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Where to start with The Pogues

Start with A Pair of Brown Eyes — 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 14,971 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: 17 of 17 dated tracks land in the 1980s and come from 1 record, 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.

One caveat worth stating: the knob positions across these tracks barely move, which usually means they were set in a batch rather than one at a time. Treat the coordinates below as approximate.

Three ways in

The one track, if you only play one

A Pair of Brown Eyes — Rum Sodomy & The Lash (Expanded Edition), 1985. All 18 The Pogues tracks here carry the same reading, so the knobs cannot single one out. This is the pick from among them that the room can name a record and a year for, which is the most an entry point needs in order to be findable. A better answer waits on somebody listening track by track.

Only one entry point is offered for The Pogues. The room holds a single reading for this artist rather than one per track, so every track here sits at the same coordinate and there are no opposite ends to point at. That is a gap in what has been listened to, not a claim that the music never moves.

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. 17 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, not by audio analysis and not from a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. For The Pogues the room holds one reading covering the whole catalogue rather than a separate one for each track, so all 18 sit at the same coordinate. It is a real judgement about the artist, and a coarser one than a per-track number would be.

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.