what trad songs would you like to hear

[Jaster]

Oh, Finnegan's Wake would be great too. I was a little dissapointed to see that it didn't come out on "Straight in the Eye", but I quickly got over it on hearing Hot Asphalt.

Monto and The Dublin Fusiliers would rock too.

[philipchevron]

Oh, Finnegan's Wake would be great too. I was a little dissapointed to see that it didn't come out on "Straight in the Eye", but I quickly got over it on hearing Hot Asphalt.

Monto and The Dublin Fusiliers would rock too.

For Finnegan's Wake to have appeared on the box set, The Pogues would first have had to record it.

Despite appearances, "Monto" was actually written by the bohemian jazz critic of the Irish Times, George Desmond Hodnett, most likely in the 1950s/1960s. Hoddy, as almost everyone called him, wrote it to illustrate that a song could be accepted into the "tradition" quite quickly, which required him to sort of smuggle it in, presumably with The Dubliners or some other group acting as co-conspirators. He succeeded almost too well, because even when the facts became reasonably well known, I doubt that Hoddy received much by way of royalties for his pains.

GDH gave me my first ever positive live review, in 1976, when I was Agnes Bernelle's guitarist.

[revrob750]

Not traditional but I would love to hear the boys cover Drinking in the Day, written by Bono performed by Ronnie Drew and the Tossers. I would give my wife to hear this done.

[philipchevron]

Not traditional but I would love to hear the boys cover Drinking in the Day, written by Bono performed by Ronnie Drew and the Tossers. I would give my wife to hear this done.

I'm afraid your wife is stuck with you.

[revrob750]

Not traditional but I would love to hear the boys cover Drinking in the Day, written by Bono performed by Ronnie Drew and the Tossers. I would give my wife to hear this done.

I'm afraid your wife is stuck with you.

Okay...really i'll take anything, how about the Hokey Pokey? Just as long as I'm rid of her.

[nboldock]

Is "Lakes Of Pontchartrain" trad? Not sure. If it is, then that one would be cool.

Or even "Bury Me Beneath The Weeping Willow"... or was that The Carter Family??

[Low D]

Is "Lakes Of Pontchartrain" trad? Not sure. If it is, then that one would be cool.

It is. I first heard it on a Planxty record when i was younger, but it's sure been recorded a lot. I've heard Warren Zevon do it! But i think the "definitive" version may be Jolie Holland, she recorded it with the Be Good Tanyas. Would be hard to top, though i imagine a Pogues version would differ greatly.

[Low D]

The Field Behind The Plough would be nice

Do you mean the Stan Rogers song? Lovely one, but it was written in the 1980s, which doesn't quite fly as "traditional". And Ariel (his widow) is quite sticky about copyright (apparantly, Barret's Privateers is frequently mistaken as a traditional tune, which i guess is a compliment, but compliments don't send the kids to college!)

Here's a link to his son's page, with a video of him doing Field Behind the Plough. He does a pretty good Arthur McBride too.
http://www.nathanrogers.ca/music.html

[nboldock]

Is "Lakes Of Pontchartrain" trad? Not sure. If it is, then that one would be cool.

It is. I first heard it on a Planxty record when i was younger, but it's sure been recorded a lot. I've heard Warren Zevon do it! But i think the "definitive" version may be Jolie Holland, she recorded it with the Be Good Tanyas. Would be hard to top, though i imagine a Pogues version would differ greatly.

Martin Simpson's version is a corker as well - if you haven't heard it, I heartily recommend it.

[msp]

I know it's relatively recently written but I'd love to hear the Pogues do Mcalpine's Fusiliers.

[Hennybhoy]

'Fields of Athenry' would be fantastic

[MacRua]

'Fields of Athenry' would be fantastic

Looks more like a fiction

[O'Loingseachan]

I want to hear the Pogues play "Help Me, Rhonda" (by the Beach Boys). (You didn't know that was a traditional tune, did you?)

[KathleenwithaK]

Is "Lakes Of Pontchartrain" trad? Not sure. If it is, then that one would be cool.

It is. I first heard it on a Planxty record when i was younger, but it's sure been recorded a lot. I've heard Warren Zevon do it! But i think the "definitive" version may be Jolie Holland, she recorded it with the Be Good Tanyas. Would be hard to top, though i imagine a Pogues version would differ greatly.

Martin Simpson's version is a corker as well - if you haven't heard it, I heartily recommend it.

My favorite is Peter Case's recording of this. I see on his website that he will be in the UK in February. You lucky people, go see him!

http://www.petercase.com/tour/tour.cfm

[philipchevron]

Is "Lakes Of Pontchartrain" trad? Not sure. If it is, then that one would be cool.

It is. I first heard it on a Planxty record when i was younger, but it's sure been recorded a lot. I've heard Warren Zevon do it! But i think the "definitive" version may be Jolie Holland, she recorded it with the Be Good Tanyas. Would be hard to top, though i imagine a Pogues version would differ greatly.

Martin Simpson's version is a corker as well - if you haven't heard it, I heartily recommend it.

My favorite is Peter Case's recording of this. I see on his website that he will be in the UK in February. You lucky people, go see him!

http://www.petercase.com/tour/tour.cfm

Peter was the first person to cover a Pogues song when he did "A Pair of Brown Eyes" on his first post-Plimsouls album.

http://www.petercase.com/disco/petercaselp.htm