Released October 19, 1993 Release date 1 September 1993 Label Warner Music Group | Length 46:07 Artist The Pogues Genre Folk rock | |
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The pogues tuesday morning
Waiting for Herb is a 1993 album by The Pogues, their first without former lead singer Shane MacGowan. The album saw the band continue to expand their musical reach past the traditional Irish roots it had been founded on, and was only their second full-length album without a single traditional song. The album featured the track "Tuesday Morning", which was the band's first Top Twenty hit since "Fairytale of New York."
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With MacGowan departed, his singing and songwriting duties fell to the other members. While Spider Stacy took the role of lead vocalist, much of the songwriting fell to Jem Finer, who along with Terry Woods had previously been the most prolific songwriter apart from MacGowan. However, the album saw contributions by other members who had not written songs for the band previously, including James Fearnley, Andrew Ranken, and Darryl Hunt. Ranken also sang lead vocals on "My Baby's Gone".
Upon the album's release, there was some speculation that the "Herb" in the title referred to marijuana; however, according to Stacy it was from the name of a German pornographic cartoon character.
Track listing
- "Tuesday Morning" (Spider Stacy) – 3:30
- "Smell of Petroleum" (Jem Finer) – 3:13
- "Haunting" (Terry Woods) – 4:04
- "Once Upon a Time" (Finer) – 3:55
- "Sitting on Top of the World" (Finer, James Fearnley, Woods) – 3:37
- "Drunken Boat" (Fearnley) – 6:38
- "Big City" (Darryl Hunt) – 2:41
- "Girl from the Wadi Hammamat" (Finer, Andrew Ranken) – 4:53
- "Modern World" (Hunt) – 3:55
- "Pachinko" (Finer) – 3:09
- "My Baby's Gone" (Finer, Ranken) – 2:24
- "Small Hours" (Finer) – 4:31
- "First Day of Forever" – 3:20 (Philip Chevron)
- "Train Kept Rolling On" – 3:18 (Ranken)
- "Paris St. Germain" – 3:07 (Stacy, Woods)
Personnel
Songs
1Tuesday Morning3:30
2Smell of Petroleum3:14
3Haunting4:04