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"I saw my task... was to capture them in their delapidated glory before some more professional producer f--ked them up," Elvis Costello wrote of his role behind the controls for the Pogues' second album, Rum Sodomy & the Lash. One spin of the album proves that Costello accomplished his mission; this album captures all the sweat, fire, and angry joy that was lost in the thin, disembodied recording of the band's debut, and the Pogues sound stronger and tighter without losing a bit of their edge in the process. Rum Sodomy & the Lash also found Shane MacGowan growing steadily as a songwriter; while the debut had its moments, the blazing and bitter roar of the opening track, "The Sick Bed of Cúchulainn," made it clear MacGowan had fused the intelligent anger of punk and the sly storytelling of Irish folk as no one had before, and the rent boys' serenade of "The Old Main Drag" and the dazzling, drunken character sketch of "A Pair of Brown Eyes" proved there were plenty of directions where he could take his gifts. And like any good folk group, the Pogues also had a great ear for other people's songs. Bassist Cait O'Riordan's haunting performance of "I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day" is simply superb (it must have especially impressed Costello, who would later marry her), and while Shane MacGowan may not have written "Dirty Old Town" or "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda," his wrought, emotionally compelling vocals made them his from then on. Rum Sodomy & the Lash falls just a bit short of being the Pogues' best album, but was the first one to prove that they were a great band, and not just a great idea for a band.
© Mark Deming /TiVo
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Philip Chevron, Guitar - The Pogues, MainArtist - ELVIS COSTELLO, Producer - Nick Robbins, Engineer - Paul Scully, Engineer - Shane Macgowan, Vocals, Writer - Jem Finer, Banjo - James Fearnley, Accordion - Andrew Ranken, Drums - Cait O'Riordan, Bass Guitar - Dick Cuthell, French Horn - Tommy Keane, Uillean Pipe - Spider Stacy, Tin Whistle - Henry Benagh, Fiddle
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 1985 Warner Music UK Ltd.
Philip Chevron, Guitar - The Pogues, MainArtist - ELVIS COSTELLO, Producer - Nick Robbins, Engineer - Paul Scully, Engineer - Shane Macgowan, Vocals, Writer - Jem Finer, Banjo - James Fearnley, Accordion - Andrew Ranken, Drums - Cait O'Riordan, Bass Guitar - Dick Cuthell, French Horn - Tommy Keane, Uillean Pipe - Spider Stacy, Tin Whistle - Henry Benagh, Fiddle
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 1985 Warner Music UK Ltd.
Philip Chevron, Guitar - The Pogues, MainArtist - ELVIS COSTELLO, Producer - Nick Robbins, Engineer - Paul Scully, Engineer - Shane Macgowan, Vocals, Writer - Jem Finer, Banjo, Writer - James Fearnley, Accordion - Andrew Ranken, Drums - Cait O'Riordan, Bass Guitar - Dick Cuthell, French Horn - Tommy Keane, Uillean Pipe - Spider Stacy, Tin Whistle - Henry Benagh, Fiddle
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 1985 Warner Music UK Ltd
Philip Chevron, Guitar - The Pogues, MainArtist - Traditional, Writer - ELVIS COSTELLO, Producer - Nick Robbins, Engineer - Paul Scully, Engineer - Shane Macgowan, Vocals, Writer - Jem Finer, Banjo, Writer - James Fearnley, Accordion - Andrew Ranken, Drums - Cait O'Riordan, Bass Guitar, Writer - Dick Cuthell, French Horn - Tommy Keane, Uillean Pipe - Spider Stacy, Tin Whistle, Writer - Henry Benagh, Fiddle
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 1985 Warner Music UK Ltd
Philip Chevron, Guitar - The Pogues, MainArtist - ELVIS COSTELLO, Producer - Nick Robbins, Engineer - Paul Scully, Engineer - Shane Macgowan, Vocals, Writer - Jem Finer, Banjo - James Fearnley, Accordion - Andrew Ranken, Drums - Cait O'Riordan, Bass Guitar - Dick Cuthell, French Horn - Tommy Keane, Uillean Pipe - Spider Stacy, Tin Whistle - Henry Benagh, Fiddle
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 1985 Warner Music UK Ltd.
