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Rum Sodomy & The Lash
Artist:
The Pogues
Format: CD
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Formats and Editions
1. Sick Bed of Cuchulain
2. Old Main Drag
3. Wild Cats of Kilkenny
4. I'm a Man You Don't Meet
5. Pair of Brown Eyes
6. Sally Mac Lennane
7. Pistol For Paddy Garcia
8. Dirty Old Town
9. Jesse James
10. Navigator
11. Billy's Bones
12. Gentleman Soldier
13. Band Played Waltzing
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Produced by Elvis Costello, this is the second album bythe Pogues, first released in 1985 on MCA in the U.S. on LPand cassette, but never on CD. This WEA/ Stiff editionfeatures all 13 of the tracks found on the American release, including 'Sally MacLennane', 'A Pair of Brown Eyes', 'TheSick Bed of Cuchulainn', 'Dirty Old Town', 'The Band PlayedWaltzing Matilda', 'I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day' and'Wild Cats of Kilkenny'.Reviews:
''Rum Sodomy & the Lash'' is the second studio album by the Anglo-Irish folk punk band The Pogues, released in 1985.
The title is taken from a quotation, often attributed to Winston Churchill: "''Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.''". Singer and primary songwriter Shane MacGowan claimed that the title was suggested by drummer Andrew Ranken. The cover artwork is based on ''The Raft of the Medusa'', a painting by Théodore Géricault, with the band members' faces replacing those of the men on the raft.
In August 1985, the album was launched on HMS ''Belfast'' – and one writer at the event was thrown into the Thames. It reached number 13 in the UK charts. The track "A Pair of Brown Eyes" went on to reach number 72 in the UK singles chart. "The Old Main Drag" would later appear on the soundtrack to the film ''My Own Private Idaho''. A remastered and expanded version of ''Rum Sodomy & the Lash'' was released on 11 January 2005. The cut "A Pistol for Paddy Garcia", and the B-side of "Dirty Old Town", which only appeared on the initial cassette release, was moved to the bonus tracks.
It has often made its way on to lists of greatest albums. In 2000 ''Q'' magazine placed it at number 93 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2003, the album was ranked number 445 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Pitchfork Media named it the 67th best album of the 1980s. Colin Meloy of The Decemberists cites it as one of his favorite albums. - Wikipedia
