Oh~ The raft of medusa by Gericault~~ Pretty combines with the song =P. Really beautiful as always! Keep up the good work.

How in the world does it fit with the song!? D=
Really it's just an attention grabber =P
Thank you!

Well it is more dramatical in the picture but indeed it's super happy the song. And I resemble the picture with pirates rather the suffering lol.

Yarrrrrrr!

Aaaaah!

I don't want the details here, I can tell they're gross. :D But you know, power in performance reveals the real emotions behind such vile crassnesses. Masturbation is but the physicality, who knows what majesty creeps behind such things? Your singing's really strong here, I'm sure that means you're personally invested in the topic.

Gross? Not at all, my good sir! I did not write the texts... Now as to why I chose to set those to music... well... Ahem.
Very much so! But I seldom let my hand do any dirty work on my own person.

That's a luxury position!

Exactly! It's a Sicilian dialect. Thank you! =D

This is so much fun! I love it. ^o^

And believe it or not, the lyrics are about having so much fun too! You can also put that ending 'too' in that sentence two words before it appears. ¬¬
And thank you!!!

I used to live with a couple of pirateophiles and swore that if I ever heard an accordion again I'd smash something. Here, though, it really comes to show that when it's not played like one having been twenty-five years at sea, it really is a becoming instrument, especially to a rythm as fast-paced and fluent as these.

Hahaha! Oh dear... I can only imagine! We're not trying to be pirates here. The twenty five years at sea song is about an Italian fisherman who is working in the waters of Spain and is ... ahem... Practising every day so that when he goes back to his lady he'll be ready to... yeah. *cough* The first song is not much better in that respect... =P
Ahem, you didn't ask that! Well, we're happy that we've managed to show you the other side of the accordion. It's a grand instrument if you know how to play it!

This makes me happy. ^_^

Both songs are being a little too happy, *nudge, nudge, wink, wink* so hurrah! We're glad you like them!!! =D

AWESOME! Makes me dance lol

Ha, they actually are in the style of dances! Wonderful that that got across!!! =D

What bouncy songs you played, very different than those more ancient songs. Sounds like a real shindig is going on (and euh... based on one of your comments earlier... I think I know someone is having too much fun ). I suddenly don't want to know the lyrics... so lets just enjoy the music instead

Ha! And how, on both counts!
Yeah, the music is pretty cool, and don't worry, the words aren't that bad! They're commonly sung in parties that play this sort of music (most of these days it's techno and what have you, but sometimes!).
Well, we all hope you did; thanks! =D

it sounds like these were really fun to record!!
buon anno a te ed a tutti del quintetto dubbio!!

They were, totally! Much more fun than most things we do, but everything is cool. =D
Thanks a tonne! A happy new year to you as well. =D
(And if that title I wrote here were real -which it's not- you might want to translate it as dubbioso, or you'd be saying the doubt quintet! Are you studying Italian?)

oopsie! hahah yeah i am studying it, but not well apparently X3

Ah, it's a minor mistake!

Last dance party on the sinking raft while the last rum barrel is still full, regret nothing!
On the icon the party already comes to an end.. half of them thew their shirts and trousers overboard, the other half is in a alcohol-induced coma. Contemplating grandpa has the headache of his life and the young guy with the cloth just doesn't want to stop dancing, stop it! stop it!

Do I want to know the lyrics?

Ha! Poor granddad, not only does he have to live through the waves, but a raving lunatic's screams as well!

You might! The first song, that has nothing to do with the icon, is about having sex during a mother's visit on a Saturday night, and the second one (twenty five years at sea) is about a boat of fishermen who are wrecked and manage to find their way to Spain and start to earn money to return home to italy by fishing... and one of these sailors is 'practising' all the time so that when he returns to his lover he'll know what to do. It's rather funny, as it seems that he's seeing his gal's face in the waves and is using the fish... I think I can stop there! Lots of innuendo and silly things like that. Not worth translating. =P

I have this wonderful urge to sing along with the first song, even if the song is about... that. I'd love to know the lyrics so I can. o.o;

Haha, wonderful! At least no-one will understand you unless you go to Italy, and if you do, they'll probably sing along with you (well, maybe not... these lyrics are very unknown!).

Maybe. Just maybe, in some little, isolated town in Sicily! I might get a nice party or something going. Haha.

We're totally going down a different route now! The realm of folk music.

If only, my friend. If only...

Heh, I suppose I should not be perplexed about you anymore. I'm not going to pretend that I am *the* connoisseur of folk music, and while you passed the official seal of approval, there are some points I would like to discuss. Critical consensus if you will...

The song works really well as shanty, with your flamboyant vocals and all. Although I must say, going a little lower every now and then would work well without reducing the jolliness as whole. All in all this reminds me a little to much of something that would work well as a 'summer hit' for the radioes. I mean the whole jolliness and accessibility of the song than what it really is.

I could perfectly picture it being played at a bar in the middle of Madrid.

Still, I wouldn't mind if you did more of this in the future, that's for sure.

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who was reminded of more modern radio songs that have a similar composition (and execution!) to the first piece.

Still though! This is definitely preferable to each one of them, and I for one love the slightly extravagant vocals.

Aye, and if songs from Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan or the likes make it to the radio, why not this?

That would be too fun.

Seems like this recording is long gone. Shame, since this was how I discovered Random and it remained a favourite of mine... Makes me wonder if this performance is lost forever or if it is hiding on a hard drive somewhere.