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.
Track Listing:
1. Transmetropolitan - The Pogues
2. The Battle of Brisbane - The Pogues
3. The Auld Triangle - The Pogues
4. Waxie's Dargle - The Pogues
5. Boys from the County Hell - The Pogues
6. Sea Shanty - The Pogues
7. Dark Streets of London - The Pogues
8. Streams of Whiskey - The Pogues
9. Poor Paddy - The Pogues
10. Dingle Regatta - The Pogues
11. Greenland Whale Fisheries - The Pogues
12. Down in the Ground Where the Dead Men Go - The Pogues
13. Kitty - The Pogues
Year of Production: 1984
