NEWS: The Pogues announce 40th anniversary edition of ‘Red Roses For Me’ album

Nearly a year after the death of their frontman Shane MacGowan, The Pogues are to re-release their debut album to mark its fortieth anniversary. Red Roses For Me is to be reissued on two brand new formats: recycled red vinyl containing the 2013 remix of the album and a double-CD set, including the album and and a bonus disc of B-sides and the band’s BBC sessions for John Peel and David ‘Kid’ Jensen from 1984.

These anniversary formats will be released on 18th October and are available to pre-order here.

​Though the album only reached no.89 in the UK album charts on release, it was critically acclaimed with the likes of the music weeklies of the period NME, Melody Maker and Sounds effusive in their praise:

Melody Maker stated: ‘Theirs is a gut reaction to traditional music – and with it comes all the motion, intensity and vigour that has largely been lost to these songs since the early days of the folk revival in the Sixties.‘ Meanwhile the NME said, ‘The music has never been away, and The Pogues in all their irreverent ‘seriousness’ have taken it out on a limb, where it all started, where it belongs,’ while Sounds concluded: ‘It manages to convey the sullied, brazen and raucous spirit of their live set very effectively.’

The tracklistings for the release are as follows:

2CD Set 

CD1 – 2013 Remix

1. Transmetropolitan
2. The Battle Of Brisbane
3. The Auld Triangle
4. Waxie’s Dargle
5. Boys From The County Hell
6. Sea Shanty
7. Dark Streets Of London
8. Streams Of Whiskey
9. Poor Paddy
10. Dingle Regatta
11. Greenland Whale Fisheries
12. Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go
13. Kitty

CD2

Single B-Sides and BBC SESSIONS

1. The Leaving Of Liverpool
2. Muirshin Durkin
3. Repeal Of The Licensing Laws
4. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
5. Whiskey You’re The Devil
6. The Wild Rover
7. Streams Of Whiskey (John Peel Session 10/4/1984)
8. Greenland Whale Fisheries (John Peel Session 10/4/1984)
9. Boys From The County Hell (John Peel Session 10/4/1984)
10. The Auld Triangle (John Peel Session 10/4/1984)
11. Dingle Regatta/Holly Johnsons (David ‘Kid’ Jensen Session 21/6/84)
12. Poor Paddy On The Railway (David ‘Kid’ Jensen Session 21/6/84)
13. Boys From The County Hell (David ‘Kid’ Jensen Session 21/6/84)
14. Connemara, Let’s Go! (David ‘Kid’ Jensen Session 21/6/84)
15. Whiskey You’re The Devil (John Peel Session 4/12/84)
16. The Navigator (John Peel Session 4/12/84)
17. Sally MacLennane (John Peel Session 4/12/84)
18. 18. Danny Boy (John Peel Session 4/12/84)

Single LP – 2013 Remix

Side A

1. Transmetropolitan
2. the Battle Of Brisbane
3. The Auld Triangle
4. Waxie’s Dargle
5. Boys From The County Hell
6. Sea Shanty
7. Dark Streets Of London

Side B

1. Streams Of Whiskey
2. Poor Paddy
3. Dingle Regatta
4. Greenland Whale Fisheries
5. Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go
6. Kitty

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