The Medusa Fora

hmmmm, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. I have never failed to convert a soul. The work speaks for itself.

You can't convert people, sure I've got the Pogues in my soul, but I still needed introduced. I was kind of put off by FONY and the Irish Rover - given Dirty Old Town and IISFFGWG I was sold, before introducing my dad, and finding all my cd's had emigrated!

Hi Everyone

I am hoping someone can help me. I would like to purchase a CD with the Pogue's rebel songs. I am uncertain which CD to buy as I have only recently been exposed to the Pogues. It is a gift.

Thanks for your help.

Katie

Hm, the most "rebel" song I can think of is Young Ned of the Hill, from Peace & Love, but that´s from not-so-Irish era. I guess If I should fall from Grace with God album - it´s still prety Irish oriented, it´s got some rebel songs on it, and the sound is very rich (much more than on first two albums).

KatieCroft wrote:Hi Everyone

I am hoping someone can help me. I would like to purchase a CD with the Pogue's rebel songs. I am uncertain which CD to buy as I have only recently been exposed to the Pogues. It is a gift.

Thanks for your help.

Katie

Hello Katie

May i suggest starting with either "Essentials" or "The Best of the Pogues", both have some good cross compilations, but be warned, your "Poguefication" process will lead you to an insatiable appetite for this music, once you firmly are in the grasp of "Poguetry" you will be further doomed to chronic obsessive behavior, in time no one dear to you will understand your behavior, once you fully grasp your need to hold, own and want everything and all that is "Pogues" related, you will have no choice but to fulfill this need, "addiction, obsession" the only recourse you will find to control this affliction will be to own all things "Pogues" and revere them for what they are, and of course you may also be compelled to make a "pilgrimage" to New York, on the day of "St. Paddys day' celebrations, and partake in the St. Patricks day events and have your night culminated with having your presence before the live performance by the Pogues at the Roseland Ballroom.

Ok now my hands are starting to shake, just where did i put my I-pod?.........................i need more music?


Irishrose


P.S....................just get it over with quick and buy em all, it will be far more easier that way?

Irishrose wrote:May i suggest starting with either "Essentials" or "The Best of the Pogues", both have some good cross compilations, but be warned, your "Poguefication" process will lead you to an insatiable appetite for this music, once you firmly are in the grasp of "Poguetry" you will be further doomed to chronic obsessive behavior

So Essentials and The Best of the Pogues should be considered "gateway" albums to the "hard stuff".

Greetings!

I'm relatively new to the Pogues, so don't bite my head off. Anyway, I've recently become rather obsessed with the pogues... ie. Listen to their albums NON STOP! I have two albums: 1) The exceptionaly titled 'Rum, Sodomy and the Lash' 2) 'If I should fall from grace with God'. Both albums are bloody brilliant, although for me 'Rum Sodomy' is the most superior. That album is perfect, IMO.

Anyway, what album should I get next?

twood50785 wrote:Greetings!

I'm relatively new to the Pogues, so don't bite my head off. Anyway, I've recently become rather obsessed with the pogues... ie. Listen to their albums NON STOP! I have two albums: 1) The exceptionaly titled 'Rum, Sodomy and the Lash' 2) 'If I should fall from grace with God'. Both albums are bloody brilliant, although for me 'Rum Sodomy' is the most superior. That album is perfect, IMO.

Anyway, what album should I get next?

Tom Waits "Rain Dogs".

Welcome to Medusa.

Got it.


WHAT POGUES ALBUM SHOULD I GET NEXT? I was thinking maybe the first one...?

ALL of them.....................And then the boxset.............



You're in a nice place at the moment mate, just discovering the wealth of music attributed to the pogues. My advice is to buy them one by one and just enjoy uncovering the new songs.

I'd get Red Roses For Me next, and then Peace and Love. And although it is not an "original," the Ultimate Collection has a live concert on Disc 2, and thus something you must hear esp. if you've not been to a show. So either that or Hell's Ditch after Peace and Love. Dirty Old Town is not a bad compilation, if you want to hear some songs from post-Shane Pogues without getting the CDs right yet.

The Very Best Of The Pogues is okay but if you've got the other stuff, you've got everything on there I think. The Rest Of The Best is skippable.

Once you have everything on CD, you must start all over--buying them in vinyl. Original releases only, of course.

Edited to fix my mess-up in order of releases. P&L first, then HD. You can buy them out of order but might as well not, right?

Red Roses

Hey, I'm kinda new to the Pogues (loved them on the radio for years, new to buying really haha), and I was wondering what CD's I should pick up? Is the box set all I need, or is that just for extra stuff...

Thanks!

I would recomend everything the Pogues or Popes ever recorded.

Arsonic wrote:I would recomend everything the Pogues or Popes ever recorded.

I would second that. But i think the question, Arsonic, is where our friend should begin.

I would suggest starting with Rum, Sodomy & the Lash - note that the expanded edition has the entire Poguetry in Motion e.p. at the end. Great deal. Then give a listen to If I Should Fall From Grace with God. These works are often considered the pinnacle of the Pogues, and i know it's where i started. But what's really good is you can hear the progression, the change, the en-biggening of the sound, whatever. Across those 2 albums & 1 e.p. is where you hear a great band becoming one of the best, quite simply. From exploring new territory to owning it.

That's not to say that Red Roses for Me or Hell's Ditch aren't great, because they surely are. And the rest are all fine albums, with some unbeatable songs spread across them. And I'm a big fan of Shane's solo work & even just bought a copy of the Popes' Are You Looking At Me? single simply because it had a couple of tunes i'd never heard, and i always want more. Like the box set, which is mostly "extras", as you say. But when something is this good, always ask for seconds!

What was i saying? Oh yeah, the rest is all great. But there's a palpable something through Rum, Sodomy - Poguetry - If I should Fall that i don't think has been topped, for me, by any other discovery of any other music by any other band.

Sorry if this is too gushy, i just really like it. I'm excited for you that you get to hear this all for the first time!