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[Oerdin]

I finally got around to purchasing this classic album from The Pogues and it is great!  I can't believe I took so long to buy it.  I guess I thought Irish folk music wouldn't be my thing but these guys really know how to mix things up and I'd recommend The Pogues to anyone.

[KharBevNor]

Thanks for telling us, but we all already love it. We've had it for years.

You are so unhip.

Why don't you just shoot yourself in the face!







I jest.

[Oerdin]

Like I said I just now finally got around to buying this.  I intentionally called it a classic album because I knew it was years old.  

[La Creme]

Pogues FTW! [/uneccessary post that does nothing to forward the conversation but shows that I am totally cool because I listen to the Pogues. I'm SO COOL!]

[Se7en]

The pouges arnt irish! they are american right? I cant see an irish band making a reference to the british navy in an album title.

[KharBevNor]

The Pogues were a popular Irish folk rock band of the 1980s and 90s. They had a strong following, providing music which remains largely unique to this day.

The Pogues were founded in London in 1982 as Pogue Mahone — "pogue mahone" being the Anglicization of the Irish póg mo thóin, meaning "kiss my arse." The band specialised in Irish folk music often played with the energy of the punk rock scene from which several of the members had their roots.

I <3 Wikipedia

[soak]

I love that they play 'And the band played waltzing matilda'. I remember having to sing that at school and i think it sounds so much better coming from drunken Irish men than 30 odd school kids.

[Se7en]

I stand corrected.

[Gryff]

I think most of the members were actually English, weren't they? Obviously Shane MacGowan was Irish though.

Also, I prefer If I Should Fall From Grace With God

[La Creme]

I vote "Turkish Song Of The Damned" and "Blue Heaven" (despite its corniness factor).

[Inlander]

I think most of the members were actually English, weren't they? Obviously Shane MacGowan was Irish though.

Also, I prefer If I Should Fall From Grace With God

They were all Anglo-Irish; i.e. part of the Irish diaspora (hence the band forming in London - that's where they were all living).  However they were all Irish to begin with, or at least the progeny of Irish parents.

As for albums, does anyone else absolutely love Red Roses for Me?  I mean, I love Rum, Sodomy and the Lash and If I Should Fall From Grace With God too, but Red Roses seems to be a bit of an overlooked classic in my mind.  It's certainly their punkiest album.