Various Artists / Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, And Chanteys
| Album: | Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, And Chanteys | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Feb 2007 | |
| Label: | Anti- | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2007-04-01 | Pull Date: | 2007-06-03 |
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| Week Ending: | Jun 3 | May 27 | May 20 | May 13 | May 6 | Apr 22 | Apr 15 | Apr 8 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 18, 2023: | Music Casserole
Cape Cod Girls, Dying Sailor To His Shipmates |
4. | Mar 22, 2013: | Songs of the Sea
The Grey Funnel Line, Dying Sailor To His Shipmates |
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| 2. | Mar 30, 2018: | Traditions
My Son John, Mingulay Boat Song, Bully In The Alley |
5. | Apr 22, 2011: | Wee Animalcules
Bully In The Alley, Bully In The Alley |
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| 3. | Dec 31, 2017: | Everything A to Z week 116 New Years Eve - reaired 11-23-20
Cape Cod Girls, Greenland Whale Fisheries |
6. | Sep 30, 2008: | Echo Lab
The Cruel Ship's Captain |
Album Review
Don Farrell
Reviewed 2007-04-02
Reviewed 2007-04-02
contemporary reinterpretation of the sea chantey by BONO, STING, NICK CAVE, BRYAN FERRY, LOU REED, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, RICHARD THOMPSON, GAVIN FRIDAY, VAN DYKE PARKS, ANDREA CORR and RUFUS WAINWRIGHT and more
****1: 7:14 fast strumming guitar Tuvan throat chanty, Bill Frisell guitar, Eyvand . . Kang flue & violin, Great throat vocal
2: 4:12 Richard Thompson vocal, nice guitar, slow, about lost culture on an island off . Scotland's coast.
****3: 1:38 classic ballad "My Son John" about a man who lost a race with a . . . . cannonball.
FCC 4: 2:49 Nick Cave vocal, FCC @ 0:46-0:47 Mother fucker FCC @1:04, fucked up FCC @1:34, & 1:43 fucking, nice slow song. FCCs
5: 4:21 slow vocal
****6: 2:29 great vocal - a drunk in the alley, call & response intro, mid to fast.
7: 3:35 slow, Brian Ferry vocal about a cruel sea captain
8: 2:54 Robin Holcomb vocal, slow great back up musicians.
9: 2:21 Instrumental, Bill Frisell guitar with ambient loops, slow picking.
**10: 4:01 Joseph Arthur vocal, lots of busy instruments in background, cool sound, about Barbary pirates
11: 4:10 male vocal, slow, big instrumentation behind vocal.
FCC 12: 0:50 great sound FCC several times, distorted vocal cool sound.
***13: 2: 44 Sting vocal,about Napoleonic wars great vocal & backup instruments
14: 2:53 male vocal & guitar, slow
15: 3:25 mom & son duet, real slow
****16: 4:39 Fantastic ballad great vocal, great instrumentation
****17: 4:48 fem vocal, perspective of woman onshore about going to sea great vocal & instrumentation, mid tempo.
18: 2:22 male vocal with chorus, slow ballad about superstitions
19: 1:27 male vocal, one of the oldest chantys.
****20: Bono, a haunting ballad.
21: 3:35 fem vocal, slow & low minimal instrumentation.
22: 2:57 instrumental, slow and mournful
23: 3:05 a poem set to music, beautiful vocal, horns in @ 1:50 a saw is dominate instrument
CD 2
***1: 1: 54 fast male vocals about Napoleon Bonaparte with pounding drums & guitars.
****FCC 2: 3:14 FCC@ 0:19 sucking a dead man's penis FCC@ 0:28-0:29 shovel shit, FCC@ 2:55 sucking a dead man's penis, fast male vocal cool song
3: 2: 33 fem vocal, slow, violin, harmonium & trombone backup.
4: 3:15 Nick Cave vocal, slow, great low instrument noodling background (Bill . . . Frisell guitar, Eyvand Kang flue & violin).
5: 2:35 Brian Ferry vocal, mid tempo.
***6: 5:25 male vocal, very nice instruments in background
**7: 2:43 fast male vocal & chorus, good foot stomping tune.
**8: 1:33 spoken word wit fiddle
9: 3:58 female a cappella
10: 3:44 male vocal with omp pah pah band sound.:
***11: 3:44 classic song, male vocal, distorted sound ( cool sound ), bass, slow
12: 6:05 distorted sound ( cool sound) intro. then male vocal, piano, drum, slow.
