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Peace and Love

The fourth album, jazzier and set partly in London, with songs from across the band.
The Pogues, 1989

Released
July 1989
Producer
Steve Lillywhite
Length
44:54

Peace and Love continued the band's gradual departure from traditional Irish music and opens with a heavily jazz-influenced track. Several songs, among them White City, Misty Morning, Albert Bridge and London You're a Lady, are inspired by London. It carries six tracks written by MacGowan and eight by Finer, Woods, Ranken and Chevron. Steve Lillywhite produced, with brass and string arrangements by Fiachra Trench and Peadar O'Riada. The boxer on the cover is Hugh Cameron, who won a bronze medal at the 1938 British Empire Games.

Mark Deming of AllMusic judged that it was not as good as the two albums before it, but said it made clear that MacGowan was hardly the only talented songwriter in the band. It reached number five in the UK.

Track listing

  1. Gridlock3:33
  2. White City2:31
  3. Young Ned of the Hill2:45
  4. Misty Morning, Albert Bridge3:01
  5. Cotton Fields2:51
  6. Blue Heaven3:36
  7. Down All the Days3:45
  8. USA4:52
  9. Lorelei3:33
  10. Gartloney Rats2:32
  11. Boat Train2:40
  12. Tombstone2:57
  13. Night Train to Lorca3:29
  14. London You're a Lady2:56

More from The Pogues

Red Roses for Me (1984), Rum Sodomy & the Lash (1985), Poguetry in Motion (1986), If I Should Fall from Grace with God (1988)

Sources

  1. Peace and Love (The Pogues album), Wikipedia
  2. The Pogues, Wikipedia
  3. Hell's Ditch, Wikipedia