Mining The Soul [Import]

Mining The Soul [Import]

Track Listings

1. Working Man

2. Plain Ole Miner Boy

3. Emigrant Eyes

4. We Rise Again

5. In a Town This Size

6. Farewell To Nova Scotia

7. Working In a Coal Mine

8. Sweet Jesus

9. Dark As a Dungeon

10. Home I'll Be

11. I Shall Not Walk Alone

Editorial Reviews
Journal Pioneer, Summerside PE, May 2001
"...one of the best Maritime folk albums I've heard in a long time..."

Product Description
From Cape Breton Island, comes the magic of two internationally acclaimed performers; multi-award winning singer-songwriter Rita MacNeil re-unites with The Men of The Deeps, North America's only coal miners' chorus for a heart-felt performance of MINING THE SOUL - an exclusive new recording.

Mining The Soul [Import]

Mining The Soul,Rita MacNeil,The Men of the Deep,Import [Generic],Pop,Rock

Soul Mining
Average customer rating:

The The - The Best Band Ever

Oh what a perfect day for a perfect album

Raw Emotion In Varying Time Signatures

Missing Perfect makes this reissue a bad buy

Soul

Soul Mining
The The
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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I've Been Waitin' For Tomorrow (All My Life)
This Is The Day
The Sinking Feeling
Uncertain Smile
The Twilight Hour
Soul Mining
Giant

Customer Reviews:

The The - The Best Band Ever.......2007-07-31

One of their best CD's. I like the way that they put their music together on a CD. It makes it fun to listen to all the way through.

Oh what a perfect day for a perfect album.......2007-06-02

"This is the perfect day" probably made Matt Johnson of the The a wealthy man. It's one of those "sort of hits" that have gained an odd staying power...you'll hear the song when you least expect it...while you're dining in a restaurant, as you sit at the beach, trying on a pair of shoes in a shoe store, or in my case, as I came off a beautiful ski run on a perfect day a couple of years ago, and it happened to be playing at the lift as I got ready to do another run.

"Soul Mining" is one of those albums you've had sitting in your LP collection for years. Then, you'll hear that one song somewhere, or you'll just think of it, and pull the LP out and say to yourself "Wow, this is just an incredible, timeless album".

As I write this, it's really quite hard to believe that it's been 23 years since this record came out. That feeling is reinforced as you listen to it. It's got a dance beat on the surface, but one of the many emotional themes running through it is the passage of time and how things change in people's lives.

This is truly Matt Johnson/the The's masterpiece. Johnson probes and confronts every aspect of the Jungian shadow with incisive lyrics and genre bending musical influences. Guitars sound like synths and synths like guitars.

The real beauty of this album is that it can be played as background music, or, if you dare, intimate, personal mind exploring journeys.

The album is still timeless in spite of having been recorded during the "synth/dance/80s" era. This is true first because of the wide array of instruments used in the arrangements, including, just as a few examples, marimbas, trumpet, accordion, and poly African rhythms and chants, but equally as much because of the emotional depths Johnson explores.

Personally, I like the original US version (no longer available on CD) that contains the extra song "Perfect", but either way, there's not one filler here. Just a perfect album.

Raw Emotion In Varying Time Signatures.......2007-05-12

I became aware of The The thanks to the M&Ms commercial. The melody was so infectious that the snippet presented to sell candies guaranteed to melt in your mouth and not in your hand was replayed on my internal Playlist loop for days afterward.

Identifying the artist of a song you hear in a commercial is no easy task, and I wasted a lot of time believing it had to be David Bowie. After an hour of searching amongst Bowie's catalogue and finding nothing, I began to suspect I had gone astray from the very start. Fortunately, Google showed me the error of my ways, and I was inducted into the Melodic Angst of Matt Johnson.

'This Is The Day' doesn't really prepare you for the album as a whole. Johnson seems to be exorcising all his demons for public consumption; the anger and despair are palpable in cuts like 'I've Been Waiting For Tomorrow All My Life' and 'That Sinking Feeling'. What else can the listener make of the snarled lyrics, "I'm just a symptom of the moral decay that's gnawing at the heart of the country."? Frankly, this is what the Sex Pistols would have sounded like if they'd had the musical talent to serve as a vehicle for their rage. Not that Johnson's an anarchist, he simply pulls no punches and assigns blame where he feels it belongs. A good portion of it plays like a public confession of his own shortcomings. It certainly displays a lot more self-awareness than the average REO Speedwagon track.

Normally I would reject this kind of project as being overly melodramatic and self absorbed, but Matt Johnson pulled it off exceedingly well. I have begun to sicken on the diet of bland conformity and prurience that passes for popular entertainment these days. It probably depends on what kind of person you are; if you cannot understand why people would sneer at Britnney Spears this CD is probably not for you. If you gravitate towards people still able to think for themselves this is the ticket!

Missing Perfect makes this reissue a bad buy.......2007-04-03

I wish I would have read the reviews of this CD and understood that Perfect was not on the reissue of this CD...I should have gone to the bargain bins to find and old copy. Don't buy this CD...it's a rip. The CD is NOT complete without Perfect. The The is great...The Reissue minus Perfect is not.

