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* ViolentGlaswegian: When it comes to the band's [[DarkerAndEdgier darker]] and more [[BlackComedy brutally hilarious]] songs, Chris' bombastic Scottish accent paints a pretty vivid image of this.
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* LargeHam: Christopher Bowes definitely qualifies. In concert, he'll say things like "When I say go, everyone, rip off your clothes and start having sex with that guy dressed as a shark!" completely seriously.
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* LargeHam: Christopher Bowes definitely qualifies. In concert, he'll say things like "When I say go, everyone, rip off your clothes and start having sex with that guy dressed as a shark!" completely seriously. This isn't even getting into his musical bombast and how he bellows the ''beautifully ridiculous'' shit he writes with a completely straight face.
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** Chris has [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Alestorm/comments/dd8nzk/stupid_question_about_pegleg_potion/ admitted]] that parts to the lyrics of Pegleg Potion (specifically "I sail the seas of Scrub-a-Dub Island" and "always [on the] search [for] treasure") are stolen from the description on a bottle of ''Matey'' bubble bath. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes, really.]]
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** ''Curse of the Crystal Coconut'' contains several to Franchise/DonkeyKong. The track ''Pirate's Scorn'' is a cover of a song from [[WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry the Donkey Kong Country TV series]], the title of the album is almost directly the name of an episode from the same show (replacing "Legend" with "Curse"), and the album artwork features a Crystal Coconut from VideoGame/DonkeyKong64, a gorilla skeleton wearing a tie, a few Kremlings, a TNT barrel, and a DK Coin.
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** ''Curse of the Crystal Coconut'' contains several to Franchise/DonkeyKong. The track ''Pirate's Scorn'' is a cover of a song from [[WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry the Donkey Kong Country ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry'' TV series]], series, the title of the album is almost directly the name of an episode from the same show (replacing "Legend" with "Curse"), and the album artwork features a Crystal Coconut from VideoGame/DonkeyKong64, ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', a gorilla skeleton wearing a tie, a few Kremlings, a TNT barrel, and a DK Coin.
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* BlackComedy: The pirate from ''Wooden Leg Part 2'' cuts off his head and replaces it with a wooden prosthetic to try to escape the spirits haunting him. He dies.
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* RealityEnsues: PlayedForLaughs in a [[BlackComedy rather dark]] way. The pirate from ''Wooden Leg Part 2'' cuts off his head and replaces it with a wooden prosthetic to try to escape the spirits haunting him. He dies.
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** 'We're on a quest to kick your ass' (''Pirate Metal Drinking Crew'')
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* StylisticSuck: Their music videos started displaying this in 2020, due to the COVID pandemic making it harder to produce proper music videos using a larger film crew.
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** Played straight in ''Mexico'', where one part has two lines both ending with "the alcohol is free".
** ''Big Ship Little Ship'' has one section where "boat" is rhymed with "boat".
--->Living in a lighthouse? That'd be a shite-house!\\
Living in a shed would make me feel dead!\\
Living in a city would be really shitty!\\
But living on a boat would float my boat!
** ''Big Ship Little Ship'' has one section where "boat" is rhymed with "boat".
--->Living in a lighthouse? That'd be a shite-house!\\
Living in a shed would make me feel dead!\\
Living in a city would be really shitty!\\
But living on a boat would float my boat!
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* FunWithSubtitles:
** Shit Boat (No Fans): When the last few lines of the song start a singalong section (complete with bouncing duck icon), the subtitles finish with a suggestion to "Follow the bouncing duck, everyone!" before ending.
** Pirate Metal Drinking Crew: Each instance of a dog barking is replaced with a mismatched animal noise, namely "meow" and "oink". The last few lines of the song even has the subtitles say, "Ach, what's the point - if you haven't figured out what the lyrics are at this point there's no hope for you anyway."
** Shit Boat (No Fans): When the last few lines of the song start a singalong section (complete with bouncing duck icon), the subtitles finish with a suggestion to "Follow the bouncing duck, everyone!" before ending.
** Pirate Metal Drinking Crew: Each instance of a dog barking is replaced with a mismatched animal noise, namely "meow" and "oink". The last few lines of the song even has the subtitles say, "Ach, what's the point - if you haven't figured out what the lyrics are at this point there's no hope for you anyway."
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* RhymingWithItself: Subverted. The initial lyrics from ''Shit Boat (No Fans)'' were "You'd better give us all the money in your treasure chest / Or Kristoff's gonna take a shit on your fucking chest" before the band was advised to tone down the song.
