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Zhanteimi
This is my favorite Pogues album, but that’s a safe bet anyway. I mean come on! This album has everything The Pogues are: drinking, death, a proclivity to engage in fisticuffs, swearing, and drinking. Oh did I say “drinking” twice? Well, that sounds about right. By the way, this might just be the best named album of all time. The only gripe I have about this album is that I greatly prefer Woody Guthrie’s “Jesus Christ” to The Pogues’ “Jesse James”. The final track is gutting, and since you've already had your whiskey by the time you get to the end of the album, your ears are just about ready to hear the tragic tale of "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda". Your heart's just about ready for the lazy horns expressing the dull pain of a mangled soldier.
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MisterJunior
Fantastic album, alternating between wild, borderline Punk songs (on Folk instruments and with Folk arrangements), standards like "Dirty Old Town" and "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" and tear-jerking ballads. Shane MacGowan was, in his prime, one of the finest songwriters in the world across all genres and is in my opinion one of the top handful of lyric writers we've ever seen in music. It's a shame that drugs and drink have left him in such ill health, for starters because he looks to be in great pain most of the time, and secondly because the world was robbed of many years of fine songwriting from a brilliant artist. But anyway, at least he gave us several remarkable records while his flame burned brightly, this being one of the best.
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houghster27
@Scott_H There's no comma on the album cover, although it's obviously said as if it does have one.
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Hellraiser917
fuckin classic...great when drunk...one minute dancing about like a twat and the next your crying into yer beer...
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