Rum Sodomy & The Lash
by The Pogues
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Rum Sodomy & The Lash is ranked as the best album by The Pogues.
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Rum Sodomy & The Lash track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Rum Sodomy & The Lash rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 36/100 | 63 | |
| 2026 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1985 | 7/100 | 5 | |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Greatest albums of all time (301 - 400) by Acclaimed Music | 17/100 | - |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 32 Music Albums of 1985 | 30/32 | 0 |
| 2026 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 92/100 | 2 | |
| 2026 | TastyandTemptin | Top 34 Music Albums of 1985 | 18/34 | 3 |
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Top 70 Music Albums of 1985 | 16/70 | 4 |
| 2026 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 39/100 | 12 | |
| 2026 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 10/100 | 18 | |
| 2026 | Guigou | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 99/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 446 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 2,992 | |||
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Rum Sodomy & The Lash ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/13/2026 13:50 | 550 | 80/100 | |
| ! | 07/26/2026 02:28 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
| ! | 06/15/2026 05:48 | ASOARE | 2,540 | 78/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.3/100, a mean average of 77.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.
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The Pogues best album. Shane McGowan is on top form. It's not brilliant, and is a little inconsistent, but at it's best it's fantastic. Some great songs, especially, sick bed of Cuchulain, a pair of Brown eyes, and the utterly amazing, the old main drag, my favourite Pogues song. The Gallipoli inspired, and the band played waltzing Matilda, is a great way to close a very good album.
The greatest drinking album ever. That's what it's for. Some wonderful songs that have become part of Irelands Heritage. Also a nice Australian folk song as the final track .
This album is so good, you'll listen to it over and over again and like it more every time you do. The nuances slowly present themselves. The vocals get more real and connected every time you cue this up.
The group's more intense and debauched recording. The perfect middle group between Red Roses For Me's break neck traditionalism and If I Should Fall From Grace with God's (relative) pop tendencies.
Drink along and cry in your beer for a sometimes-very-sad and beautifully tragic world, the way Shane MacGowan sees it. One of the best albums ever, some of the best songs ever written.
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