Pogues remasters are here!
 

The Pogues: re-masters
Warner Brother Press Release

Warner Strategic Marketing in association with The Pogues will be releasing re-mastered and expanded versions of all seven of The Pogues’ studio albums on November 15th: ‘Red Roses For Me’ (1984) , ‘Rum, Sodomy & The Lash’ (1985), ‘If I Should Fall From Grace With God’ (1988), ‘Peace And Love’ (1989), ‘Hell's Ditch’ (1990), ‘Waiting For Herb’ (1993) and ‘Pogue Mahone’ (1995).

The Pogues themselves have overseen this project, supervising the re-mastering process, the artwork and the booklets, commissioning special original sleeve notes from friends and fans Tom Waits, Steve Earle, Jim Jarmusch, Patrick McCabe, Matt Dillon, Bob Geldof and Stuart Pearce. The booklets will also contain some unseen photographs from the different phases of the band's career.

All CDs have been re-mastered from primary tape sources by Nick Robbins. In a distinguished career as an engineer, producer and re-mastering virtuoso, Nick has worked with The Pogues right from the beginning, when he engineered the ‘Red Roses For Me’ and ‘Rum, Sodomy & The Lash’ recordings. Robbins is at present hard at work mixing The Pogues forthcoming live album, recorded at the band's last London concerts at Brixton Academy in December 2001.

Each CD contains up to seven additional songs, comprising contemporaneous tracks which were not previously released on The Pogues albums. Many of these rare sides make their ever first appearance on CD, others for the first time in 20 years.

‘Red Roses For Me’ was The Pogues’ debut LP on signing to Stiff Records, the extra tracks rounding up six b-sides including ‘Repeal Of the Licensing Laws’ and ‘And The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda’ plus four typically fiery re-workings of traditional songs, such a revelation at the time to audiences reared on the London punk scene. The ‘Rum, Sodomy & The Lash’ CD contains the entire ‘Poguetry In Motion’ EP (1986) produced, as was the LP itself, by Elvis Costello. Both sides of the band’s first Top Ten hit ‘The Irish Rover’ (with The Dubliners, 1987) are added to ‘If I Should Fall From Grace With God’ (1988), the Platinum-selling album which contained the perennial Christmas classic ‘Fairytale Of New York’ (featuring the late Kirsty MacColl, 1987).

Fans will appreciate the appearance of hard-to-get titles like ‘Star Of The County Down’ (1989) and ‘The Limerick Rake’ (1989) on ‘Peace And Love’ (1989) and some great work from the prolific Joe Strummer-produced ‘Hell’s Ditch’ sessions (1990). A further collaboration with The Dubliners adds the single ‘Whiskey In The Jar’/‘Jack’s Heroes’, The Pogues’ own unofficial Irish World Cup song.

Joe Strummer briefly joined The Pogues the following year after Shane MacGowan’s departure in September 1991. By 1993’s ‘Waiting For Herb’, Spider Stacy had become the lead singer and ‘Tuesday Morning’ gave the band its first Top Twenty hit since ‘Fairytale Of New York’.

In total, 36 bonus tracks are spread over the seven sets. Only one of these is completely new - the new CD of the ‘Pogue Mahone’ album (1995) contains the previously-unreleased Stephen Hague single remix of ’Love You Till The End’. This is included as a tantalising foretaste of a projected box-set of further rarities, demos and unreleased material which will be released in 2005.

The Pogues will be touring the UK and Ireland in December. This is the classic 1987-1993 line-up of Shane MacGowan, Spider Stacy, Jem Finer, Philip Chevron, Terry Woods, Andrew Ranken, James Fearnley and Darryl Hunt which last toured the UK in 2001.

This time, fans will be delighted to know that the band will be joined on vocals by Cait O'Riordan! Cait was The Pogues’ original bass player from 1982-1986 and sang ‘I’m A Man You Don’t Meet Everyday’ on the ‘Rum, Sodomy & The Lash’ album. Recently, she has been playing and singing with Philip Chevron in a reformed line-up of The Radiators (Plan 9).
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:banana: YES! :banana:
The sound quality on some of the earlier discs is terrible, and most of these extra tracks are great!

The only bad part is Rum, Sodomy & The Lash will no longer end with "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" which is just an amazingly emotional way to end an album. Ditto for Red Roses For Me and "Kitty" and If I Should Fall From Grace With God and "The Broad Majestic Shannon/Worms"

Now, anyone know of a place to get cheap UK imports? :D

Just checked Amazon.co.uk and it looks like the release dates have been pushed back to 12/6.
They have all of the discs there for about $14.75 each. Not bad.

Hell yeah!

any word of the pogues coming to the US? i thought i heard they were gonna play toronto canada?

