Rhino UK is pleased to announce a remarkable 5CD Box Set by The Pogues, at least three quarters of which comprises previously unreleased material while the remainder is made up of decidedly hard-to-find Pogues' rarities. Compiled by The Pogues with track by track annotations from Phil Chevron, there are a bountiful 111 tracks from 1983 demos (pre-dating their first recordings for Stiff Records) through to live recordings from 2001. [title]Just Look Them Straight In The Eye[/title] is an absolute treasure trove of unreleased recordings for all Pogues' fans, spanning their entire career and featuring rehearsal recordings, b-sides, out-takes, rare mixes, BBC sessions plus recordings with Steve Earle, Joe Strummer and, of course, Kirsty MacColl. Alongside these are unreleased soundtrack recordings from Sid and Nancy, Garbo and Straight To Hell, alternate versions of Pogues' classics like "Fairy Tale Of New York" and "Rainy Night In Soho" and a generous selection of live recordings The box set rounds off with live tracks from The Pogues' triumphant reunion shows at Brixton running up to Christmas 2001. The Pogues are already scheduled to play a number of major festivals this summer including Ireland's Oxygen Festival and T In the Park in July and the V Festivals in August.

Disc: 1
1. The Kerry Polka
2. The Rocky Road To Dublin
3. Boys From The County Hell
4. NW3
5. The Donegal Express/The Hen and the Cock go to Carrickmacross
6. Do You Believe In Magic?
7. Hot Asphalt
8. Danny Boy (BBC John Peel Show)
9. Maggie May
10. Haunted
11. The Travelling People
12. Eve Of Destruction
13. My Baby's Gone
14. North Sea Holes
15. Garbo (aka In And Out)
16. The Last Of McGee
17. Afro-Cuban-Be-Bop
18. Young Ned Of The Hill
19. Pinned Down / I'm Alone In The Wilderness
20. When The Ship Comes In
21. Waxies Dargle

Disc: 2
1. Repeal Of The Licensing Laws
2. Dark Streets Of London
3. Greenland Whale Fisheries
4. Streams of Whiskey
5. The Auld Triangle (BBC John Peel Show)
6. Poor Paddy On The Railway (BBC David "Kid" Jensen Show)
7. Sea Shanty
8. Transmetropolitan
9. Kitty
10. Boys From The County Hell (BBC David "Kid" Jensen Show)
11. Connemara, Let's Go!
12. Billy's Bones (BBC Janice Long Show)
13. The Old Main Drag (BBC Janice Long Show)
14. Sally Maclennane (BBC John Peel Show)
15. The Town That Never Sleeps
16. Something Wild
17. Driving Through The City
18. Rainy Night In Soho
19. Fairytale Of New York
20. Fairytale Of New York
21. Fairytale Of New York
22. Navigator (Live in Sweden)

Disc: 3
1. The Aria
2. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
3. Haunted
4. Love Theme
5. Junk Theme
6. Glued Up And Speeding
7. Paris
8. A Needle For Paddy Garcia
9. JB 57
10. Bowery Snax / Spiked
11. Hot Dogs With Everything
12. Rince Del Emplacada
13. The Rake At The Gates Of Hell
14. Turkish Song Of The Damned
15. If I Should Fall From Grace With God
16. Battle March
17. Lullaby Of London
18. Shanne Bradley
19. Streets Of Sorrow
20. Thousands Are Sailing
21. The Balinalee
22. Nicaragua Libré
23. Japan

Disc: 4
1. Sally Maclennane (live at Barrowlands)
2. A Pair Of Brown Eyes (Live at Barrowlands)
3. Kitty (Live at Barrowlands)
4. Maggie May (Live at Barrowlands)
5. Dirty Old Town (Live at Barrowlands)
6. The Sickbed of Cuchulainn (Live at Barrowlands)
7. Fiesta
8. If I Should Fall From Grace With God
9. Johnny Come Lately
10. Boat Train
11. Night Train To Lorca
12. The Mistle Thrush
13. Got A Lot Of Livin' To Do
14. Victoria
15. Murder (Version 1)
16. Lust For Vomit
17. The Wake Of The Medusa
18. The Black Dogs Ditch
19. Aisling
20. Murder (Version 2)
21. Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
22. Maidrín Rua
23. Johnny Come Lately (Live)

Disc: 5
1. Johnny Was - Sexy Bongo
2. Miss Otis Regrets/Just One Of Those Things
3. All The Tears That I Cried
4. The One And Only
5. Biddy Mulligan, The Pride Of The Coombe (Live at Brixton Academy)
6. Lillibulero/The White Cockade (Live at Brixton Academy)
7. Afro-Cuban Be-Bop (Single version)
8. Turkish Song Of The Damned (Live at the Forum)
9. London Calling (Live at the Forum, London, 12 December 1991)
10. I Fought The Law (Live at the Forum)
11. The Girl From The Wadi-Hammamat
12. Moving To Moldova
13. Call My Name
14. The Sun And The Moon
15. Living In A World Without Her
16. Who Said Romance Is Dead?
17. Sound Of The City Night
18. Four O'Clock In The Morning
19. The Star Of The County Down (Live at Brixton Academy)
20. White City (Live at Brixton Academy)
21. Medley: The Recruiting Sergeant / The Rocky Road To Dublin / The Galway Races (Live at Brixton Academy)
22. The Parting Glass/Lord Santry's Fairest Daughter (Live at Brixton Academy)

Amazon USA (Jul 01, 2008):
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0017XFBMG/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK (Jun 02, 2008):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0017XFBMG/?tag=imwan-21

Very excited about this one. I already ordered it through Amazon UK

Boy oh boy I am trembling with excitement. This looks friggin' awesome!

Heads up for a massive price drop ~ this box set is already out in the UK, but Amazon USA is suddenly taking pre-orders for the import (due in stock on July 1st) at about $20 less than Amazon UK. I don't know how long this price will last, so if you plan to order the box at all now is a good time to do it. (This is $60 less than Amazon USA's original advertised price.)

For those who might have been interested in this back in the day, but thought it was too expensive......

It's out again (as of May 27) as a CD-sized budget re-release.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00CH3QKK2/?tag=imwan-21

No listing (yet) on Amazon US.

Here's the amazon US link. At this point it's only available from third party sellers...

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CH3QKK2/?tag=imwan-20