The six hundred and eleventh album: #611 The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
It feels like as I make it through the years, my appreciation for the Pogues has grown - or perhaps they've moved closer to my sensibilities. While it's easy to discount their sound as just folk, the lyrics have more expletives and their own songs have a far more modern bent, addressing contemporary issues that wouldn't be in the traditional songs. It does so with the upbeat, faster sound of Irish folk, sped up by rock or punk influences, but it's the raw vocals with lyrics that actually look forward that make it work - in the sense that old folk would have been looking at contemporary issues of that day, but set up in a way that works that well for a modern audience, while still having the folk background.