History Music / GreatBigSea

-->And if the devil would take her
-->I'd thank him for his pain
-->I swear to God I'll hang myself if I get married again

* MotorMouth: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OENjixZd_Oo It's the End of the World as We Know It]]," which is a minute and a half shorter than the original (Which was already notoriously fast paced) without skipping any of the words and even adding an extra chorus at the start.

* MotorMouth: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OENjixZd_Oo It's the End of the World as We Know It]]," which is a minute and a half shorter than the original without skipping any of the words and even adding an extra chorus at the start.

* DrunkenSailor: Lots of the band's songs reference seafaring and drinking, and occasionally seafaring while drinking. Notable examples include "Jakey's Gin," "Donkey Riding," and of course, the TropeNamer itself.

!!Tropes involving GreatBigSea include:

Great Big Sea is a band from Newfoundland, on the East Coast of Canada, probably the most well-known band to come from there - certainly the most well-known outside Newfoundland for ''being'' from Newfoundland.

* ''Road Rage'' (live), 2000
* ''Sea Of No Cares'', 2002

* ''Great Big CD and DVD'' (live), 2004

* ''Courage Patience and Grit'' (live), 2006

* "XX", 2013

* DealWithTheDevil: ''Straight to Hell''. Strangely enough, both sides get exactly what they want: A life of Rock and Roll in exchange for One Eternal Soul. ''Straight To Hell'' is easiest one of the cheeriest stories of eternal damnation there is. The chorus:

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: ''John Barbour'' includes the king saying of his sailor "If I was a woman as I am a man, my bedfellow he would be."
* TheFunInFuneral: ''The Night Patty Murphy Died'' starts out with a gang of hoodlums stowing a bottle of booze in Patty's casket as a makeshift beer-fridge, and ends with the "mourners" so smashed that they end up leaving the body at the tavern. Also possibly an example of AndThereWasMuchRejoicing, but since it's an Irish-type wake, it's actually hard to say.

* HenpeckedHusband: "Scolding Wife".

-->I swear to God I'll hang meself if I get married again
* HilariousOuttakes: On the Great Big CD & DVD, Alan Doyle begins a song with the wrong verse, stops singing, asks the audience for "your amnesia to forget that ever happened", and has Sean ask if he plans to sing it right this time. On the DVD you can see Darrell cuff him on the head.
* InTheStyleOf: Their cover of R.E.M.'s "It's TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt (And I Feel Fine)", sped up about three times.
* IWantSong: "Consequence Free".
* IWillWaitForYou: Subverted in ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63fwojdvwn8 Dream to Live]]''. First, its told from the guy's perspective, who tried to make his fortune in Boston. Second, he hopes desperately that she is still waiting for him... until she lets him down in the letter. He ends up moving on and starting a family of his own, but is left wondering "what if".
* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knxR-Q2VoBE Recruiting Sergeant]]".
* LibationForTheDead: "The Night That Pat Murphy Died".
* LongDistanceRelationship: "Boston and St. John's"
--> It's true I must be going, but I swear I won't be long
--> There isn't that much ocean between Boston and St. John's
--> I'm a rover and I'm bound to sail away
--> I'm a rover, can you love me anyway?
* LyricalDissonance: "Haven't Seen You in a Long Time" is a very upbeat, cheery-sounding track . . . in which the singer laments about the unfortunate accidents of timing which have prevented him from being with the woman he loves, and asks her if she remembers him at all.
** "Over the Hills" does this as well; it's an up-tempo positive sounding song about being drafted for a war in Afghanistan.
* MermaidProblem: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihEew4v1xyc The Mermaid]]". The album cover for ''The Hard and the Easy'' even shows a fish with women's legs in reference to it.
** It's in the song, too. [[spoiler: He chooses the human-legged fish of a sister, since that's how he "gets his tail".]]
* MotorMouth: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OENjixZd_Oo "It's The End of the World As We Know It"]], which is a minute and a half shorter than the original without skipping any of the words and even adding an extra chorus at the start.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHgIJAQbH14&feature=fvw "Mari-Mac"]], which gets faster and faster and faster as the song progresses: even the instruments can hardly keep up with the hair-raising speed, let alone the singers.
** The latter half of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbRsJ5riZgY "Come and I Will Sing You"]] which proves to be a motor-mouthful.
* OneWomanSong: "Sally Anne", "Penelope", "Margarita".
* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful: In "John Barbour" a princess has gotten pregnant. When the king finds out that the father, John Barbour, isn't nobility, he plans to have him killed. But when the king sees how incredibly handsome the father is ("If I were a woman as I am a man, [[EvenTheGuysWantHim my bedfellow you would be]]"), the king gives him the princess's hand in marriage, and offers to let him "take charge of all my lands."

