Singing in the Spirit Home

Singing in the Spirit Home Artist: Eric Bogle
Label: Flying Fish
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 5


UPC: 724353552022
EAN: 0724353552022
ASIN: B000062WC8


Release Date: 2001-11-15

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Tracks:

  1. Now I'm Easy
  2. No Man's Land (Green Fields of France)
  3. Front Row Cowboy
  4. Song of the Whale
  5. Dan
  6. Aussie BBQ Song
  7. Shining River
  8. Lady from Bendigo
  9. I Hate Wogs
  10. Leaving Nancy
  11. And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
  12. Belle of Broughton
  13. Scraps of Paper
  14. He's Nobody's Moggy Now
  15. If Wishes Were Fishes
  16. Bushfire
  17. Enigma
  18. Hard Hard Times
  19. Do You Know Any Bob Dylan?
  20. Safe in the Harbour
  21. Little Gomez
  22. Reason for It All
  23. Glasgow Lullaby
  24. My Youngest Son Came Home Today
  25. When the Wind Blows
  26. Wilderness
  27. Silly Slang Song
  28. Harry's Wife
  29. Shelter
  30. What Kind of Man
  31. Feed the Children
  32. Blues for Alex
  33. Leaving the Land
  34. Something of Value
  35. Rosie
  36. Peace Has Broken Out
  37. Singing the Spirit Home
  38. Katie and the Dreamtime Land
  39. Welcome Hme
  40. Don't You Worry About That
  41. Plastic Paddy
  42. Somewhere in America
  43. One Small Life
  44. Short White Blues
  45. Vanya
  46. Mirrors
  47. Gift of Years
  48. Wouldn't Be Dead for Quids - Eric Bogle, Arno
  49. Small Miracles
  50. Keeper of the Flame
  51. Standing in the Light
  52. Diggers Legacy
  53. Dedication Day
  54. Golden City
  55. Troy's Song
  56. Ekka's Silver Jubilee Song
  57. Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo
  58. Blessing
  59. One Small Star
  60. End of an Auld Song

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Too much Bogle is barely enough.......2004-04-28

This five CD set covers all of Bogle's best work and then some. The songs are thoughtfully selected by the man himself and it shows. There is none of that jarring you get with most greatest hits collections. One songs slides seamlessly into the next with a good sense of timing and taste. Eric can get a bit oversentimental at times in the lyrics and delivery (Scraps of Paper) but he can also touch the heart (Nancy)and make you think (No Man's Land).

5 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Compilation.......2003-12-05

At first I hestitated to buy this one, because of the price, and because I already had many of the songs on other tapes. (It is, after all, a greatest-hits compilation.) But I wanted the better quality of the CD, and I didn't have several of the newer albums, AND, for a 5 CD set, the price was really eminently reasonable. So I took the plunge. And I'm glad I did.

This set is worth every penny, and more. Eric Bogle deserves to be far better known that he is. His best known songs, in fact, are, in my opinion, far from his best work. He can be, at his worst, more than a little bit sappy and sentimental, and songs like "No Man's Land", "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" and "Scraps of Paper"(as well as some lesser known cuts like "Rosie" and "Front Row Cowboy") showcase this.

But he can also be hysterically funny ("Do You Know Any Dylan" "Aussie BBQ Song") and, his best stuff is direct-from-the-heart, deeply moving. I DARE you to not cry the first time (or the fiftieth) you hear "Leaving Nancy". (His memories of bidding his mother good-bye as he left Scotland for Australia as a young man.) Other wonderful cuts that you'll listen to again and again include "Shelter", (his gift to his adopted country...) "What Kind of Man," "My Youngest Son Came Home Today," and "Glasgow Lullabye," as well as the title song "Singing the Spirit Home."

(I'll add here that I haven't yet listened to the fifth disk of the set, so I can't comment on it.)

Added bonuses include interesting, witty, liner notes.

If your only knowlege of Eric Bogle is "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" do yourself a favor and discover what a versitile writer/performer he is. You won't be sorry. (And if you already know and love his work, treat yourself to this great set.)

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