Does anyone know whether these will be released in the US? I just looked on the US version of amazon, and they're not listed, but they are on amazon.co.uk, as Burnt Alive noted.
By the way, did you know that a live Shane Macgowan DVD, from 1995, is being released, at least in the States, on Nov 16th? It's called Shane Macgowan & the Popes Live at Montreux--1995. I take it it's from the tour for his album "The Snake". Really looking forward to this one, too!

I hope this does get released in the US. It would make a great Christmas gift for a friend of mine who's a big Pogues fan; please keep this updated :)

This rules! Long live Shane!

I'm a long-time fan of the Pogues, and completely missed this thread last year, so I was surprised when I found out by accident that their old "Shane" albums were remastered and re-issued about a year ago, with a lot of bonus tracks to boot (heck, there's more than enough of them to make up an entirely new album!). Some of these bonus tracks I tried unsuccessfully to track down years ago, so it's great to finally have them! The best of these are the traditional Irish songs, like "The Limerick Rake" and "Whiskey In a Jar". The album covers are exactly the same as before, so only the track list clearly indicates whether it's the new re-issue. (And, yes, I know that "Waiting For Herb" and "Pogue Mahone" also were reissued with bonus tracks, but those are albums are Shane-less and really only for fans even more die-hard than me.)


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Red Roses for Me [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [IMPORT]
1. Transmetropolitan
2. The Battle Of Brisbane
3. The Auld Triangle
4. Waxie's Dargle
5. Boys From The Country Hell
6. Sea Shanty
7. Dark Streets Of London
8. Streams Of Whiskey
9. Poor Daddy
10. Dingle Regetta
11. Greenland Whale Fisheries
12. Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go
13. Kitty
Bonus Tracks:
14. The Leaving Of Liverpool
15. Muirshin Durkin
16. Repeal Of The Licensing Laws
17. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (original version)
18. Whiskey You're The Devil
19. The Wild Rover

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Rum Sodomy & the Lash [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [IMPORT]
1. Sickbed of Cuchulaínn
2. Old Main Drag
3. Wild Cats of Kilkenny
4. I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day
5. Pair of Brown Eyes
6. Sally MacLennane
7. Dirty Old Town
8. Jesse James
9. Navigator
10. Billy's Bones
11. Gentleman Soldier
12. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Bonus Tracks [Includes the 4-track "Poguetry in Motion" EP]:
13. Pistol for Paddy Garcia [NOTE: was also a Bonus Track on original CD]
14. London Girl
15. Rainy Night in Soho
16. Body of an American
17. Planxty Noel Hill
18. Parting Glass

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If I Should Fall from Grace With God [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [IMPORT]
1. If I Should Fall from Grace With God
2. Turkish Song of the Damned
3. Bottle of Smoke
4. Fairytale of New York
5. Metropolis
6. Thousands Are Sailing
7. Fiesta
8. Medley: The Recruiting Sergeant/The Rocky Road to Dublin/The Galway Rac
9. Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six
10. Lullaby of London
11. Sit Down By the Fire
12. Broad Majestic Shannon
13. Worms
Bonus Tracks:
14. Battle March (Medley) [NOTE: was also a Bonus Track on original CD]
15. Irish Rover
16. Mountain Dew
17. Shanne Bradley
18. Sketches of Spain
19. South Australia [NOTE: was also a Bonus Track on original CD]

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Peace and Love [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [IMPORT]
1. Gridlock
2. White City
3. Young Ned of the Hill
4. Misty Morning, Albert Bridge
5. Cotton Fields
6. Blue Heaven
7. Down All the Days
8. USA
9. Lorelei
10. Gartloney Rats
11. Boat Train
12. Tombstone
13. Night Train to Lorca
14. London You're a Lady
Bonus Tracks:
15. Star of the County Down
16. Limerick Rake
17. Train of Love
18. Everyman Is a King
19. Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
20. Honky Tonk Women

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Hell's Ditch [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [IMPORT]
1. The Sunnyside Of The Street
2. Sayonara
3. The Ghost Of A Smile
4. Hell's Ditch
5. Lorca's Novena
6. Summer In Siam
7. Rain Street
8. Rainbow Man
9. The Wake Of The Medusa
10. House Of The Gods
11. Green Queens & Jean
12. Maidrin Rua
13. Six To Go
Bonus Tracks:
14. Whiskey In The Jar
15. Bastard Landlord
16. Infinity
17. Curse Of Love
18. Squid Out Of Water
19. Jack's Heroes
20. Rainy Night In Soho

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My friend went and saw The Pogues reunion in NYC on St. Patricks Day. He said it was the best concert he's ever seen, from and entertainment AND audio standpoint. Hope Shane got along with everyone again. I'd be the first in line it they decided to do a national tour. I saw Shane play with the Popes a few years ago in Austin and the first words out of his mouth were "hope there's no mexicans or ni**ers in the audience". My mouth hit the floor. Frickin' Shane.