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Great Big Sea - Road Rage Audio CD

A fair review of the Great Big Sea "Road Rage" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Great Big Sea reviews here, or go back to the Great Big Sea tabs.

Great Big Sea Band: Great Big Sea
Title: Road Rage
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Release Date: 2000-10-31
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Donkey Riding 2: When I'm Up 3: Everything Shines 4: Goin' Up 5: Boston and St. John's 6: Night Pat Murphy Died 7: Consequence Free 8: Captain Wedderburn 9: Old Black Ram 10: General Taylor 11: Lukey 12: Feel It Turn 13: I'm a Rover 14: Fast as I Can 15: Jack Hinks 16: Mari Mac 17: Ordinary Day 18: Excursion Around the Bay 19: Hangin' Johnny

Try This!
These guys are folk, rock, Celtic, pop, Newfie. . all of the above? Talented musicians and singers. If you want to hear GBS, try this live album. Yeah, the crowd noise is a little annoying, but it's an engergy-filled blast. If GBS is performing anywhere near you, catch them! .


GBS - Road Rage
I LOVED IT !!!
After virturally wearing this disc out I went to a GBS concert in Toronto and was blown away. This disc was my 1st introduction to Great Big Sea. "Road Rage" catches a goodly sum of the fun and energy of the band and crowd interaction. . . but seeing them LIVE is just incredible! If you can't see GBS in concert, put in "Road Rage" dance a lil' jig and sing yourself silly! If you like a lil' Irish flavor in your musice, this is a must have. Great Big Sea. . . just great!.


Lots of fun, but a little too "live" for my tastes
It gives an excellent collection of both traditional Irish Folksongs and new composistions by the artists and allows you to listen to some well done artist/audience interaction. Containing many of Great Big Sea's best songs, including the hard to find "Donkey Riding", this is fun, high quality CD.
Unfortunately, sometimes this interaction takes over. GBS winds up shouting to get the audience's attention or cheering momentarily out-powers the music. In one song, "General Taylor", the group seems to spend most of their time introducing the song and butchering the end of it in order to get more audience response.
Also, the CD's quality fades a little sometimes. This is probably do to collecting the tracks from so many different recordings.
Besides these faults the CD is still a lot of fun and interesting mix of good times and songs. Created as a celebration of the end of the millennium, it certainly captures the rollicking feel of both most of the music and the deep, quiet emotions of some of the other songs , such as "Turn". It's a good buy, with all that audience screaming, not something I'd listen to daily.
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Rev it Up, Eh?
They are best enjoyed live. I have a problem with GBS. If you see them live (and you should), you will notice that no one at a GBS concert remains on their feet for long. I thought this might not be true south of the border here, but in jolly old Ann Arbor this spring everyone (but me) was just as vertical as they get in Vancouver and Saskatchewan. Being a li'l Rock & Roller of round shape and of Boomeresque age, I am limited in how much time I can stand and dance(although I envy those who can do it through the whole show). So it is a very sad li'l Rock & Roller indeed, who finally gets to see her heros, only to get glimpses of them through the forests of people ahead.

At least I have my Road Rage CD!!!!! These guys truly do put on a good show, all kidding aside, and I have found their live recordings to be superior to the others, partly because they seem to have more fun than just about anyone else when they are performing. A little traditional Newfoundland, a little Celtic, a little rock, some Sea Shanties, and away we goooooooo. . . . .


Best of the best and a good place to start
After "Road Rage" had been in my CD player for only a year, I drove five hours to hear this Newfoundland band open for another group I cared nothing for - and I have to say that the recording very accurately reflects the excitement and energy of this racously fun band. This album was my first exposure to the magnificent Great Big Sea, and while I've enjoyed their other recordings, they've yet to top this.

Most of the album is taken up with exuberant, fast, traditional drinking songs and chanties, but interspersed are tender love ballads ("Boston and St. Johns") and humorous but thoughtful commentaries on life ("Consequence Free"). This is one of my favorite finds of the past five years; unless your ears are easily burned by slightly earthy/dark humor, I can't recommend it highly enough!.


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