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Remarkable 2008 five CD box by The Pogues, at least three quarters of which comprises previously unreleased material while the remainder is made up of decidedly hard-to-find Pogues' rarities.
Compiled by The Pogues with track by track annotations from Phil Chevron, there are a bountiful 111 tracks from 1983 demos (pre-dating their first recordings for Stiff Records) through to live recordings from 2001.
Just Look Them Straight In The Eye is an absolute treasure trove of unreleased recordings for all Pogues' fans, spanning their entire career and featuring rehearsal recordings, B-sides, out-takes, rare mixes, BBC sessions plus recordings with Steve Earle, Joe Strummer and, of course, Kirsty MacColl.
Alongside these are unreleased soundtrack recordings from Sid and Nancy, Garbo and Straight To Hell, alternate versions of Pogues' classics like Fairy Tale Of New York and Rainy Night In Soho and a generous selection of live recordings.
Compiled by The Pogues with track by track annotations from Phil Chevron, there are a bountiful 111 tracks from 1983 demos (pre-dating their first recordings for Stiff Records) through to live recordings from 2001.
Just Look Them Straight In The Eye is an absolute treasure trove of unreleased recordings for all Pogues' fans, spanning their entire career and featuring rehearsal recordings, B-sides, out-takes, rare mixes, BBC sessions plus recordings with Steve Earle, Joe Strummer and, of course, Kirsty MacColl.
Alongside these are unreleased soundtrack recordings from Sid and Nancy, Garbo and Straight To Hell, alternate versions of Pogues' classics like Fairy Tale Of New York and Rainy Night In Soho and a generous selection of live recordings.
- Disc One
[*]The Kerry Polka
[*]The Rocky Road To Dublin
[*]Boys From The County Hell
[*]NW3
[*]The Donegal Express/The Hen And The Cock Go To Carrickmacross
[*]Do You Believe In Magic?
[*]Hot Asphalt
[*]Danny Boy (BBC John Peel Show)
[*]Maggie May
[*]Haunted
[*]The Travelling People
[*]Eve Of Destruction
[*]My Baby's Gone
[*]North Sea Holes
[*]Garbo (aka In And Out)
[*]The Last Of McGee
[*]Afro-Cuban-Be-Bop
[*]Young Ned Of The Hill
[*]Pinned Down / I'm Alone In The Wilderness
[*]When The Ship Comes In
[*]Waxies Dargle
- Disc Two
[*]Repeal Of The Licensing Laws
[*]Dark Streets Of London
[*]Greenland Whale Fisheries
[*]Streams of Whiskey
[*]The Auld Triangle (BBC John Peel Show)
[*]Poor Paddy On The Railway (BBC David "Kid" Jensen Show)
[*]Sea Shanty
[*]Transmetropolitan
[*]Kitty
[*]Boys From The County Hell (BBC David "Kid" Jensen Show)
[*]Connemara, Let's Go!
[*]Billy's Bones (BBC Janice Long Show)
[*]The Old Main Drag (BBC Janice Long Show)
[*]Sally Maclennane (BBC John Peel Show)
[*]The Town That Never Sleeps
[*]Something Wild
[*]Driving Through The City
[*]Rainy Night In Soho
[*]Fairytale Of New York
[*]Fairytale Of New York
[*]Fairytale Of New York
[*]Navigator (Live in Sweden)
- Disc Three
[*]The Aria
[*]The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
[*]Haunted
[*]Love Theme
[*]Junk Theme
[*]Glued Up And Speeding
[*]Paris
[*]A Needle For Paddy Garcia
[*]JB 57
[*]Bowery Snax / Spiked
[*]Hot Dogs With Everything
[*]Rince Del Emplacada
[*]The Rake At The Gates Of Hell
[*]Turkish Song Of The Damned
[*]If I Should Fall From Grace With God
[*]Battle March
[*]Lullaby Of London
[*]Shanne Bradley
[*]Streets Of Sorrow
[*]Thousands Are Sailing
[*]The Balinalee
[*]Nicaragua Libré
[*]Japan
- Disc Four
[*]Sally Maclennane (live at Barrowlands)
[*]A Pair Of Brown Eyes (Live at Barrowlands)
[*]Kitty (Live at Barrowlands)
[*]Maggie May (Live at Barrowlands)
[*]Dirty Old Town (Live at Barrowlands)
[*]The Sickbed of Cuchulainn (Live at Barrowlands)
[*]Fiesta
[*]If I Should Fall From Grace With God
[*]Johnny Come Lately
[*]Boat Train
[*]Night Train To Lorca
[*]The Mistle Thrush
[*]Got A Lot Of Livin' To Do
[*]Victoria
[*]Murder (Version 1)
[*]Lust For Vomit
[*]The Wake Of The Medusa
[*]The Black Dogs Ditch
[*]Aisling
[*]Murder (Version 2)
[*]Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
[*]MaidrÃ*n Rua
[*]Johnny Come Lately (Live)
- Disc Five
[*]Johnny Was - Sexy Bongo
[*]Miss Otis Regrets/Just One Of Those Things
[*]All The Tears That I Cried
[*]The One And Only
[*]Biddy Mulligan, The Pride Of The Coombe (Live at Brixton Academy)
[*]Lillibulero/The White Cockade (Live at Brixton Academy)
[*]Afro-Cuban Be-Bop (Single version)
[*]Turkish Song Of The Damned (Live at the Forum)
[*]London Calling (Live at the Forum, London, 12 December 1991)
[*]I Fought The Law (Live at the Forum)
[*]The Girl From The Wadi-Hammamat
[*]Moving To Moldova
[*]Call My Name
[*]The Sun And The Moon
[*]Living In A World Without Her
[*]Who Said Romance Is Dead?
[*]Sound Of The City Night
[*]Four O'Clock In The Morning
[*]The Star Of The County Down (Live at Brixton Academy)
[*]White City (Live at Brixton Academy)
[*]Medley: The Recruiting Sergeant / The Rocky Road To Dublin / The Galway Races (Live at Brixton Academy
[*]The Parting Glass/Lord Santry's Fairest Daughter (Live at Brixton Academy)
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