{"id":661253,"date":"2026-08-28T16:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/661253\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T16:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:37:12","slug":"u2-cover-the-pogues-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/661253\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 Cover the Pogues\u2019 \u201cYeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShane MacGowan was full of contradictions\u2014and that\u2019s where the truth of him lived,\u201d writes the Edge in a statement introducing U2\u2019s new cover of the Pogues\u2019 \u201cYeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah.\u201d The track is the latest offering from the upcoming tribute album 20th Century Paddy: The Songs of Shane MacGowan, out November 13 via <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/shanemacgowan.ochre.store\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/shanemacgowan.ochre.store\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/shanemacgowan.ochre.store\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rubyworks<\/a>. The LP will also feature MacGowan covers by Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Primal Scream, Steve Earle, and Dropkick Murphys. Listen to Bono and co.\u2019s take on the 1988 classic single below.<\/p>\n<p>Adds the Edge, Shane could be \u201cprecise about what mattered and gloriously careless about everything else. If that sounds like a kind of performance, maybe it was. But as Oscar Wilde put it, \u2018a mask tells us more than a\u00a0face.\u2019\u00a0The crooked grin, the wildness, the old-Ireland inflections\u2014they weren\u2019t disguises so much as signals. A way of placing himself in a lineage that ran from the pub storyteller to the punk stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the Sunday Review of the Pogues\u2019 1985 album <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/the-pogues-rum-sodomy-and-the-lash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rum Sodomy &amp; the Lash<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cShane MacGowan was full of contradictions\u2014and that\u2019s where the truth of him lived,\u201d writes the Edge in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[1735,18,117,19,17,337],"class_list":["post-661253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-audio","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117174117768771328","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}