Rum Sodomy & The Lash
by The Pogues

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Rum Sodomy & The Lash by The Pogues
Year: 1985
Release date: 1985-08-05
Overall rank: 569th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 421 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1985 (10th)
Award Top 100 albums of of the 1980s (88th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (569th)

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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 rankings summary
Overall rank: 569th | 1980s rank: 88th | 1985 rank: 10th  Overall chart history
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From 06/22/2016 19:28 | #169495 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
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.
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From 10/28/2014 09:42 | #125603 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
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 .
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From 09/15/2014 17:54 | #121995 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
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.
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From 04/09/2013 01:19 | #72115 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
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.
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From 09/19/2015 03:03 | #150014 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
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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