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Save This House

Spirit of the West

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Album Review

Signing to a major label prior to releasing Save This House did little to dampen the politically charged music Spirit of the West had built their early career on. The signing only meant that more Canadians than ever would be exposed to their Celtic-tinged rock. Indeed, with Save This House, the band scored their biggest success to date. However, it was not the environmental message of the title track or the anti-capitalist sentiments of "Putting Up with the Joneses" that struck a chord with Canadian audiences, but rather the raucous, heavily Pogues influenced "Home for a Rest." Written while the band was touring England, the song, with its singalong chorus (which included the lines "I've been gone for a week/I've been drunk since I left/These so called vacations will soon be my death/I'm so sick from the drink/I need home for a rest") soon became a college radio hit. Other strong tracks include "Roadside Attraction," "Water in the Well," and "The Old Sod."

Customer Reviews

More than just "Home for a Rest"

If you absolutely have to get up and dance (or at least jump around wildly) when "Home for a Rest" is playing, you will like this album. If you can't understand what the fuss is about, you almost certainly won't. "Puttin' Up with the Joneses," "The Old Sod" and "Save this House" are singable, catchy songs right from the first time you hear them. The other songs might take a couple of listens, but the fiddle and flute and lyric hooks are solid enough to get you to like the whole album. There are at most one or two weak tracks -- depending on your taste of course.

Their Spirit Is Definetely Alive!!

I Love this album especially home for a rest. I always dance to it at any wedding. Everything on this a Jem. Enjoy it.

Is there a better Progressive Activist album?

is there? === "I'm not worried, it's a 1,000,000 miles away yeah i saw the news it happens every day some Cronkite look-a-like numb from what he's reading wake me up! wake me up! it's one of us that's scream'n Save this House.... save this House, the Party's gotta end the Welcome Mat's worn out the roof will never mend the furniture's on fire this House is a disgrace someone change the locks before we trash this place Save this House... i'm not worried it's a 1,000,000 miles away yeah i saw the News it happened yesterday soem Cronkite look-a-like numb from what he read wake me up! wake me up! it's one of us that's dead Save this House" === BlueBerry Pick'n can be found @ ThisCanadian.com ~~~ "We, two, form a Multitude" ~ Ovid. ~~~ "Silent Freedom is Freedom Silenced"

Biography

Formed: 1983 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Cana

Genre: Singer/Songwriter

Years Active: '90s

Geoffrey Kelly, J. Knutson, and John Mann comprise this Vancouver band. They play Celtic music mixed...
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