Most underrated Pogues Album/Song

**Mon Mar 22, 2004 4:41 am**

Hey all,
Just wondering what your pick of the most underrated Pogues album/song is.

My vote: "Waiting For Herb" Album. While The Pogues lost a lot with Shane's exit, I feel WFH proved they can still kick ass and take names

**Mon Mar 22, 2004 4:42 am**

Sorry, wasn't logged in and thought I would identify who actually posted this thread.

It's me

**Mon Mar 22, 2004 1:36 pm**

Album: Wating For Herb
Song: Paris st Germain

**Mon Mar 22, 2004 3:46 pm**

I always kinda thought that Sea Shanty was an underatted song....It never seems to make much of a mention among "the greatest" tunes that MacGowan had ever wrote, but I think that its definetly up there for its humour and poetry......
Also, they rarely ever played it live!

**Mon Mar 22, 2004 4:19 pm**

yeah "Sea Shanty" is a very good song

But if I had ten pounds then I'd raise a loud cheer
And I'd toast all me neighbours both distant and dear
And I'd shoot back great belly-crippling buckets of beer
And a pox and a curse on the people round here
Wouldn't give you me the price of a half pint of beer
Wouldn't give you me the price of a cup of good cheer
A pox and a curse on the people round here

and so is "Down in the ground..."

Been drunk as a skunk since I've been home
From bar to bar like a ghost I roamed
I can't forget those things I saw
Been down with the devil in the Dalling [?]
One place I don't want to go

correct me if im wrong but isnt the [?] = road

**Mon Mar 22, 2004 8:21 pm**

waiting for herb
My Baby's Gone

**Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:53 am**

album - "red roses for me"

songs - "dark streets of london", "jesse james", "transmetropolitan", "rain street"

**Sat Apr 17, 2004 5:45 pm**

Down all the Days is a lovely song and quite possibly the only song involving toe-typing and nose-guzzling. London You're a Lady is awesome also Come to the Bower

**Sun Apr 18, 2004 1:44 am**

zumaden wrote:Down all the Days is a lovely song and quite possibly the only song involving toe-typing and nose-guzzling.

Ahhhhh, Down all the Days!...Lovely song indeed, and one I've been spinnin now for about two weeks non-stop....Also up there is Terry Woods' Gartloney Rats...

**Thu Apr 29, 2004 10:06 am**

Waxie's Dargle!

WHAT'LL Y'HAVE??!!

**Wed Oct 06, 2004 2:30 am**

Dont know about album but the song would either be Greenland Whale Fisher or Gartoloney rats

**Wed Oct 06, 2004 2:11 pm**

Album: Crock of Gold

Song: "The Snake with Eyes of Garnet"

Edit: I know it's the Popes, but still!!!

**Fri Oct 08, 2004 6:07 pm**

rain street truly is beautiful, to be sure.

**Sat Oct 09, 2004 4:15 am**

If not the most underrated song, one that was only a B-side which I think deserves more ears and could have been a favorite track if so is "Train Kept Rolling On" Anyone ever noitice the pogues have at least four songs with TRAIN in the title... and all of them are great? (Boat Train, Night Train to Lorca, and Train of Love as the others)

scott

**Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:31 am**

Got to be 'And the band played Walzing Matilda'

Why??

Well the pogues did not write the original lyrics - think it was written by a first world war poet - but

Sian make the poem alive with such emotion. As with a number of pogues songs (such as dirty old town and navigator) he has made it his own. This song is the most under-rated that they have done and what a fitting song to end rum Rum Sodomy & The Lash on..

I just wonder ehat kind of reception would he get if they ever did it live??

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