the-subway\/\">Chappell Roan Finds Hope, Heartbreak On \u2018The Subway\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1290\" height=\"874\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-180346373-1290x874.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-469628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-180346373-1290x874.jpg 1290w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-180346373-340x230.jpg 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-180346373-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-180346373-1536x1040.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-180346373-498x337.jpg 498w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-180346373-1668x1130.jpg 1668w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-180346373.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Pogues performing in Amsterdam on November 4, 1989. (Credit: Frans Schellekens\/Redferns)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Elvis Costello loved the Pogues in the 1980s. The band\u2019s opinions of Costello, however, were mixed. Bassist Cait O\u2019Riordan began a 16-year relationship with Costello after he produced the beloved Celtic punk band. The late great Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan, on the other hand, soured on Costello as they worked together on the band\u2019s second album Rum Sodomy &amp; The Lash, which will turn 40 on August 5th, and 1986\u2019s Poguetry in Motion EP. \u201cI told him to get his fat arse out of the studio and never come back,\u201d MacGowan recalled in the 2020 documentary Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"s6gZxg3bOcs\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>O\u2019Riordan sang with MacGowan on the original demo of the Pogues\u2019 Christmas classic \u201cFairytale of New York,\u201d which was ultimately released in 1987 as a duet between MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl. O\u2019Riordan\u2019s only lead vocal performance on a Pogues album is the <em>Rum<\/em> highlight \u201cI\u2019m a Man You Don\u2019t Meet Every Day.\u201d The Irish music hall song also known as \u201cJock Stuart\u201d is at least 150 years old. But the two most famous modern recordings of the song, the Pogues version and a 1960 a cappella rendition by Scottish folk singer Jeannie Robertson, were both sung by women, putting a playful spin on the perspective of the lyric.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"b684dVMqUcs\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>O\u2019Riordan left the Pogues in 1986 and isn\u2019t a part of the band\u2019s current <em>A Celebration of 40 Years of Rum Sodomy &amp; the Lash<\/em> tour. She co-wrote several songs on Costello albums, including <em>Blood &amp; Chocolate<\/em> and <em>Spike<\/em>, occasionally contributing backing vocals, but never released any solo albums. So \u201cI\u2019m a Man You Don\u2019t Meet Every Day\u201d remains, along with \u201cHaunted\u201d from the <em>Sid &amp; Nancy<\/em> soundtrack, one of the few enduring recordings of O\u2019Riordan\u2019s lovely singing voice during her time with the Pogues. The Irish punk band Fontaines D.C. covered the Pogues\u2019 arrangement of \u201cI\u2019m a Man You Don\u2019t Meet Every Day\u201d during a 2020 live performance for Sirius XM radio.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-three-more-essential-pogues-deep-album-cuts\"><strong>Three more essential Pogues deep album cuts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-streams-of-whiskey\"><strong>\u201cStreams of Whiskey\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cStreams of Whiskey\u201d from 1984\u2019s <em>Red Roses for Me<\/em> was never released as a single, but the Pogues have performed it more than any other song over the years, and it\u2019s perhaps the greatest drinking song in a catalog full of them.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-body-of-an-american\"><strong>\u201cThe Body of an American\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>The Wire<\/em> creator David Simon is a big Pogues fan, and used \u201cThe Body of an American\u201d from <em>Poguetry in Motion<\/em> in three different episodes of the HBO series. Simon later cast Spider Stacy of the Pogues in <em>Treme<\/em>, and in 2013 it was reported that Simon was working with an Irish theater company on a stage musical involving Pogues songs.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-sit-down-by-the-fire\"><strong>\u201cSit Down by the Fire\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>One of MacGowan\u2019s most entertaining lyrics on 1988\u2019s <em>If I Should Fall from Grace with God <\/em>is framed as a bedtime story. But it very quickly takes a turn into a terrifyingly vivid description of all the creepy and dangerous things that lurk in the darkness after the sun goes down. \u201cGood night and God bless, now fuck off to bed,\u201d MacGowan concludes.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. 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