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Why did 'The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda' occur on both Red Rose and Rum Sodomy???

It's bonus track on Red Roses, i.e. single version (Dark Streets/Waltzing Mathilda single, 1984)

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Besides, the Red Roses version is way shorter, for it only has half of the verses.

Do the Pogues have a version of Waltzing Mathilda without the trumpets, brass, horns or whatever it is ?

If so where so, please.

Thanks

S.

No Brass wrote:Do the Pogues have a version of Waltzing Mathilda without the trumpets, brass, horns or whatever it is ?

If so where so, please.

Thanks

S.

B side of the first single "Dark Streets Of London". Remastered as bonus track on Red Roses For Me reissue (WSM/Rhino)

For that matter...why was Rainy Night In Soho a bonus on Hell's Ditch?

They remixed it for a single that they released at the end of the 80s or the beginning of the 90s. I don't remember which single that was though.

Poguetry In Motion EP and Rainy Night single (both 1991)?

There is more info about the different versions of the song in the Official Music FAQ.

The original Poguetry In Motion EP came out in early 1986 and was produced by Elvis Costello. The 1991 version [on the reissued Poguetry EP and as a single A side in its own right] was produced by Steve Lilliywhite and contains various elements from the original recording as well as several new parts. I can no longer remember which parts are from 1986 and which are from 1991, though I daresay Medusans with acute ears may be able to figure it out. Kirsty's backing vocal was new, obviously.

philipchevron wrote:The original Poguetry In Motion EP came out in early 1986 and was produced by Elvis Costello. The 1991 version [on the reissued Poguetry EP and as a single A side in its own right] was produced by Steve Lilliywhite and contains various elements from the original recording as well as several new parts. I can no longer remember which parts are from 1986 and which are from 1991, though I daresay Medusans with acute ears may be able to figure it out. Kirsty's backing vocal was new, obviously.

How did it come that Steve Lillywhite and the Pogues worked together again after Joe Strummer produced "Hell´s ditch" in 1990 ? Or was "Rainy night in Soho" recorded in 1989 and just released it 1991 ?

The Duke of Ingmar wrote:

philipchevron wrote:The original Poguetry In Motion EP came out in early 1986 and was produced by Elvis Costello. The 1991 version [on the reissued Poguetry EP and as a single A side in its own right] was produced by Steve Lilliywhite and contains various elements from the original recording as well as several new parts. I can no longer remember which parts are from 1986 and which are from 1991, though I daresay Medusans with acute ears may be able to figure it out. Kirsty's backing vocal was new, obviously.

How did it come that Steve Lillywhite and the Pogues worked together again after Joe Strummer produced "Hell´s ditch" in 1990 ? Or was "Rainy night in Soho" recorded in 1989 and just released it 1991 ?

It was a one-off job, an attempt by Mr Warners to find a "new" hit single to go with The Best of The Pogues, I think.

philipchevron wrote:The original Poguetry In Motion EP came out in early 1986 and was produced by Elvis Costello. The 1991 version [on the reissued Poguetry EP and as a single A side in its own right] was produced by Steve Lilliywhite and contains various elements from the original recording as well as several new parts. I can no longer remember which parts are from 1986 and which are from 1991, though I daresay Medusans with acute ears may be able to figure it out. Kirsty's backing vocal was new, obviously.

There is definitely a difference between the two versions, I have the 1986 EP version and I can here it. quite clearly.

Heather wrote:

philipchevron wrote:The original Poguetry In Motion EP came out in early 1986 and was produced by Elvis Costello. The 1991 version [on the reissued Poguetry EP and as a single A side in its own right] was produced by Steve Lilliywhite and contains various elements from the original recording as well as several new parts. I can no longer remember which parts are from 1986 and which are from 1991, though I daresay Medusans with acute ears may be able to figure it out. Kirsty's backing vocal was new, obviously.

There is definitely a difference between the two versions, I have the 1986 EP version and I can here it. quite clearly.

You can hear a clearer guitar in the new version, and it has less banjo on it