Music Monday - Great Big Sea

It's a glum time of year, so I am drawn to more lively music to motivate me. Some of the most energetic I know of comes from Great Big Sea:

(shown here with the Chieftains, from the fabulous 1998 'Fire in the Kitchen' CD which was my first exposure to GBS)(Ah, The Chieftains.. I love them so. And miss Derek Bell terribly...)

Wikipedia describes Great Big Sea (often shortened to GBS) as "a Canadian folk-rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs including sea shanties, which draw from the island's 500-year-old Irish, English, and French heritage. The band also performs original material".


They are apparently 'more fun than a barrel of monkeys' in concert (plus! awesome harmonies), although I'm yet to experience this for myself. I've had tickets to go see them *twice* now, and both times I've had to miss it. Third time is bound to be a charm! Waiting anxiously for them to come this way again...

Who is *your* favorite 'energetic' group?

Music Monday - TSCC

In keeping with the TV-music theme, today I will share with you one of my favorite impressively-put-to-music scenes from the start of the second season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. (This scene bookends the finale of season one - artistic carnage put to Johny Cash's "The Man Comes Around".) The combination of music, vocals and mostly wordless action packs a more poignant punch to the stories they are telling:


Samson and Delilah, sung by Shirley Manson, the Scottish-born lead singer of Garbage, who also played a main character in season 2.

I will also rhapsodize about the wonder that is the composer for this series, Bear McCreary, (who also did the amazing soundtrack for Battlestar Galactica) but that is another post, another day...

"Literal Hilarity" for the day -

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OK - one of the funnier things I've seen this week - absolutely literal version of super-awesome 80s music video "Take on Me".

Related article on the phenom it's becoming here.