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Drunken Sailor – Public Domain Sea Shanty

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Re: Drunken Sailor – Public Domain Sea Shanty

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Post by app4soft »

thesuperbigfrog wrote: post #17
ryan-allen wrote: post #3

2021 is the year of the Sea Shanty!

"Soon may the Wellerman come" remix: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDTaeqUEWNQ

And The Irish Rovers just few hours ago premiered their "The Wellerman" lyrics video, filmed in New Zealand, in 1977.[0,1]

[0] https://twitter.com/TheIrishRovers/status/135089392047392358...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhYPCb4RQDc

Re: Drunken Sailor – Public Domain Sea Shanty

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whymauri wrote: post #19
bagels wrote: post #16

All the comments seem to be aware of some context that this fits in to. Anyone care to share?

Sea Shanties are a big TikTok meme right now.

> Sea Shanties are a big TikTok meme right now

... and on Twitter too ;)

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1349466269121179653

[1] https://twitter.com/search?q=sea+shanty+OR+seashanty+OR+seas...

Re: Drunken Sailor – Public Domain Sea Shanty

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Post by ryanar »

axaxs wrote: post #24

Not sure where all the shanty love on HN has come from, but I'm loving it. Obligated to share my favorite, a youtube classic of sorts by this point: https://youtu.be/49FWp7WLYKw

Shanty love came from a TikTok viral video: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-delig...

Re: Drunken Sailor – Public Domain Sea Shanty

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Post by ryanar »

kevinventullo wrote: post #20
bagels wrote: post #16

All the comments seem to be aware of some context that this fits in to. Anyone care to share?

For whatever reason, old-timey Sea Shanties have become a popular music genre among young people in the last few weeks. In particular, a song called The Wellerman has become wildly popular.

TikTok had a viral sea shanty: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-delig...

Re: Drunken Sailor – Public Domain Sea Shanty

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Post by ryanar »

fuball63 wrote: post #18
bagels wrote: post #16

All the comments seem to be aware of some context that this fits in to. Anyone care to share?

I keep seeing references to sea shanties everywhere, but I haven't been able to figure out why either.

TikTok had a video go viral: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-delig...

Re: Drunken Sailor – Public Domain Sea Shanty

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Post by app4soft »

felixr wrote: post #11
tomcam wrote: post #10

Some much much better versions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X8T1MonrPs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_RWtdm81WU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkJtHXfRH74 Warning: incredibly sexist lyrics in one of the verses

I don't think was posted because of its sound quality, but because it was implemented using an OPL2 aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YM3812

> sound quality

To be clear, there also MMPZ & MIDI (score) files available, so you may do anything to "improve" quality by editing it with LMMS or MuseScore apps, even by fully replacing instruments or much deeper mixing ;)

Re: Drunken Sailor – Public Domain Sea Shanty

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Post by ryanar »

tomcam wrote: post #10

Some much much better versions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X8T1MonrPs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_RWtdm81WU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkJtHXfRH74 Warning: incredibly sexist lyrics in one of the verses

Are you talking about the captains daughter line? That was a nickname for a cat o nine tails, aka a flogger.
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