Eric V wrote:celticjunk wrote:I would love to hear them do Hot Asphalt, Finnegans Wake, Strange Fruit, My Way, Like a Virgin, Knowing Me Knowing You, When I'm Up I Can't get Down, Oxford Girl, Batsheeba Smiles, Teddy Bear, Folsom Prison Blues and so on .............
That would be cool
... and by the way, the above selection is what set me off from the start. I don't think I got past Like a Virgin. Maybe others have some favorites they would like to hear. Lord knows Cash resonates with me, and Folsom Prison Blues is what got me hooked. And yeah, I can hear Shane singing it.
You take all this too seriously and
You probably don't understand that the Pogues have always been a band where you can play whatever music you want to play.
They have been playing Jazz, Reggae, Ska, Rock, Worldmusic and so on
They have always felt this freedom in their music and if the boys want to record an album of songs they like and songs they think they can do a real good recording of I think they should do that
About musical freedom
I can say that one of the best Jazztrios today sometimes play ABBA's Knowing Me Knowing You at their concerts
http://www.thebadplus.comThen they'll take you to Cloughprior and shove you in the ground. But you'll stick your head back out and shout "We'll have another round"
No duets with the Wolftones, Enya, Ronnie, etc...
I'd much rather see them do whatever makes them happy and musically productive and original... if that means putting out solo stuff or playing a collaborative role with some other acts then fine... we could all use some expansion of our horizons.
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