Privateering on MK.COM

[Maxx]

As good as expected!

Sounds a little strange tho when the band comes in, as said.

[Pottel]

man's too strong indeed.
pls people refrain from sharing info with us like our newborn friend jus did, bout wetting himself. there is only so much i can take on an empty stromach :-)

[Pottel]

just kidding of  course

[Banjo99uk]

Thanks for the 2 links. Is their a way of downloading them, or will I have to just record the audio from my PC.

[Jasper90]

Thanks for the 2 links. Is their a way of downloading them, or will I have to just record the audio from my PC.

I think if you stand on the link with your mouse en press the rightbutton you can click on save link (as). For me it worked, hope it works for you too!


Thanks for the link, great to listen to Privateering, love it!

[Banjo99uk]

Thanks for the 2 links. Is their a way of downloading them, or will I have to just record the audio from my PC.

I think if you stand on the link with your mouse en press the rightbutton you can click on save link (as). For me it worked, hope it works for you too!


Thanks for the link, great to listen to Privateering, love it!

Thanks, stupid me didnt realise it was that easy.

[dmg]

Better than the live versions.

[emilianomk]

Good, but I like more the live outro, it has more agressive drums...the backing vocals are great!

[dmg]

I still cringe when he starts humming.   What exactly is he humming?  Is he making something up or what?  I can't make head nor tail of it.

[koobaa]

To me this song is a typical shanty style. The instrumentation, style of singing, humming, "hey heying" in the chorus and general atmosphere fit this genre quite well. Sea shanties were generally sung as work songs, helping sailors perform actions on board that required group effort like hoisting the top sail or the anchor but have later evolved into maritime theme songs, not necessarily meant to help during work but just to tell stories about sailing in the old good days. Wikipedia has a nice article on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_shanty
I wouldn't be surprised if traditional British shanties were the inspiration for MK to tell the story this way.

Interestingly, another song from MK's repertoire that could be considered shanty (although this time not sea shanty) is Railroad Worksong.

[K-alberto]

To me this song is a typical shanty style. The instrumentation, style of singing, humming, "hey heying" in the chorus and general atmosphere fit this genre quite well. Sea shanties were generally sung as work songs, helping sailors perform actions on board that required group effort like hoisting the top sail or the anchor but have later evolved into maritime theme songs, not necessarily meant to help during work but just to tell stories about sailing in the old good days. Wikipedia has a nice article on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_shanty
I wouldn't be surprised if traditional British shanties were the inspiration for MK to tell the story this way.

Interestingly, another song from MK's repertoire that could be considered shanty (although this time not sea shanty) is Railroad Worksong.

Very interesting, thanks!!
Ps: after the redbud tree lyrics, Wikipedia give us another trace of the american civil war period....

[Guitarman1972]

  Don't understand why they made the Privateering sample on MK.com at such a low mp3 bitrate. It makes the song sound awful at certain parts of the song. The part with the band seems very distorted and muddy. Hope it isn't that bad on the real disc.

[Mona Dee]

Hey, where is it ?? Am I blind  At work I could at least watch the link (it was under the link to Redbud Tree, right?) And now I

[Mona Dee]

Thanks to Jeroen

[rudiger]

Love it