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The Pogues – Red Roses For Me (2-CD)

$ 27.95
$ 27.95
Est. 1974, Curated by Heads
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When Red Roses For Me arrived in 1984, the British music press didn't quite know what to do with a band playing tin whistles and banjos at punk velocity. The Pogues dragged Irish traditional music into the beer-soaked basement venues of London's post-punk scene, creating something that felt ancient and completely alive at the same time, a collision that influenced countless folk-punk and roots acts on both sides of the Atlantic.

After four decades, Red Roses For Me is still celebrated as a groundbreaking debut album from an unlikely group of supposed ne'er-do-wells from London. The album mashes traditional songs and instrumentals - about death and drink, love and London - with those of frontman Shane MacGowan's - and all fuelled by the punk ethos. Irreverent, powerful, unique and spirited, this album was the beginning of an incredible and unflinching journey for a London-Irish band whose music sparkles with the genius of it's songwriting.

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. Transmetropolitan (4:25)
2. The Battle Of Brisbane (1:50)
3. The Auld Triangle (4:23)
4. Waxie's Dargle (1:54)
5. Boys From The County Hell (2:55)
6. Sea Shanty (2:23)
7. Dark Streets Of London (3:19)
8. Streams Of Whiskey (2:32)
9. Poor Paddy (3:10)
10. Dingle Regatta (2:52)
11. Greenland Whale Fisheries (2:36)
12. Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go (3:32)
13. Kitty (4:24)

Disc 2

1. The Leaving Of Liverpool (3:38)
2. Muirshin Durkin (1:51)
3. Repeal Of The Licensing Laws (2:10)
4. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (4:51)
5. Whiskey You're The Devil (2:09)
6. The Wild Rover (2:35)
7. Streams Of Whiskey (2:30)
8. Greenland Whale Fisheries (2:38)
9. Boys From The County Hell (2:57)
10. The Auld Triangle (3:51)
11. Dingle Regatta / Holly Johnsons (2:40)
12. Poor Paddy On The Railway (3:02)
13. Boys From The County Hell (2:51)
14. Connemara, Let's Go! (2:55)
15. Whiskey You're The Devil (2:17)
16. The Navigator (4:22)
17. Sally MacLennane (2:52)
18. Danny Boy (3:26)

UPC: 5021732391285
Label: Rhino
Release Date: 10.18.24
Format: CD