If I Should Fall From Grace With God Atlanta GA

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

Island Records, 1988

REVIEW BY: Christopher Thelen

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 03/03/1997

(Editor's note: The cover art featured above is not the original artwork that was on the 1988 release.)

With the release of U2's latest album just 24 hours away, let's turn our attention to undoubtedly the best band to ever come out of Ireland.

That's right - forget about U2. I'm talking about The Pogues. Their 1988 release If I Should Fall From Grace With God is their best album, and one of the best albums I have ever heard in all my years of critiquing music.

I first heard about these guys from "Buzz," a religion teacher at my high school (and still one of the hippest cats I have ever met). He described these guys as a drunken, raucous Irish folk band. Indeed, one can imagine Shane MacGowan and crew sloshed out of their minds in the studio doing this one.