The Pogues - Red Roses For Me
+ Bonus Tracks
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The magnificent debut from Shane Mac Gowan and his pals!
A real kick in the ass for the music biz at the time ... and especially for the rarified world of Irish traditional music!
This astounding debut appeared fully-formed and gloriously unique, preceded only by their single Dark Streets Of London (in a slightly different version to that on the album), its surface shambolics belying a solid musical and lyrical depth and maturity. Red Roses For Me was produced by Stan Brennan, who ran Rocks Off Records in West One, where Shane sometimes served behind the counter. It was his long term mission to get the band off the ground, and he managed to pour the Pogue magic, unspilled and distilled, into the flagon at Wapping's tiny Elephant Studios.
The Anglo Celtic sound of the Pogues, fermented in London's glamorous King's Cross, is a mixture of pub and punk, both Shane and Mancunian Maestro Jimmy Fearnley having been veterans of punk band the Nips (formerly the Nipple Erectors), but played with an exuberance and an excellence that proved impossible to resist, despite the dark rising tide of New Romanticism, except by an old guard who thought the Pogues represented the stereotype of the drunken Irish paddy they were trying to escape. To be fair, it is rumoured that Shane likes a drink.
The album is embellished with six vital bonus tracks. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Eric Bogle's chilling account of Gallipoli, was revisited on Rum, Sodomy And The Lash, but this is the original flipside of their debut single. You may know the song by Eric Bogle or June Tabor, but not like this. Repeal Of The Licensing Laws was the B-side of the (cleaned-up) Boys From The County Hell. The band returned to Elephant in 1985 to record the B-sides Whiskey You're The Devil and Muirshin Durkin, both for the single A Pair Of Brown Eyes, and The Wild Rover and The Leaving Of Liverpool backed up Sally MacLennane. Those last two A-sides are from Rum, Sodomy And The Lash, the next essential Pogues acquisition after this one.
Tracklisting
1. Transmetropolitan2. Battle of Brisbane
3. Auld Triangle
4. Waxie's Dargle
5. Boys from the Country Hell
6. Sea Shanty
7. Dark Streets of London
8. Streams of Whiskey
9. Poor Paddy
10. Dingle Regatta
11. Greenland Whale Fisheries
12. Down in the Ground Where the Deadmen Go
13. Kitty
14. The Leaving Of Liverpool (Bonus Track)
15. Muirshin Durkin (Bonus Track)
16. Repeal Of The Licensing Laws (Bonus Track)
17. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Bonus Track)
18. Whiskey You’re The Devil (Bonus Track)
19. The Wild Rover (Bonus Track)
Here she be;
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Big thanks to the original poster
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