Pogues, The - Peace And Love (Expanded Edition) '1989

Tracks list

Tracklist:

[3:33] 01. The Pogues - Gridlock
[2:32] 02. The Pogues - White City
[2:46] 03. The Pogues - Young Ned Of The Hill
[3:02] 04. The Pogues - Misty Morning, Albert Bridge
[2:52] 05. The Pogues - Cotton Fields
[3:36] 06. The Pogues - Blue Heaven
[3:46] 07. The Pogues - Down All The Days
[4:52] 08. The Pogues - Usa
[3:36] 09. The Pogues - Lorelei
[2:32] 10. The Pogues - Gartloney Rats
[2:42] 11. The Pogues - Boat Train
[2:58] 12. The Pogues - Tombstone
[3:28] 13. The Pogues - Night Train To Lorca
[2:56] 14. The Pogues - London Youre A Lady
[2:36] 15. The Pogues - Star Of The County Down
[3:13] 16. The Pogues - The Limerick Rake
[3:09] 17. The Pogues - Train Of Love
[3:54] 18. The Pogues - Everyman Is A King
[3:19] 19. The Pogues - Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
[2:56] 20. The Pogues - Honky Tonk Women

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ABOUT THE ALBUM
1 disc(s) - 20 track(s)
Total length: 01:03:59
Main artist: The Pogues
Label: WM UK
Genre: Irish Punk, Folk Rock
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd.
â„— 2006 Warner Music UK Ltd.

Shane MacGowans potent appetite for alcohol was evident from the time the Pogues
cut their first album, but by the time they got to work on Peace and Love in
1989, it was evident that hed gone far past the point of enjoying a few pints
(or many pints) and had sunk deep into drug and alcohol dependence. The Pogues
were always far more than just MacGowans backing band, but with the groups
principal songwriter and lead singer frequently unable to rise to the occasion,
the recording of Peace and Love became a trying experience, with the rest of the
band often scrambling to take up the slack for their down-for-the-count
frontman. Given the circumstances, the Pogues deliver with greater strength than
one might expect on Peace and Love; while MacGowans vocals are often
mush-mouthed and his songwriting is markedly beneath his previous standards,
Terry Woods contributes two terrific traditional-style numbers (Young Ned of the
Hill and Gartloney Rats), Philip Chevrons Lorelei is a superb tale of lost love
(he and Darryl Hunt also teamed up for a fine bit of Celtic-calypso fusion on
Blue Heaven), and Jem Finer brought along a trio of strong originals. Musically,
Peace and Love found the band stretching their boundaries, adding accents of
film noir jazz on Gridlock, rockabilly on Cotton Fields, straight-ahead rock on
USA, and power pop on Lorelei, though the groups highly recognizable
Celtic-trad-on-steroids style is never far beneath the surface. Peace and Love
isnt as good as the two Pogues albums that preceded it (which represent the
finest work of their career), but it does make clear that MacGowan was hardly
the only talented songwriter in the band -- though the fact that the sets most
memorable songs were written by others did not bode well for the groups future.
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