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Where to start with The Pogues

Start with London Girl — Rum Sodomy & The Lash (Expanded Edition), 1985. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 18 The Pogues tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 15,847 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.

This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 18 The Pogues tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 18 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.

The collection leans hard on one record: 17 of the 18 tracks come from Rum Sodomy & The Lash (Expanded Edition) alone.

The years need a caveat: 18 of 18 dated tracks land in the 1980s and come from 2 records, while the rest come from elsewhere — the mark of a reissue carrying its own date rather than the music's. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.

Every track is filed under folk punk; nothing here crosses into another genre.

Three ways in

The one track, if you only play one

London Girl — Rum Sodomy & The Lash (Expanded Edition), 1985. Of the 18 The Pogues tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.

If you want the ambient end

The Parting Glass — Rum Sodomy & The Lash (Expanded Edition), 1985. The lowest energy reading of any The Pogues track in the room (65 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.

If you want the driving end

The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn — Rum Sodomy & The Lash (Expanded Edition), 1985. The highest energy reading here, at 84 out of 100 — a 19-point swing across the collection towards driving.

Where The Pogues sits in the room

Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are The Pogues's average coordinates and the range they cover.

All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.

What is here, record by record

Every The Pogues track in the room

Near neighbours in this room

These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to The Pogues's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.

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What the open databases say

This room has no MusicBrainz record for The Pogues, so there are no external facts to report here — only what is in the collection itself.

Questions

How many The Pogues tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?

There are 18, across 2 albums. 18 of them carry a date, running from 1985 to 1985. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.

Is this a best-of, or a ranking?

No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.

Where do the knob numbers come from?

They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 18 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.

Can I listen to these here?

Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 18 of these 18 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.