If I Should Fall From Grace With God (studio album)
by The Pogues

If I Should Fall From Grace With God by The Pogues
Year: 1988
Overall rank: 994th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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78/100 (from 349 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1988 (15th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (154th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (994th)

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If I Should Fall From Grace With God is ranked 2nd best out of 16 albums by The Pogues on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Pogues is Rum Sodomy & The Lash which is ranked number 576 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,982.

The Pogues album bestography « Higher ranked (576th)
Rum Sodomy & The Lash
This album (994th)
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Lower ranked (4,449th) »
Red Roses For Me

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78/100 (from 349 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.6/100, a mean average of 76.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.3.

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80/100
From 12/05/2024 20:35
One of the better Pogues albums. Very consistent. Pretty much no filler.
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90/100
From 01/29/2023 19:36
The album starts with 3 brilliant raucous Pogues classics before the gem of Fairytale.

Metropolis then throttles back before the next batch of brilliance and a couple of high quality medleys, Streets of Sorrow particularly forlorn and beautiful.

The attack and quality drop a notch for the final 4, although the Broad Majestic Shannon peddles a lovely reverie before the brutal truth of Worms.

So an album of 3 halves then.
#293392 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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70/100
From 09/18/2022 14:04
Solid album if not as good for me as Rum, Sodomy and the Lash. Fairytale of New York is the best ever Christmas song. 100%.
#289760 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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80/100
From 09/07/2020 20:27
Everything about my personality says I should not like The Pogues, yet I love the hell out of them.

P.S. Fairytale of New York is the best Christmas song ever written.
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85/100
From 12/04/2019 20:40
Anyone who tells you they don't enjoy Fairy Tale of New York year-round is either a scrooge or a liar.
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From 07/22/2019 15:06
Favorite Tracks:Bottle Of Smoke, Streets Of Sorrow/Birmingham Six, Lullaby Of London, The Battle March Medley/Sit Down By The Fire, The Broad Majestic Shannon
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From 02/17/2018 09:29
Era impossibile bissare la furia festaiola di quel capolavoro che era stato "Rum, sodomy and the lash" e nondimeno questo disco quasi ci riesce: le canzoni mediamente valgono, in quanto a scrittura, quelle dell'album precedente ma una produzione leggermente troppo pulita impedisce loro di raggiungere lo status di capolavoro, solo sfiorato quindi.
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65/100
From 01/08/2018 03:43
Another album whose appeal I understand, yet doesn't really appeal much to me.
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90/100
From 11/18/2017 21:25
This, for me, is the best Pogues album, just shading Rum, Sodomy and the Lash. The stand out track is Turkish Song of the Damned but very track has something going for it.
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From 08/03/2017 01:14
Just a superb album.
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