Labour Day

Spirit Of The West | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 8, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Flying Fish Records
• ASIN: B000000MMU
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #343,453 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Darkhouse

2. Political

3. Profiteers

4. The Hounds That Wait Outside Your Door

5. Runboy

6. Drinking Man

7. Expensive/Cinema of Pain

8. Gottingen Street

9. Take It from the Source

Editorial Reviews

For those into the roots and branches of some of Canada's finer folk, check out Labor Day!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars raw, untamed...possibly their best, April 30, 2002

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NotATameLion (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Labour Day (Audio CD)

Once upon a time I was a big Spirit of the West fan. Times and tastes have changed, but "Labour Day" is an enduring achievement. There is not a weak song on this album. Many are exceptionally strong. Looking back, I would say this is the best album they ever made.

"Labour Day" contains some of the best songs Spirit of the West ever wrote. There are remarkable songs like "Political," "Drinking Man," and "Take It From the Source." The disc and its songs are marked by an anger, a disgust with the way things too often are. I second the band on this.

The world is often way too cruel to its most helpless tenants. Some of the songs here are written in reference to actual historical cases of this phenomenon. I feel the band deals with these events in a respectful and poignant manner.

Yet, if "Labour Day" has one weakness, it is that the disc dwells in this angst. A lot of raw nerves are on display here. There is no hope on the horizon. This is too untrue to human experience for me to endorse it with a full five stars.

That said, there are some songs on "Labour Day" that I love dearly. There are also some lessons to be learned. This disc is excellent as a whole--and gets a high recommendation from me.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, October 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Labour Day (Audio CD)

One of the best SOTW records from their pre-electric days

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sounds live, June 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Labour Day (Audio CD)

I can't give these guys any less than four stars and still face myself in the morning because they are Spirit of the West. Far from their best recording, but if you are a fan, you need this one. It sounds like their live stuff from a few years back and it shows their evolution. Like I said, kind of folksy/unfinished, but still good.