Jonah's Ark

Jonah's Ark

Track Listings

1. Thinking Allowed

2. Cry of the Land

3. Schadenfreude

4. Near Life Experience

5. Wickedest Man in the World

6. Earth Mother, The Sun and the Furious Host

7. Ilk of Human Blindness

8. Tunnel Visionaries

9. Word to the Wise

10. Bewilderbeast

11. It Wasn't Meant to End This Way

Jonah's Ark,Skyclad,Noise,Heavy Metal,Pop,Progressive Metal,Rock,Thrash

Noah's Ark and Jonah and the Whale
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Noah's Ark and Jonah and the Whale
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Direct Source Label
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Children's Music | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000DES38
Release Date: 2005-02-22

Tracks:

It's Bible Time
Noah's Ark (Story)
Jesus Bid the Children Come
Bringing in the Sheaves
Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Daniel & The Lion's Den (Story)
I Am a Child
Onward Christian Soldiers
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Fairest Lord Jesus
Let All Things Now Living
Let the Rain Come Down
Little Sleepy Head
Good-Bye for Now

Tracks:

It's Bible Time
Jonah & The Whale (Story)
This Little Light of Mine
He Leadeth Me
Good Book
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
Creation (Story)
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Kumbaya
Children Go Where I Send Thee
Tell Me the Stories of Jesus
You Can't Keep a Good Man Down
I've Got a Peace Like a River
Now the Day Is Over
Good-Bye for Now

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Like Spinal Tap But Better
Unique folk-thrash!

Jonah's Ark
Skyclad
Manufacturer: Noise
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Progressive Metal | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Thrash & Speed Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00009KU67
Release Date: 2003-08-12

Tracks:

Thinking Allowed
Cry of the Land
Schadenfreude
Near Life Experience
Wickedest Man in the World
Earth Mother, The Sun and the Furious Host
Ilk of Human Blindness
Tunnel Visionaries
Word to the Wise
Bewilderbeast
It Wasn't Meant to End This Way

Customer Reviews:

Like Spinal Tap But Better.......2006-01-26

If you're over 12, you've probably grown out of this and are investing your money on more grown up things like acne cream.

What a pity! Because I find Skyclad's brand of folk-tinged prog-thrash, with teen-angst lyrics about the impending doom of the Universe delightful in the same way Spinal Tap or Iron Maiden at their most overblown were.

Lyrics that ignore the Eternal Feminine (babes, chicks, etc.) and novel touches like mandolins and acoustic guitars played over the more basic rock elements, mark them out as a band striving to create their own unique musical universe, in which songs like "A Word to the Wise" and "Cry of the Land" can exist on their own terms as epics.

Unique folk-thrash!.......2004-12-16

Skyclad is another band on the long list of underappreciated and relatively little known musicians, who deserved so much more than that. "Jonah's Ark" is their third album that continues their shift from heavy mid-tempo thrashing sound into more mellow folksy territories. The band's style is still more thrash than anything else, but it is actually their last truly metal album.

Skyclad sound is hard to describe, as they are so much unlike others. But you'll learn to instantly recognize Martin Walkyier's poisonous raspy vocals, and their trademark violin, which gained more time and place on "Jonah's Ark" than it had on its predecessor. This album is impressively diverse. It starts out with a violin and a mandolin intro, which changes to a thrashing guitar riff of "Thinking Allowed", one of the best songs here. "Cry of the Land" is another highlight. Written in a 3/4 time signature, it presents the band's unusually mellow playing, with many acoustic guitars, and a dominating violin, perhaps, for the first time in their discography. From there on the music gets darker, heavier and thrashier, with complex rhythm patterns, heavy guitars and raspy singning, with occasional acoustic interludes. The violin is always present, either adding melodic licks to the background, or leading the band. Track #6, "Earth Mother, The Sun and the Furious Host", is the strongest of the bunch. It is a fast medieval dance played with thrash-metal riffing and some raspy singing. A clear descendant from the previous album's "Spinnig Jenny", which was also a mind-blowing song! "Tunnel Visionaries" is a brief narative track. "Bewilderbeast" shows how to turn a flamenco guitar into a thrash-metal riff. The final track provides a very unexpected soft conclusion to this, rather heavy album.

Throughout the album Martin Walkyier treats us with his great lyricist skills. He has an amazing command of the language, and I consider him to be metal's best poet.

Following Skyclad's career, I can say that "Jonah's Ark" is their first album which showed how to seamlessly integrate violin in a heavy texture of thrash-metal. This album was excitingly unusual when it was out, and, while not the very best that Skyclad put out, it is still a collection of very good songs from the true pioneers of folk-metal sound.

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Jonah's Ark
Skyclad
Manufacturer: Sanctuary
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000LX3XQO

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