Following the release of Holiday in Cambodia as a single in the UK and it's regular airing on John Peel's radio show, the FFfRV LP found a home in my collection and got played regularly. Ferociously performed and furious in its message, it stood heads and shoulders above anything else at the time. It holds up well. Fiercely intelligent lyrically, bleak, yet darkly witty and unrelenting, it's an album that takes no prisoners both musically and in its message. It doesn't ask or answer questions, it's angry but Jello Biafra was always one of the most articulate of his peers. A full house in terms of stars. There's been nothing like it since.

Not my favourite Pogues LP. Very well produced and obviously the inclusion of FToNY makes it special. Not as memorable as Rum, Sodomy and the Lash, but that may have been as a result of when I'd see them live, which was 1984-85. By the time this came out I'd moved on a bit. Some cracking songs on this though.