{"id":67423,"date":"2025-09-16T11:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/67423\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:11:10","slug":"sacks-laughter-lines-from-1988-has-the-most-melancholic-opening-line-in-irish-rock-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/67423\/","title":{"rendered":"Sack&#8217;s &#8216;Laughter Lines&#8217; from 1988 has the most melancholic opening line in Irish rock history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">On the real-life agony behind \u2018Laughter Lines\u2019, the band\u2019s epic\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sack crafted one of the greatest break-up songs of all time\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SF Sack 90s.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sack crafted one of the greatest break-up songs of all time<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In the late 1990s, \u00adwhen Morrissey first heard the song Laughter Lines by the Dublin band Sack, The Smiths\u2019 frontman said that he \u201cwas staggered\u201d. \u201cIt should be No 1 forever,\u201d he told the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Written by singer Martin McCann, the song has one of the most haunting and melancholic opening lines in Irish rock history: \u201cI drink to forget, but I only remember \/ That day when you said, it was over, forever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the real-life agony behind \u2018Laughter Lines\u2019, the band\u2019s epic Sack crafted one of the greatest break-up songs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[4747,18,117,19,17,23942],"class_list":{"0":"post-67423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-barry-egan","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-people-culture-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67423","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=67423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}