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The Cutter & the Clan [CD]

Runrig Audio CD
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (1 July 1990)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B0000073HS
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 27,674 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. Alba
2. The Cutter
3. Hearts of Olden Glory
4. Pride of the Summer
5. Worker for the Wind
6. Rocket to the Moon
7. The Only Rose
8. Protect and Survive
9. Our Earth Was Once Green
10. An Ubhal As Airde (The Highest Apple)

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If you are Scottish and don't already own this album, shame on you. Buy it immediately. Other nationalities: you may need some further persuasion. But that's easy enough. The Cutter And The Clan is chock full of big-hearted tunes, beefy arrangements and potent singalong choruses. The lyrics burst with such Scottish pride that the rest of us begin to feel a little jealous, and every track has a great hook, guaranteed. Non-Scots: play "Pride of the Summer" and try to avoid bellowing along to "Beat the drum / Beat the drum / Like a heartbeat / Lonely and strong"; or listen in silence to the chorus of "Hearts of Olden Glory." It can't be done. Even the two gaelic songs--including the classic anthem "Alba"--are irresistibly catchy. Call it folk rock if you like--Runrig count accordion, mandolin and bagpipes among their arsenal of instrumentation--but there are no traditional tunes on this album and Runrig's way with their music is the stuff of 20,000-seater stadiums not quiet country pubs. --Mark Walker

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4.7 out of 5 stars
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Gaelic pride, and hearts of olden glory! 15 Jun 2001
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
Following on from the pretty much home-produced "Recovery" and "Heartland" albums, "The Cutter and the Clan" was a full-frontal assault on the growing folk-rock market of the 1980s, and remains probably the edgiest of the band's numerous albums. Gaelic pride is writ largely across the album from the opening bars of "Alba", but this is much more than a nationalist rock-out - the band have a global social conscience as well, never more powerfully expressed than in the brilliant protest anthem "Protect and Survive". Much of the album reflects on the experiences of the Scottish emigrants to Nova Scotia in the 18th and 19th centuries, and how the heritage of their descendants mingles with the heritage of modern Scotland, making this a sublime storytelling album as well as one of the best pieces of raw folk-rock ever recorded. There are gentler moments too, in the sublime "Worker for the Wind" and "Hearts of Olden Glory" - a sort of nostalgic look at the past, with a yearning for the future to be better.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Runrig's best albums 18 Dec 2012
By Minkus
Format:Audio CD
This (1987) is my second favourite album by Runrig, with Searchlight (1989) as the first.
Diffently from Searchlight I don't appreciate fully all songs but surely few songs are great, for example the movimented "Pride of the Summer" and the slower songs are great due mostly to Donnie Munro great voice ("Worker for the wind", "Hearts of golden glory" and "An Ubhal As Airde").
It is more of a 4.5 for me than a 5 but I can't give a 4.5 so I'm giving a 5, reserving 4 for less performing but still good Runrig albums.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Runrig - The Cutter Review 26 July 2010
By Mears
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Awesome album from the Kings of the Highlands....especially The Cutter...which benefits from being played really really loud :)
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