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| 3.0 good | LoveSong | January 27th 25 |
31/1001 Since I didn?t grow up with Celtic folk music there really isn?t anything, which makes this particularly noteworthy or interesting. Yeah the songs are decent and catchy, but nothing really special
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| 3.4 great | Erwann S. EMERITUS | July 31st 20 |
An ode to savage beauty. And to alcohol. It sounds so disconnected from the rest of 1985 music, being resolutely anti-modern and looking ferociously to a past with an unpaired majesty - the kind of majesty only a hobo can boast having. You know, halfway between a Dubliner and Sid Vicious. Time to get stupidly shitfaced. Unfortunately, I listened to this sober, so I dig but I didn't v i b e.
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| 4.5 superb | lz41 | April 16th 19 |
The whirling dervish numbers are now joined by ragged ballads and pick-a-part genre exercises. Loss, bondage and violence abound as Shane MacGowan writes every loser you can imagine into the album. Unlike many of "Rum, Sodomy"'s characters, the singer's alcoholism was not yet out of control and songs like "The Old Man Drag" and "A Pair of Brown Eyes" are still moving. Much was made at the time about the Pogues' defiance to standard '80s pop but by album's end, you're convinced that the septet would have been out of sync in any era. You're also convinced that such distinctiveness means "Rum, Sodomy and the Lash" would have been a relevant work with any release date.
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| 5.0 classic | lukeduggan | May 5th 12 |
A great collection of songs. From all-out punk (The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn) to lush, tender ballads (A Pair Of Brown Eyes), this is really an indispensable record.r
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| 4.5 superb | Iai EMERITUS | June 26th 06 |
Rum, Sodomy, & The Lash is The Pogues undiluted, at the height of their immense powers. Producer Elvis Costello must take some credit - his assessment that he needed "to capture them in their dilapidated glory before some more professional producer fucked them up" was spot-on. Still, what really made it the album it was was Shane McGowan's lyricism - now so potent (see " A Pair Of Brown Eyes") that he could be genuinely considered amongst the best of the decade, if not all time. The band also displayed an uncanny ability to make other people's songs their own - "Jesse James", "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda", "I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day". Rowdy, rollicking, intelligent, and endlessly enjoyable - Rum, Sodomy, & The Lash may not be the most accessible thing The Pogues ever did, but it's the album that proves their greatness best.
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| 3.0 good | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | June 9th 25 |
| 4.5 superb | Kip | May 24th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Above | March 18th 25 |
| 3.0 good | Suyan | December 1st 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Piglet | November 30th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | DadKungFu EMERITUS | November 30th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | HalapenYo CONTRIBUTOR | September 15th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | Momus2 | September 3rd 21 |
| 5.0 classic | KuyJuk | May 3rd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | chwe | April 23rd 21 |
| 3.0 good | doofy | July 6th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Elynna | May 22nd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | JoeTex | October 4th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | fog | July 15th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rager99 | November 9th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Xenoflux | September 29th 18 |
| 3.5 great | NateMa | August 23rd 18 |
| 5.0 classic | bSmith | April 8th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | espnil | April 5th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | kabster | October 17th 16 |
| 3.5 great | rasi | August 7th 16 |
| 2.5 average | Yotimi | July 17th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Vildh | July 7th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | April 4th 15 |
| 5.0 classic | bungy | March 11th 15 |
| 5.0 classic | Sithese | December 31st 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | slarti | August 13th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | sje45 | August 4th 14 |
| 3.0 good | SeiGor | January 29th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | Spec | January 12th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Quen | November 4th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Curse. | September 27th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | NateVoD | August 15th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | seifer | July 27th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Hobbit | June 18th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | SmersH | June 1st 13 |
| 4.5 superb | 1554699 | February 11th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | vkristi | December 26th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | ZGP1992 | October 17th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | OldAndy | September 20th 12 |
| 3.5 great | MrElmo | August 13th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | Dan19 | December 30th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Bossie | September 11th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | mmadden | August 12th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | IzzyG | July 21st 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Muzix | May 24th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | fukrym | May 22nd 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Mateus | April 25th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | SputMic | March 26th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | mallen- | January 15th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | KirrVlad | September 30th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mendigo | April 6th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Skyler | April 1st 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | shade | March 14th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | a5thdiad | February 24th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Azeta86 | January 25th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Triple6 | November 12th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | nick962 | November 2nd 09 |
| 5.0 classic | MilesR | November 2nd 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | sblount | October 13th 09 |
| 3.5 great | mar1s | October 1st 09 |
| 4.5 superb | KjD | August 12th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | Ehar | June 24th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | Monkbo | September 13th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | Robbert | January 31st 08 |
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