13: 3:28 nice male vocal, big instrument backup.
***14: 5:18 male vocal, gravelly voice, great guitars, about mermaids
15: 4:40 male vocal, mid tempo, classic whaleing song
16: 2:30 Sting vocal, slow, minimal keyboard
17: 4:52 great fem vocal, slow, big instrument backup.
****18: 7:10 male vocal, slow, then big fast rock instrumentation, great sound, .. . cool story.
***19: 5:30 Lou Reed vocal & guitar, slow vocal.
***20: 5:33 male vocal , slow, story about eating the cabinboy when . . .. . .. .. shipwrecked.
D Farrell 03/2007
****1: 7:14 fast strumming guitar Tuvan throat chanty, Bill Frisell guitar, Eyvand . . Kang flue & violin, Great throat vocal
2: 4:12 Richard Thompson vocal, nice guitar, slow, about lost culture on an island off . Scotland's coast.
****3: 1:38 classic ballad "My Son John" about a man who lost a race with a . . . . cannonball.
FCC 4: 2:49 Nick Cave vocal, FCC @ 0:46-0:47 Mother fucker FCC @1:04, fucked up FCC @1:34, & 1:43 fucking, nice slow song. FCCs
5: 4:21 slow vocal
****6: 2:29 great vocal - a drunk in the alley, call & response intro, mid to fast.
7: 3:35 slow, Brian Ferry vocal about a cruel sea captain
8: 2:54 Robin Holcomb vocal, slow great back up musicians.
9: 2:21 Instrumental, Bill Frisell guitar with ambient loops, slow picking.
**10: 4:01 Joseph Arthur vocal, lots of busy instruments in background, cool sound, about Barbary pirates
11: 4:10 male vocal, slow, big instrumentation behind vocal.
FCC 12: 0:50 great sound FCC several times, distorted vocal cool sound.
***13: 2: 44 Sting vocal,about Napoleonic wars great vocal & backup instruments
14: 2:53 male vocal & guitar, slow
15: 3:25 mom & son duet, real slow
****16: 4:39 Fantastic ballad great vocal, great instrumentation
****17: 4:48 fem vocal, perspective of woman onshore about going to sea great vocal & instrumentation, mid tempo.
18: 2:22 male vocal with chorus, slow ballad about superstitions
19: 1:27 male vocal, one of the oldest chantys.
****20: Bono, a haunting ballad.
21: 3:35 fem vocal, slow & low minimal instrumentation.
22: 2:57 instrumental, slow and mournful
23: 3:05 a poem set to music, beautiful vocal, horns in @ 1:50 a saw is dominate instrument
CD 2
***1: 1: 54 fast male vocals about Napoleon Bonaparte with pounding drums & guitars.
****FCC 2: 3:14 FCC@ 0:19 sucking a dead man's penis FCC@ 0:28-0:29 shovel shit, FCC@ 2:55 sucking a dead man's penis, fast male vocal cool song
3: 2: 33 fem vocal, slow, violin, harmonium & trombone backup.
4: 3:15 Nick Cave vocal, slow, great low instrument noodling background (Bill . . . Frisell guitar, Eyvand Kang flue & violin).
5: 2:35 Brian Ferry vocal, mid tempo.
***6: 5:25 male vocal, very nice instruments in background
**7: 2:43 fast male vocal & chorus, good foot stomping tune.
**8: 1:33 spoken word wit fiddle
9: 3:58 female a cappella
10: 3:44 male vocal with omp pah pah band sound.:
***11: 3:44 classic song, male vocal, distorted sound ( cool sound ), bass, slow
12: 6:05 distorted sound ( cool sound) intro. then male vocal, piano, drum, slow.
13: 3:28 nice male vocal, big instrument backup.
***14: 5:18 male vocal, gravelly voice, great guitars, about mermaids
15: 4:40 male vocal, mid tempo, classic whaleing song
16: 2:30 Sting vocal, slow, minimal keyboard
17: 4:52 great fem vocal, slow, big instrument backup.
****18: 7:10 male vocal, slow, then big fast rock instrumentation, great sound, .. . cool story.
***19: 5:30 Lou Reed vocal & guitar, slow vocal.
***20: 5:33 male vocal , slow, story about eating the cabinboy when . . .. . .. .. shipwrecked.
D Farrell 03/2007
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