Philip Chevron, Guitar - The Pogues, MainArtist - ELVIS COSTELLO, Producer - Nick Robbins, Engineer - Paul Scully, Engineer - Shane Macgowan, Vocals, Writer - Jem Finer, Banjo - James Fearnley, Accordion - Andrew Ranken, Drums - Cait O'Riordan, Bass Guitar - Dick Cuthell, French Horn - Tommy Keane, Uillean Pipe - Spider Stacy, Tin Whistle - Henry Benagh, Fiddle
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 1985 Warner Music UK Ltd.
Philip Chevron, Guitar - The Pogues, Vocals, MainArtist - Ewan MacColl, Writer - ELVIS COSTELLO, Producer - Nick Robbins, Engineer - Paul Scully, Engineer - Shane Macgowan, Vocals - Jem Finer, Banjo - James Fearnley, Accordion - Andrew Ranken, Drums - Cait O'Riordan, Bass Guitar - Dick Cuthell, French Horn - Tommy Keane, Uillean Pipe - Spider Stacy, Tin Whistle - Henry Benagh, Fiddle
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 1985 Warner Music UK Ltd.
Philip Chevron, Guitar - The Pogues, MainArtist - Traditional, Writer - ELVIS COSTELLO, Producer - Nick Robbins, Engineer - Paul Scully, Engineer - Shane Macgowan, Vocals - Jem Finer, Banjo, Writer - James Fearnley, Accordion - Andrew Ranken, Drums, Writer - Cait O'Riordan, Bass Guitar - Dick Cuthell, French Horn - Tommy Keane, Uillean Pipe - Spider Stacy, Tin Whistle, Writer - Henry Benagh, Fiddle
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 1985 Warner Music UK Ltd
Philip Chevron, Guitar - The Pogues, MainArtist - ELVIS COSTELLO, Producer - Nick Robbins, Engineer - Paul Scully, Engineer - Shane Macgowan, Vocals - Jem Finer, Banjo - Phil Gaston, Writer - James Fearnley, Accordion - Andrew Ranken, Drums - Cait O'Riordan, Bass Guitar - Dick Cuthell, French Horn - Tommy Keane, Uillean Pipe - Spider Stacy, Tin Whistle - Henry Benagh, Fiddle
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 1985 Warner Music UK Ltd
Philip Chevron, Guitar - The Pogues, MainArtist - ELVIS COSTELLO, Producer - Nick Robbins, Engineer - Paul Scully, Engineer - Shane Macgowan, Vocals, Writer - Jem Finer, Banjo - James Fearnley, Accordion - Andrew Ranken, Drums - Cait O'Riordan, Bass Guitar - Dick Cuthell, French Horn - Tommy Keane, Uillean Pipe - Spider Stacy, Tin Whistle - Henry Benagh, Fiddle
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 1985 Warner Music UK Ltd
Philip Chevron, Guitar - The Pogues, MainArtist - ELVIS COSTELLO, Producer - Nick Robbins, Engineer - Paul Scully, Engineer - Shane Macgowan, Vocals, Writer - Jem Finer, Banjo, Writer - James Fearnley, Accordion - Andrew Ranken, Drums - Cait O'Riordan, Bass Guitar, Writer - Dick Cuthell, French Horn - Tommy Keane, Uillean Pipe - Spider Stacy, Tin Whistle, Writer - Henry Benagh, Fiddle
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 1985 Warner Music UK Ltd
The Pogues, MainArtist - ELVIS COSTELLO, Producer - Nick Robbins, Engineer - Paul Scully, Engineer - Shane Macgowan, Vocals - Jem Finer, Banjo - Eric Bogle, Writer - James Fearnley, Accordion - Andrew Ranken, Drums - Craig Thomson, Engineer - Stan Brennan, Producer - Cait O'Riordan, Bass Guitar - Bilbo, MasteringEngineer - Spider Stacy, Tin Whistle
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 1985 Warner Music UK Ltd.
Philip Chevron, Producer, Guitar - The Pogues, MainArtist - ELVIS COSTELLO, Producer - Nick Robbins, Engineer - Paul Scully, Engineer - Shane Macgowan, Vocals - Jem Finer, Banjo, Writer - James Fearnley, Accordion - Andrew Ranken, Drums - Cait O'Riordan, Bass Guitar - Dick Cuthell, French Horn - Tommy Keane, Uillean Pipe - Spider Stacy, Tin Whistle - Henry Benagh, Fiddle
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 1985 Warner Music UK Ltd
Philip Chevron, Guitar - The Pogues, MainArtist - ELVIS COSTELLO, Producer - Nick Robbins, Engineer - Paul Scully, Engineer - Shane Macgowan, Vocals, Writer - Jem Finer, Banjo - James Fearnley, Accordion - Andrew Ranken, Drums - Cait O'Riordan, Bass Guitar - Dick Cuthell, French Horn - Tommy Keane, Uillean Pipe - Spider Stacy, Tin Whistle - Henry Benagh, Fiddle
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 1986 Warner Music UK Ltd.
