1 If I Should Fall From Grace With God 	2:21 	
2 Turkish Song Of The Damned 	3:27 	
3 Bottle Of Smoke 	2:47 	
4 Fairytale Of New York		4:36 	
5 Metropolis	2:50 	
6 Thousands Are Sailing 	5:28 	
7 Fiesta 	4:13 	
8 Medley: The Recruiting Sergeant / The Rocky Road To Dublin / The Galway Races 4:01 	
9 Streets Of Sorrow / Birmingham Six 	4:39 	
10 Lullaby Of London 	3:31 	
11 Sit Down By The Fire 	2:18 	
12 The Broad Majestic Shannon 	2:52 	
13 Worms	1:05 	
14 The Battle March (Medley) 	4:10 	
15 The Irish Rover	4:07 	
16 Mountain Dew	2:19 	
17 Shanne Bradley 	3:41 	
18 Sketches Of Spain 	2:14 	
19 South Australia	3:27

Personnel:
    Shane MacGowan – vocals, guitar
    Spider Stacy – tin whistle, vocals
    James Fearnley – accordion, piano, mandolin, dulcimer, guitar, cello, percussion
    Jem Finer – banjo, saxophone
    Andrew Ranken – drums, vocals
    Philip Chevron – guitar, mandolin
    Darryl Hunt – bass, percussion, vocals
    Terry Woods – cittern lute, concertina, strings, banjo, dulcimer, guitar, vocals
    Ron Kavana – banjo, spoons, mandolin
    Kirsty MacColl – vocals on "Fairytale Of New York"
    Siobhan Sheahan – harp
    Brian Clarke – alto saxophone
    Joe Cashman – tenor saxophone
    Paul Taylor – trombone
    Chris Lee – trumpet
    Eli Thompson – trumpet

If Rum Sodomy & the Lash captured the Pogues on plastic in all their rough-and-tumble glory, If I Should Fall from Grace with God proved they could learn the rudiments of proper record making and still come up with an album that captured all the sharp edges of their musical personality. Producer Steve Lillywhite imposed a more disciplined approach in the studio than Elvis Costello had, but he had the good sense not to squeeze the life out of the band in the process; as a result, the Pogues sound tighter and more precise than ever, while still summoning up the glorious howling fury that made Rum Sodomy & the Lash so powerful. And Shane MacGowan continued to grow as a songwriter, as his lyrics and melodies captured with brilliant detail his obsession with the finer points of Anglo-Irish culture. "Fairytale of New York," a glorious sweet-and-sour duet with Kirsty MacColl, and "The Broad Majestic Shannon" were subtle in a way many of his previous work was not, "Birmingham Six" found him addressing political issues for the first time (and with all the expected venom), and "Fiesta" and "Turkish Song of the Damned" found him adding (respectively) faux-Spanish and Middle Eastern flavors into the Pogues' heady mix. And if you want to hear the Pogues blaze through some fast ones, "Bottle of Smoke" and the title song find them doing just what they've always done best. Brilliantly mixing passion, street smarts, and musical ambition, If I Should Fall from Grace with God is the best album the Pogues would ever make. ---Mark Deming, allmusic

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01 – Streams of Whiskey
02 – If I Should Fall From Grace With God
03 – The Broad Majestic Shannon
04 – Greenland Whale Fisheries
05 – A Pair of Brown Eyes
06 – Tuesday Morning
07 – Kitty
08 – The Sunnyside Of The Street
09 – Thousands Are Sailing
10 – Repeal Of The Licensing Laws
11 – Lullaby Of London
12 – The Body Of An American
13 – Young Ned Of The Hill
14 – Boys From Teh County Hell
15 – Dirty Old Town
16 – Bottle of Smoke
17 – The Sicked Bed of Cuchulainn
18 – Sally MacLennane
19 – Rainy Night in Soho
20 – The Irish Rover
21 – Star Of The County Down
22 – Poor Paddy On The Railway
23 – Fairytale of New York
24 – Fiesta

Line Up:
Shane MacGowan - vocals, tin whistle
Spider Stacey - vocals, tin whistle
Jem Finer – banjo, mandola, saxophone, hurdy-gurdy, guitar, vocals
James Fearnley – accordion, mandolin, piano, guitar
Andrew Ranken – drums, percussion, harmonica, vocals
Phillip Chevron - guitar, vocals
Terry Woods  - mandolin, cittern, concertina, guitar, vocals
Darryl Hunt - bass guitar

The musical equivalent of a pub crawl, the Pogues have staggered through a career that combines the instrumentation and tunes of traditional Irish music with the energy and attitude of punk. The band was formed in 1982 when Shane MacGowan, then a member of a north London punk band called the Nipple Erectors —later shortened to the Nips —saw Spider Stacy playing tin whistle in a London tube station. They hit it off and, along with Nip Jim Fearnley on guitar, began to perform traditional Irish tunes in London's streets and pubs. Calling themselves Pogue Mahone (Gaelic for "kiss my ass"), they recruited Finer, Ranken, and O'Riordan and added MacGowan's earthy, Joycean original songs to their repertoire. The sextet garnered a reputation as a drunkenly raucous live act, and in 1984 released a single, "Dark Streets of London," on their own, eponymous label. Their reputation increased when they were hired as the opening act on the Clash's 1984 tour. (Some of the Clash's political fury rubbed off, as the Pogues became vehemently anti-Thatcher.) They signed with Stiff Records that year, and released Red Roses for Me.

Rum, Sodomy & the Lash was produced by Elvis Costello, who married O'Riordan after she left the band. By then, the band had expanded to an octet. The Pogues did not record again until 1988. In the interim they appeared in Alex Cox's film Straight to Hell (1987) and moved to Island Records. Their initial release for the label, the Steve Lillywhite–produced If I Should Fall From Grace With God (#88, 1988), included the #2 U.K. hit, "Fairytale of New York," featuring singer/songwriter Kirsty MacColl (the daughter of songwriter/playwright Ewan MacColl and then the wife of Lillywhite). The three Lillywhite-produced albums expanded the group's musical palette, adding Middle Eastern sounds on "Turkish Song of the Damned" from God and jazz stylings on Peace and Love (1989).

Finer and Stacy began to take on additional singing and writing chores as MacGowan's drinking (he claimed not to have spent a day completely sober since he was 14) began to interfere with his musical duties. He missed a series of 1988 U.S. dates opening for Bob Dylan, and by 1991 he had become so unreliable he was asked to leave the band. He was replaced by former Clash singer Joe Strummer (who had produced 1990's Hell's Ditch). Strummer left in 1992, and Spider Stacy took over the vocals on 1993's Waiting for Herb. In 1994 MacGowan resurfaced, performing with a new band, the Popes, for the first time on St. Patrick's Day at a London club. That year the group recorded its first album, The Snake, filled with dark new songs by MacGowan. MacGowan toured to support its U.S. release in 1995, the same year the Pogues released its final album, Pogue Mahone, before disbanding in 1996.

In 2001, the Pogues reunited with MacGowan and began touring in the UK and U.S. ---rollingstone.com

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