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Produced by Elvis Costello, the Pogues’ second album brilliantly courted irish drinking music with the thornier aspects of punk. Cait O’ Riordan would eventually marry the producer and leave the band, but Shane Macgowan always made it his show and here he exploits his barfly voice to full effect. ‘And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ is worthy of Tom Waits, while ‘A Pair of Brown Eyes’ is as sentimental as he gets. The addition of uillean pipes, fiddle, and horns make this a grand statement about how all music can be filtered down to blood and guts and made to rock
Tracklist
A1 The Sick Bed Of Cúchulainn
A2 The Old Main Drag
A3 Wild Cats Of Kilkenn
A4 I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
A5 A Pair Of Brown Eyes
A6 Sally MacLennane
B1 Dirty Old Town
B2 Jesse James
B3 Navigator
B4 Billy's Bones
B5 The Gentleman Soldier
B6 And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
