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[[Great Big Sea]] is a band from Newfoundland, on the East Coast of Canada, probably the best-known band to come from there - certainly the best-known outside Newfoundland for ''being'' from Newfoundland. They were active as a band from 1993 to 2013.
Their music is often energetic pop-rock (mixed with slower folk ballads) infused with a Newfoundland sound, which can be mistaken for an Irish one at a distance. This results in a Celtic sound that has proved popular with listeners from around the country. About half of their repertoire is simply their interpretations of traditional Newfoundland sea shanties, drinking songs, folk songs, etc. Well, the sea shanties and folk songs are mostly about drinking too.
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* [[Something Something Leonard Bernstein]]: "It's The End of the World As We Know It"
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* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: "The Chemical Worker's Song" describes the horrific conditions faced in the chemical industry. It follows that the first verse uses this very dryly:
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I'd thank him for his pain
I swear to God I'll hang meself if I get married again }}
* [[Hilarious Outtakes]]: On the Great Big CD & DVD, [[Alan Doyle]] begins a song with the wrong verse, stops singing, asks the audience for "your amnesia to forget that ever happened", and has Sean ask if he plans to sing it right this time. On the DVD you can see Darrell cuff him on the head.
* [[In the Style Of]]: Their cover of R.E.M.'s "It's [[The End of the World as We Know It]] (And I Feel Fine)", sped up about three times.▼
* [[I Will Wait for You]]: Subverted in ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63fwojdvwn8 Dream to Live]''. First, its told from the guy's perspective, who tried to make his fortune in Boston. Second, he hopes desperately that she is still waiting for him... until she lets him down in the letter. He ends up moving on and starting a family of his own, but is left wondering "what if".
▲* [[In the Style Of]]: Their cover of R.E.M.'s "It's [[The End of the World as We Know It]] (And I Feel Fine)", sped up about three times.
* [[Inaction Video]]: The official video of "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wcjBU8zbdY Ordinary Day]" has the band singing while a rugby game takes place around them.
* [[Libation for the Dead]]: "The Night That Pat Murphy Died".
* [[Long-Distance Relationship]]: "Boston and St. John's"
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* [[One-Woman Song]]: "Sally Anne", "Penelope", "Margarita".
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful]]: In "John Barbour" a princess has gotten pregnant. When the king finds out that the father, John Barbour, isn't nobility, he plans to have him killed. But when the king sees how incredibly handsome the father is ("If I were a woman as I am a man, [[Even the Guys Want Him|my bedfellow you would be]]"), the king gives him the princess's hand in marriage, and offers to let him "take charge of all my lands."
* [[Shotgun Wedding]]: "Hit the Ground and Run" (co-written with [[Russell Crowe]]) tells the story of a poor boy who finds himself in this situation.
* [[Shout-Out]]: In "Ordinary Day", the second verse begins "Janie sings on the corner, what keeps her from dying? / Let them say what they want, she won't stop trying". [[Word of God]] from
▲* [[Something Something Leonard Bernstein]]: "It's The End of the World As We Know It" again - [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Studio Chatter]]: Several songs, which makes sense given their history of [[Audience Participation]]. For example, in "Jakey's Gin", one singer excitedly tells the other to start singing an entirely different drinking song.
* [[Talk About the Weather]]: "How Did We Get From Saying I Love You" is about two people whose relationship has devolved into awkward pauses and discussions about the weather.
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