Skip to content


Advanced search
  • Board index ‹ The Pogues ‹ Official music
  • Syndication
  • Change font size
  • E-mail friend
  • Print view
  • FAQ
  • Members
  • Register
  • Login

Cait O'Riordan vs. Darryl Hunt

General discussion on the band's studio releases, lyrics, musical influence, etc.
Post a reply
27 posts • Page 2 of 2 • 1, 2
  • Reply with quote

Post Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:22 am

goodbar wrote:i don't care, but i'd rather have sex with cait.


I agree with goodbar.........
User avatar
Fyllo
Il Dottore
 
Posts: 335
Joined: Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:14 pm
Top

  • Reply with quote

Post Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:37 am

Fyllo wrote:
goodbar wrote:i don't care, but i'd rather have sex with cait.

I agree with goodbar.........
Wow. Pure class guys.
“I know all those people that were in the film [...] But that’s when they were young and strong and full of life, you know?”
User avatar
DzM
Site Janitor
 
Posts: 10530
Joined: Sat Nov 29, 2003 2:11 am
Location: Bay Area, California, USA, North America, Western Hemisphere, Terra, Sol, etc etc
  • Website
Top

  • Reply with quote

Post Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:52 pm

Daryll is more musically proficient, however, I really liked Cait's EXTREMEMLY
simplistic style, whether by choice or not. In my opinion, less is more in Irish music when bass is concerned.
Shillaly Bro
Eloi
 
Posts: 14
Joined: Sun Dec 31, 2006 2:19 pm
Location: Los Angeles
  • Website
Top

  • Reply with quote

Post Sat Jan 20, 2007 1:18 am

Shillaly Bro wrote:Daryll is more musically proficient, however, I really liked Cait's EXTREMEMLY
simplistic style, whether by choice or not. In my opinion, less is more in Irish music when bass is concerned.


Shane claimed, in A Drink with Shane MacGowan, that he taught Cait to play the bass like the left hand of a button accordion. Now, whether or not that's true, i dunno. But it sounds about right if you listen to those first two albums.

I'd have to agree that Cait's playing was more limited, but folkier & suited to the style of the first two albums. Daryl's playing fits on those albums with a broader musical scope. But i miss her voice. Always good to have at least one woman's voice in the mix, gives it a whole other sound. Not to mention the songs where she took lead, which were just lovely.
Low D
Mr. Chekov
 
Posts: 5184
Joined: Sun Jun 11, 2006 6:53 pm
Location: Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Top

  • Reply with quote

Post Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:46 am

I agree with most people here that both suit respective albums.

I think Darryl was better suited for the "big" sound - and I like "freedom" of his playing. I think what he plays in Young Ned is just...too good to express by words. I think that this is what made me like the song so much. And Young Ned Dub version is awesome too.

Imho both are good on backing vocals, while lead vocals are difficult to compare as Darryl didn´t sing anything on lead vocals. But that part at the end of Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah sung by him is great :-)

I think Darryl more overall as I like later albums overall.

And to matter of look - I like how both of them look.
User avatar
Pyro
Pantalone
 
Posts: 437
Joined: Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:17 am
Location: Czech Republic
Top

  • Reply with quote

Post Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:51 pm

Id also rather have sex with Cait rather than Darryl. I hope this helps in your discussion. Just to clarify Cait not Daryll.
dawsonn
 
Top

  • Reply with quote

Post Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:59 pm

dawsonn wrote:Id also rather have sex with Cait rather than Darryl. I hope this helps in your discussion. Just to clarify Cait not Daryll.


Well here's another old Dutch wisdom saying: you should learn 'it' on an old bike (and I'm not saying that this bike is antique btw ) :wink:
User avatar
Mick Molloy
Yeoman Rand
 
Posts: 3339
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:56 am
Location: Roermond, The Netherlands
Top

  • Reply with quote

Post Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:24 pm

Cait had more sex appeal but Daryl's the better musican.
User avatar
Simon Maguire
Red Shirt
 
Posts: 2158
Joined: Sat Apr 09, 2005 2:13 pm
Location: A dirty old town.
Top

  • Reply with quote

Post Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:28 am

i really cant say
the bass on if i should fall from grace with god is fine
but it's not anything remarkable
one doesnt think of good bass in pogues songs usually

whereas, on rum and red roses
at least there was something special about the bass
be it shitty,
(dirty old town, fuck i hate the bass in dirty old town, sucks nuts)
or good, as in sick bed
cait just had personality, and a unique style

now, cait added something tangible to the band from the bass perspective
but sometimes it failed
darryl didnt add in the same way as cait
but at least he never failed
The girl cried out a few times and the old man slept with his mouth wide open and his bad teeth showing.
User avatar
Benno
Scaramuccia
 
Posts: 1048
Joined: Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:02 pm
Location: Canada
  • Website
Top

  • Reply with quote

Post Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:43 am

I like Cait better. When she plays, it's a lot more bouncy I think. I really like bass a lot if it's strong and moving. I think Darryl added a more calmer, standard bass to the Pogues. While I think Darryl did a fine job, a lot of the livliness and all from the earlier albums seems to be absent in their later work. I think it's partly because of the bass not being as strong and happy, but also due to Shane's deteriorating status and other circumstances that seemed to give their latter work a more depressing, melancholy feel.
“An’ this is the last of Brummy,” he said, leaning on his spade and looking away over the tops of the ragged gums on the distant range.
User avatar
TheIrishRover
Scaramuccia
 
Posts: 1137
Joined: Wed Mar 10, 2004 2:25 am
Location: Tennesseezikstan
Top

  • Reply with quote

Post Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:27 pm

Shillaly Bro wrote: In my opinion, less is more in Irish music when bass is concerned.


Very true.
User avatar
ohAonghusa
Pulcinella
 
Posts: 149
Joined: Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:19 pm
Location: New York, NY
Top

  • Reply with quote

Post Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:29 pm

The frantic bass at the beginning of Wild Cats is awesome. So there's one. For Daryl, the bass line in Ghost of a Smile is with me pretty much all the time, wherever I go. But I also must say it is infinitely cooler to have a female bassist and the older catalog is enhanced by her simple approach. Whatever. Six of one, half dozen t'other.
User avatar
ohAonghusa
Pulcinella
 
Posts: 149
Joined: Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:19 pm
Location: New York, NY
Top

Previous

Board index » The Pogues » Official music

All times are UTC

Post a reply
27 posts • Page 2 of 2 • 1, 2

Return to Official music

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 4 guests

  • Board index
  • The team • Delete all board cookies • All times are UTC


Powered by phpBB
Content © copyright the original authors unless otherwise indicated