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The Very Best Of The Pogues
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Track Listing
- Dirty Old Town
- Irish Rover - Pogues & Dubliners
- Sally MacLennane
- Fiesta
- Pair Of Brown Eyes
- Fairytale Of New York - Pogues & Kirsty MacColl
- Body Of An American
- Stream Of Whiskey
- Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn
- If I Should Fall From The Grace Of God
- Misty Morning Albert Bridge
- Rain Street
- White City
- Rainy Night In Soho
- London Girl
- Boys From The County Hell
- Sunnyside Of The Street
- Summer In Siam
- Hell's Ditch
- Old Main Drag
- Waltzing Matilda
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #847 in Music
- Released on: 2001-03-12
- Number of discs: 1
Editorial Reviews
CD Description
This retrospective of Shane MacGowan's Irish punk folk bandincludes three top 40 singles. The track 'A Pair Of Brown Eyes' - also included here - was produced by Elvis Costello. They have been described by critics as a cross between the Dubliners and the Clash.
Customer Reviews
Non-stop brilliance from punk-folk-pop phenomenon
The Pogues were one of the unlikliest pop bands of the 80s, with their mad fusion of Irish folk and London punk, but their musical talent, and the lyrical brilliance of frontman Shane MacGowan, also made them one of the best. This compilation puts together (virtually) all their finest moments on one top value CD, from Latin carnival freakout 'Fiesta' to the desolate romance of 'A Pair of Brown Eyes', from the urban squalor of 'The Old Main Drag' to the blissed out sun-kissed tranquility of 'Summer in Siam'. For rousing rebel and drinking songs, there hasn't been a better band than The Pogues in the last twenty years. This CD is consistently enjoyable, funny, boisterous and tuneful, and more than occasionally poignant and profound. Their duet with the Dubliners on 'The Irish Rover' and everyone's favourite Christmas hit 'Fairy Tale of New York' (with the much lamented Kirsty MacColl) are of course included.
good compilation but .....
a good sample of the pogues, I bought this to replace a few LP's that I bought years ago. I particularly wanted 'a rainy night in soho' - achingly beautiful on their EP 'Poguetry in motion', but oh what a dissapointment this was. 'They' have let some CLUMSY HALF-DEAF DONKEY in the studio loose on it, and this CD has a re-engineered version which has none of the purity of the origonal, and instead much additional noise. The rest of the CD is great, it would have been superb as a whole but for this glitch.
Awesome
It was "The Fairytale Of New York", that classic christmas song that sparked my interest in the Pogues. It's an awesome compilation of Irish folk music thats you will humm for ages afterwards. A brilliant CD.
