"And most wickedly I did as I saaaaaaaailed!"

[annathepiper]

Why the hell hadn't I gone to look at this before?! It got posted about on greatbigsea over a week ago, but I had been laboring under the mistaken impression that you had to be a member of MySpace to play the goodies on this page. I was, to my immense delight, mistaken! Turns out I hadn't had a required plugin installed on Firefox.

Any GBS fans on my Friends list who haven't already got The Hard and the Easy, go check that link out. RIGHT NOW. "Captain Kidd" and "The Old Polina" are chock full of what we love best out of our B'ys: full-bore, double-barrel (or maybe I should be saying quintuple-barrel) harmony, Alan sounding rough and raucous and delicious (and hitting a low note I'm not sure I've ever heard him hit before and which may damn well kill me when I hear it in concert, but which will make me die a happy woman), and Séan banging away like a gangbuster on his bodhran while belting out salty shanty goodness.

My one beef with "Captain Kidd", I think, is that the lyrics are almost too damned simple. But given that this is Great Big Sea we're talking about here, I could be listening to these boys singing selections from the St. John's phone book, and as long as they're hitting me with harmony like this, yeah, I'll swoon. :D

And oh yeah, there are two other older GBS songs there as well, "Everything Shines" from Road Rage and the title track from Sea of No Cares. Not nearly as fun as the two new tracks, since they're out of the "pop" section of GBS's repetoire and therefore just not as cool as their trad.

But don't let that stop you from listening, people. Those boys? They sing purty! ;)

Comments

[angelina-zooma.livejournal.com]

*LOL* (at the phone book thing)

my only problem with Old Polina is that I'm having a hell of a time trying to figure out what notes to hit when I'm singing along *L* I've only got the chorus down so far... maybe I'll just try and learn Sean's harmony part

[annathepiper]

I haven't tried to sing that ditty yet, but if the changing of my voice post-thyroid-surgery is any indication, I'm actually better able to follow Séan's keys these days than Alan's! (I've already tried to sing along with the fragment of "River Driver" on the official site, but it seems to be in pretty much the Exact Wrong Key for Anna! Foo.)

[(Anonymous)]

actually I messed up *L* It was River Driver I was referring to. It's weird. Throw in any cd and I can sing all the songs (except for the french one), but ask me what most of them are called? Forget it!

[angelina-zooma.livejournal.com]

and one of these days I'll actually remember to login before commenting! Looks like a completely blonde day for me

[annathepiper]

Happens to the best of us. I blame Alan and Séan. ;)

[annathepiper]

Hee!

And hey, "Trois Navires de Ble" gives me fits, too. I can sing it, usually, but I have a devil of a time remembering what order the verses go in. (Though it helps to have actually seen a transcription of the lyrics on avalonmissy's site, to read along with while I'm trying to figure out exactly how Alan's pronunciation of French maps to the actual words. ;) )