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“If I Should Fall From Grace With God” by The Pogues
From the album If I Should Fall From Grace With God (1988)
“If I Should Fall From Grace With God” by The Pogues appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2012 and 2024. It was first released in 1988 on the album If I Should Fall From Grace With God. Its best result is #202 on The Best Opening Tracks of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,410 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"If I Should Fall From Grace With God" is the title song of the Pogues' January 1988 album, and it followed as a single a month later, hard on the heels of "Fairytale of New York". Shane MacGowan wrote the words and the music, Steve Lillywhite produced, and Chris Dickie, Nick Lacey and Roy Spong engineered, and it tears along like Celtic punk with the throttle wide open.
It had been slower once: a more leisurely take, cut earlier, turned up in 1987 on the soundtrack to Straight to Hell. As a single it couldn't follow the Christmas classic, stalling at 58 in Britain, and the video was shot at a gig. American TV viewers got to know it from October 2010, when a Subaru Forester ad about a woman ferrying hockey-playing kids leaned hard on its first two verses.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 430 | WYEP | WYEP Top 500 Songs Countdown | 500 |
| 2014 | 845 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014) | 885 |
| 2020 | 809 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2024 | 202 | KEXP | The Best Opening Tracks of All Time | 738 |
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