The Pogues – Red Roses For Me (40th Anniversary Edition)

After four decades,Red Roses For Meis still celebrated as a groundbreaking debut album from an unlikely group of supposed neer-do-wells from Londons Kings Cross in the convulsive aftermath of the re-election of the Thatcher government. The album mashes traditional songs and instrumentals – about death and drink, love and London – with those of frontman Shane MacGowan’s, and all fuelled by the punk ethos.