If I Should Fall From Grace With God
by The Pogues

If I Should Fall From Grace With God by The Pogues
Year: 1988
Overall rank: 954th   
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 352 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1988 (15th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (149th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (954th)

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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 573 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,967.

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Overall rank: 954th | 1980s rank: 149th | 1988 rank: 15th

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77/100 (from 352 votes)
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80/100
From 12/05/2024 20:35 | #306379
One of the better Pogues albums. Very consistent. Pretty much no filler.
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From 01/29/2023 19:36 | #293392
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.
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From 09/18/2022 14:04 | #289760
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%.
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From 09/07/2020 20:27 | #257872
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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From 12/04/2019 20:40 | #245366
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 02/17/2018 09:29 | #208506
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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From 01/08/2018 03:43 | #204971
Another album whose appeal I understand, yet doesn't really appeal much to me.
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From 11/18/2017 21:25 | #201617
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 | #195398
Just a superb album.
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From 07/04/2016 11:18 | #170492
Another good album, and although, fairytale of new York, is a fantastic song, it shouldn't really be on this album. You don't want to be listening to Christmas songs in july. Overall, it's not as good, rum, sodomy, but probably the Pogues second best album.
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