by dsweeney Mon Jul 19, 2010 3:58 pm
You're right of course, Phil, the box -set is most certainly not " in the grave", with or without O'leary, I stand corrected. But how many Pogues obsessives like me are out there who shelled out for it ? Know what I mean ? I simply meant it deserved a wider audience, that's all. At least you ressurected it from the vaults, for which, many thanks.
I bought a really dreadful bootleg cassette on O'connell bridge around '86 or more likely some time in '87, come to think of it, of a Pogues concert from somewhere or other. The crowd was nearly louder than the band over the guy's walkman or whatever he recorded it with. Anyway, it would have been in the run up to the release of " ...Grace.." and had things like " Lullaby...", " Turkish song..." and " The broad majestic...". The track I loved though was " The Ballinalee " and was absolutely gutted when it didn't make the cut for the album when it finally came out in early " 88. Still, it's great to at least have it in some incarnation and has pride of place on a 30 track " best of the box-set " I got somebody to burn me.
Incidentally Phil, I played the " Pogue Mahone " tracks on the box -set. The take of " Living in a world without her " is simply brilliant, with the violins. I'd have to narrowly plump for the album version with the accordian and uilleann pipes to the fore though. The demo of " Four o'clock in the morning " is better alright, I think, Jem's banjo more to the fore in the mix. " The sun and the moon " is a bit too basic for me, I love the pipes and whistle break on the album version. " Who said romance is dead " is great and should have gone on there.
You're right of course, Phil, the box -set is most certainly not " in the grave", with or without O'leary, I stand corrected. But how many Pogues obsessives like me are out there who shelled out for it ? Know what I mean ? I simply meant it deserved a wider audience, that's all. At least you ressurected it from the vaults, for which, many thanks.
I bought a really dreadful bootleg cassette on O'connell bridge around '86 or more likely some time in '87, come to think of it, of a Pogues concert from somewhere or other. The crowd was nearly louder than the band over the guy's walkman or whatever he recorded it with. Anyway, it would have been in the run up to the release of " ...Grace.." and had things like " Lullaby...", " Turkish song..." and " The broad majestic...". The track I loved though was " The Ballinalee " and was absolutely gutted when it didn't make the cut for the album when it finally came out in early " 88. Still, it's great to at least have it in some incarnation and has pride of place on a 30 track " best of the box-set " I got somebody to burn me.
Incidentally Phil, I played the " Pogue Mahone " tracks on the box -set. The take of " Living in a world without her " is simply brilliant, with the violins. I'd have to narrowly plump for the album version with the accordian and uilleann pipes to the fore though. The demo of " Four o'clock in the morning " is better alright, I think, Jem's banjo more to the fore in the mix. " The sun and the moon " is a bit too basic for me, I love the pipes and whistle break on the album version. " Who said romance is dead " is great and should have gone on there.
