Although they invoked their old name with this album title, this album has none of the original spirit. Here, the band continues to lose the edge that made them so ...
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Pogue Mahone (Gaelic for "kiss my arse") is the seventh and final studio album from lauded progressive Irish folk pioneers the Pogues. After the departure of Shane MacGowan,...
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Essential Pogues doesn't cover Red Roses for Me or Rum Sodomy and the Lash, so it isn't a definitive collection. However, it does capture the majority of the highlights from...
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MacGowan's alcoholism is beginning to take its toll here, and his lyrics are not as focused as they were on previous records. Still, songs like "The Sunny Side Of The...
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Under the direction of Joe Strummer, the Pogues turned in a harder record with Hell's Ditch. Although the band's sound is sharper and tougher than it was on Peace & Love,...
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Here, the band reigns in the chaos a tad to create a slightly more cohesive record, both lyrically and melodically. Produced by bassist Cait O'Riordan, who left soon...
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A rewrite of If I Should Fall From Grace With God sure, but one's not enough. Confident, cocky and cohesive, it is a brilliant follow-up. Nothing as epic as the previous...
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Shane MacGowan's potent appetite for alcohol was evident from the time the Pogues cut their first album, but by the time they got to work on Peace and Love in 1989, it was...
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A relentless, Motown-styled raveup, "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah" was one of The Pogues finest moments and one of their hardest rockers. It was a British hit in 1988, yet it...
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The band's first record almost careens off the track with its raw energy, but MacGowan's poetic tales of drunken joys and nightmares pack quite a...
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The group's tin whistle player Spider Stacy took over for the vocal duties for this record, and he lacks the virile intensity of MacGowan. A modest record that unveils an...
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"I saw my task... was to capture them in their dilapidated glory before some more professional producer f--ked them up," Elvis Costello wrote of his role behind the controls...
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What set the Pogues apart from any number of other energetic Irish traditional bands was the sheer physical force of their performances, the punky swagger of their...
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The following quote is posted on the front page of the band's website: "This album has been released without the permission, and contrary to the wishes of the band. It is a...
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The Rest of the Best is a solid sampling of the Pogues' output up to 1994, even when one considers that the collection in a way amounts to the second best-of, since The Best...
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