Live Ledge #233: The Pogues

I originally wasn't going to do a St. Patrick's Day show. With the actual holiday being yesterday, and my city's celebrtion have occurred last weekend, there really didn't seem a point to it.
But then as I was contemplating tonight's theme, I discovered this fabulous Pogues tribute album. Curated by a Russia's Vladimir Andreevich, this 27 track collection of bands from all over the world exceed all expectation. Most tribute records are terrible! You buy them because you're a collector of one or two of the contributors, and never listen to the rest. Not in this case. It's great from top to bottom. Grab it for free while you can at their bandcamp site.
That's not all we have for tonight's show. Following my pal Gorman's lead, I played a little trick at teh beginning of the show with nothing but songs with "green" in the title. From their we moved on to some of my favorite Irish punk bands (Undertones, Stiff Little Fingers), some contemporary American bands with Irish influences (Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys), and so much more.
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1. The Replacements, Green Acres Theme
2. Husker Du, Green Eyes
3. Ty Segall, Green Belly
4. Superchunk, Green Flowers, Blue Fish
5. Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Green Shirt
6. The Nips, Gabrielle
7. The Pogues with Joe Strummer, London Calling (Live)
8. The Pogues, Maggie May (Live)
9. Shane MacGowan & The Popes, Victoria
10. The Boomtown Rats, Lookin' After No. 1
11. Stiff Little Fingers, Suspect Device
12. The Outcasts, Just Another Teenage Rebel
13. The Undertones, Teenage Kicks
14. Red Box, If I Should Fall from Grace with God
15. Craic Haus, A Pair of Brown Eyes
16. Craicheads, Sally MacLennane
17. Greenland Whalefishers, Birmingham Six
18. Flogging Molly, The Hand Of John L. Sullivan
19. Dropkick Murphys, Going Out In Style
20. The Mahones, Ghost Of A Whiskey Devil
21. The Real McKenzies, Up on a Motorbike
22. CRAIC, Sayonora
23. The Humble Hooligans, Turkish Song of the Damned
24. Harley McQuinn, London Girl
25. Forgotten Generation, Rain Street
26. The Bad Shepherds, White Riot
27. Mr. Irish Bastard, Holidays In The Sun
28. The Go Set, Seven Years
29. The Tossers, Buckets of Beer
30. Kelush and the Bastards feat. Chris Dutchak, Fairytale of New York
31. Happy Ol' McWeasel, Sunny Side of the Street
32. Middle Class Bastards, Big City