The Pogues: Red Roses For Me (Remastered + Expanded) CD Track Listing

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The Pogues Red Roses For Me (Remastered + Expanded) (1984)
Red Roses for Me (Remastered + Expanded)\n\nOriginally Released 1984\nRhino Remastered + Expanded CD Edition Released January 11, 2005 or September 19, 2006\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: What set the Pogues apart from any number of other energetic Irish traditional bands was the sheer physical force of their performances, the punky swagger of their personalities, and Shane MacGowan's considerable gifts as a songwriter. Unfortunately, none of these qualities comes through very clearly on their first album, Red Roses for Me. While the Pogues are in good form here, the production (by Stan Brennan) is thin and lacks the body or nuance to capture the finer details of the performances, robbing this recording of the fire the group would display on their later albums. And it's clear that MacGowan had not yet fully matured as a songwriter; there are a handful of superb songs here, such as "Transmetropolitan," "Streams of Whiskey," and "Down in the Ground Where the Dead Men Go," but some of the others suggest MacGowan was still learning how to fit all his ideas into his songs. Red Roses for Me is good and rowdy fun, but on Rum Sodomy & the Lash and If I Should Fall from Grace with God, the Pogues would prove they were capable of a lot more than that. [In 2006, Rhino Records gave Red Roses for Me a long-overdue reissue in the United States, with remastered audio, new liner notes (an enthusiastic appreciation from filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and a witty essay on the group's early days from Gavin Martin), and six bonus tracks. While "The Leaving of Liverpool" and "The Wild Rover" sound like quickly recorded demos and the version of "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" pales in comparison to the later recording on Rum Sodomy & the Lash, "Whiskey, You're the Devil" and "The Repeal of the Licensing Laws" kick up plenty of dust and would have added to the album's impact.] -- Mark Deming\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nLike A Breath of Ale-Soaked Air, November 3, 2006\nReviewer: Thomas D. Ryan "American Hit Network" (New York)\nHere is one very good reason for the re-issue program that is inundating music fans. Every now and then, an album reappears that you missed the first time around, and might otherwise have been unlikely to purchase. I'm a Pogues fan, but I incorrectly assumed that I already owned their best stuff. Call it ignorance, but I didn't even know that "Red Roses for Me" existed. This re-issue from Rhino Records has solved that problem and I'm thankful for it, but I sure do wish I heard this album when it was released. What a breath of fresh air this must have been! Imagine Irish punks readdressing the traditional folk music of their country by writing a new batch of their own, at a time when processed keyboards and canned rhythms ruled the airwaves. Musically, the year 1984 lived up to its apocalyptic implications, but the Pogues provided an escape from the "Safety Dance" of that awful time. \n\nDig through your 'active' collection and find something that you bought in 1984..... I'll wait right here......... still waiting.......... I bet you can't find anything, can you? So much music from the mid-'80s has grown old and outdated. Echo-laced production and noise-gated drums poison so much music from that era, but "Red Roses for Me" could have been released yesterday. It captures the Pogues as a fresh-faced bunch of drunkards, with a swagger to match their energetic performances. You can take a punk out of Ireland but you can't Ireland out of the punk, so these songs figuratively reek like an Irish pub on Saturday night. Shane MacGowan spits out his words with the flourish of a drunken uncle at a wedding, even when his compositions stand on wobbly legs. "Streams of Whiskey," "Poor Paddy" and "Transmetropolitan" are meant for a sing-along bash, with pints spilling because you can't stand still. It may be a waste of ale, but "Red Roses for Me" is definitely not a waste of cash. The six bonus tracks are like getting a free round, too. A- Tom Ryan\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nOn The 1st Day of March, January 22, 2005\nReviewer: K. H. Orton (New York, NY USA)\nIt's about time. And, yes the bonus tracks sweeten the deal & make this one worth buying again. This just about blew away everything else I was listening to in the 80's. It made my Smiths records cower in fear. They bee-yatch slapped REM. Justly gave the finger to Goth acts like Bauhaus & The Cure while being more death obsessed than either. If they had a showdown with post London Calling Clash, The Pogues would have outdrew them at the time of this release. It was a breath of fresh, foul air. \n\nI'd say their version of "The Auld Triangle" remains definitive, leaving the Clancy Brothers choking in the dust. The same goes for "Kitty". As for the originals, Shane MacGowan was on the top of his game. And would remain so for 2 more albums. "Boys From Country Hell" remains one of my all time favorites. The same goes for "Down In The Ground". Instrumentals like "Repeal" go to show that the rest of the band were no joke. \n\nFar from a novelty act, they had a knack for making old songs sound new & new ones old. Listening to it again some 19 years later, Red Roses still doesn't sound dated. Truely the sound of a bunch of drunken pirates setting their ship on fire. Their pistol blarin' best next to RUM SODOMY & THE LASH. After that, they FELL FROM GRACE & PEACE & LOVE dumped them off into HELL'S DITCH. From which they never recovered.