Originally posted by blueeyedboy:This actually is from A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats CD compilation, nothing to do with Waterboys version...
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A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats CD
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I can't believe this slipped by me. Released Feb 2018, Mad As The Mist And Snow sounds like vocals from the late 80's. Nice find! Is there a topic/thread on this somewhere, would be nice for some more info.
Here is the track listing from the CD copy I have...
Tracklisting
1. Easter 1916 - Liam Neeson
2. No Second Troy - Bill Nighy
3. The Circus Animals' Desertion - Dan Mulhall
4. Adam's Curse - Lisa Dwan
5. Sixteen Dead Men - Olivia O'Leary
6. Sailing to Byzantium - Edna O'Brien
7. Long-Legged Fly - Roy Foster
8. The Fisherman - Richard E. Grant
9. The Second Coming - Dominic West
10. September 1913 - Bono
11. Remorse for Intemperate Speech - Noel Gallagher
12. The Lake Isle of Innisfree - Tom Hollander
13. The Stares Nest by my Window - Colin Farrell
14. To a Child Dancing Upon the Shore - Sting
15. When You Are Old - Damian Lewis
16. Led and the Swan - Anne Enright
17. An Irish Airman Forsees His Death - Gay Byrne
18. Brown Penny - Kathleen Byrne
19. The Four Ages of Man - Angus Deayton
20. The Folly of Being Comforted - Sting
21. The Indian Upon God - Bill Nighy
22. Crazy Jane on God - Van Morrison
23. Down by the Salley Gardens - Tom Hollander
24. When You Are Old - When You Are Old
25. Mad as the Mist and the Snow - Van Morrison
26. He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - Colin Farrell
27. That the Night Come - Stephen Fry
28. On Being Asked for a War Poem - Bono
29. The Wheel - Neil Jordan
30. Yeats Remembered - Pete Briquette
31. September 1913/Mad as the Mist and Snow - Bono
32. A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety - Elvis Costello
The documentary originally went out on BBC4 in the UK and was last shown on BBC One (Ireland) on Mon 30 May 2016.
There is now a DVD available with 3 extra hours of material too. Well worth having.