The Pogues - The Ultimate Collection ( 44 Tracks )
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Free Music Review: Great collection from one of the best Irish groups around...
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a two-disk set comprised of a greatest hits volume and a live CD. Both are very good engineering and the pair is worth the price.
If you saw "PS I love you" you heard the best song of this collection, "Fairytale of New York" was played at the wake and not released on the soundtrack of the movie. Kirsty MacColl is simply an amazing singer and this is one of the best of a wonderful set of songs from both the 'best' and the live' CDs. I'd normally gripe about a repeat, but how can you?
"The Irish Rover" with the Dubliners is another highlight of the live set. The recording was made at Brixton Academy and that's one live set I wish I could have attended! Great engineering, too, for a live CD.
Free Music Review: What more can you ask for?
Hit: 5 Stars
Those beer hall singers and prodigal sons of Ireland have been most excellently packaged into what is indeed an "Ultimate Collection," not only of their greatest hits but of a live performance at Brixton Academy. The songs travel far and wide, with hints of Zydeco, Bluegrass, as well as homages to the old country with the gruff voice of Shane MacGowan. Some called this Anglo-Irish band Celtic Punk, others Celtic Fusion, but whatever you want to call their inimitable style of music, it is just plain fun. The band has been around since 1982, originally known as Pogue Mahone. If you know a little bit of Gaelic, you will figure it out. There is plenty to draw from in this collection. For those new to the Pogues this is the best place to start.Free Music Review: Give Best of as a Gift, Keep Live CD for Yerself
Hit: 5 Stars
Can't really say what hasn't been said previously and say it better, so in short, yeah, the best of is pretty much a toss off if you have all of the albums or one of the many best ofs available in import and domestic formats. The real treat here is the live reunion disc, squashing the inferior, band-disowned _Streams of Whiskey_ like the corn that went into many a bottle of Jameson's that's gone down MacGowan's throat. And when Shane goes off for a break (read: drink), you get Spider Stacy's beautiful post-Shane "Tuesday Morning." Buy it and listen to it 'til we see El Maria once again.
Signed,
epsteinsmutha
Free Music Review: This is the One to Get
Hit: 5 Stars
If you are a Pogues fan, or you have just found out about them and want to check them out, this is the CD to get. You not only get the accomplished studio versions of some of their greatest hits, but you get the raw, rowdy versions from a live show. And, man, are the Pogues a great band to see life. Saw them in DC and NY this March and they were great as ever. The band is as tight as it gets and Shane, bless his heart, still does the job in his boozy, wobbly way. Get the CD and see them when you can.Free Music Review: Beautiful..and..Haunting....
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm new to the Pogues but bought this CD after reading reviews on Amazon and Band biographies on other sites. I'm not disapointed. Shane is a tormented soul but obviously a highly talented singer and songwriter. This is Celtic music with an edge...lovely and razor sharp all at once...buy it and enjoy over a dirty pint of Guinness and a sip of Bushmill's.