New GBS album art!

[annathepiper]

I am up too damned early, but as long as I'm at the keyboard anyway, I shall now take this time to note that the album art for the new Great Big Sea record, The Hard and the Easy, has shown up on the front page of greatbigsea.com. This art makes me giggle, because every time I look at it I think of the second-season Red Dwarf episode "Better Than Life", wherein Cat is introducing Lister and Rimmer to his virtual girlfriend, who's half-woman and half-fish. And the fish part is on the top. As quoted thusly up on imdb.com:

Holly: What's happening, dudes?
The Cat: We're having a really nice time. I'm dating Marilyn Monroe and also I have another girlfriend who's a mermaid. She's half woman, half fish.
[turns round to look]
The Cat: It's Miranda, my girlfriend!
[As she comes out of the water we see that the top half of her is a fish, the bottom half is a woman]
Holly: Somehow I'd imagined she'd be a woman on top and a fish on the bottom.
The Cat: No, that's the *stupid* way round!

With cover art like this, anyway, on an all-Newfoundland-trad album, I expect there to be a high quantity of fish and sex in the lyrics. Possibly even in the same songs. ;)

Also, for those interested, a track list, the cover art, and a sample snippet of one of the songs, "Captain Kidd", can be found here. And I'm particularly interested in hearing "Old Polina", since I'd actually heard of this ditty via an OKPer ages ago when asking him about other Newfoundland traditional songs, and "The River Driver", which both seimaisin and otoselkie have now heard live.

Comments

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

bwah!

I started picturing exactly the same thing....

[annathepiper]

Hee!

I wonder if that picture will have any text over it, like the last couple albums have, or whether it'll just be the art on the front of the CD.

And I need more samples to listen to! That bit of "Captain Kidd" sounds good and rich and harmonious!

[seimaisin.livejournal.com]

That cover is ... disturbing. LOL

I'll have to listen to the clip when I get home. Whee! :D

[annathepiper]

It wins hands (or maybe fins!) down for weirdest GBS album art to date, that's for sure!

And now the Fishtank gets a whole new meaning for its name, too! Muah!

[kissare.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I LOVE that scene from Red Dwarf - I adore the Cat! "No, that's the STUPID way 'round!" What a bizarre association to form with GBS... ;)

[annathepiper]

Ain't it just? I wonder if any of them actually know about Red Dwarf. That'd be really funny if that was actually on their minds when they got the album art together.

[kissare.livejournal.com]

Heh! Keep an eye out for some 7 foot tall Valkyries, then, for future covers - Cat's other girlfriends!

[annathepiper]

Hee!

I REALLY need to get caught up on the most recent Red Dwarf. I waffled out of watching it around season 6, I believe!

[kissare.livejournal.com]

Ooh - I'm current through season 4, but spotty past that. I didn't know you could get it on DVD until recently, and a friend of my bf's is buying each as it is released.

[annathepiper]

Yeah, I've got the first season DVD. I need to get more. :)

[me-fein.livejournal.com]

Darn it! The b'ys need to get more bandwidth or something. I can't seem to access the page at the moment. Sigh. I'll try it out tonight or something.

LOL Love it! I can't wait for this album to come out!!!

[annathepiper]

The second link I posted, the one with the sample track, isn't actually on Great Big Sea's site--it's on warnermusic.ca. So if there's a lack of bandwidth here, it ain't GBS's fault! :) There's not much data on the new album yet on greatbigsea.com itself... just the cover art on the main page. It's not yet included under the discography there.

But oh my yes, wanting the album, yes, yes, wants it my precious. :)

[me-fein.livejournal.com]

No, I was referring to the GBS page - but I got it up, now, and that fish! Yes, totally reminds me of Red Dwarf. LOL That's fantastic!!!

I will have to wait until I'm home, though, to listen to that track. I can't listen to music through my PC (I can, but it's a horrendous pain to futz with stuff and this week is my busy week, despite all my posts LOL) here, but I'll check it out at home, for sure. :) Sweet!

[annathepiper]

I stand corrected! Hee. I wonder how long it's going to take to remind myself that the album is called The Hard and the Easy, not The Fish and the Legs. ;)

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

I have also heard "River Driver", and you will love it to bits when you hear it. It's got all those rich harmonies that they're so good at.

[annathepiper]

Right, I remember you posting about that! :) I'm really anxious to hear that song. :) :)

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

Just realised I really should have used my Kryten icon. :p

I can't wait until October so I can hear it again. It was... well, not chilling, because it was too warm a song to be chilling, but whatever chilling would be if it didn't involve temperature.

[annathepiper]

Oh, I dunno--I get chills when I hear the harmony coming out of the B'ys sometimes! :) But those are good chills! It's the same sort of chills I got when kathrynt took me to see Sweet Honey in the Rock at Benaroya Hall and their voices just rolled throughout the place and shot right through me and gave me physical chills. It entertained the hell out of Q, because she was gratified to see somebody besides her having those kinds of reactions to music. :)