Peter Mitchell nails the appeal of the Pogues:
That hauntedness is probably the most important thing about the Pogues. If their best songs have the quality that all properly miraculous songs have, of having somehow always existed and simply been plucked from the air or heaved up from a collective unconscious, it’s worth remembering that they emerge from an obsessive engagement with a folk tradition and the histories that made it – all of which are histories, more or less, of defeat.
Coincidently, If I Should Fall From Grace With God was also my introduction to the Pogues.
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