Great Big Sea: Difference between revisions

=== Tropes involving [[Great Big Sea]] include: ===

* [[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:

There's a lousy smell that smacks of Hell, and dust all in me hair! }}

** Justified, given that the dust in such a factory is probably just as toxic and life-shortening as anything else there, and he's covered in it.

* [[Audience Participation Song]]: Lots of 'em.

* [[Deal with the Devil]]: ''Straight to Hell''. Strangely enough, both sides get exactly what they want: A life of Rock and Roll in exchange for One Eternal Soul. ''Straight To Hell'' is easiest one of the cheeriest stories of eternal damnation there is. The chorus:

I'm going straight to hell. }}

* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Their [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OENjixZd_Oo video of "The End of the World as We Know It"] has a lot of images of St. John's, Newfoundland, where they got their start. The easternmost place in North America, it really is the "end of the world as we know it," in a geographic, if not temporal, sense.

* [[The Fun in Funeral]]: ''The Night Patty Murphy Died'' starts out with a gang of hoodlums stowing a bottle of booze in Patty's casket as a makeshift beer-fridge, and ends with the "mourners" so smashed that they end up leaving the body at the tavern.

* [[Henpecked Husband]]: "Scolding Wife".

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.

* [[Libation for the Dead]]: "The Night That Pat Murphy Died".

* [[Long-Distance Relationship]]: "Boston and St. John's"

I'm a rover, can you love me anyway? }}

* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: "Haven't Seen You in a Long Time" is a very upbeat, cheery-sounding track . . . in which the singer laments about the unfortunate accidents of timing which have prevented him from being with the woman he loves, and asks her if she remembers him at all.