To celebrate its 40th anniversary on October 15, The Pogues’ debut album, Red Roses for Me, will be reissued on two formats by Rhino Records: recycled red vinyl containing the 2013 remix of the album and a double-CD set, including the album and B-sides and a bonus disc of the band’s BBC sessions from 1984.

These anniversary formats will be released on October 18, 2024, and are available for order in the U.K. here and in the U.S. here.

According to a press release from Rhino, “After four decades, Red Roses for Me is still celebrated as a groundbreaking debut album from an unlikely group of supposed ne’er-do-wells from London’s Kings Cross in the convulsive aftermath of the re-election of the Thatcher government. The album mashes traditional songs and instrumentals—about death and drink, love and London—with those of frontman Shane MacGowan’s – and all fueled by the punk ethos.”

The announcement continues: “Irreverent, powerful, unique and spirited, Red Roses for Me was the beginning of an incredible and unflinching journey for a London-Irish band whose music not only lights up playlists in December by virtue of the band’s beloved ‘Fairytale of New York’ but which also sparkles with the genius of its songwriting.”

MacGowan died in 2023. Read our tribute here.

Red Roses for Me (40th Anniversary Edition) Tracklist

CD1 – 2013 Remix

1. Transmetropolitan
2. The Battle Of Brisbane
3. The Auld Triangle
4. Waxie’s Dargle
5. Boys From The County Hell
6. Sea Shanty
7. Dark Streets Of London
8. Streams Of Whiskey
9. Poor Paddy
10. Dingle Regatta
11. Greenland Whale Fisheries
12. Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go
13. Kitty

CD2

Single B-Sides

1. The Leaving Of Liverpool
2. Muirshin Durkin
3. Repeal Of The Licensing Laws
4. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
5. Whiskey You’re The Devil
6. The Wild Rover

BBC SESSIONS

John Peel Session – 10th April 1984

7. Streams Of Whiskey
8. Greenland Whale Fisheries
9. Boys From The County Hell
10. The Auld Triangle

David ‘Kid’ Jensen Sessions – 21st June 1984

11. Dingle Regatta/Holly Johnsons
12. Poor Paddy On The Railway
13. Boys From The County Hell
14. Connemara, Let’s Go!

John Peel Session – 4th December 1984

15. Whiskey You’re The Devil
16. The Navigator
17. Sally MacLennane
18. Danny Boy