Red Roses For Me (40th Anniversary Edition)

CD1 2013 REMIX REMASTERED

1. Transmetropolitan
2. The Battle Of Brisbane
3. The Auld Triangle
4. Waxie’s Dargle
5. Boys Form 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 B-SIDES AND BBC SESSIONS 1984

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

To celebrate its 40th anniversary on the 15th October, The Pogues debut album ‘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 from 1984.

These anniversary formats will be released on 18th October.

After four decades, ‘Red Roses For Me’ is still celebrated as a groundbreaking debut album from an unlikely group of supposed ne’er-do-wells from London’s Kings Cross in the convulsive aftermath of the re-election of the Thatcher government. The album mashes traditional songs and instrumentals - about death and drink, love and London - with those of frontman Shane MacGowan's - and all fuelled by the punk ethos.

The album’s release was met with ardent critical acclaim:

Melody Maker proclaimed "the quality of their music, even the very nature of it, is strangely irrelevant. What's important is their existence at all. For The Pogues are a gesture – a particularly bloody two-fingered one – aimed at all things considered current and fashionable in 1984... 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."

 NME

“... If you think they've rehabilitated a music that's been asleep for a while you're dead wrong – on both counts. 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"

Sounds

"Red Roses for Me is a satisfyingly impure, purposefully imperfect and totally irresistible collection of lasting resentment, rebellious roars, watery-eyed romance and uproarious jigs... Surprisingly, this record works. It manages to convey the sullied, brazen and raucous spirit of their live set very effectively.”

Irreverent, powerful, unique and spirited, ‘Red Roses For Me’ was the beginning of an incredible and unflinching journey for a London-Irish band whose music not only lights up playlists in December by virtue of the band’s beloved ‘Fairytale of New York’, but which also sparkles with the genius of its songwriting.