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The votes are in

Last week, with a Suez-choking €20 voucher redeemable at any Currys PC World store on offer, I asked you for your favourite song about ships or whose lyrics reference ships.

You answered in your dozens.

But there could be only one winner.

Third Place:

The Ship Song by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Capernosity & Function writes:

“No competition. This was the first dance at my wedding. I don’t normally go for ballads, but this was, and is, exceptional.”

Joint Third:

Widow’s Walk by The Stars Of Heaven

Otis Blue writes:

‘Watching the Mail Boat and the harbour Madonna glow, I thought of the times I was glad to go…’

“Bonus points for featuring on the Holyhead EP which also featured the instrumental song Before Holyhead….”

Runner-up:

The Lonesome Boatman by Finbar Furey

Papi writes:

“One of the most amazing, hauntingly beautiful songs ever. Hairs-on-your-neck time.”

Winner:

Into The Mystic by Van Morrison

Unreal writes:

‘And when that foghorn blows
You know I will be coming home.’

“One of the greatest songs ever written.”

Nick says: Thanks all.

Last week: Win Nick’s PC Voucher

The votes are in.

Last week, with €20 voucher redeemable at any Currys PC World branch on offer, I asked you to name your favourite album cover.

You answered in your dozens.

But there could be only one winner

Third Place:

The Strokes – Is This It

Col writes:

“I was 16 when “Is This It” by the Stokes came out and I loved it. The cover was a leather gloved hand on a woman’s posterior – a spontaneous picture by the photographer of his girlfriend.”

Runner-up:

The Pogues – Rum, Sodomy & The Lash.

Niall writes:

“I love The Pogues take on Gericault’s ‘The Raft of the Medusa‘.

“It’s a striking cover: Shane in sunglasses surrounded corpses and his band mates. Not only that but the album itself really hits you with tracks like Dirty Old Town, The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn and A Pair of Brown Eyes.”

Winner:

Dexys Midnight Runners – Searching for the Young Soul Rebels

Otis Blue writes:

“The photograph chosen for the cover was taken in Cranbrooks Gardens in the Ardoyne, Belfast following the introduction of internment by the British government in 1971. Amid a group of Catholics fleeing, stands 13 year old Andrew O’Shaughnessy, staring fixedly at the photographer, suitcase under his arm.

“And if that’s not reason enough to love it, the album’s best track, Dance Stance, namechecks Oscar Wilde, Brendan Behan, Sean O’Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Eugene O’Neill, Edna O’Brien and Laurence Sterne.”

Nick says: thanks all.

Last week: Win Nick’s PC Voucher