One of the lead singers, Singer Sean McCann, left the band in early 2014, but is still releasing solo albums, with "Help Yourself" debuting in January 2014.

* TalkAboutTheWeather: "How Did We Get From Saying I Love You" is about two people whose relationship has devolved into awkward pauses and discussions about the weather.

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* SettingUpdate: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHpVhxomY8 Over the Hills]]" is [[{{Sharpe}} Over the Hills and Far Away]] [-IN [[WarOnTerror AFGHANISTAN!]]-], while [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knxR-Q2VoBE Recruiting Sergeant]] is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BEaBNa3CvM Twa Recruitin' Sergeants]] [-IN [[WorldWarI WORLD WAR I]]!-]

Their concerts are known for their infectious atmosphere and a healthy amount of [[AudienceParticipationSong audience participation]]. Singer Sean McCann left the band in early 2014, but is still releasing solo albums, with "Help Yourself" debuting in January 2014.

Their concerts are known for their infectious atmosphere and a healthy amount of [[AudienceParticipationSong audience participation]].

** And [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHgIJAQbH14&feature=fvw "Mari-Mac"]], which gets faster and faster and faster as the song progresses: even the instruments can hardly keep up with the hair-raising speed, let alone the singers.

* TheFunInFuneral: ''The Night Patty Murphy Died'' starts out with a gang of hoodlums stowing a bottle of booze in Patty's casket as a makeshift beer-fridge, and ends with the "mourners" so smashed that they end up leaving the body at the tavern.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "The Chemical Worker's Song" describes the horrific conditions faced in the chemical industry. It follows that the first verse uses this very dryly:
-->Well a process man am I, and I'm tellin' you no lie\\
I work and breathe among the fumes that trail across the sky\\
There's thunder all around me and there's poison in the air\\
There's a lousy smell that smacks of Hell, and dust all in me hair!
** Justified, given that the dust in such a factory is probably just as toxic and life-shortening as anything else there, and he's covered in it.

* SettingUpdate: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHpVhxomY8 Over the Hills]]" is [[{{Sharpe}} Over the Hills and Far Away]] [-IN AFGHANISTAN!-], while [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knxR-Q2VoBE Recruiting Sergeant]] is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BEaBNa3CvM Twa Recruitin' Sergeants]] [-[[TearJerker IN]] [[WorldWarI WORLD WAR I]]!-]

* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in "Recruiting Sergeant".

* {{Deconstruction}}: Recruiting Sergeant, of the 19th century Scottish folk song "Twa Recruitin' Sergeants".

* {{Deconstruction}}: Recruiting Sergeant, of the 19th century Scottish folk song "Twa Recruitin' Sergeants". [[spoiler: [[WarIsHell Ever wonder what happened to the men ''after'' went away with the Recruiting Sergeants?]]]]

* FridgeBrilliance: Their [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OENjixZd_Oo video of "The End of the World as We Know It"]] has a lot of images of St. John's, Newfoundland, where they got their start. The easternmost place in North America, it really is the "end of the world as we know it," in a geographic, if not temporal, sense.

* [=~Screw The Rules, I'm Beautiful!~=]: In "John Barbour" a princess has gotten pregnant. When the king finds out that the father, John Barbour, isn't nobility, he plans to have him killed. But when the king sees how incredibly handsome the father is ("If I were a woman as I am a man, [[EvenTheGuysWantHim my bedfellow you would be]]"), the king gives him the princess's hand in marriage, and offers to let him "take charge of all my lands."

* DealWithTheDevil: ''Straight to Hell''. Strangely enough, both sides get exactly what they want: A life of Rock and Roll in exchange for One Eternal Soul. The chorus: