punkace wrote:aitor wrote:Thanks to everybody.
Just say that the side b of this single "waltzing matilda" is a little bit different (sounds different) than the one published on "rum sodomy & the lash" i like that first "version" more than the one in the LP
Its a bonus track on the re-issue of "Red Roses for me" I believe and its also about half as long as the one on RSL.
Just to clarify - the early B side version of "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" was a cover of an Eric Bogle song which had become hugely popular in Pogues shows around that time. I'm fairly sure it was recorded with the same number of verses as the band had been performing live.
The second recording [not an edit], on the Rum, Sodomy album reinstates the missing verses, at the suggestion of EC the Producer. Opinion of this second version has always varied within the band. I don't think it's sitting on the fence to declare I love both of them for different reasons. I seem to remember that James Fearnley disliked the instrumental section as it all sounded a bit Hovis-ad ("New World Symphony" to our colonial friends), but I guess my Irish sentimentality precluded that possibility. On the other hand, I have also grown to dislike somewhat the LP version. But hey! Choose judiciously and you get to hear both. Or either. Or neither.
On a side note, I had just produced The Men They Couldn't Hang version of another Eric Bogle song - "The Green Fields Of France (a.k.a No Man's Land)" for a single on Costello's Imp/Demon label. Elvis himself was just about the one man up at Imp who did NOT consider it insane to release a seven-minute slow death march for your first single. Those with long memories will recall that "Green Fields.." was a #1 on the UK Indie charts and stayed on the chart for about a year, after which time John Peel and his listeners trsnsformed it into a standard fixture on the Peel show's "Festive Fifthy" list. It's always nice to strike one up against the record comany(ies).
