Great Big Sea - Rant & Roar
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Artist: Great Big SeaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-06-02
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
- Ordinary Day
- Up
- Mari-Mac
- End Of The World
- Fast As I Can
- The Night Pat Murphy Died
- Goin Up
- General Taylor
- Dancing With Mrs. White
- Something To It
- Lukey
- The Old Black Rum
- Rant And Roar
- Bonus Track 1
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Music Review: Rant & Roar
Rating: 4 Stars
I became acquainted with GBS over a decade ago when our cable use to carry MuchMusic. I came across Great Big Sea playing a festival in their native Newfoundland. I was hooked immediately.
Their playing was tight and upbeat. I can't say their style was original, as it is basically celtic drinking/folk music. The style has been around for a century or two - just hardly done by anyone under 60 playing in a pub somewhere.
'Rant and Roar' is their first U.S. release - which is basically a collection of their first few Canadian disks. And what a fun collection it is.
The set starts with probably the two most accessible tracks ("Ordinary Day" and "When I'm Up") - which would have been perfect for US radio, but it was not to happen. I guess it's the most accessible they can be with fiddle and penny whistle. I find these two very infectious.
But the next song is my favourite on the disk. "Mari Mac" is a two and one-half minute ditty that is an exercise in vocal theatrics.....and in just out and out breathing techniques for a singer. Any singer!! I am totally fascinated by it.
I don't think it is any accident that the album sequencing goes right into R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)", as that itself has always been too many words in too short of a time or measure of music.
GBS does slow it down a bit with a number of tunes - "Fast As I Can" and "Something to It". But they have some much more traditional stuff to - "General Taylor", the instrumental "Dancing with Mrs. White" and "The Day Paddy Murphy Died".
I can see where not many would embrace this. It is fun for me - and like it or not, I don't think anyone could deny how talented the guys in the band are.
You might not like an entire disk, but you might want to scan iTunes and sample some tracks - and even purchase them.
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