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** Recent albums have songs featuring snatches of chiptune, notably ''1741'' and ''Mexico'', which both lead off with it. This is blown up macro-sized with the '16th Century' bonus CD of Crystal Coconut, where ''every song'' is redone in chip and the vocals bitcrushed. As an added bonus, the chiptune portion of ''Wooden Leg Part II'' is inverted and delivered with some quite nice acoustic guitar.
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** Recent albums have songs featuring snatches of chiptune, notably ''1741'' and ''Mexico'', which both lead off with it. This is blown up macro-sized with the '16th Century' bonus CD of Crystal Coconut, where ''every song'' is redone in chip and the vocals bitcrushed. As an added bonus, the chiptune portion of the original ''Wooden Leg Part II'' is inverted and delivered with some quite nice acoustic guitar.
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* SingingVoiceDissonance: Bowes' natural voice is much softer than his guttural harsh tone in the songs.
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* SingingVoiceDissonance: Bowes' natural voice is much softer than his guttural harsh tone in the songs. This is also evidenced in his various 'Christopher Bowes at the Organ' side-mini-albums.
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* MononymousBiopicTitle: Well, if we
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** The Pentahook ('What, he's got a hook on each finger?' 'Fucking right he does.' -telling happy bedtime stories)
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** The Pentahook ('What, he's got a hook on each finger?' 'Fucking right he does.' -telling happy bedtime stories)Pentahook
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** The Pentahook ('What, he's got a hook on each finger?' 'Fucking right he does.' -Tet telling happy lullabies)
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** The Pentahook ('What, he's got a hook on each finger?' 'Fucking right he does.' -Tet telling -telling happy lullabies)bedtime stories)
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** The Pentahook
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** The PentahookPentahook ('What, he's got a hook on each finger?' 'Fucking right he does.' -Tet telling happy lullabies)
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* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: ''Chomp Chomp'' features a mob of alligators that devours a ship's crew in gruesome fashion except for [[SoleSurvivor the traumatized narrator]].
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* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: ''Chomp Chomp'' features a mob of alligators (along with other crocodilians) that devours a ship's crew in gruesome fashion except for [[SoleSurvivor fashion, leaving the traumatized narrator]].narrator the SoleSurvivor.
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* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: ''Chomp Chomp'' features a mob of alligators that devours a ship's crew in gruesome fashion except for [[SoleSurvivor the traumatized narrator]].
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* TitledAfterTheSong: Inverted with ''Alestorm'', a song titled after the band.
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* SongOfSongTitles: ''Drink'' name-drops several past Alestorm songs.
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** In the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AaNj7W4AKo Big Ship Little Ship]], Chris briefly invokes Music/FreddieMercury in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Mc-NYPHaQ I Want to Break Free]] video.
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** In the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AaNj7W4AKo Big Ship Little Ship]], Chris briefly invokes Music/FreddieMercury in his Queen's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Mc-NYPHaQ I Want to Break Free]] video.
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** ''Bar Und Imbiss'' is a first-person account of the ransacking of a bar and kidnapping of the bartender's ugly wife somewhere in dark Thuringia.
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* TransformationSequence: In the video for Shit Boat, Chris gets one before kicking the shit out of the pirate crew in a rather fetching gown. This is subverted shortly thereafter when he whips it off to continue fighting/dancing [[MaleFrontalNudity in the buff]].
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* TransformationSequence: In the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZglX4P-tpcA Shit Boat, Boat]], Chris gets one before kicking the shit out of the pirate crew in a rather fetching gown. This is subverted shortly thereafter when he whips it off to continue fighting/dancing [[MaleFrontalNudity in the buff]]. (Don't worry, it's all animated.)
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** In the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AaNj7W4AKo Big Ship Little Ship]], Chris briefly invokes Music/FreddieMercury in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Mc-NYPHaQ I Want to Break Free]] video.
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* TransformationSequence: In the video for Shit Boat, Chris gets one before kicking the shit out of the pirate crew in a rather fetching gown.
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* TransformationSequence: In the video for Shit Boat, Chris gets one before kicking the shit out of the pirate crew in a rather fetching gown. This is subverted shortly thereafter when he whips it off to continue fighting/dancing [[MaleFrontalNudity in the buff]].
