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Red Roses For Me was the first full length album by London-based band The Pogues, released in 1985. Filled with traditional Irish music performed with a furious punk attitude, this album was something the music scene never had seen before. Traditional songs and ballads mixed with Shane MacGowans "gutter hymns" about drinking, fighting and f**king was considered a fresh breeze at the time. Or as lead singer MacGowan explained the music: "I couldn´t believe that nobody else were doing it, so we went on doing it ourselves..." The title "Red Roses For Me" is the name of a song by Sean O´Casey, though it did not appear on the album, nor was it ever recorded by the Pogues.
Track list
- Transmetropolitan (MacGowan)
- The Battle of Brisbane (MacGowan)
- The Auld Triangle (Brendan Behan)
- Waxie's Dargle (Traditional)
- Boys From the County Hell (MacGowan)
- Sea Shanty (MacGowan)
- Dark Streets of London (MacGowan)
- Whiskey You're the Devil (Traditional)
- Streams of Whiskey (MacGowan)
- Poor Paddy (Traditional)
- Dingle Regatta (Traditional)
- Greenland Whale Fisheries (Traditional)
- Down in the Ground Where the Dead Men Go (MacGowan)
- Kitty (Traditional)
Performers
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