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| Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Anti
Category: Music
List Price: $21.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (83 reviews)
Sales Rank: 5285
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 86817
UPC: 045778681723
EAN: 0045778681723
ASIN: B000GGSMD0
Release Date: August 22, 2006
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Cape Cod Girls - Baby Gramps | | • | Mingulay Boat Song - Richard Thompson | | • | My Son John - John C. Reilly | | • | Fire Down Below - Nick Cave | | • | Turkish Revelry - Loudon Wainwright III | | • | Bully In The Alley - The Old Prunes | | • | The Cruel Ship's Captain - Bryan Ferry | | • | Dead Horse - Robin Holcomb | | • | Spansih Ladies - Bill Frisell | | • | High Barbary - Joseph Arthur | | • | Haul Away Joe - Mark Anthony Thompson | | • | Dan Dan - David Thomas | | • | Blood Red Roses - Sting | | • | Sally Brown - Teddy Thompson | | • | Lowlands Away - Rufus Wainwright & Kate McGarrigle | | • | Baltimore Whores - Gavin Friday | | • | Rolling Sea - Eliza McCarthy | | • | Haul On The Bowline - Bob Neuwirth | | • | Dying Sailor to His Shipmates - Bono | | • | Bonnie Portmore - Lucinda Williams | | • | The Mermaid - Martin Carthy & the UK Group | | • | Shenandoah - Richard Greene & Jack Shit | | • | The Cry Of Man - Mary Margaret O'Hara |
Disc 2
| • | Boney - Jack Shit | | • | Good Ship Venus - Loudon Wainwright III | | • | Long Time Ago -White Magic | | • | Pinery Boy - Nick Cave | | • | Lowlands Low - Bryan Ferry w/Antony | | • | One Spring Morning - Akron/Family | | • | Hog Eye Man - Martin Carthy & Family | | • | The Fiddler/A Drop Of Nelson's Blood - Ricky Jay & Richard Greene | | • | Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold - Andrea Corr | | • | Fathom The Bowl - John C. Reilly | | • | Drunken Sailor - Dave Thomas | | • | Farewell Nancy - Ed Harcourt | | • | Hanging Johnny - Stan Ridgway | | • | Old Man of The Sea - Baby Gramps | | • | Greenland Whale Fisheries - Van Dyke Parks | | • | Shallow Brown - Sting | | • | The Grey Funnel Line - Jolie Holland | | • | A Drop of Nelson's Blood - Jarvis Cocker | | • | Leave Her Johnny - Lou Reed | | • | Little Boy Billy - Ralph Steadman |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
While working on the two "Pirates Of The Carribean" films, Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski became fascinated with the lore and fable of the pirates and sailors who ran the high seas. Enter legendary producer Hal Wilner, who brings his knack for matching maverick musicians with extraordinary material. Artists on this double disc set include Bono, Sting, Nick Cave, Bryan Ferry, Lou Reed, Richard Thompson, Lucinda Williams, Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, and many more. "Rogue's Gallery" offers a look at the hardships, the horrors, the lusts and lurid depths, and the crystal beauty that led men to the sea in ships for hundreds of years.
Amazon.com
Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski hatched the idea for Rogue's Gallery while filming "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"--that idea being to cast genteel rock superstars like Bono, Lou Reed, Bryan Ferry, Andre Corr, and Sting to reinterpret gritty seafaring standards for an exhaustive 43-track double-disc set produced by Hal Wilner. Throw in a bunch of credible folk stars (Loudon Wainwright III, Richard Thompson), their offspring (Rufus, Teddy) and a string of other curious characters (Jarvis Cocker, Antony) and what results is one of the strangest compilations in recent memory, if not exactly the most historically authentic or, well, digestible. Nick Cave embraces the role just a little too hard on "Fire Down Below," while Ferry can't help but sound like he's singing for the cast of "The Love Boat," but cut through the chaff and there is some real bootie here: Bono's "Dying Sailor to His Shipmates," Jolie Holland's "The Grey Funnel Line" and "Boney" by a mysterious tramp called Jack Sh**, which must be some kind of anagram for Johnny Depp. --Aidin Vaziri
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| Customer Reviews: Read 78 more reviews...
 Very good September 3, 2008
I really like these CDs -- Some don't follow the traditional songs, but they have the heart of them. If you are looking for straight traditional this might not be for you.
 Dreadful and Alarming August 25, 2008
There is a very good chance genuine Pirates could have voices of varying and unusual quality so I will not criticize some of the unique sounds emanating from the CD. However what a mishmash of quality, some good some bad.How about authenticity? What IS this set of CD's? A curiousity methinks, very little else.
 Despite the validity of artistic interpretation... July 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
...and the reputation of Hal Willner, neither can account for how well over half of this album is nigh-unlistenable. If it wasn't touted as being produced by two well known people who made a very traditional pirate movie, then I could accept the decidedly non-traditional nature of the majority of the songs.
Traditionalists: Stay away, or find the handful of songs that are salvageable elsewhere.
Non-traditionalists: Stop ragging on the traditionalists for griping about this badly mis-marketed album. That's fine if you like it. I and many others don't.
If you like sea shanties, don't buy this. July 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A lot of research went into finding the songs to go into this album, so it's a real shame that almost every one of them is completely massacred by the performing artists, if these songs were sung in the way they are supposed to be, i.e. without pop intro's and melodic background music, then the album would probably be fine.
If you are a fan of sea shanties, or if you are just interested in what they sound like, don't buy this album, the well-known names are all a gimmick and the music is unfortunately just awful. Enough to put you off for good.
 Freaks Gallery July 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this! Okay, so it isn't a traditional collection of chanties and sea songs, but it is a great bunch of modern interpretations by a group of freaks. I would love to have been in on the recording session which had Johnny Depp, Nick Cave, Loudon Wainwright, Gavin Friday, John C Relly, the Carthys and Sting all in the same room. There are only a few disapointing tracks. Couldn't someone have thought of a better way to treat Drunken Sailor? That aside, I have been listening to this for 4 days straight. It has also prompted me to read up on some old chanties. Great stuff!!
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