WARNERS/RHINO POGUES BOX SET, 2008

[philipchevron]

CRIX:

"An unprecedented glimpse into the creative working processes of this unique band" (Classic Rock, June 2008)

"embarrassment of riches..............fan-orientated box set" (Mojo, June 2008)

"much of the stuff collected here is utterly magnificent................a fabulous trove of feral joys" (Uncut, June 2008)

"It's Christmas and St Paddy's Day all at once for Pogues fans" (Observer Music Monthly, April 2008)

[meowhouse]

Those snippets sound fantastic. It's really getting hard to wait for this. It's like Christmas when you're about four years old!

Are those issues out yet or did they give you advance copy?

[philipchevron]

Those snippets sound fantastic. It's really getting hard to wait for this. It's like Christmas when you're about four years old!

Are those issues out yet or did they give you advance copy?

They're all on the streets, as is Q, which offers a good review without much in the way of quotable extracts.

[mikalebrug]

Question for Mr Chevron,

The liner notes say:

NW3
(1987, previously unreleased) (d)
[S. MacGowan]
Produced by The Pogues

I thought the only recorded version of NW3 was made for the Falconer demos in 1990. Is this an earlier attempt?

Mikael

[pogues24]

Question for Mr Chevron,

The liner notes say:

NW3
(1987, previously unreleased) (d)
[S. MacGowan]
Produced by The Pogues

I thought the only recorded version of NW3 was made for the Falconer demos in 1990. Is this an earlier attempt?

Mikael

Shane had already written NW3 well before the outtakes that were produced for the Falconer Demos, this song of course would resurface again with Shane's post-Pogues band The Popes rerecorded as Mother Mo Chroi. Anyway a fantastic song. Now if only my lazy ass would preorder the box set I will be set. I get paid again on the 15th of this month, so I will have to get with my friend Gary (he usually orders me all my Pogues merchandise from overseas.)

Iain

[philipchevron]

Question for Mr Chevron,

The liner notes say:

NW3
(1987, previously unreleased) (d)
[S. MacGowan]
Produced by The Pogues

I thought the only recorded version of NW3 was made for the Falconer demos in 1990. Is this an earlier attempt?

Mikael

We first recorded NW3 in 1987, then in 1990. There was a further recording for the Hell's Ditch album, though this was never completed.

Extract from my sleeve note in the box set:

"Some of our songs seemed to follow us around without ever quite finding a home. I think we all felt that "NW 3" was one of Shane's strongest pieces of work and we kept trying to include it in albums but, for reasons that are likely to remain unclear, it was not to be. The version on here [Disc One] is the first recording we have of it, from October 1987, but certainly not the last. By the time we got to working on our fifth album, the Joe Strummer-produced Hell's Ditch, we even finished a strong new backing track of it for that record, but it never got completed. When Shane came down to Rockfield Studios in Wales, he allocated his time there to other ideas - including the remarkable medley of Culture's "I'm Alone in the Wilderness" with his own "Pinned Down" [Disc One]. "

I should add that Shane, fresh back from Thailand with a new outlook on his own independence, not to say song lyrics which attempted to define that independence and his escalating estrangement from his colleagues, was in no mood to submit to the resurrection of old classics. All the same, the half-finished state of pieces like "Aisling" was not necessarily a better option than a "NW 3" that would have required only a vocal line to be considered finished. It remains one of the multiple paradoxes of that album.

[ORF]

On the swedish webbshop Ginza.se there is a "new" song as the last track on CD5 – Goodnight Irene (live at Town & Country 1988). Is this replacing the Chieftains songs or is it just false information?

I have an old cassette of the great Leadbelly song and it would be really nice if it made it to the box set. Mr Chevron please enlighten us!

[DzM]

US Amazon Buyers! Amazon has re-listed with a lower price, but the original listing is still up. The new listing is $82.49:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0017XFBMG/?ta ... thwaoft-20

I don't know if the preorders for the higher price will automagically be reduced (the web page says so, but I'm suspicious). You may want to contact Amazon.com to find out, or simply cancel your preorder and place a fresh one for the new lower-priced item (link above).

[DzM]

NW3 is now streaming from the front page. Enjoy!

[Kriss]

NW3 is now streaming from the front page. Enjoy!

Grrr, my firewall is blocking it so no joy.

[Charles]

US Amazon Buyers! Amazon has re-listed with a lower price, but the original listing is still up. The new listing is $82.49:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0017XFBMG/?ta ... thwaoft-20

Does this price now make it cheaper then ordering it through Amazon UK? I placed my pre-order through there.
I'm "exchange rate-challanged."

[DzM]

US Amazon Buyers! Amazon has re-listed with a lower price, but the original listing is still up. The new listing is $82.49:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0017XFBMG/?ta ... thwaoft-20

Does this price now make it cheaper then ordering it through Amazon UK? I placed my pre-order through there.
I'm "exchange rate-challanged."

$82.49 == £41.7734

[scott]

WOW!!!! that version of NW3 is easily the best song i've heard yet from the upcoming box set. Nothing short of amazing! Good Job dzm for putting it up, and good job to the pogues, this version easily could have been on an album!


scott

[scott]

Oh boy, and the myspace page has been updated with new songs!!! This is like christmas!!!!


scott

[Sandyfromvancouver]

NW3 is now streaming from the front page. Enjoy!

Aaah.