Track Listing

1. Sick Bed of Cuchulainn
2. Old Main Drag
3. Wild Cats of Kilkenny
4. I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day
5. Pair of Brown Eyes
6. Sally Maclennane
7. Pistol for Paddy Garcia
8. Dirty Old Town
9. Jesse James
10. Navigator
11. Billy's Bones
12. Gentleman Soldier
13. Band Played Waltzing Matilda
14. A Pistol For Paddy Garcia (Bonus Track)
15. London Girl (Bonus Track)
16. Rainy Night In Soho (Bonus Track)
17. Body Of An American (Bonus Track)
18. Planxty Noel Hill (Bonus Track)
19. The Parting Glass (Bonus Track)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6350 in Music
• Released on: 2004-12-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording remastered, Extra tracks

CD Description
RUM, SODOMY & THE LASH delivers on the brash promise of itspredecessor, RED ROSES FOR ME, mixing the band's unique brand of traditional Irish instrumentation and composition withShane MacGowan's timeless poetry. As the mythic introduction of the album's opener, "The Sickbed Of Cuchulainn" crashesinto its heaving, breakneck-speed verse, RUM, SODOMY & THE LASH is a hurtling juggernaut of Celtic soul, fierce and unrelenting. Its lyrics are the very stuff of Irish song and story: cruelty, human suffering, poverty-- and more than a fewwhiskeys along the way.
Produced by none other than Elvis Costello (who here met his future wife, bassist Cait O'Riordan), this album boasts a feel that is close-up enough to be intimidating. Though on slower numbers such as O'Riordan'senchanting take on the traditional "I'm A Man You don't Meet Every Day", this closeness perfectly captures the vulnerability of both song and singer. With lyrical references to drug addiction, vagrancy and prostitution ("The Old Main Drag"), MacGowan touches on themes usually left out of the ClancyBrothers' songbook. This frank, realistic and ultimately reverent take on the Irish musical tradition lends the Pogues a refreshing modernity.

Customer Reviews

Live and party forever
Probably the greatest album you'll ever own, with excellent bonus tracks to boot. If you enjoy life you'll enjoy this record. The Pogues at their maddest (and sometimes saddest).
Listen with a beer in your hand..sing, shout, laugh and cry, to the Pogues at their magnificent best!

Move over U2
I've seen all sorts of lists of the 100 finest albums, and cry into my Guiness that this one hardly ever features. In my book it's No.1.
Every song tells a story, some funny, many sad, all historically accurate and none with any bias....19c navvies may have suffered harsh conditions, but at least they were tough enough to cope so no need to feel sorry eh Shane ?
The instrumentals are of the highest standard, but of course it's McGowans sly, rasping drawl that spits in yer eye and spills yer pint.
Magnificent.
(Feel free to mail your own opinion)

At last! Poguetry in Motion
This is a welcome rerelease of "Rum Sodomy and the Lash," the Pogues' second album. The sound is much brighter than on the 1994 CD release. It was probably remastered.

Even better, the disk includes four tracks from the 1980s EP "Poguetry in Motion." For some reason, the several "greatest hits" anthologies managed to overlook these gems: "Rainy Day in Soho," "London Girl," "Body of an American," and "Planxty Noel Hill." The last named is an instrumental jig; the other three are classic Sean Macgowan songs.