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Great Big Sea - Sea of No Cares Audio CD

A fair review of the Great Big Sea "Sea of No Cares" 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: Sea of No Cares
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Release Date: 2002-02-26
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Sea Of No Cares 2: Penelope 3: Clearest Indication 4: Scolding Wife 5: Stumbling In 6: A Boat Like Gideon Brown 7: Widow in the Window 8: French Perfume 9: Yarmouth Town 10: Barque In the Harbor 11: Own True Way 12: Fortune

This is GBS best album
Finally a great origional song. This is the best album by Great Big Sea for one reason and thats Sea Of No Cares.


Sea of no cares
C. Great Big Sea is a wonderful group with a celtic influence from B. and I think this album has some of their best work. French Perfume is an upbeat smugglers song that I enjoy the most. These young men from BC are outstanding and a joy to listen. wolfstoneproductsdotcom. .


Excellent CD
If you like witty folk music with an irish/scottish twist, then they are for you. This is a band I have newly discovered and boy am I glad I did. The tongue in check songs make me smile while I am driving to work.

A very nice CD!.


True independent music
It is a blend of Celtic and independent rock certain to have you singing along and then wanting more. This cd was my first introduction to this wonderful band from Newfoundland Canada. Alan Doyle's voice is strong and passionate. This is a good start to the music of Great Big Sea before moving on to the more contemporary sounds of "*Something Beautiful" or the more traditional sounds of "Rant and Roar".


Great, but overproduced
Perhaps I had my hopes up too high. Having waited so long to for the next GBS album, I couldn't wait to put the CD in. (Yes this band does have a tendancy to develop fervor amongst people who have heard them)
The first track, Sea of No Cares sounded so much like any other garage band effort out there. If you've seen a band play at a local club and bought their CD because you got caught up in the moment, then you already know what I mean. That first track sounded, of all things, amateurish and overproduced. Now, this is one of the most polished bands out there, so It came as an affront to me and tainted my view of the rest of the album. This is also the first time they have included a drumset and a drummer. So I guess they were trying to make a point by opening it with a drum solo. But I was not impressed.
There are some absolutely phenomenal songs on this album. My favorite is "Stumbling In" and the CD is worth it just to hear that. Another jems is "Own true Way" and "Clearest Indication" is a song I've lived more than I care to admit. "Penelope" could have been written by Jimmy Buffet. That sounds like a song he should sing. I found it a little out of place and totally out of character for the boys from Newfoundland. And somehow a little patriotic flare shot up at the apparent disparagement of an American city by these Canadians. (I said I was honest. . . )

GBS continues to be my favorite band because they produce absolutely fabulous, honest, optimistic music. There are some genuine keepers on this album, but if you want a better introduction to them, try Rant and Roar. If you've already been introduced to GBS, then what are you waiting for? Get this CD and you will be happy you did.

Why did I give it only three stars? Because of the albums I have this is about average. Maybe I have nothing but stellar albums in my collection, but that's my honest review. It takes a lot to get five stars out of me. Only one album has so far and, by the way, that album is Rant and Roar.


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