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 B-sides and a bonus disc of the band’s BBC sessions from 1984.
These anniversary formats will be released on 18th October and are available to pre-order here.
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.
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.
‘Red Roses For Me (40th Anniversary Edition)’ Tracklisting:
2CD Set
CD1 – 2013 Remix
1. Transmetropolitan
2. The Battle Of Brisbane
3. The Auld Triangle
4. Waxie’s Dargle
5. Boys From 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
14. The Leaving Of Liverpool – Single B-Sides
15. Muirshin Durkin – Single B-Sides
16. Repeal Of The Licensing Laws – Single B-Sides
17. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda – Single B-Sides
18. Whiskey You’re The Devil – Single B-Sides
19. The Wild Rover – Single B-Sides
CD2
BBC Sessions 1984
1. Streams Of Whiskey – John Peel Session 10th April 1984
2. Greenland Whale Fisheries – John Peel Session 10th April 1984
3. Boys From The County Hell – John Peel Session 10th April 1984
4. The Auld Triangle – John Peel Session 10th April 1984
5. Dingle Regatta/Holly Johnsons – David ‘Kid’ Jensen Session 21st June 1984
6. Poor Paddy On The Railway – David ‘Kid’ Jensen Session 21st June 1984
7. Boys From The County Hell – David ‘Kid’ Jensen Session 21st June 1984
8. Connemara, Let’s Go! – David ‘Kid’ Jensen Session 21st June 1984
9. Whiskey You’re The Devil – John Peel Session 4th December 1984
10. The Navigator – John Peel Session 4th December 1984
11. Sally MacLennane – John Peel Session 4th December 1984
12. Danny Boy – John Peel Session 4th December 1984
Single LP – 2013 Remix
Side A
1. Transmetropolitan
2. The Battle Of Brisbane
3. The Auld Triangle
4. Waxie’s Dargle
5. Boys From The County Hell
6. Sea Shanty
7. Dark Streets Of London
Side B
1. Streams Of Whiskey
2. Poor Paddy
3. Dingle Regatta
4. Greenland Whale Fisheries
5. Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go
6. Kitty