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nA brilliant explosion, February 21, 2006\nReviewer: Laurence Upton (Wilts, UK)\nSometimes things seem to connect with a past they don't actually belong to, but perhaps should have. Desiderata might seem to have been the work of a seventeenth century monk, but we now know it to have been written by a lawyer in 1927. The Ploughman's Lunch conjures visions of medieval farmworkers relaxing from their heavy toil over a wholesome refreshment, but was apparently conjured up by the English Country Cheese Council in 1960. \n\nRed Roses For Me, with its organic marriage of Shane MacGowan's brilliant compositions and rowdy performances of traditional Irish drinking songs and rebel balladry, played on predominantly acoustic instruments, seems to embody hundreds of years of Ireland's musical history, but nobody has managed to come up with any recorded precedents. \n\nThe former Shane O'Hooligan is the first to acknowledge his debt to such as the poets Brendan Behan and James Clarence Mangan, and musically to the Dubliners. However great they were, however, no Dubliners record could be mistaken for one by the Pogues, unless the Pogues were playing on it. \n\nThis astounding debut appeared fully-formed and gloriously unique, preceded only by their single Dark Streets Of London (in a slightly different version to that on the album), its surface shambolics belying a solid musical and lyrical depth and maturity. Red Roses For Me was produced by Stan Brennan, who ran Rocks Off Records in West One, where Shane sometimes served behind the counter. It was his long term mission to get the band off the ground, and he managed to pour the Pogue magic, unspilled and distilled, into the flagon at Wapping's tiny Elephant Studios. \n\nThe Anglo Celtic sound of the Pogues, fermented in London's glamorous King's Cross, is a mixture of pub and punk, both Shane and Mancunian Maestro Jimmy Fearnley having been veterans of punk band the Nips (formerly the Nipple Erectors), but played with an exuberance and an excellence that proved impossible to resist, despite the dark rising tide of New Romanticism, except by an old guard who thought the Pogues represented the stereotype of the drunken Irish paddy they were trying to escape. To be fair, it is rumoured that Shane likes a drink. \n\nThe album is embellished with six vital bonus tracks. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Eric Bogle's chilling account of Gallipoli, was revisited on Rum, Sodomy And The Lash, but this is the original flipside of their debut single. You may know the song by Eric Bogle or June Tabor, but not like this. Repeal Of The Licensing Laws was the B-side of the (cleaned-up) Boys From The County Hell. The band returned to Elephant in 1985 to record the B-sides Whiskey You're The Devil and Muirshin Durkin, both for the single A Pair Of Brown Eyes, and The Wild Rover and The Leaving Of Liverpool backed up Sally MacLennane. Those last two A-sides are from Rum, Sodomy And The Lash, your next essential Pogues acquisition after this one. \n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nThe Pogues brilliant debut, February 6, 2005\nReviewer: Pogues Fan\nThe debut album by the Pogues sounded like nothing else of its time. This album was the Pogues at their most raw, with such songs as "Transmetropolitan, The Boys From the County Hell, Sea Shanty, The Dark Streets of London, Down In the Ground Where the Dead Man Goes and Streams of Whiskey." However, beneath the sheer raw power of this release was a songwriter of major vision and talent named Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan. It was Shane's poetic nature that was the driving force of the Pogues. This album contains seven of MacGowan's best penned tracks, plus the traditional reworkings of "Waxie's Dargle, Poor Paddy, Greenland Whale Fisheries, and Kitty." The Pogues haunting version of Brendan Behan's "The Auld Triangle," to the Jem Finer/traditional track "Dingle Regatta" are all standout tracks on this album. Overall, a sheer brilliant London-Irish album from the best band of the 1980's and Irish rock. \nThe new remastered version contains the traditional reworkings of "The Leaving of Liverpool, Whiskey You're the Devil, Muirshin Durkin, and the Wild Rover" The Spider Stacy penned instrumental "Repeal of the Licensing Laws, to the original single version of "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" round out the bonus tracks.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nThe 1st Pogues Album!, March 24, 2003\nReviewer: Solomon Kane (South Bend, IN United States)\nProbably the most "traditional" sounding of the Pogues albums, and that works just fine for me! Not as good as "Rum, Sodomy and the Lash" or "If I Should Fall From Grace With God", but let's remember that the latter are two of the finest trad/rock albums EVER recorded. The playing is a little ragged, and the recording isn't as polished as later albums, but who cares? This is Shane and the Pogues (with Cat O'Riordan!!), man!!! For those who know, no more needs to be said. For those who don't, stick with the Clancy Brothers. Peace!\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nDown In The Ground, August 1, 2002\nReviewer: A music fan\nBy 1984 when this was released, "Punk" had by and large fallen prey to cliche. The fury of The Sex Pistols was rapidly being tamed by MTV and mascara bands like The Cure. Then along came the Pogues. Led by MacGowan, a bit of a celebrity from Punk's glory days, this band went and socked the whole scene in the nose, proving that despite all the hype, Punk was more attitude than musical innovation. As their blistering version of "Poor Paddy" goes to show, behind any musical stance, it's all good old fashioned Folk music at heart. In fact, I'll go so far as to say, this record put the last nail into Punk's coffin.\nIF I SHOULD FALL...is surely the band at their peak but don't overlook this somewhat underrated gem. Amid raging covers of Irish Folk standards lie some of MacGowan's best loved originals. There's the live staple, "Streams of Whiskey" and "Boys From County Hell", which has to be one of my favorite MacGowan tunes. Another neglected classic is the manic ghost tale, "Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go". Fenced on all sides by convivial rowdiness, the ballads really stand out."Kitty" could make a dead man weep and their renditon of Brendan Behan's "The Auld Triangle" is probably the greatest version ever recorded. If you've sampled the virtues of RUM SODOMY & THE LASH, not to mention their masterpiece, FALL FROM GRACE, let your curiousity get the best of you and pick this up.\n\nHalf.com Album Notes\nDigitally remastered reissue of the famed Irish band's classic debut album from 1984 that took the pop/rock world by storm with this band of Irishmen that played as hard as they partied. This edition includes 6 bonus tracks of rarities and b-sides not included on the original issue.
This rock cd contains 19 tracks and runs 57min 47sec.
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