Advantages: Good mix of musical moods, suberb vocals and musicianship. Disadvantages: None that I can see
...lyrics and melody.
The Voyage is a good album for the Christy novice listener as it is not as political, perhaps, as some of his other albums.....or at least the songs contained on this album can be interpreted on different levels.There is also a fair mixture of light and shade, of lively and contemplative songs on this album.
The title song has a haunting melody and lyrics which compare a long-term relationship with a sea voyage. The song is quite ... ...a popular choice to be played at weddings.
The Mad Lady and Me has a wonderful narrative and it is up to the listener to conclude if the lyrics are a straight-forward piece of storytelling of are representational of something more profound.
By the same songwriter (Jimmy MacCarthy) is the sublime song Bright Blue Rose which leaves the listener wishing to hear its' complex and (at times) unfathomable lyric over and over again in order to connect ...
Moongazinghare 23.04.2009
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