Rum Sodomy and the Lash poll

Went with "Cúchulainn," but I suspect "Matilda" will take it.
A perfect album. God do I miss the days when I could understand what Shane was singing about.

I was always fond of 'The Old Main Drag', but had to go with 'And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda' in the end

BTW, anyone check out the Rhino box, Just Look Them Straight In The Eye and Say Pogue Mahone!!? Supposedly it's full of unreleased stuff and rarities?

xp I've got a soft spot for the singles ("Pair of Brown Eyes" and "Sally MacLeanne" at the time, right?), but yeah, I'm going for the fast crazy drunken sick-bed opener too. Closest thing on here to Red Roses For Me, which I actually like even more. (This is still a great album, though. 'Twas downhill from here, though the next one was pretty good, too.)

Red Roses is great, but this one's always been my fav. And, the expanded/remastered CD throws on the fantastic Poguetry in Motion EP.

Love this whole album to pieces. Can I just vote for everything?
And, the expanded/remastered CD throws on the fantastic Poguetry in Motion EP.

Yeah, my version has a couple more songs on it. Didn't realize they were extra tracks.

13. A Pistol for Paddy Garcia - The Pogues, Finer, J.
14. London Girl - The Pogues, MacGowan
15. Rainy Night in Soho - The Pogues, MacGowan, Shane (this would be my vote if it was up there)
16. Body of an American - The Pogues, MacGowan
17. Planxty Noel Hill - The Pogues, Finer, J.
18. The Parting Glass - The Pogues, Traditional

xp Ha, yeah I know, I have that (and used to have the actual EP, which was great), but the Red Roses CD adds (among other things) old B-sides "The Wild Rover" and "Whiskey You're the Devil" and "Muirshin Durkin", the latter of which is one of my fave Pogues tracks ever. (Once I taped it for a Frank Kogan, who interperted the lyrics as "Goodbye Russin cookin', I'm sick and tired of workin.")

[Russian cookin']

brown eyes i think! though the last track is always unbelievable, so heartbreaking, maybe even moreso these days

i loooooove this album, but nothing beats "brown eyes"

We need to do If I Should Fall from Grace With God some time. Lullaby of London is the all time most-played track ever in my itunes.

dirty
old
town

The Sick Bed of Cúchulainn is probably the one I play most through love of its sheer exuberance and general Pogueishness. I love ...Waltzing Matilda, but it would feel wrong to vote for a non-MacGowan song.

Sick Bed gets my vote, but a lot of great tunes on this one. I still think the albums immediately before and after are better though.

SO many good songs, I love singing Matilda and 'Man you don't meet every day' but I'm going to discount them because I know it much better from that than this. Dirty old town I'd rather scratch my eyes out than sing ever again. It comes down to 'The Sick Bed of Cúchulainn' and 'Sally MacLennane', i think Sally edges it.

"The Old Main Drag"

FAR AWAY!

You remember that foul evening when you heard the banshees howl
There was lousy drunken bastards singing billy is in the bowl
They took you up to midnight mass and left you in the lurch
So you dropped a button in the plate and spewed up in the church

I was gonna vote rum but the poll options seem fucked up.

love 'dirty old town' too much to not cast a vote for it

"Brown Eyes" or "Old Main Drag".

"Brown Eyes" by some considerable distance.

^^OTM

Sooch a fookin great album. I voted for "Navigator." I love "Dirty Old Town" but I'm not certain that this is my favorite version of it. "Brown Eyes," "Matilda," "Old Main Drag," "Man You Don't Meet" and "Sally" are all fine choices as well.

'Brown Eyes' for sentimental reasons

between "The Old Main Drag" and "Dirty Old Town" for me, but I prefer the EP.

ended up going with "brown eyes" just cuz it has one of my favorite opening lines ever.

and how great a singer was shane before he fell all to pieces? things like "old main drag" and "waltzing mathilda," he hit some golden mean of sozzled fuck-it romanticism.

> I was gonna vote rum but the poll options seem fucked up.

Rum Sodomy and the Lash poll

"A Pair Of Brown Eyes" now. 15 years ago it would have been "The Sick Bed Of Cúchulainn".

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I voted for "Sick Bed..." but, aw, now I feel bad for "I'm a Man You Don't Meet..." and wished I'd given it one solitary vote.

yeah that's an outlier in the catalog, but a fine one.

RS&TL vs IISFFGWG, what is the consensus