| Peace and Love | ||||
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| Released | July 1989 | |||
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| Genre | Celtic rock | |||
| Length | 44:54 | |||
| Label | Island | |||
| Producer | Steve Lillywhite | |||
| The Pogues chronology | ||||
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Peace and Love is the fourth studio album by the Pogues, released in July 1989. [4]
Peace and Love continued the band's gradual departure from traditional Irish music. It noticeably opens with a heavily jazz-influenced track. Also, several of the songs are inspired by the city in which the Pogues were founded, London ("White City", "Misty Morning, Albert Bridge", "London You're a Lady"), as opposed to Ireland, from which they had usually drawn inspiration. Nevertheless, several notable Irish personages are mentioned, including Ned of the Hill, Christy Brown, whose book Down All The Days appears as a song title, and Napper Tandy, mentioned in the first line of "Boat Train", which was adapted from a line in the Irish rebel song "The Wearing of the Green". Likewise the MacGowan song "Cotton Fields" draws on the Lead Belly song of the same name.
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| Robert Christgau | B [5] |
Mark Deming of AllMusic said that Peace and Love "isn't as good as the two Pogues albums that preceded it", but felt that "it does make clear that MacGowan was hardly the only talented songwriter in the band". [4] Robert Christgau, on the other hand, believed that "Shane MacGowan will remain the only Pogue in the down-and-out hall of fame". [5]
| Chart (1989) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| UK Albums (OCC) [6] | 5 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [7] | 13 |
| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [8] | 53 |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [9] | 17 |
| Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [10] | 7 |
| Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [11] | 13 |
| New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [12] | 32 |
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom (BPI) [13] | Gold | 100,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||
Credits are adapted from the album liner notes, except where noted. [14]
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