| Various Artists / Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, And Chanteys |
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| Album: | Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, And Chanteys | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Feb 2007 | |
| Label: | Anti- | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-04-01 | Pull Date: | 2007-06-03 |
| Week Ending: | Jun 3 | May 27 | May 20 | May 13 | May 6 | Apr 22 | Apr 15 | Apr 8 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 30, 2018: | Traditions My Son John, Mingulay Boat Song, Bully In The Alley | 4. | Apr 22, 2011: | Wee Animalcules Bully In The Alley, Bully In The Alley | |
| 2. | Dec 31, 2017: | Everything A to Z week 116 New Years Eve - reaired 11-23-20 Cape Cod Girls, Greenland Whale Fisheries | 5. | Sep 30, 2008: | Echo Lab The Cruel Ship's Captain | |
| 3. | Mar 22, 2013: | Songs of the Sea The Grey Funnel Line, Dying Sailor To His Shipmates | 6. | May 30, 2007: | Baptism of Solitude Rolling Sea |
| Album Review |
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| Don Farrell Reviewed 2007-04-02 | ||
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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 | ||
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