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| 1. Streams Of Whiskey |
| 2. If I Should Fall From Grace With God |
| 3. Boys From County Hell |
| 4. Young Ned Of The Hill |
| 5. Rain Street |
| 6. Sayonara |
| 7. Battle Of Brisbane |
| 8. Body Of An American |
| 9. Summer In Siam |
| 10. Thousands Are Sailing |
| 11. Sunnyside Of The Street |
| 12. Dirty Old Town |
| 13. Sickbed Of Cuchulainn |
| 14. Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah |
| 15. Fiesta |
| 16. Sally MacLennan |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Short of having Guinness spilt down the front of your shirt and your ear bitten off by your girlfriend, Streams of Whisky is the closest the armchair shamrock insurrectionist can get to the full-tilt thrill of a live Pogues concert. Nevertheless, this recording--taken from a live festival in Leysin, Switzerland in July 1991--has purportedly been released against the wishes of the band. Sure enough, there is ample and not entirely pitch-perfect between-song banjo tuning and sundry "technical shit" (as Spider Stacey eloquently calls it) but these hitches only add to the ramshackle air of live authenticity. I mean, so what if the carnival brass is hopelessly out of tune on "Fiesta"? Surely that's the point. Even so, somebody should have hit the sound engineer over the head with a beer tray for the disastrous mix on "Young Ned Of The Hill" (certainly The Pogues' most under-appreciated song) for Terry Woods' longstanding grievances against Oliver Cromwell struggle to be heard above The Pogues' magnificent instrumental ballast (although the surplus, cod-reggae interlude remains a not-entirely essential oddity). No quibbles with the setlist, only the omission of "Fairy Tale of New York", for entirely practical reasons, stops this being the best of The Pogues. And just to debunk the myth that Shane MacGowan was The Pogues, the band sounds like an entirely different proposition when the diminutive Philip Chevron comes to the mic to sing his own Irish emigration saga " Thousands Are Sailing". Despite excellent sleeve notes from Sanctuary's factually accurate Alan Robinson, students of pedantry should note that Shane MacGowan's name is spelt incorrectly on the front cover and the track "Battle Of Brisbane" is actually "Repeal of The Licensing Laws". --Kevin Maidment
CD Description
Previously unavailable recording of a July 1991 gig in Leysin, Switzerland. It comes from the period following the issue of their studio album 'Hell's Ditch', and consequently contains versions of tracks from this collection. The Pogues went on to spilt in the early 1990's.
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