The Snake (Shane MacGowan album)
1994 studio album by Shane MacGowan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Snake is the first solo album by Shane MacGowan with backing band The Popes. Released in 1994 by ZTT Records. Guests on the album include Johnny Depp and members of The Dubliners, Thin Lizzy and The Pogues.
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Released | 1994 | |||
Label | ZTT | |||
Producer | Dave Jordan | |||
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An expanded edition was released in 1995 with a revised running order and added three additional tracks: the traditional songs "Nancy Whiskey" and "Roddy McCorley", which had been released as b-sides the previous year,[2] as well as a duet with Sinéad O'Connor - a new recording of the Pogues song "Haunted". The song would later also appear on the soundtrack for the romantic comedy film Two If by Sea.
A third edition, first released on vinyl in 1995, adds another duet, "You're the One", this time with Clannad's Máire Brennan, from the soundtrack to the film Circle of Friends.
A fourth, further-expanded release appeared as a limited edition CD remaster in Japan only in 2009, adding the 1997 b-side "A Man Called Horse"[3] as a bonus track.[4]
Like a number of songs recorded by MacGowan's previous band, The Pogues, traditional tunes are sometimes used as a base for a new song (for example, the melody for "The Song With No Name" is based on "The Homes of Donegal").[5]