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The Pogues: The Very Best Of The Pogues

Read "The Pogues: The Very Best Of The Pogues" reviewed by Skip Heller


The hybrid of punk rock and world music is by now expected, and the Pogues are by now the known avatar. But in 1984, when the band's debut album, Red Roses For Me (Stiff), was released, it made no impression. It didn't sell, and it wasn't written about much. Their blend of Celtic folk and English punk rock was audacious, the songs sharp, and the audience nowhere to be found. The reasons for this range from that their label (Stiff) ...

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Sat Eye Candy: The Pogues

Sat Eye Candy: The Pogues

Source: JamBase

BAD TEETH BUT GRAND TUNES AS WE GET OUR IRISH UP

Spider Stacy, the man who introduced MTV to the tin whistle, turns 50-years-old tomorrow. Always the calmer counterpart to Shane MacGowan's belligerent, slurry, slightly daft wise man, Spider is an untutored, often unacknowledged part of Ireland's great punk-folk institution. One of the only members to take The Pogues' entire wild ride, Stacy has been alternately a foil for MacGowan (and early on Cait O'Riordan, too) or the lead vocalist ...

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