Philip Chevron, Guitar - The Pogues, MainArtist - Steve Lillywhite, Produced by, MixingEngineer - Chris Dickie, AdditionalEngineer - ELVIS COSTELLO, Producer - Nick Robbins, Engineer - Paul Scully, Engineer - Shane Macgowan, Vocals, Writer - Jem Finer, Banjo - James Fearnley, Accordion - Andrew Ranken, Drums - Cait O'Riordan, Bass Guitar - Dick Cuthell, French Horn - Tommy Keane, Uillean Pipe - Spider Stacy, Tin Whistle - Henry Benagh, Fiddle
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 1991 Warner Music UK Ltd.
Philip Chevron, Guitar - The Pogues, MainArtist - ELVIS COSTELLO, Producer - Nick Robbins, Engineer - Paul Scully, Engineer - Shane Macgowan, Vocals, Writer - Jem Finer, Banjo - James Fearnley, Accordion - Andrew Ranken, Drums - Cait O'Riordan, Bass Guitar - Dick Cuthell, French Horn - Tommy Keane, Uillean Pipe - Spider Stacy, Tin Whistle - Henry Benagh, Fiddle
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 1986 Warner Music UK Ltd.
Philip Chevron, Guitar - The Pogues, MainArtist - ELVIS COSTELLO, Producer - Nick Robbins, Engineer - Paul Scully, Engineer - Shane Macgowan, Vocals - Jem Finer, Banjo, Writer - James Fearnley, Accordion - Andrew Ranken, Drums - Cait O'Riordan, Bass Guitar - Dick Cuthell, French Horn - Tommy Keane, Uillean Pipe - Spider Stacy, Tin Whistle - Henry Benagh, Fiddle
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 1985 Warner Music UK Ltd
Philip Chevron, Producer, Guitar - The Pogues, MainArtist - Traditional, Writer - ELVIS COSTELLO, Producer - Nick Robbins, Engineer - Paul Scully, Engineer - Shane Macgowan, Vocals, Writer - Jem Finer, Banjo, Writer - James Fearnley, Accordion - Andrew Ranken, Drums - Cait O'Riordan, Bass Guitar, Writer - Dick Cuthell, French Horn - Tommy Keane, Uillean Pipe - Spider Stacy, Tin Whistle - Henry Benagh, Fiddle
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 1985 Warner Music UK Ltd
Albumbeschreibung
"I saw my task... was to capture them in their delapidated glory before some more professional producer f--ked them up," Elvis Costello wrote of his role behind the controls for the Pogues' second album, Rum Sodomy & the Lash. One spin of the album proves that Costello accomplished his mission; this album captures all the sweat, fire, and angry joy that was lost in the thin, disembodied recording of the band's debut, and the Pogues sound stronger and tighter without losing a bit of their edge in the process. Rum Sodomy & the Lash also found Shane MacGowan growing steadily as a songwriter; while the debut had its moments, the blazing and bitter roar of the opening track, "The Sick Bed of Cúchulainn," made it clear MacGowan had fused the intelligent anger of punk and the sly storytelling of Irish folk as no one had before, and the rent boys' serenade of "The Old Main Drag" and the dazzling, drunken character sketch of "A Pair of Brown Eyes" proved there were plenty of directions where he could take his gifts. And like any good folk group, the Pogues also had a great ear for other people's songs. Bassist Cait O'Riordan's haunting performance of "I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day" is simply superb (it must have especially impressed Costello, who would later marry her), and while Shane MacGowan may not have written "Dirty Old Town" or "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda," his wrought, emotionally compelling vocals made them his from then on. Rum Sodomy & the Lash falls just a bit short of being the Pogues' best album, but was the first one to prove that they were a great band, and not just a great idea for a band.
© Mark Deming /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 01:03:35
- Main artists: The Pogues
- Label: WM UK
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2006 Warner Music UK Ltd., Manufactured & Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company
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