What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (vinyl)



Freaky! dudes got five fingers on one hand. Thought I liked this album a lot better than it ended up. Hate when
that happens. Must have been thinking of another one. A lyrics sheet would have been helpful on this one. It is
Shane, so I had to overcome the slurs along with the accent. As a result of that, the music carries most of this.
It is a good album, just not as good as I expected. This is the groups fourth album and their best selling in the
UK where it reached #5, and a #118 in the US. You can have the leadoff instrumental which sounds nothing like
Pogues music. I do love three tracks, but don't like four. Misty Morning, Albert Bridge is the only track showing
as a single which charted in Ireland and the UK, but not here. A departure for the writing credits as MacGowan only
shows on six of the fourteen tracks here. His alcohol abuse had started to show as other band members step up.
Don't know the band well enough to say for sure, but sure sounds like someone besides Shane is singing on a couple
of these tracks. Or maybe he was just sober on those.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Gridlock

Best Track - London You're A Lady

Ah London you're a lady
Laid out before my eyes
Your heart of gold it pulses
Between your scarred up thighs
Your eyes are full of sadness
Red busses skirt your hem
Your head-dress is a ring of lights
But I would not follow them
Your architects were madmen
Your builders sane but drunk
Among your faded jewels
Shine acid house and punk

You are a scarlet lady
Your streets run red with blood
Oh my darling they have used you
And covered you with mud
It was deep down in your womb my love
I drank my quart of sin
While chinamen played cards and draughts
And knocked back mickey finns

Your piss is like a river
Its scent is beer and gin
Your hell is in the summer
And you blossom in the spring
September is your purgatory
Christmas is your heaven
And when the stinking streets of summer
Are washed away by rain
At the dark end of a lonely street
That's where you lose your pain
'Tis then your eyes light up my love
And sparkle once again

1) Gridlock *
audio - The Pogues - Gridlock - YouTube
2) White City **
video - The Pogues - White City [Music Video] - YouTube
3) Young Ned Of The Hill **
audio - The Pogues - Young Ned Of The Hill - YouTube
4) Misty Morning, Albert Bridge ***
video - Misty Morning Albert Bridge (ULTRA RARE) - The Pogues - YouTube
5) Cotton Fields *
audio - The Pogues - Cotton Fields - YouTube
6) Blue Heaven **
7) Down All The Days *
audio - Down All The Days-The Pogues - YouTube
8) USA **
audio - The Pogues - USA - YouTube
9) Lorelei ***
audio - the pogues - lorelei - YouTube
10) Gartloney Rats **
audio - The Pogues - Gartloney Rats | HD 1080p - YouTube
11) Boat Train **
audio - The Pogues - Boat Train - YouTube
12) Tombstone **
audio - The Pogues - Tombstone - YouTube
13) Night Train To Lorca **
audio - The Pogues - Night Train To Lorca - YouTube
14) London You're A Lady ***
audio - The Pogues - London You're A Lady - YouTube

3's - 3
2's - 7
1's - 4

Grade - 1.9

so many albums, so little time