Seriously though, my favorite: Johhny Depps collab sea shanty albums with many famous artists: Rogues Gallery 1 and 2. Anyone care to share? The lyrics are not historically accurate: for example, both the Battle … The term shanty most accurately refers to a specific style of work song belonging to this historical … Pay Me My Money Down 11. A sea shanty, chantey, or chanty is a type of traditional folk song that was once commonly sung as a work song to accompany rhythmical labor aboard large merchant sailing vessels.They were found mostly on British and other European ships, and some had roots in lore and legend. A long time ago I had occasion to visit Wales and witnessed harmony singing at a very grand scale. I don't think was posted because of its sound quality, but because it was implemented using an OPL2 aka. That is a really interesting question. Bengal Bay 9. Santiana 3. Playing back the midi tune reminds me on Monkey Island. Which always leaves me wondering how common this would have been in the 1800s. JFTR, Russia (ex-Moskovia) not exists until 1240s. Not sure where all the shanty love on HN has come from, but I'm loving it. Also an honorable mention: Heave Away [1], [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLeGXzZki-s, [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdhdC0Mbqak, [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIwzRkjn86w, [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RALnF8RtITs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X8T1MonrPs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_RWtdm81WU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkJtHXfRH74, Warning: incredibly sexist lyrics in one of the verses, Just open MIDI file in MuseScore (or MMPZ file in LMMS) and improve it ;). https://twitter.com/klei/status/1009866739172007936. One of my favorite sea shanties: Jack was Every Inch a Sailor [0], Another good one: Barrett's Privateers [2]. https://twitter.com/peterswellman/status/1276883249369882625... https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-delig... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25814759#25816838, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnGM0BlA95I, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYO_B5Nj8QY, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#Golden_Age_of_Kyiv, https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1350811772245172228, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLeGXzZki-s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdhdC0Mbqak, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIwzRkjn86w, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RALnF8RtITs, https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1350904572450123778, https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1350932615889616898, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKpolq7-8yM. Rio Grande 3. Sixteen years later the group is still going very strong with 12 members, including half of the original line-up. Donkey Riding 7. Expanding a bit more on that, basically among every local community there were some people that were better at singing compared to the others. Thanks a million. After going viral, it scored him a record deal with Polydor. This song reached Poland in the early 20 century, and it is known here by the title "Morskie opowieÅci" (Marine Tales) - we've got creative, so there are something like 500 different verses recorded. Mingulay Boat Song 5. LOCAL sea shanty and folk music group GU10 is keeping busy during lockdown as sea shanty popularity has taken off again thanks to TikTok. Possibly the world's greatest ever news report. Of course it was on a 33 1/3 LP. Sometimes I idly think of just modding Dishonored's setting and visual design into Mark of the Ninja. Seriously though, my favorite: Johhny Depps collab sea shanty albums with many famous artists: Rogues Gallery 1 and 2. The Coast of High Barbary 12. I might be biased, but I really like the one the crew on Statsraad Lehmkuhl sings when the ship sails into it's home port of Bergen [0]. https://twitter.com/TheIrishRovers/status/135089392047392358... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhYPCb4RQDc, https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1349466269121179653. Those were much, much more enjoyable to listen to. Origin. Back in the days when listening to music at home meant playing it, was your average group of scalawags always going to have a few people who sang in the church choir as kids and knew things like oblique harmony? General Taylor 6. TikTok is a video social media site which soared sea shanties to popularity recently with Scottish postman Nathan Evans’ performance of the New Zealand whaling shanty The Wellerman. In particular, a song called The Wellerman has become wildly popular. edit: Two more things: (1) higher layers of society tended to be derogatory towards the culture of the lower layers (I guess somewhat necessarily in order to differentiate and maintain status), so a lot of what you learn about history of music tends to be just about the music of the nobility, which often was just a small percent of the population; (2) also, singing is actually very close to speaking and shouting (see e.g. Kyivan Rus' was composed of several principalities ruled by the interrelated Rurikid knyazes ("princes"), who often fought each other for possession of Kyiv.