Was Tom Waits going to produce third album?

[mikalebrug]

This is a question I hope Mr Chevron could answer.

I remember back in the days when the rumors about the Pogues third album were starting to circulate that there was talk about Tom Waits producing it.

Was this ever on the verge of becoming reality or was it just a nice rumor?

I wonder what Fairytale would have sounded like produced by Waits...

[philipchevron]

This is a question I hope Mr Chevron could answer.

I remember back in the days when the rumors about the Pogues third album were starting to circulate that there was talk about Tom Waits producing it.

Was this ever on the verge of becoming reality or was it just a nice rumor?

I wonder what Fairytale would have sounded like produced by Waits...

Ooh my, it's such a long time ago. I'm pretty sure we were quite serious about the idea and that Tom Waits may have been too, but the protracted nature of our legal predicament with our record company scotched any such project. I should add that the album we would have made with Tom would not have been If I Should Fall From Grace With God, the actual Third Album, but a more experimental record, perhaps closer in spirit to our Sid And Nancy and Straight To Hell scores than to any of our actual studio albums, so it's moot whether "Fairytale Of New York" would ever have been part of it. Come to think of it, "The Aria" may have been done to give someone - Tom? The record company? - a flavour of our projected album. Although it is given a later copyright date in the box set traxk listing, nobody is at all sure when we made "The Aria" - so it might just as easily have been 1986 as 1988.

[mikalebrug]

Thanks! Very interesting. And the mind boggles at what could have been...

[Jon]

Come to think of it, "The Aria" may have been done to give someone - Tom? The record company? - a flavour of our projected album.

I spent Sunday sat on a train listening to a mixture of Tom Waits (esp. Black Rider) and The Box Set, and had the very same idea with The Aria sounding very Tom Waits.

[twood50785]

Wow.... Certainly would have had potential.