Red Roses for Me [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Pogues

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 19, 2006)
• Original Release Date: January 11, 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B000H8SFM0
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,009 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'll have a pint with you sir!, November 25, 2006

By	Poor Napoleon (TX United States) - See all my reviews

Red Roses for Me was the first Pogues album I bought. It was a used import CD and the quality was horrible. The songs were great, but the sound on the album left much to be desired, probably due to sourcing from a poor master. So for years, I was waiting for a remastered version of this excellent album. Here, Rhino delivers.


This album can now be heard in all its glory. It's still amazing to here Shane Macgowan's tracks sit beautifully among traditional Irish fare. Yet MacGowan has punk sensibilities peaking into his tracks, notably on Boys From the County Hell. It's here that we get to see how good a songwriter Shane can be on the Dark Streets of London, where's he shows some of the emotional depth he's capable of. Others might be surprised to find the lovely original Streams of Whiskey, which makes a great pub song.

But the band comes together to create a great welcoming sound that both pays tribute to Irish music while breathing new life into traditional classics. Waxie's Dargle shows how much fun the band can have, which sounds like two Irish lads having a few pints, as they describe in the song. It's a lot of fun.

The bonus on this reissues is of course the quality. There are also a handful of extra tracks. The Pogues shine on a few more traditional songs while instroducing us to their rendition of Eric Bogle's And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda. This version is good, but pales in comparrison to the powerful version on Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash.

There are no misses on this album. A lot of people feel the Pogues magic wasn't fully realized until their followup album, but this album has the band sounding fresh and raw. Hearing this for the first time was a lot of magic for me as this is where I disocvered the Pogues, so I maybe a little biased, but this is close to their best.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FIVE KILLER TUNES WORTH THE PRICE OF THE ALBUM; A BLESSING FROM IRISH HEAVEN, January 3, 2007

By	C. Scanlon "least helpful reviewer" (among us humans) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

I moved from one double wide to another one across the street and never got to opening all of my literature boxes, until late at night a wee leprachaun, no wait, it was the voice of Shane MacGowan or whatever croaking about the Leaving of Liverpool and forcing me to open up all these boxes and put everything away and find me once again to hold you in your lonesome exile.

Not only do you get two great old tunes made big by Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers, here done rowdy like they ought, but you get That Auld Triangle, about back when the British Empire controlled their surplus Irish colonial population under the blessing of that devil Malthus by stealing all of their food and claiming famine (there was plenty of food in Ireland at that time all going to London), or transporting everyone to Australia and the penal colonies, or jailing all the men for ridiculous charges like wearing green or refusing to get evicted from their own lands and homes as if they were Palestinians.

But do not get me started. Listen over and over to the Auld Triangle.
And cheer up with the Leaving of Liverpool, especially that wild shout after One More Time is called. This is music, man. Hear it now.

And of course Down underground deserves to be heard a few times, although the creepy sound effects grow wearisome.

And then play the Clancy Brother songs and remember the tears of your old dad. I just wish A Parting Glass was on this collection so I didn't have to pull out the other disk! I guess that's what some folks use their iPod for, but hey . . .

A great comfort in exile or any time. What else has been recorded this late; what else is there to listen to? Def Leperd? Dear god!

That Auld Triangle is calling me even now.

I met Spider while filming ALex Cox's Walker in NIcaragua twenty years ago, and did not realize then who he was. Otherwise I'd have begged him to play that Triangle on the tin whistle he ever carried with him, and one which he shines so clearly and truly on this album.

By the way, the title comes from Dublin playwright Sean O'Casey. Check him out, too.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Four Roses, January 19, 2007

By	Paul T. Hamilton "phishgod" (Haslett Michigan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Grab yourself a pint of four roses --don't walk-- run for the roses--the Pogues best discs are back in print with this great remastered re-release--and raise a frosty mug with me to this delightful brew.