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The Best of The Pogues

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Released
  
September 1991

Producer
  
Various

Release date
  
September 1991

Recorded
  
1984–1991

Artist
  
The Pogues

Label
  
Warner Music Group

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The Best of the Pogues (1991)
  
Waiting for Herb (1993)

Genres
  
Celtic punk, Folk rock, Celtic music, Celtic rock, Folk punk

Similar
  
The Pogues albums, Celtic punk albums, Other albums

The Best of the Pogues is a 1991 greatest hits compilation album by The Pogues. The album was dedicated to the memory of Deborah Korner.

Contents

The pogues dirty old town


Track listing

  1. "Fairytale of New York" (Shane MacGowan, Jem Finer)
  2. "Sally MacLennane" (MacGowan)
  3. "Dirty Old Town" (Ewan MacColl)
  4. "The Irish Rover" (Traditional, arr. The Pogues & The Dubliners)
  5. "A Pair of Brown Eyes" (MacGowan)
  6. "Streams of Whiskey" (MacGowan)
  7. "Rainy Night in Soho" (MacGowan)
  8. "Fiesta" (MacGowan, Finer, Kotscher, Lindt)
  9. "Rain Street" (MacGowan)
  10. "Misty Morning, Albert Bridge" (Finer)
  11. "White City" (MacGowan)
  12. "Thousands Are Sailing" (Phil Chevron)
  13. "The Broad Majestic Shannon" (MacGowan)
  14. "The Body of an American" (MacGowan)

Personnel

  • Shane MacGowan - lead vocals, guitar
  • Terry Woods - cittern, vocals
  • Philip Chevron - guitar, vocals
  • Spider Stacy - tin whistle, vocals
  • Andrew Ranken - drums
  • Jem Finer - banjo, saxophone
  • Darryl Hunt - bass guitar
  • Kirsty MacColl - vocals on "Fairytale of New York"
  • James Fearnley - accordion

    • Other musicians

  • Cait O'Riordan - bass, vocals
  • Siobhan Sheahan - harp on "Fairytale of New York"
  • Tommy Keane - Uileann pipes on "Dirty Old Town" and "The Body of an American"
  • Henry Benagh - fiddle
  • Elvis Costello - acoustic guitar
  • Dick Cuthell - flugelhorn on "A Rainy Night in Soho"
  • Brian Clarke - alto saxophone on "Fiesta"
  • Joe Cashman - tenor saxophone on "Fiesta"
  • Eli Thompson - trumpet on "Fiesta"
  • Chris Lee - trumpet
  • Paul Taylor - trombone
  • Ron Kavana - tenor banjo, mandolin on "Thousands Are Sailing"

    • Songs

    1Fairytale of New York4:33
    2Sally MacLennane2:45
    3Dirty Old Town3:46

    References

    The Best of The Pogues Wikipedia
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