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* MagicalGirl: In the video for Shit Boat, Chris gets a random transformation sequence before kicking the shit out of the pirate crew in a rather fetching gown.
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* HonoraryTrueCompanion: On Crystal Coconut, hurdy-gurdiest Patty Gurdy is filling this role. There have been loud calls for her to officially join the band, but she has her own thing going on.
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** In ''Wooden Leg Part II'' we see how the protagonist's new limbs have been possessed: ''My legs from Madrid are causing me fear / my Japanese arms just want to drink beer''
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--->''My legs from Madrid are causing me fear / my Japanese arms just want to drink beer''
--->''My legs from Madrid are causing me fear / my Japanese arms just want to drink beer''
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* CoverVersion: Many. ''[[Series/SesameStreet P is for Pirate]]'' is one with slightly modified lyrics (it is now pirate-themed instead of cookie-themed). ''[[Series/LazyTown You Are a Pirate]]'', ''[[Music/StanRogers Barrett's Privateers]]'', and ''Wolves of the Sea'' are the most famous of their covers. They also did a version of ''[[Music/TheVillagePeople In the Navy]]''. Suffice to say, if there's a nautical-themed song, a nautical-themed children's song, or a children's song that can be [[BuffySPeak piratified]], Alestorm stands a good chance of covering it, often hilariously. There is also their version of ''I Am A Cider Drinker'', originally by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wurzels the Wurzels]] (which was itself a parody of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Baker_%28musician%29 George Baker's]] ''Paloma Blanca'').
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* CoverVersion: Many. ''[[Series/SesameStreet P is for Pirate]]'' is one with slightly modified lyrics (it is now pirate-themed instead of cookie-themed). ''[[Series/LazyTown You Are a Pirate]]'', ''[[Music/StanRogers Barrett's Privateers]]'', and ''Wolves of the Sea'' are the most famous of their covers. They also did a version of ''[[Music/TheVillagePeople In the Navy]]''. Suffice to say, if there's a nautical-themed song, a nautical-themed children's song, or a children's song that can be [[BuffySPeak piratified]], Alestorm stands a good chance of covering it, often hilariously. There is also their version of ''I Am A Cider Drinker'', originally by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wurzels the Wurzels]] (which was itself a parody of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Baker_%28musician%29 George Baker's]] ''Paloma Blanca''). Many of the modern-genre songs the band covers have a suitably nautical twist to the instrumentation; for example, ''Bassline Junkie'' has a jaunty squeezebox line in place of the crunchy bass.
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* LocationSong: "Mexico" is about Mexico. The pirates travel there because the wenches are a-plenty, the alcohol is free, the party lasts all through the night, and [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment the alcohol is free]].
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** "Mexico" is about Mexico. The pirates travel there because the wenches are a-plenty, the alcohol is free, the party lasts all through the night, and [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment the alcohol isfree]].free]].
** ''Tortuga'' tells the story of a pirate fleeing the Royal Navy, who doesn't help his case by stealing a ship (and murdering the crew) and heading for the titular legendary pirate stronghold.
** "Mexico" is about Mexico. The pirates travel there because the wenches are a-plenty, the alcohol is free, the party lasts all through the night, and [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment the alcohol is
** ''Tortuga'' tells the story of a pirate fleeing the Royal Navy, who doesn't help his case by stealing a ship (and murdering the crew) and heading for the titular legendary pirate stronghold.
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* HollywoodVoodoo: The pirate in ''Wooden Leg Part II'' decides he's going to replace his inadequate wooden limbs by killing the people who are responsible for the loss of his originals, taking *their* limbs and sticking them back onto himself.
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* HollywoodVoodoo: The pirate in ''Wooden Leg Part II'' decides he's going to replace his inadequate wooden limbs by killing the people who are responsible for the loss of his originals, taking *their* limbs ''their'' arms and legs and sticking them back onto himself.
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* HollywoodVoodoo: The pirate in ''Wooden Leg Part II'' decides he's going to replace his inadequate wooden limbs by killing the people who are responsible for the loss of his originals, taking *their* limbs and sticking them back onto himself.
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* AnachronismStew:
** Played straight throughout ''Back Through Time''.
** ''Treasure Chest Party Quest'' contains the wonderful line, 'In my Lamborghini, flintlock by my side'
** Played straight throughout ''Back Through Time''.
** ''Treasure Chest Party Quest'' contains the wonderful line, 'In my Lamborghini, flintlock by my side'
