JAFFA

Artist: The Pogues
Album: Rum Sodomy & The Lash - Remastered & Expanded
Label: Wm Uk
Genre: Folk-Rock
Grabber: EAC
Encoder: LAME V3.96.1
Bitrate: VBR
Mode: Joint Stereo
Tracks: 18
Time: 64:35
Size: 82.1 MB
Rip Date: Dec-29-2004
Street Date: Dec-13-2004

Track List:

01. The Sickbed Of Cuchulainn                           [3:02]
02. The Old Main Drag                                   [3:19]
03. Wild Cats Of Kilkenny                               [2:48]
04. I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day                  [2:54]
05. A Pair Of Brown Eyes                                [5:02]
06. Sally Maclennane                                    [2:45]
07. Dirty Old Town                                      [3:46]
08. Jesse James                                         [2:58]
09. Navigator                                           [4:13]
10. Billy's Bones                                       [2:03]
11. The Gentleman Soldier                               [2:04]
12. The Band Played Waltzing Matilda                    [8:14]
13. A Pistol For Paddy Garcia (Bonus Track)             [2:31]
14. London Girl (Bonus Track)                           [3:05]
15. Rainy Night In Soho (Bonus Track)                   [5:36]
16. Body Of An American (Bonus Track)                   [4:49]
17. Planxty Noel Hill (Bonus Track)                     [3:12]
18. The Parting Glass (Bonus Track)                     [2:14]

Jaffa notes:

With the original Pogues lineup recently reunited, their entire back catalogue of studio albums has been digitally
remastered and reissued - with extra bonus tracks included on each album. JAFFA is quite pleased to be able to
bring you everything (of note) that this great band put down on record. Rum Sodomy & The Lash was originally issued
in 1985.

"I saw my task... was to capture them in their dilapidated glory before some more professional producer fùked them up,"
Elvis Costello wrote of his role behind the controls for the Pogues' second album, Rum Sodomy & the Lash. One spin of the
album proves that Costello accomplished his mission; this album captures all the sweat, fire, and angry joy that was lost
in the thin, disembodied recording of the band's debut, and the Pogues sound stronger and tighter without losing a bit of
their edge in the process. Rum Sodomy & the Lash also found Shane MacGowan growing steadily as a songwriter; while the debut
had its moments, the blazing and bitter roar of the opening track, "The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn," made it clear MacGowan had
fused the intelligent anger of punk and the sly storytelling of Irish folk as no one had before, and the rent boys' serenade
of "The Old Main Drag" and the dazzling, drunken character sketch of "A Pair of Brown Eyes" proved there were plenty of
directions where he could take his gifts. And like any good folk group, the Pogues also had a great ear for other people's songs.
Bassist Cait O'Riordan's haunting performance of "I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day" is simply superb (it must have especially
impressed Costello, who would later marry her), and while Shane MacGowan may not have written "Dirty Old Town" or "And the Band
Played Waltzing Matilda," his wrought, emotionally compelling vocals made them his from then on. Rum Sodomy & the Lash falls
just a bit short of being the Pogues best album, but was the first one to prove that they were a great band, and not just a great
idea for a band."  (AMG)

http://www.pogues.com

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