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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 liked a drink.
Tracklist
1 Transmetropolitan
2 The Battle of Brisbane
3 The Auld Triangle
4 Waxie's Dargle
5 Boys from the County 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
CD ONLY:
14 The Leaving of Liverpool
15 Muirshin Durkin
16 Repeal of the Licensing Laws
17 The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
18 Whiskey You're the Devil
19 The Wild Rover
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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 liked a drink.
Tracklist
1 Transmetropolitan
2 The Battle of Brisbane
3 The Auld Triangle
4 Waxie's Dargle
5 Boys from the County 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
CD ONLY:
14 The Leaving of Liverpool
15 Muirshin Durkin
16 Repeal of the Licensing Laws
17 The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
18 Whiskey You're the Devil
19 The Wild Rover
