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The Pogues - Peace and Love Audio CD

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The Pogues Band: The Pogues
Title: Peace and Love
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Release Date: 2005-01-11
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Gridlock 2: White City 3: Young Ned of the Hill 4: Misty Morning, Albert Bridge 5: Cotton Fields 6: Blue Heaven 7: Down All the Days 8: USA 9: Lorelei 10: Gartloney Rats 11: Boat Train 12: Tombstone 13: Night Train to Lorca 14: London You're a Lady 15: Star of the County Down [*] 16: Limerick Rake [*] 17: Train of Love [*] 18: Everyman Is a King (In the US of A) [*] 19: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [*] 20: Honky Tonk Women [*]

Without the extra songs this album is very average. Depressing!
They are my all time favorite band, but the original album without the bonus tracks was their worst with Shane! I listen to this album a lot and I love most of the songs that Shane wrote I just know they could of been way better if things in his personal life didn't affect the music. I LOVE the Pogues. I still consider this album a "Must Buy" album for Pogues fans. I wouldn't start off with this album so if you're curious about them. Try "Red Roses for Me" or "Rum Sodomy and the Lash" first
Hell's Ditch is way more catchy and interesting than this album even though Shane sounds wasted through Hells Ditch it has more of an unity to it. Peace and Love is a big mish mash of songs that don't really work together to make a cohesive album and is hard to listen to with out skipping through the duds. Shane's voice was very week in it (as told by Steve Lillywhite in an interview) that the band had to add there combine their voices with his to make his solid. That's why you get muddled vocals in the songs: USA, Cottom Fields and Night train to Lorca. It seems like everybody else in the band is fighting to get their two cents in and get their songwriting royalties. I don't understand why they didn't use the fantastic songs that they had from the bonus tracks and use them instead of a lot of the mediocre songs they released on "Peace and Love" It would of made a great solid album with a lot more cohesion.
They have strayed from what the Pouges do the best that is make kick ass Irish music. This is when they started to loose their direction since Shane wasn't solidly at the helm anymore. Very Sad!.


All of the Pogues re-releases this is the best
"Peace and Love" contains the hardest to get of the bonus material. So those sneaky record company people have repressed the Pogues albumns and attached extra songs. The classic "Rake of Limerick" makes this disc desirable by itself. "Everyman is King" is a cold-war era warning about the destructive Soviet-American rivalry.
The albumn was good without the bonus stuff. Now it has moved up to be my most played Pogues cd after "Rum, Sodomy and the Lash".


Remastered Version of the Pogues Most Underrated Album
The Pogues flirt with jazz throughout on this release and what most people don't realize is that Shane had embraced acid house rock and was trying to inject into the Pogues musical catalogue. "Peace and Love" is the most underrated Pogues album of the MacGowan era, even to Pogues fans. Sure, MacGowan's vocals sound garbled on this release, but that doesn't mean his songwriting gifts have diminished. "White City," is a excellent song about a dog track being torn down. While "Boat Train; a song about traveling from Dublin to London, and "London You're a Lady," Shane's geographical tribute to London, still showed that MacGowan hadn't drank away his talents quite yet. Other songs like "Down All the Days, which pays tribute to Christy Brown, and "Cotton Fields," are all stand out tracks. Shane also showed that he had a knack for rockabilly as well with the overpowering "USA. " The problem that most Pogues fans have with this release is the fact that most of it was written by other members of the band. SO WHAT!!!!!! Jem Finer provides the excellent "Misty Morning, Albert Bridge," as well as the jazz instrumental "Gridlock," and the depressing "Tombstone," and "Night Train to Lorca. " Philip Chevron steps up to plate once again and provides the beautiful ballad "Lorelei," with backing vocals by Kristy MacColl. Terry Woods provides the excellent traditional numbers of "Young Ned of the Hill and Gartloney Rats. " The only real throwaway track on this album is the cheesy irish-calypso track "Blue Heaven," which should have never made its appearance on the album. Overall, "Peace and Love," is not the Pogues best album, but it certainly is a very good one, and better than the follow-up "Hell's Ditch. "
The new remastered version contains the traditional reworkings of "The Star of the County Down (vocals by Andrew Ranken), and "The Limerick Rake. " Jem Finer's "Train of Love," is a delight, as is MacGowan's tribute to Northern Soul with "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. " However, the best bonus track has to go to Terry Woods/Ron Kavana's "Everyman Is A King," which should have been on the original "Peace and Love" release.
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