by James Murphy Fri Dec 13, 2013 11:54 am
leadshoes wrote:James Murphy wrote:I know Chevron wanted to keep Pogues and Radiators seperate, so I think the band will probably honour that.
It's too bad if Phil really wanted that. Some Radiators songs really deserve to be heard by a wider audience and this is a way for that to happen.
I
think I half remember the idea that Shane wanted the Pogues to do Faithful Departed and Phil put the kibosh on it, but that's entirely possibly the demented outpourings of my diseased mind. But I can see both points of view. The Radiators From Space were a great band and did a good job of realising Phil's songwriting, but they didn't make the impact in the culture that the Pogues would go on to, and Chevron, as an artist and a legacy seperate from the Pogues, was in danger of seeing his contributions to the later band overshadow his ageless earlier records, maybe even watch the Radiators From Space dissolve into a footnote to MacGowan's body of work, due to working association. In a just world, someone of his talents would have had all eras of their career celebrated equally and I think keeping the two ongoing endeavours seperate was a canny effort to correct the trend. Through all that, though, I'd love to hear the Pogues take on those Rads song because I think they could live a long life beyond the old LPs. But I also feel like that might be a little patronising to the boys from Dublin, who I'm sure are justly proud of their place in the Philip Chevron story.
And not only is it "clever" to pick Rum, Sodomy for Shane's sake, it's an absolutely classic in its own right and deserves a special tribute like this.
Agreed, it's actually kind of above the rest of the discography, like Lou Reed's
Transformer. If they want to spend this next year rehearsing
Red Roses for December 2014, there'll be no complaints from me, though.
[quote="leadshoes"][quote="James Murphy"]I know Chevron wanted to keep Pogues and Radiators seperate, so I think the band will probably honour that. [/quote]
It's too bad if Phil really wanted that. Some Radiators songs really deserve to be heard by a wider audience and this is a way for that to happen. [/quote]
I [i]think[/i] I half remember the idea that Shane wanted the Pogues to do Faithful Departed and Phil put the kibosh on it, but that's entirely possibly the demented outpourings of my diseased mind. But I can see both points of view. The Radiators From Space were a great band and did a good job of realising Phil's songwriting, but they didn't make the impact in the culture that the Pogues would go on to, and Chevron, as an artist and a legacy seperate from the Pogues, was in danger of seeing his contributions to the later band overshadow his ageless earlier records, maybe even watch the Radiators From Space dissolve into a footnote to MacGowan's body of work, due to working association. In a just world, someone of his talents would have had all eras of their career celebrated equally and I think keeping the two ongoing endeavours seperate was a canny effort to correct the trend. Through all that, though, I'd love to hear the Pogues take on those Rads song because I think they could live a long life beyond the old LPs. But I also feel like that might be a little patronising to the boys from Dublin, who I'm sure are justly proud of their place in the Philip Chevron story.
[quote]And not only is it "clever" to pick Rum, Sodomy for Shane's sake, it's an absolutely classic in its own right and deserves a special tribute like this.[/quote]
Agreed, it's actually kind of above the rest of the discography, like Lou Reed's [i]Transformer[/i]. If they want to spend this next year rehearsing [i]Red Roses[/i] for December 2014, there'll be no complaints from me, though.
