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Red Roses for Me | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Pogues
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 7090
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 74071
UPC: 081227407124
EAN: 0081227407124
ASIN: B000H8SFM0
Release Date: September 19, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: All products brand new and factory sealed.
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| Tracks:
| • | Transmetropolitan - The Pogues, MacGowan, Shane | | • | The Battle of Brisbane - The Pogues, MacGowan, Shane | | • | The Auld Triangle - The Pogues, Behan, B. | | • | Waxie's Dargle - The Pogues, Traditional | | • | Boys from the County Hell - The Pogues, MacGowan, Shane | | • | Sea Shanty - The Pogues, MacGowan | | • | Dark Streets of London - The Pogues, MacGowan, Shane | | • | Streams of Whiskey - The Pogues, MacGowan, Shane | | • | Poor Paddy - The Pogues, Traditional | | • | Dingle Regatta - The Pogues, Traditional | | • | Greenland Whale Fisheries - The Pogues, Traditional | | • | Down in the Ground Where the Dead Men Go - The Pogues, MacGowan, Shane | | • | Kitty - The Pogues, Traditional | | • | The Leaving of Liverpool - The Pogues, Traditional | | • | Muirshin Durkin - The Pogues, Traditional | | • | Repeal of the Licensing Laws - The Pogues, Stacy, Spider | | • | And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda - The Pogues, Bogle, E. | | • | Whiskey You're the Devil - The Pogues, Traditional | | • | The Wild Rover - The Pogues, Traditional |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 1ST DAY OF MARCH May 20, 2008
Oft overshadowed by the glories of Rum, Sodomy & Fall From Grace, the Pogues' debut captures the band at their most gritty and raucous. With originals like "Streams Of Whiskey" & "Dark Steets of London", frontman Shane MacGowan not only established himself as a formidable songwriter but a man with a mission: to bring Irish Music kicking & screaming into the 20th Century. As for traditionals, they didn't tip their hat & pay their respects so much as assault--whipping any sense of nostalgia into a pulp to get to the heart of the song.
I'd say their version of "The Auld Triangle" remains definitive, leaving the Clancy Brothers choking in the dust. The same goes for "Kitty". Its beauty offset even more by the reckless abandon that surrounds it.
Lyrically & musically, MacGowan was on the top of his game. And would remain so for 2 more albums. "Boys From Country Hell" remains one of my all time favorites. The same goes for "Down In The Ground". Instrumentals like "Repeal" go to show that the rest of the band were no joke.
To put it into perspective, this just about blew away everything else I was listening to in the 80's. It made my Smiths records cower in fear. They bee-yatch slapped REM. Justly gave the finger to Goth acts like Bauhaus & The Cure while being more death obsessed than either. If they had a showdown with post London Calling Clash, The Pogues would have outdrew them at the time of this release. It was a breath of fresh, foul air.
Far from a novelty act, they had a knack for making old songs sound new & new ones old. Listening to it again some 19 years later, Red Roses still doesn't sound dated. Truely the sound of a bunch of drunken pirates setting their ship on fire. Their pistol blarin' best next to RUM SODOMY & THE LASH. After that, they FELL FROM GRACE & PEACE & LOVE dumped them off into HELL'S DITCH. From which they never recovered.
Another Great Pogues CD August 12, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Between this , If I Should Fall From Grace, and Rum Sodomy and The Lash the Pogues produced a spectacular body of work. All 3 CDs are great in their own way. On Red Roses For Me the band combines traditional Irish tunes with their own unique sound and Shane MacGowen never sounded any better than he does here. Great lyrics and fabulous music. You can't miss here.
The Pogues RULE! May 15, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really like the way The Pogues combine a classic Irish sound with their own style. These are great songs for partying and gambling, and in general just being festive.
 Four Roses January 20, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Grab yourself a pint of four roses --don't walk-- run for the roses--the Pogues best discs are back in print with this great remastered re-release--and raise a frosty mug with me to this delightful brew.
FIVE KILLER TUNES WORTH THE PRICE OF THE ALBUM; A BLESSING FROM IRISH HEAVEN January 3, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I moved from one double wide to another one across the street and never got to opening all of my literature boxes, until late at night a wee leprachaun, no wait, it was the voice of Shane MacGowan or whatever croaking about the Leaving of Liverpool and forcing me to open up all these boxes and put everything away and find me once again to hold you in your lonesome exile.
Not only do you get two great old tunes made big by Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers, here done rowdy like they ought, but you get That Auld Triangle, about back when the British Empire controlled their surplus Irish colonial population under the blessing of that devil Malthus by stealing all of their food and claiming famine (there was plenty of food in Ireland at that time all going to London), or transporting everyone to Australia and the penal colonies, or jailing all the men for ridiculous charges like wearing green or refusing to get evicted from their own lands and homes as if they were Palestinians.
But do not get me started. Listen over and over to the Auld Triangle.
And cheer up with the Leaving of Liverpool, especially that wild shout after One More Time is called. This is music, man. Hear it now.
And of course Down underground deserves to be heard a few times, although the creepy sound effects grow wearisome.
And then play the Clancy Brother songs and remember the tears of your old dad. I just wish A Parting Glass was on this collection so I didn't have to pull out the other disk! I guess that's what some folks use their iPod for, but hey . . .
A great comfort in exile or any time. What else has been recorded this late; what else is there to listen to? Def Leperd? Dear god!
That Auld Triangle is calling me even now.
I met Spider while filming ALex Cox's Walker in NIcaragua twenty years ago, and did not realize then who he was. Otherwise I'd have begged him to play that Triangle on the tin whistle he ever carried with him, and one which he shines so clearly and truly on this album.
By the way, the title comes from Dublin playwright Sean O'Casey. Check him out, too.
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