Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
The Pogues
Red Roses For Me
(Stiff, 1984)
MacGowan’s men’s underrated debut.
Initially associated with the Camden Cowpunk micro-craze of the early ’80s, it didn’t take long for The Pogues - boozy punks in old men suits - to stand alone. With warm-hearth accordion and tin whistle jostling against two-note bass-playing and the regressive drumming of Andrew “Clobberer” Ranken, Red Roses For Me was a nobly raucous boot up the behind of the Irish musical tradition, with Shane MacGowan, then a scrawny, vigorous presence far from the dribbling Fagin-morlock of today, as our guide. Recorded mostly live and sober, it’s wildly enjoyable music equally at home to pleasure and pain; Transmetropolitan and Dark Streets Of London are some of the best London songs you’ll hear, while the version of Brendan Behan’s The Auld Triangle exudes loss and hopelessness, but glows as well. Elvis Costello would produce 1985’s Rum, Sodomy And The Lash, but for all the brilliance of The Old Main Drag or A Pair Of Brown Eyes, there was an essence here that The Pogues would not capture again, and MacGowan agrees that it’s their best album.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 31/01/2008
Further Listening
The Men They Couldn’t Hang – Night of A Thousand Candles (Demon, 1985)
Les Negresses Vertes – Mlah (Rhythm King, 1989)
The Dubliners – The Best of The Original Dubliners (EMI Gold, 2003)
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
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this is a cracking album - very worthy of a 'disc of the day' i can almost hear shane wacking the tray against his head as i type.
Posted by jim c at 2:51 PM GMT 31/01/2008 Report Abuse
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its great to see the uncredited lilting at the end of Kitty restored on the lastest CD re-issue, great stuff.
What do those words of Gaelic mean ? and I think its the only time Gaelic is heard on a Pogues record !!!!!
Posted by Stevie at 10:00 PM GMT 01/02/2008 Report Abuse
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I always thought it was Spider who 'played' the tray. Mighty album though
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