Peace and Love (Pogues album)

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Peace and Love
Studio album by The Pogues
Released	July 1989
Genre	Folk rock
Length	44:54
Label	Island
Producer	Steve Lillywhite
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (B) link
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 production.

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. This move ought not to have been seen as entirely unusual since the Pogues always regarded themselves as an English band influenced by Irish music. 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/Ron 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

• Shane MacGowan - vocals
• Jem Finer - banjo
• Spider Stacy - tin whistle
• James Fearnley - accordion
• Andrew Ranken - drums
• Terry Woods - cittern, mandolin
• Philip Chevron - guitar
• Darryl Hunt - bass guitar

[edit] Trivia

• The album was dedicated to the ninety-six people who lost their lives in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.
• The boxer on the cover has six fingers on his right hand.
• The song "Down All The Days" was later covered by noise rock band Steel Pole Bath Tub on their album The Miracle of Sound in Motion.