Soul .......2007-03-17

THIS ALBUM IS A DEEP LOOK INTO THE TORTURED SOUL OF MATT JOHNSON YET IS ONE OF THE HAPPIEST SOUNDING COLLECTIONS OF MUSIC AVAILABLE. THIS STUCK IWHT ME 20 YEARS AGO AND HAS NEVER LEFT. INCREDIBLE. NOTHING AFTER THIS EVEN COMPARED I THINK,.

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Worthy of a first time review
Jaw dropping
Why people miss the 80's.
This Is The... Album of My Life
What the The F**K?

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I've Been Waiting For Tommorow (All Of My Life)
This Is The Day
The Sinking Feeling
Uncertain Smile
The Twilght Hour
Soul Mining
Gaint
Perfect

Customer Reviews:

Worthy of a first time review.......2007-04-18

I just finished listening to Soul Mining for at least the thousandth time and I knew that I finally had to write my first Amazon review. Soul Mining is definitely on my top five albums list, and I am generally pretty reluctant to list favorites (just too hard to choose). This album hits home every time I listen. I probably have no business writing a review, because I don't know enough about music to be able to explain how it is that this music is so great. The fact is that I enjoy this album so much that I feel compelled to add my voice in its praise. One word that applies to Soul Mining is atmospheric. It also feels timeless. Soul Mining feels as fresh to me now as it did in the 80s when I heard Uncertain Smile for the first time. A friend gave me a mixed tape and I rewound and fast forwarded constantly to get back to Uncertain Smile. When I learned where Uncertain Smile came from, I went out and bought the album. It has been on my "regularly listen to" list ever since. I love the whole album, but I have my favorite tracks: This is the Day, Uncertain Smile, The Twilight Hour, Soul Mining and Perfect. So, if you are thinking of checking this album out, go for it. You won't regret it.

Jaw dropping.......2006-06-12

I can't remember how this album came into my collection, but I do remember the first time I listened to it. There are just a few albums that have had a similar jaw dropping effect on me (Stop Making Sense, Definitely Maybe (can't quite believe it now) and Hunky Dory to name a few. Although the songs are often melancholy, for me they are also oddly uplifting. Thanks Matt.

Why people miss the 80's........2006-04-22

Not surprisingly i'm just another in a long line of people who absolutely loved this album back in the 80's. Here is a fine example of why the 80's had some of the best music of the past 4-5 decades. Matt johnson's deep soulful voice perfectly complemented by the music, which included the wondrful ivory tinkling talents of Joolz Holland, shown to best effect on 'Uncertain Smile' with a blistering heart-pulsating piano finale. 'This is the Day' is a defining moment for a lot of people's 80's musical experience. It's a song i took very much to heart as a younger man back in the 80's 'this is the day, your life will surely change' fuelling the enthusiasm of the 80's which on retrospect was a pretty upbeat decade. This is without doubt one of the top 10 albums to be released in the 80's. This was one of those albums that you would constantly try to inflict on your friends and relatives trying to turn their feeble music listening experience around & showing them what great music they were missing out on. Looking at the dirge that's out there now i spend more time listening to 80's stuff and not for nostalgia's sake but just because the music was better. If i ever gave out a guarantee i would apply it to this CD for i seriously can't believe anyone would be dissapointed with this

This Is The... Album of My Life.......2005-08-05

I don't remember when I heard "This Is The Day" or "Uncertain Smile" for the first time... but there are 2 things I'm certain of these days: from then on I became a devoted admirer of Matt Johnson's music and, secondly, the passion for those 2 songs has remained unhurt since then - and that's probably the attribute I distinguish most in this band: as they say about good wine, The The's music sounds even better with the passing of the years.
That uncommon magnetism for those 2 epics motivated me to purchase "Soul Mining" back in the mid 90's - as soon as I was aged for doing so. From then on, it became gradually the album I enjoy the most from all the ones I have. "Soul Mining" perfectly combines Matt Johnson's amazing song-writing abilities ("How can anyone know me when I don't even know myself" - gosh, this line is simply brilliant!!) with a universe of sounds and rhythms totally adapted to his voice and lyrics. "I've Been Waitin' for Tomorrow (All of My Life)" or "Sinking Feeling" are probably the 2 finest illustrations of this unique mixture on this album. As for my feelings about "GIANT"... there's no need to say anything - the title speaks for itself!
Although my favourite The The's song is not in here - "Out of the Blue (Into the Fire)", I've always regarded "Soul Mining" as The The's finest masterpiece and it's no surprise to see it as a best-ever album for so many people.

What the The F**K?.......2005-02-10

I can no longer recall how I stumbled upon this gem back in the mid 80s, but it was my first exposure to Matt Johnson AKA the The. Since then, I've acquired just about everything he's done. I just recently heard "this is the day" again, appropriately on a beautiful sunny day on the ski slopes, and realized I'd never bought this CD in spite of the LP sitting in my LP collection for the last 20 years and only occasionally seeing the light of the turntable. This is truly the The's masterpiece. On the surface, it's got a danceable beat through most of the album, but make no mistake, Matt Johnson probes and confronts every aspect of the Jungian shadow with incisive lyrics and genre bending musical influences. Guitars sound like synths and synths like guitars. The real beauty of this album is that it can be played as background music, or, if you dare, intimate, personal mind exploring journeys.

