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THE VERY BEST OF ...
The Pogues
You could either run around in a circle for 15 minutes or roll down a hill. Or you could pick up this definitive collection (barring a box set) of the most rum-soaked, cigarette-stained Celtic punk band there ever was.
There have been other compilations of The Pogues' material, but The Very Best Of ... really is what it says.
Packed with tracks (six of the 21) from the band's finest record, the Elvis Costello-produced sophomore disc Rum, Sodomy & The Lash, there isn't one bad song in the bunch.
Dirty Old Town, The Old Main Drag, Fiesta, Boys From The County Hell, Sally MacLennane, and especially the back-to-back A Rainy Night In Soho and London Girl -- it's enough to make anyone's Irish eyes smile ... that is if they're not too bloodshot and sleep-encrusted from one too many closing times. (More on: The Pogues).
Track Listing
1.Dirty Old Town
2.Irish Rover (Ft. The Dubliners)
3.Sally Maclennane
4.Fiesta
5.A Pair Of Brown Eyes
6.Fairytale Of New York (Ft. Kirsty Maccoll)
7.The Body Of An American
8.Streams Of Whiskey
9.The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn
10. If I Should Fall From The Grace Of God
11.Misty Morning, Albert Bridge
12.Rain Street
13.White City
14.A Rainy Night In Soho
15.London Girl
16.Boys From The County Hell
17.The Sunnyside Of The Street
18.Summer In Siam
19.Hell's Ditch
20.The Old Main Drag
21.Waltzing Matilda