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Waiting for Herb
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Track Listing
- Tuesday Morning
- Smell Of Petroleum
- Haunting
- Once Upon A Time
- Sitting On Top Of The World
- Drunken Boat
- Big City
- Girl From The Wadi Hammamat
- Modern World
- Pachinko
- My Baby's Gone
- Small Hours
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #121710 in Music
- Released on: 1993-08-30
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
Waiting for Herb, but missing MacGowan
Waiting for Herb is the third Pogues album produced without the talismanic frontman Shane MacGowan, without whom many doubted if the Pogues would continue. Waiting for Herb was ultimately the close of the Pogues as a group for several years yet still managed to produce some songs worthy of note and an album which does deserve a place alongside their previous albums.
Arguably the song of the album is the opening track Tuesday Morning - on this, and the rest of the album Spider Stacey's slightly mournful yet hopeful vocals bring a different dimension to the songs, and are perfectly cast for a song like Tuesday Morning with regards to it's subject matter, and are a sharp contrast to previous frontmen for the group. The album is not without other standout efforts, in particular Haunting, Once upon a Time and Modern World, three hitherto strong yet oft overlooked recordings.
What is a strange feature of the album is the tendency of this Pogues line-up to revisit previous hit songs and try and incorporate elements into the songs here - most notably on Drunken Boat and Girl from the Wadi Hammamat, during which strains of Thousands are Sailing and Turkish Song of the Damned are clearly present.
Unfortunately the sum of the parts does not quite equal the whole of several of the Pogues previous albums. The amount of musical depth isn't as great as it has been, the amount of instrumentation used is also less than on earlier albums - one element missing, obviously due to his vocal employment, is Spider Stacey's tin whistle - a good example of how important every element can be to a successful song. MacGowan is missed both lyrically and as a frontman, and you would be hard pushed to disagree that after he left the Pogues his aura continued to grow and newer fans of his and the Pogues music would be left to regard this album (and it?s two predecessors) as more of a curiosity than the essential purchase it could and arguably should be.
