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albummaster
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- Posted: 09/15/2014 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1391): Rum, Sodomy, And The Lash
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Today's album of the day
Rum, Sodomy, And The Lash by The Pogues (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1985.
Country: 
Overall rank: 716
Average rating: 80/100 (from 135 votes).
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Tracks:
1. The Sick Bed Of Cúchulainn
2. The Old Main Drag
3. Wild Cats Of Kilkenny
4. I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
5. A Pair Of Brown Eyes
6. Sally MacLenanne
7. Dirty Old Town
8. Jesse James
9. Navigator
10. Billy's Bones
11. The Gentleman Soldier
12. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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- Posted: 09/15/2014 20:29
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Always heard incredible things about the Pogues, but never checked them out. Is this where I should start?
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meccalecca
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Kiki
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- #4
- Posted: 09/15/2014 20:41
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The best song is the Fairytale In New York one. I sing that when it is Christmas time. It's not on this album however... 
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Decurso
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- Posted: 09/15/2014 20:46
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I also prefer If I Should Fall From Grace With God. This is a pretty good one too. Kind of groundbreaking in terms of popularizing celtic punk and paving the way for the likes of Flogging Molly, The dropkick Murphys and The Real Mackenzies. Good, bawdy fun.
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Patman360
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- Posted: 09/15/2014 21:37
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One of my top 10 albums of all time, absolutely adore it, though I regard the first 3 Pogues albums as near perfect (If I Should Fall From Grace With God and Red Roses For Me being the other 2), MacGowan was at his peak for those 3 albums. I always felt that If I Should Fall From Grace With God was the more polished and perfected one, while Red Roses For Me had a more raw style to it, with Rum, Sodomy & The Lash kind of fitting in between both and doing so perfectly.
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Mercury
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denmarkman
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- Posted: 09/16/2014 01:18
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Funny, I just listened to this the other day.
| satiemaniac wrote: | | Always heard incredible things about the Pogues, but never checked them out. Is this where I should start? |
Yes. If I Should Fall... is pretty good, too, but doesn't quite capture their essence or w/e as well in my opinion. This one feels a lot more raw, which is the sound I tend to associate with them. I also just like this one a lot more.
Anyway, it's brilliant obv. It's alternately fun, catchy, sad, and uplifting, often all at once. If you don't tear up listening to "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" then I'm afraid you're probably not listening to it right. The same is true if you can sit still in your chair listening to the likes of "Sick Bed of Cuchulainn" or "Sally MacLennane". Just great stuff all around.
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junodog4
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- Posted: 09/17/2014 01:21
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Love it. If I Should Fall is great as well.
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Norman Bates
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- Posted: 09/17/2014 05:21
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Best Pogues record, and vastly better than If I Should Fall on a account of Steve Lillywhite being the ultimate 80s saboteur.
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