Boiled in Lead's first two albums on a single CD.
A great buy if only for the amount of music you get; if you like music on
the fringes of the electric folk movement -- Black47 or the Pogues, for instance
-- you need to give this set a try.
My favourites:
"Twa Corbies" -- one of the spookiest and most ominous versions of this trad
murder ballad i have ever heard.
"House-Husband's Lament (Rockin' the Cradle)" -- the lament of a man who
made a Great Mistake in love. Wry, twisted, and funny.
"Gypsy Rover" -- same song as the Clancy Bros' "Whistling Gypsy" -- but they'd
never recognise it -- a screaming punked-out high-voltage version.
"Go Move Shift" -- a bitter and sardonic commentary on the way the homeless
and jobless are all too often harried from place to place.(by Ralph McTell,
i believe)
These are the standouts -- but there isn't a really *bad* track on the album.
Get it.
[Incidentally,
if you like Boiled in Lead and also enjoy good, original fantasy fiction,
you should definitely check out the books of
Will
Shetterley,
Steven
Brust and
Emma
Bull {particularly her War for the Oaks,
set largely in the Minneapolis music community}]
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