Waiting for Herb


Waiting for Herb is the sixth studio album by the Pogues, released in 1993, and their first without lead singer Shane MacGowan.

Overview

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."
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".

Track listing

Standard edition

  1. "Tuesday Morning" – 3:30
  2. "Smell of Petroleum" – 3:13
  3. "Haunting" – 4:04
  4. "Once Upon a Time" – 3:55
  5. "Sitting on Top of the World" – 3:37
  6. "Drunken Boat" – 6:38
  7. "Big City" – 2:41
  8. "Girl from the Wadi Hammamat" – 4:53
  9. "Modern World" – 3:55
  10. "Pachinko" – 3:09
  11. "My Baby's Gone" – 2:24
  12. "Small Hours" – 4:31

    Bonus tracks (2004 reissue)

  14. "First Day of Forever" – 3:20
  15. "Train Kept Rolling On" – 3:18
  16. "Paris St. Germain" – 3:07

    Personnel

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