I'm sorry to admit it, but Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan will no longer be with us except in musical form (better than nothing), r.i.p. my old friend... he once said about the band he founded, the "Pogues": "We wanted to hit the audience hard in the heart and the gut. We wanted them to feel everything a person can feel, tearing their heart out and making them dance and fuck. We wanted to make them cry, laugh, and sing."