Red Roses For Me
****
Rum Sodomy & The Lash
****
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
****
Peace And Love
***
Hell's Ditch
**
Waiting For Herb
**
Pogue Mahone
**

Q Magazine January 2005

The Finest London-Irish band remastered

Although it's easy to blame Shane MacGowan's descent into a shambles of a man for the manner in which The Pogues' musical legacy has been pissed away, their back catalogue is a reminder that they were briefly, but properly great.
From the punk-folk mavericks of Red Roses For Me, they became the truest chroniclers of the London-Irish experience on their second and third albums, before MacGowan lost his genius to the bottle on Peace And Love and the Joe Strummer-produced Hell's Ditch. Without him,  The Pogues soldiered on for two further adequate albums, but the flame had long been extinguished.

John Aizlewood