The Pogues - Red Roses for Me

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. 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, this album was the beginning of an incredible and unflinching journey for a London-Irish band whose music sparkles with the genius of its songwriting. Tracklist Transmetropolitan The Battle of Brisbane The Auld Triangle Waxie's Dargle Boys from the County Hell Sea Shanty Dark Streets of London Streams of Whiskey Poor Paddy Dingle Regatta Greenland Whale Fisheries Down in the Ground Where the Deadmen Go Kitty