Label: Rhino
Reissued 10/18/2024, Originally released 1984
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.
Track listing:
- 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
CD Only
- The Leaving of Liverpool
- Muirshin Durkin
- Repeal of the Licensing Laws
- The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
- Whiskey You're the Devil
- The Wild Rover
- Streams of Whiskey (The John Peel Show) [As Pogue Mahone] [April 1984]
- Greenland Whale Fisheries (The John Peel Show) [As Pogue Mahone] [April 1984]
- Boys from the County Hell (The John Peel Show) [As Pogue Mahone] [April 1984]
- The Auld Triangle (The John Peel Show) [As Pogue Mahone] [April 1984]
- Dingle Regatta (The David 'Kid' Jensen Show) [July 1984]
- Poor Paddy on the Railway (The David 'Kid' Jensen Show) [July 1984]
- Boys from the County Hell (The David 'Kid' Jensen Show) [July 1984]
- Connemara, Let's Go (The David 'Kid' Jensen Show) [July 1984]
- Whiskey You're the Devil (The John Peel Show) [December 1984]
- Navigator (The John Peel Show) [December 1984]
- Sally MacLennane (The John Peel Show) [December 1984]
- Danny Boy (The John Peel Show) [December 1984]