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Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys
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Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski hatched the idea for Rogue's Gallery while filming "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"--that idea being to cast genteel rock superstars like Bono, Lou Reed, Bryan Ferry, Andre Corr, and Sting to reinterpret gritty seafaring standards for an exhaustive 43-track double-disc set produced by Hal Wilner. Throw in a bunch of credible folk stars (Loudon Wainwright III, Richard Thompson), their offspring (Rufus, Teddy) and a string of other curious characters (Jarvis Cocker, Antony) and what results is one of the strangest compilations in recent memory, if not exactly the most historically authentic or, well, digestible. Nick Cave embraces the role just a little too hard on "Fire Down Below," while Ferry can't help but sound like he's singing for the cast of "The Love Boat," but cut through the chaff and there is some real bootie here: Bono's "Dying Sailor to His Shipmates," Jolie Holland's "The Grey Funnel Line" and "Boney" by a mysterious tramp called Jack Sh**, which must be some kind of anagram for Johnny Depp. --Aidin Vaziri
Rogues Gallery Sea Shanties
Review date: 2010-07-22 Rating: 6 out of 10
If you were looking for a CD of Sea Shanties then you will be disappointed. However it is what its title says a selection of Pirate Ballads, Sea songs and "Chanteys". I found the sound quality of some of the songs was poor. Overall there are probably better CDs if you are looking for Sea Shanties.
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Reviews
In no way sea-sickness-inducing
Review date: 2010-02-02 Rating: 10 out of 10
It's good because the tunes are weird and wonderful to the modern ear, because it's a compilation and will both surprise you with artists you've never heard of and the ones you have, because it has two disks of this, because it's beautifully packaged and has entertaining and insight-giving sleeve notes, and because it's kinda macabre, you know.
concept stuff -when it's good it's quality - not authentic
Review date: 2009-07-12 Rating: 8 out of 10
I love it. It's not all of a standard, difficult to digest in parts for sure.
Never heard any real shanties apart from stuff modern folk guys chose.
The more trad stuff is ALMOST what you'd expect, ALMOST - but it's people like Loudon WIII and Nick Cave playing at being pirates I enjoy most. There's some really out there takes on what being a pirate means on here. When it works it's delightful. Fun. Unlike anything else you'll ever here (though think there's rumours of a second). Skip what you don't.
Get yourself a bottle of good jamaican rum and enjoy singin gruff! (although be warned of classically-trained-singer-next-door-neighbour singing "what shall we do with the drunken sailors" the next morning when you awake with a head like a voodoo shrunken head! - sorry neighbour!)
Mostly excellent with odd patchy songs
Review date: 2009-02-04 Rating: 8 out of 10
Most of the songs are excellent and interesting history or context provided in the sleeve notes. A couple of tracks I find irritating and unlistenable (obviously some people may like tone deaf ramblings)
Overall I would recommend this, as there are some incredibly moving tracks that would stand scrutiny in any situation
Not too shabby
Review date: 2007-11-01 Rating: 6 out of 10
I can understand some folk purists wanting to hate this before they've even heard it, and it could have ended up as a complete dogs breakfast. Yes if they'd given the whole undertaking to Bellowhead it might have been a classic, but on the whole it's not turned out too bad, and there's something to be said for the eclectic nature of the thing.
I'll have nothing said against Baby Gramps, he's a fine guitarist and that's no affectation, he really does sound like Popeye's drunken brother. Surprisingly of the "Big Names" Sting makes the best fist of his effort. I say surprising because he strikes me as the most unlikeable of people. Unsurprisingly Bono misses the point completely, and confirms that he is now completely and utterly up himself.
The most authentic voice however comes from the incomparable Richard Thompson, but there are quite a few enjoyable tracks on here, CD1 needing a lot less skipping than CD2.
Product Details/Specifications
Artist(s):
Various Artists
Recording label: Anti
Manufacturer: Anti
EAN: 8714092681727
Binding: Audio CD
Release date: 2006-08-21
Number of discs: 2
Disc 1 Tracks:
1. Cape Cod Girls - Baby Gramps
2. Mingulay Boat Song - Thompson, Richard
3. My Son John - Reilly, John C.
4. Fire Down Below - Cave, Nick
5. Turkish Revelry - Wainwright, Loudon III
6. Bully In The Alley - Three Pruned Men
7. Cruel Ship's Captain - Ferry, Bryan
8. Dead Horse - Holcomb, Robin
9. Spanish Ladies - Frisell, Bill
10. Coast Of High Barbary - Arthur, Joseph
11. Haul Away Joe - Thompson, Mark Anthony
12. Dan Dan - Thomas, David
13. Blood Red Roses - Sting
14. Sally Brown - Thompson, Teddy
15. Lowlands Away - Wainwright, Rufus & Kate McGarrigle
16. Baltimore Whores - Friday, Gavin
17. Rolling Sea - Carthy, Eliza
18. Haul On The Bowline - Neuwirth, Bob
19. Dying Sailor To His Shipmates - Bono
20. Bonnie Portmore - Williams, Lucinda
21. Mermaid - Carthy, Martin & The UK Group
22. Shenandoah - Greene, Richard & Jack Shit
23. Cry Of Man - O'Hara, Mary Margaret
Disc 2 Tracks:
1. Boney Was A Warrior - Jack Shit
2. Good Ship Venus - Wainwright, Loudon III
3. Long Time Ago - White Magic
4. Pinery Boy - Cave, Nick
5. Lowlands Low - Ferry, Bryan & Antony
6. One Spring Morning - Akron/Family
7. Hog Eye Man - Carthy, Martin & Family
8. Fiddler - Jay, Ricky & Richard Greene
9. Caroline And Her Young Sailor Bold - Corr, Andrea
10. Fathom The Bowl - Reilly, John C.
11. What Do We Do With A Drunken Sailor - Thomas, Dave
12. Farewell Nancy - Harcourt, Ed
13. Hanging Johnny - Ridgway, Stan
14. Old Man Of The Sea - Baby Gramps
15. Greenland Whale Fisheries - Parks, Van Dyke
16. Shallow Brown - Sting
17. Grey Funnel Line - Holland, Jolie
18. Drop Of Nelson's Blood - Cocker, Jarvis
19. Leave Her Johnny - Reed, Lou
20. Little Boy Billee - Steadman, Ralph
Publishers: Anti