[1]. I didn't know that. GU10 was formed in 2005 by Pete Falla, a shanty group of 10 men, to sing at a handful of gigs as part of the Year of the Sea celebrations, marking 200 years since the Battle of Trafalgar. Billy O'Shea 4. Off To Sea 8. I'm also pretty partial to the Stan Rogers one. There once was a ship that put to sea The name of the ship was the Billy of Tea The winds blew up, her bow dipped down O blow, my bully boys, blow Soon may the Wellerman come To bring us sugar and tea and rum One day, when the tonguin' is done We'll take our leave and go She had not been two weeks from shore When down on her a right whale bore [0], > The Varangians later assimilated into the Slavic population and became part of the first Rus' dynasty, the Rurik Dynasty. That's a great version of it. Blow the Man Down 13. Only for so long until Rust is taking over. That may be true, but going viral on TikTok garners a lot more media coverage than going viral on YouTube these days. Wild Mountain Thyme 15. Best I got (which is not great) is: what do we do with a trendy fad post? I just played[0] with speeding it from 120BPM to 240BPM. [3] https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BA_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B... To be clear, there also MMPZ & MIDI (score) files available, so you may do anything to "improve" quality by editing it with LMMS or MuseScore apps, even by fully replacing instruments or much deeper mixing ;), Another better one, synthesized rather than recorded: https://youtu.be/idXYwYgcFEs (Cylob). Stan Rogers at his best. lock him in the galley till he gets sober, Drunken Sailor â Public Domain Sea Shanty. / Soon may the It was written and first sung as a shanty by the crews of whaling boats working for the biggest whaling and export company out of New Zealand, named Weller. So it was more or less unavoidable to be familiar with singing to some extent. Not sure I understand. > Drunken Whaler. Frission every time I hear it. We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. Great Big Seaâs version is my favourite: Leave her Johnny was one of my favorites from the Assassinâs Creed IV: Black Flag Soundtrack. Sugar in the Hold 5. The latter is by far the best gameplay wise; Dishonored has unsurpassed world-building. [0], [0] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1351125588292067329, Here's an official statement, if you like, regarding Dishonored: https://twitter.com/gogcom/status/1229435857213575173, Mark of the Ninja: Two great action stealth games came out in 2012 that share many similarities (or perhaps, their Thief legacy): Dishonored and Mark of the Ninja. Many of the tunes date back to the 18th century. Santiana 2. Sea Shanties are a big TikTok meme right now. That was a nickname for a cat o nine tails, aka a flogger. /s. https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BA_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YM3812, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDTaeqUEWNQ. Safe and Sound 6. I was into sea shantiea before they were cool! Sugar in the Hold 14. Crossing the Bar 12. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25814759#25816838. I definitely took liberties with extending fad to be two syllables covering the last two notes. /s. Shipping Forecast … It seems to me that while the original song was uploaded to youtube, it was the tiktok video that made it go viral. Every time I see that clip I feel obliged to point out the green shirt guy who shows up around 1:50 on the far left singing the harmony. I'm not going to link to e-commerce sites in a thread about public domain music, sorry. For whatever reason, old-timey Sea Shanties have become a popular music genre among young people in the last few weeks. FTR, I just re-rendered this Sea Shanty MIDI file into looped video[0] with a 240BPM (original is 120BPM) using MuseScore 3.6[1] app. BUY CD BUY ON ITUNES. The theme of the shanty, which dates from at least the 1850s, may have been inspired by topical events in the news related to conflicts between the armies of Mexico, commanded by Antonio López de Santa Anna, and the U.S., commanded by Zachary Taylor, in the Mexican–American War.. FTR, On May 5, 2020 also few other Sea Shanties from The Longest Johns's «Between Wind and Water» (2018) album, uploaded on YouTube: "Santiana"[1], "Off to Sea"[2], "Spanish Ladies"[3], "Haul Away Joe"[4], "General Taylor"[5], "Mingulay Boat Song"[6], "Banks of Newfoundland"[7], "Sugar in the Hold"[8], "Wild Mountain Thyme"[9]. And singing tended to be required in some form, as part of various rituals (e.g. That top comment made me lose it at 4am :D. One of my favorites as a kid. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KO7cofMJH0, [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD4gLEBGSkE, [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-OJtDapSuA, [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24O3dtse-94, [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dIA6H9vLKU, [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mVWlZqxM4k, [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7OkqjVFmFA, [7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3qhmblFEL4, [8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVmmxbNm33Y, [9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go6v6R5pD7A. LOCAL sea shanty and folk music group GU10 is keeping busy during lockdown as sea shanty popularity has taken off again thanks to TikTok. 1. Such enthusiasm, such bitterness! super picky, but your words either require an awkard mellisma on "fad" or the wrong accent: interNET because of the substitute of SAILor for NETfad. Listen now only on Spotify: centuries-old sailor songs gone viral - it's sea shanty season, baby. Go to www.guernseypress.com/gponline to subscribe to our discounted online edition. Blockchain where the proof-of-work is shanties. Sometimes there's no easy solution to such puzzles. Silver Darlin's.