Peace and Love (Pogues album)

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Peace and Love
Peace and Love cover
Studio album by The Pogues
Released 1989
Genre Folk rock
Length 44:54
Label Island
Professional reviews
The Pogues chronology
If I Should Fall from Grace with God
(1988)		 Peace and Love
(1989)		 Hell's Ditch
(1990)


Peace and Love is a 1989 album by The Pogues, their fourth full-length studio album.

The album continued the band's gradual departure from traditional Irish music, and was their first full length album without a single traditional tune. It noticeably opens with a heavily jazz-influenced track. Also, several of the songs are inspired by the city in which the Pogues were founded, London ("White City", "Misty Morning, Albert Bridge", "London You're a Lady"), as opposed to Ireland, from which they had usually drawn inspiration. Nevertheless, several notable Irish personages are mentioned, including Ned of the Hill, Christy Brown, whose book Down All The Days appears as a song title, and Napper Tandy, mentioned in the first line of "Boat Train", and was adapted from a line in the Irish rebel song "The Wearing of the Green". Likewise the MacGowan song "Cotton Fields" draws on the Lead Belly song of the same name.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Gridlock" (J. Finer/A. Ranken)
  2. "White City" (MacGowan)
  3. "Young Ned Of The Hill" (T. Woods/R. Kavana)
  4. "Misty Morning, Albert Bridge" (J. Finer)
  5. "Cotton Fields" (MacGowan)
  6. "Blue Heaven" (P. Chevron/D. Hunt)
  7. "Down All The Days" (MacGowan)
  8. "USA" (MacGowan)
  9. "Lorelei" (P. Chevron)
  10. "Gartloney Rats" (T. Woods)
  11. "Boat Train" (MacGowan)
  12. "Tombstone" (J. Finer)
  13. "Night Train to Lorca" (J. Finer)
  14. "London You're A Lady" (MacGowan)

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Trivia

  • The album was dedicated to the 96 people that lost their lives in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.
  • The boxer on the cover has six fingers.
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