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Although the song's origin is uncertain, its original subject could be Charles Edward Stuart ('Bonnie Prince Charlie'): [3] after the defeat of the Prince at the Battle of Culloden in 1746 and his subsequent exile, his Jacobite supporters could have sung this song or one like it in his honour; and thanks to the ambiguity of the term "Bonnie", which can refer to a woman as well as to a man ...
In a review for AllMusic, Dave Lynch wrote: "Some great music from Sea Level was still to come, but the best moments of Cats on the Coast wouldn't be topped." [2]Exposé's Peter Thelen stated that, with the album, "there... seemed to be a new emphasis on the vocal material, which seemed to be changing from a country funk sound into more of a funky white soul a la Boz Scaggs.
The song was the second from Baroness to appear on music charts, spending five weeks on the Billboard Active Rock chart. [2] Much like the group's previous single, a music video was filmed in 2012 while the band was touring with Meshuggah. [3] The video was directed by Jimmy Hubbard and released in January 2013. [4]
The song appears on an album of the same name released by Rogers in 1981, and is considered one of the classic songs in Canadian music history. When Peter Gzowski of CBC's national radio program Morningside asked Canadians to pick an alternative national anthem , "Northwest Passage" was the overwhelming choice of his listeners.
The lyrics juxtapose the many marvels and feats of human civilisation with the death of the natural world, constantly emphasising the passing of time — "Time is not a friend, 'cos friends we're out of time". The recording features a lead guitar solo in the style of George Harrison. Lennon originally wrote a guitar solo for the song.
A chilling animation from Nasa shows how far the sea level has risen in the past 30 years.. In the visualisation, the average level rises by over 10cm between 1993 and 2022. “As the planet warms ...
Newfoundland folk-rockers Great Big Sea covered the song on their 1997 album Play under the title "End of the World". Their version is a minute and a half shorter than R.E.M.'s, yet still contains all the verses (the faster time is achieved primarily by their increasing the tempo).
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