I've been mostly Pogues-less since I switched away from cassette tapes, but now eMusic has added the Pogues, so I've acquired
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
and
Rum Sodomy & The Lash.
If anything, I love these albums more now than I did before, back in my 20s. And I gotta say "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is by my favorite anti-war song.
If anything, I love these albums more now than I did before, back in my 20s. And I gotta say "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is by my favorite anti-war song.
I hadn't realised the Pogues had covered that. I played it (the original) when I visited Gallipoli. It's a pretty powerful song.
Who did it originally? I'm only familiar with the Pogues version.
Is it an Eric Bogle song? My favorite Irish pub in New Orleans used to play it.
Is it an Eric Bogle song? My favorite Irish pub in New Orleans used to play it.
Yep, Eric Bogle. He's a Scottish-born Australian folk singer.
Now I have an earworm. A really depressing earworm.
According to several news outlets, it appears that Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse committed suicide yesterday. He was one of my favorite living songwriters, up there with, well, Vic Chesnutt. And now both of them are dead by their own hands in just over two months. Perhaps I need to listen to more uplifting music. As I write those words, though, my iPod serves up Jay Reatard.
Tragic. Sparklehorse was awesome.
I'd missed the news about Chesnutt too. SIGH