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New sealed copy. 2015 remastered reissue on 180 gram vinyl.
Rum Sodomy & the Lash is the second studio album by the London-based folk punk band The Pogues, released on 5 August 1985. The album reached number 13 on the UK charts. The track "A Pair of Brown Eyes", based on an older Irish tune, reached number 72 on the UK singles chart. "The Old Main Drag" later appeared on the soundtrack to the film My Own Private Idaho.
Rum Sodomy & the Lash received very positive reviews from critics. Melody Maker's Adam Sweeting said, "The brightest, most intense moments of Rum ... aren't about particularities of style or delivery. This is, apart from anything else, music to hang on to other people by to stave off brutal fact and the weight of history. While The Pogues make music for drunks as well, probably, as anyone has they're also dragging an oft-ignored folk tradition into the daylight with an altogether improbable potency ... Rum ... has soul, if not a great deal of innovation, and somewhere among the glasses and the ashtrays lie a few home truths." Sounds' Jane Simon called Rum Sodomy & the Lash "the finest slice of story-telling your heart could wish for".
TRACKLIST:
A1 The Sick Bed Of Cúchulainn
A2 The Old Main Drag
A3 Wild Cats Of Kilkenny
A4 I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
A5 A Pair Of Brown Eyes
A6 Sally MacLennane
B1 Dirty Old Town
B2 Jesse James
B3 Navigator
B4 Billy's Bones
B5 The Gentleman Soldier
B6 And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
