The Medusa Fora

With all of the live shows the Pogues have played, there are tons of boots available around, which allows you to listen to the way the band has changed over the years. Luckily, you also get to hear some of the best, most transcendent recordings of favorite songs. So here's the question: if you had to make an "Ultimate Pogues Live CD", which tracks from which shows would you include on it? A "best of" for the live shows, if you will.

From "Live at the 100 Club, 1983" --
Battle of Brisbane
Me & Bobby McGee
Down in the Ground Where the Dead Men Go (even though it is cut off early)

From "Happy New Year with The Pogues"; Harp Lager's ICA Rock Week, Brixton Academy, London; 31/12/84"

Navigator
"A weekend with The Pogues" (ok, not a song, but can you see the band auctioning themselves off today?)
Auld Lang Syne
Dark Streets of London

From "Bergen, Norway, 17-5-85"
Whiskey, You're the Devil
Transmetropolitan
Sally MacLennane
Kitty
Poor Paddy
Boys of Kilmichael
Muirshin Durkin

From "Glastonbury Festival, England 6.18.86"
The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn
Billy's Bones
Old Main Drag
Dirty Old Town
Wild Cats of Kilkenny
Sally MacLennane
The Body of an American

From "Stockholm, Sweden, 21/4/88" -- the entire album
Battle March Medley
Broad Majestic Shannon
Medley
Repeal
Kitty
If I Should Fall from Grace with God
Boat Train
Metropolis
Rainy Night in Soho
Thousands are Sailing
NW3
Bottle of Smoke
Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six
Lullaby of London
Sketches of Spain
Johnny Come Lately
Dirty Old Town
Turkish Song of the Damned
Sick Bed of Cuchulainn/Sally MacLennane
Pair of Brown Eyes

So, this is going to be a boxed set, not one CD, right?

Okay, where are everyone's lists? Alex? Lade?

territa wrote:Okay, where are everyone's lists? Alex? Lade?

I'm rather fond of the live in Japan, 1988 bootleg, even thought The Body of an American and Japan are omitted, and Thousands Are Sailing and USA appear at the end of the CD.

1. The Battle March Medley
2. The Broad Majestic Shannon
3. Streams of Whiskey
4. If I Should Fall From Grace With God
5. Lullaby of London
6. Boat Train
7. Metropolis
8. A Rainy Night In Soho
9. Johnny Come Lately
10. Bottle of Smoke
11. Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
12. Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six
13. Turkish Song of the Damned
14. Fiesta
15. Sally MacLennane
16. The Sickbed of Cuchulainn
17. Dirty Old Town
18. Honky Tonk Women
19. The Irish Rover
20. Thousands Are Sailing
21. USA

Iain

I only own one bootleg, and it is believed to be the first American concert recorded, Boston 1986.
Besides the regular favorites,

as the intro- A Pistol for Paddy Garcia
I'm a Man You Don't Meet Everyday (Cait vocals, with great backup vocals from Shane)
London Girl
Billy's Bones
The Parting Glass ("extended version nice instrumental riffing at the end")

plus some of the crowd noise, my two favorites-
one guy continually calling for "The Men Behind the Wire"
and the other guy calling for "The Wild Rover", eventually one of the Pogues (Jem, Phillip? )replying "Well, this one is called Wildcats (of Kilkenny) actually"

I´d say this would be the ultimate bootleg if you´re looking for unreleasred rarities, as an addition to The Box

The Holy Ground - "Almost Live" 83
Me And Bobby McGee - "Almost Live" 83
And Don´t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Live At The 100 Club 83
The Auld Lang Syne - Brixton Academy, London 84
Boys Of Kilmichael - Bergenhulen, Bergen, Norway 85
Spider solo instrumentals - Bergenhulen, Bergen, Norway 85
A Message To You, Rudi - Town & Country Club, London 88
Goodnight Irene - Town & Country Club, London 88
Darklands - SECC, Glasgow 88
Monkey Man - (NEC) , Birmingham 88
La Marseillaise - Parc Cherioux, Vitry-Sur-Seine, France 89
Sligo Referee - Reading Festival 89
White Light, White Heat - Lisbergshallen, Gothenburg, Sweden 89
My Girl - Wembley Arena, London 90
White Christmas - Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland 90
Drowsie Maggie - Scott Joplin rags - Brixton Academy, London 91
Dicey Reilly - PNE Garden Auditorium, Vancouver, Canada 91
Straight To Hell - Newport Centre, Newport, Wales 91
Brand New Cadillac - Newport Centre, Newport, Wales 91

territa wrote:Okay, where are everyone's lists? Alex? Lade?

Here we go Terry!

12-09-86 Hammersmith Palais, London, England
1. Rake At The Gates Of Hell
2. If I Should Fall From Grace With God
3. The Broad Majestic Shannon

06-21-86 Glastonbury Festival, England
4. I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day (Cait vocals)

12-01-87 The Metro, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
5. Dark Streets Of London
6. I Fought The Law (Joe Strummer vocals)
7. London Calling (Joe Strummer vocals)

04-21-88 Fryshuset, Stockholm, Sweden
8.NW3

11-15-89 Solnahallen, Stockholm, Sweden
9. Murder Ska (Spider vocals)

08-30-91 Womad Festival, Yokohama, Japan
10. Young Ned Of The Hill (Terry vocals)

03-17-88 The Town And Country Club, London, England
11. *A Message To You, Rudi (Lynval Golding vocals)
12. *Goodnight Irene

06-27-92 Bizarre Festival, Alsdorf, Germany
13. The North Sea Holes (Terry vocals)

04-15-85 Alabamahalle, Munich, Germany
14. Muirshin Durkin
15. Whiskey You're The Devil

12-19-88 Brixton Academy, London, England
16. Train Of Love (Jem vocals)

08-25-91 Pukkelpop Festival, Hasselt, Belgium
17. Thousands Are Sailing (Philip vocals)

10-18-90 The Newport Centre, Newport, Wales
18. Lorca's Novena
19. The Wake Of The Medusa (Spider vocals)

09-03-89 Greek Theatre, Berkley, California, USA
20. Lorelei (Philip vocals)

11-23-90 Rudi-Sedlmayr-Halle Muenchen, Germany
21. The Irish Rover
22. Greenland Whale Fisheries

12-18-06 Brixton Academy, London, England
23. A Rainy Night In Soho

06-25-84 City Hall, Newcastle, England
24. Me And Bobby McGee (Jem vocals)

04-29-88 PC 69, Bielefeld, Germany
25. Fairytale Of New York (with Kirsty MacColl)

11-07-91 Sporthalle, Cologne, Germany
26. Star Of The County Down (Andrew vocals)
27. Parting Glass (Terry vocals)

Alexs compilation looks VERY good, would love to hear it.

As an aside, was London GIrl ever played live? Its a sin if not.

trashcity wrote:Alexs compilation looks VERY good, would love to hear it.

As an aside, was London GIrl ever played live? Its a sin if not.

It has been played on a couple of shows in 1986. But if I remember correctly the sound of these shows is poor.

London Girl is on both the New England shows from '86, being Boston and Providence.

The Boston boot from "the Spit" is decent enough sound - - I'd add a few numbers from that show to the ongoing [i]Ultimate Live[i] disc, in addition to some stuff from the great sounding show they did in Orange, France in '86 that recently surfaced...