Great Big Sea - Fortune's Favour
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Artist: Great Big SeaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-07-08
Music Label: Great Big Sea
Soundtracks:
- Love Me Tonight
- Walk on the Moon
- England
- Here and Now
- Long Lost Love
- Oh Yeah
- Banks of Newfoundland
- Dream to Live
- Company of Fools
- Hard Case
- Rocks of Merasheen
- Dance Dance
- Heart of Stone
- Straight to Hell
Music reviews of Fortune's Favour
Music Review: The Life of My Time
Rating: 4 Stars
After the Hard and the Easy and a very welcome return to the salt, sea and shores of Newfoundland found in those playful and traditional style songs by the greatest band on earth, I was a little put off by my first few listens to this newest effort. The songs sound good and are well produced but I was a little bored about half way through by, what seemed to me, to be lots of the same old thing. I know it is in vogue to recycle these days, but not when it comes to music. I'm still not sure after a few more listens if this is a good album or not, but I don't hate it as much as I thought I would.
The Bad: Too many attempts at "rock" songs. "Life is Beautiful" is the only GBS cd I don't own and there is a very good reason for that. The guys aren't pop stars and we, their fans, don't expect or WANT them to be. So please stop with the Corr's jingles. They almost made this effort unsalvageable. "Ordinary Day" and "Consequence Free" are already out there and they blow the house down. Everything else in this vein just seems to be a watered down effort. Most GBS albums have a few of these tracks but Fortune's Favor is chock full of them and really bring the thing to a screeching halt. "Love Me Tonight," "Walk On the Moon," "Here and Now," "Dream to Live," "Hard Case," "Dance Dance" and "Heart of Stone" are the skipable tracks and, heck, that's half the album.
The So-So: Some tracks have promise but don't quite deliver. The pipes at the beginning of the first track as well as Alan's strong voice show great promise for "Love Me Tonight" but the song quickly devolves into a song we've heard before. The woman who did the background vocals on "Hard Case" has a phenomenal voice (she only has one solo line) but the song still doesn't quite make it. "Rocks of Marasheen" is one of the few traditional tunes but isn't very memorable (even though the harmonies on the chorus are fantastic). I am also going to drop "Straight to Hell" into this category on fear of being stoned. Sorry, but this is just a weak "Bad As I Am" or "Captain Kidd." It has a little life and a litte fun but not to the level one would expect from GBS.
The Good: There are two fantastic traditional tracks on Fortune's Favor. "England" is absolutely beautiful and "Long Lost Love" is surprisingly powerful, especially on the verses (shame on ya' Molly). Both of these add something new to the GBS catalogue without being easily linked to earlier songs. "Company of Fools" may not be the most original track but it is loads of fun, full of energy, eminently singable and has a really nice hook. Think "Old Black Rum" but with clowns. The truly surprising and most original sounding song on the cd is, oddly enough, "Oh Yeah." It is a straightforward rock anthem (didn't I say I hated those earlier) but it is much harder musically than the other tracks and Alan virtually growls the lyrics. It is fantastic and loads better than "Straight to Hell." Maybe because it is so unexpected--a foot stomping, head banging song from the boys--who would have thunk it. These four songs are worth the price of admission and pump the stars up to four in, what reads to me, like a primarily negative review. I'm not hating. I just wish GBS would have smashed the last two records together and made things a little more balanced.
The Beautiful: The jacket art. And look, this time, both parts is a girl.
Description of Fortune's Favour
After a remarkable 15 years in, a band should by this time be content to slow down and rest on their laurels. Instead, ''Fortune's Favour'' sees Great Big Sea boldly embracing new sounds and new ideas, fearlessly pushing the boundaries of their own art and music. In their lifelong quest to marry the traditional music of Newfoundland with their own pop explorations, ''Fortune's Favour'' is a new benchmark.14 new tracks plus a bonus DVD of the group in the recording studio.
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