Average customer rating:

The Best of Rita McNeil; Mining the Soul
Great voice , reminiscent of Kate Smith
Simply Haunting

Mining The Soul
Rita MacNeil , and The Men of the Deep
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Working Man
Plain Ole Miner Boy
Emigrant Eyes
We Rise Again
In a Town This Size
Farewell To Nova Scotia
Working In a Coal Mine
Sweet Jesus
Dark As a Dungeon
Home I'll Be
I Shall Not Walk Alone

Album Description

From Cape Breton Island, comes the magic of two internationally acclaimed performers; multi-award winning singer-songwriter Rita MacNeil re-unites with The Men of The Deeps, North America's only coal miners' chorus for a heart-felt performance of MINING THE SOUL - an exclusive new recording.

Customer Reviews:

The Best of Rita McNeil; Mining the Soul.......2003-01-17

My husband had mentioned that he had seen Rita McNeil on TV several years ago and really liked her singing style and the lyrics to her music. For his next birthday gift, I began searching for a CD of her music--to no avail. Then I thought of ..., and there was Rita. I ordered The Best of Rita McNeil. He was delighted with his rediscovery of Rita and I am astounded every time I hear her. What a depth of emotion is wrapped up in her voice! We enjoy just sitting and listening in the evening to songs that inspire, delight, and sometimes bring us to tears. We now have the Mining the Soul CD and several of the Sounds of Nova Scotia. Can't get enough of a good thing!

Great voice , reminiscent of Kate Smith.......2002-03-23

What a wonderful CD. We already have 2 of hers and have just ordered 2 more. Would love to see her in concert. I was pleasantly surprised at the voices some of these coal miners had. WONDERFUL!!! I would be curious to know if the coal miners have done any recordings on their own.

Simply Haunting.......2001-05-17

This is a truly wonderful CD. The wonderously melodic voice of Rita MacNeil combines with Men of the Deeps chorus to bring us an authentic feel for the coal mining experience of Cape Breton. While I listen to this Cd I am transported back to the experience that these coal miners have endured, while maintaining the grace that they had in their lives. The experience is simply haunting-- the music haunts me even more when I reflect on the fact that my own Grandfathers were coal miners in Cape Breton, and their songs and stories are these Songs. Rita is simply wonderful--- get this album!!

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Absolutely awesome!

Cantamus

Manufacturer: EMI
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000BM7TYC
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I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Fix You
Everbody's Gotta Learn Sometime
Universal Song
So Deep Is the Night
Bridge Over Troubled Water
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Soul Mining
Rose
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Stay Another Day
Serenade
Allund

Album Description

The Cantamus Girls Choir are a 40 strong female choir whose members are between 13 and 19 from the town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. They have been a local institution since the choir was first formed 38 years ago. They continue to be an inspiration to a community that has suffered in recent years. In an age where we are bombarded by images of teenage pregnancy, drug taking and binge drinking, here is a window on another world of genuine youthful Endeavour, exuberance and dedication. There are sponsored sings and carol concerts to help fund the cost of hiring the coach that takes the choir to recitals all over the UK and Europe. This is no amateur operation, however. Through the network of helpers, voice coaches and relentless rehearsals, this is a multi award-winning group. They are currently the Olympic Choral Champions - a competition which involves 150 choirs from 45 countries. EMI. 2005.

Album Details

The Cantamus Girls Choir Are a 40 Strong Female Choir Whose Members Age Between 13 and 19 from the Former Colliery Town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. They have Become a Local Institution, Since the Choir was First Formed 38 Years Ago, by the Remarkable Pamela Cook Mbe. They Continue to Be an Inspiration to a Community that Has Suffered Pit Closure and Its Inevitable Social Impact. In an Age Where We Are Bombarded by Images of Teenage Pregnancy, Drug Taking and Binge Drinking, Here is a Window on Another World of Genuine Youthful Endeavour, Exuberance and Dedication. There Are Sponsored Sings, and Carol Concerts to Help Fund the Cost of Hiring the Battered Coach that Takes the Choir to Recitals all Over the UK and Europe. This is No Amateur Operation, However. Through the Network of Helpers, Voice Coaches and Relentless Rehearsals, this is a Multi Award-winning Group. They Are Currently the Olympic Choral Champions - a Competition which Involves 150 Choirs from 45 Countries.

Customer Reviews:

Absolutely awesome!.......2005-12-12

This is an amazing album which appeals to young toddlers and old dodderers. It is hard to believe that this breathtaking singing of both popular pieces like "Fix You" and "Everybody's gotta learn sometime" and a few standard classics comes from 13-19 year olds from the middle of England (Robin Hood country; a former coal-mining area)and not from a professional group.

The girls' singing make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, give you goosepimples and bring tears to your eyes - in fact, give you a heart-warming experience!

Buy the album for yourself. Send the single to all your relatives, friends, classmates, teachers. They'll love you for it!

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