The Medusa Fora

With the release of the remastered Pogues albums, I was just curious what is your guys favorite bonus cuts.

Red Roses For Me

1. Repeal of the Licensing Laws
2. Whiskey You're the Devil
3. Muirshin Durkin

Rum, Sodomy and the Lash

1. The entire Poguetry In Motion EP
2. A Pistol For Paddy Garcia

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

1. South Australia
2. The Pogues/Dubliners collaborations
3. The Battle March
4. Shanne Bradley

Peace and Love

1. The Limerick Rake
2. Everyman Is A King

Hell's Ditch

1. Jack's Heroes
2. Squid Out of Water
3. The Bastard Landlord

Waiting For Herb

1. Paris St. Germaine

Pogue Mahone

1. Eyes of an Angel (although I wish they would have included Who Said Romance Is Dead? and The Sound of the City Night)

Iain

That's difficult; the list was too long so I've picked my top 10, in no particular order:
Repeal,
Whiskey You're The Devil,
London Girl,
A Rainy Night In Soho,
The Body Of An American,
Shanne Bradley,
Sketches Of Spain,
South Australia,
Infinity,
The Curse Of Love

The Parting Glass, Body Of An American, Repeal Of The Licencing Laws, Rainy Night In Soho, South Australia, Bastard Landlord, The Battle March Medley

Body of an American and Rainy Night in Soho. I think the quite distinct moods of the songs allow me to choose both as a favorite set.

Mine would be:-

Leaving Of Liverpool
Repeal Of The Licensing Laws
Rainy Night In Soho (EP Version)
The Battle March Medley
The Irish Rover
Mountain Dew
Shanne Bradley
Sketches Of Spain
Star Of The County Down
Limerick Rake
Whiskey In The Jar
Jacks Heroes
First Day of Forever.

So so many to choose from. To name a few;

Repeal of the licensing laws
Body of an American
The Irish Rover
Honky Tonk Women
Bastard landlord

Repeal
Whiskey you're the devil
Murshin Durkin
Parting Glass
Body of an American
Rainy Night
Planxty Noel Hill
Irish Rover
Mountain Dew
Star of the County Down
Limerick Rake
Whiskey in the Jar
Squid out of Water
Bastard Landlord

Irish Rover and Bastard Landlord for me.

I´ve always liked "Paris St.Germain". The lyrics have a wonderful sombre tone. I especially like "my heart is too empty to speak true of sorrow" which is a hell of a line.

The Body of An American is the greatest song performed by any group ever.

I have trouble thinking of "South Australia" as a B-side/bonus track since it was included on the If I Should Fall CD I listened to for so many years ... for a long time I thought it was just another track on the album. I do love that one.

Otherwise I think my favorites are "Everyman Is A King" and "Train Of Love."

wow, how can no one have mentioned TRAIN KEPT ROLLING ON? what an absolute masterpiece of a song! (and quite a nice waltz as well:)


scott

scotty anxiety wrote:wow, how can no one have mentioned TRAIN KEPT ROLLING ON? what an absolute masterpiece of a song! (and quite a nice waltz as well:)


scott

Fair comment, I think. A great track.

Body of an American
Muirshin Durkin
The Leaving Of Liverpool
Limerick Rake

Rich wrote:I have trouble thinking of "South Australia" as a B-side/bonus track since it was included on the If I Should Fall CD I listened to for so many years ... for a long time I thought it was just another track on the album. I do love that one.

Otherwise I think my favorites are "Everyman Is A King" and "Train Of Love."

Well said Rich. I posted before how the original CD version of IISFFGWG included " South Australia " and " The battle march medley " as part of the album proper and for lots of people,especially younger people, this is how they knew the album to be. I was pilloried left, right and centre for this, that the inclusion of the two tracks destroyed the thing. Thanks for proving me correct.
As for my favourites there are too many really to mention as, for me, they are ALL almost as good as their respective albums proper, the first 3 albums that is. But pride of place would have to be the " Red roses.." bonus tracks as I never had them originally. It's fantastic to have the original proper version of " Rainy night.." after the abortion that was done to is trying to have a pop hit. But the absolute winners are the " Grace..." collaborations with the Dubs ( memories!! ), the two tracks mentioned above and what is fast becoming my favourite Pogues track of all, Shane's stunning, pure " Shanne Bradley ". I might some day stretch to the remasters of P&L and HD.