Not everyone gets the Pogues, but if you don't you're wrong. It's that simple. Shane is one of THE GREATEST songwriters ........ ever. This is their first album from around '85 and it's everything great punk should be, and more. Like Billy Bragg, it's not what some consider to be "punk", whatever that is. The Irish folk turned some people off but it's much, much more than that. GREAT (and I mean GREAT) songs sung with conviction and feeling surrounded by instruments you wouldn't normally associate with punk.
This album has such classics as The Sick Bed of Cúchulainn, The Old Main Drag, A Pair of Brown Eyes, Sally MacLennane, Dirty Old Town, oh, it just goes on and on. What an album. In fact all the Pogues and Shane's solo stuff is worth getting. He's a true genius. Tim.
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