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.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
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]

Track listing

Standard edition

"Gridlock" (Jem Finer, Andrew Ranken) – 3:33
"White City" (Shane MacGowan) – 2:31
"Young Ned of the Hill" (Terry Woods, Ron Kavana) – 2:45
"Misty Morning, Albert Bridge" (Finer) – 3:01
"Cotton Fields" (MacGowan) – 2:51
"Blue Heaven" (Phil Chevron, Darryl Hunt) – 3:36
"Down All the Days" (MacGowan) – 3:45
"USA" (MacGowan) – 4:52
"Lorelei" (Chevron) – 3:33
"Gartloney Rats" (Woods) – 2:32
"Boat Train" (MacGowan) – 2:40
"Tombstone" (Finer) – 2:57
"Night Train to Lorca" (Finer) – 3:29
"London You're a Lady" (MacGowan) – 2:56^[4]

Bonus tracks (2005 reissue)

"Star of the County Down" (Traditional) (B-side to "White City" 12") – 2:33
"The Limerick Rake" (Traditional) (B-side to "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah") – 3:12
"Train of Love" (Finer) (B-side to "Misty Morning, Albert Bridge" CD single) – 3:08
"Everyman Is a King" (Woods, Kavana) (B-side to "White City") – 3:54
"Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah" (MacGowan) (A-side single) – 3:19
"Honky Tonk Women" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) (B-side to "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah" 12") – 2:55

Charts

Weekly charts[edit]

Weekly chart performance for *Peace And Love*
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

Certifications[edit]


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)^[13]	Gold	100,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Personnel[edit]

The Pogues[edit]

Additional musicians[edit]

Credits are adapted from the album liner notes, except where noted.^[14]

Peadar O'Riada - string arrangement on "London You're a Lady"
Fiachra Trench - string and brass arrangement on "Misty Morning, Albert Bridge"
Paul Taylor - brass arrangement on "Blue Heaven" and "Night Train to Lorca"
Brian Clarke - alto saxophone
Joey Cashman - tenor saxophone
Eli Thompson - trumpet
Paul Taylor - trombone
Rick Trevan - tenor saxophone on "Gridlock"
Gasper Lawal - percussion on "Blue Heaven" and "Tombstone"
Kirsty MacColl - backup vocals on "Lorelei"
John Sheahan - fiddle on "The Limerick Rake"^[15]

Technical[edit]

Steve Lillywhite - producer
Chris Dickie - engineer
Nick Lacey - assistant engineer
Ryan Art - design
Philip Hardaker - inner sleeve montage
Steve Pyke - band photography
David Jordan - producer on "Star of the County Down"^[16]
Paul Scully - producer on "Star of the County Down"^[16]

Additional information[edit]

The album carried a dedication to "the memory of the 95 people who died at Hillsborough Football Ground". The reason for this apparent anomaly is that at the time of the album's release the disaster's eventual 96th victim Tony Bland was still being kept alive on life support at Airedale General Hospital in Keighley, West Yorkshire where he would eventually die on 3 March 1993.^[17]
The boxer on the cover has six fingers on his right hand. The boxer was British Empire Games, later changed to the Commonwealth Games, bronze winner, Hugh Cameron. The fifth finger was added by sleeve designer, Simon Ryan, to accommodate the word "PEACE".
The song "Down All The Days" was later covered by noise rock band Steel Pole Bath Tub on their album The Miracle of Sound in Motion.
The song "Gridlock" is used as the introduction music on The Davey Mac Sports Program.

References[edit]

^ "Pogues Singles". Pogues.com. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
^ "The Pogues - Discography: All Countries". 45cat.com. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
^ "The Pogues - Singles & EPs". Discogs. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Mark Deming. "Peace and Love - The Pogues | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
^ ^a ^b "CG: the pogues". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
^ "Offiziellecharts.de – The Pogues – Peace And Love" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
^ "Dutchcharts.nl – The Pogues – Peace And Love" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
^ "Swisscharts.com – The Pogues – Peace And Love". Hung Medien. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
^ "Swedishcharts.com – The Pogues – Peace And love". Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
^ "Norwegiancharts.com – The Pogues – Peace And Love". Hung Medien. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
^ "Charts.nz – The Pogues – Peace And Love". Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
^ "British album certifications – Pogues – Peace and Love". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
^ Peace and Love (Media notes). The Pogues. Island. 1989.((cite AV media notes)): CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^ "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah". Discogs. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
^ ^a ^b "White City". Discogs. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
^ Andrew Gliniecki (4 March 1993). "Hillsborough disaster victim dies - UK - News". The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2014.

v t e The Pogues
Spider Stacy Jem Finer James Fearnley Shane MacGowan Andrew Ranken Darryl Hunt Terry Woods Cait O'Riordan Philip Chevron Joe Strummer Dave Coulter James McNally Jamie Clarke
Studio albums	Red Roses for Me Rum Sodomy & the Lash If I Should Fall from Grace with God Peace and Love Hell's Ditch Waiting for Herb Pogue Mahone
EPs	Poguetry in Motion Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
Compilations	Essential Pogues The Best of The Pogues The Very Best of The Pogues
Singles	"Dark Streets of London" "A Pair of Brown Eyes" "Sally MacLennane" "Dirty Old Town" "Haunted" "The Irish Rover" "Fairytale of New York" "If I Should Fall from Grace with God" "Fiesta" "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah" "Misty Morning, Albert Bridge" "Summer in Siam" "Jack's Heroes" "Sunny Side of the Street" "A Rainy Night in Soho" "Honky Tonk Women" "Tuesday Morning" "Once Upon a Time"
Other songs	"And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" "The Auld Triangle" "Greenland Whale Fisheries" "I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day" "Jesse James" "Maggie May" "Mountain Dew" "The Parting Glass" "Poor Paddy" "South Australia" "Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six" "Thousands Are Sailing" "Waxie's Dargle" "When the Ship Comes In" "Worms"
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