Did you get up on the wrong side of the bed, or is there no surf?
I have to totally disagree with your rant about this song.
The band of Frequencies and Angus Stone are both amazing musos and they are also really passionate about this cause. They are releasing a song every day for different oceanic appeals, they are jamming and having fun and i can hear that in their music. It made me feel happy and made my 17 month old daughter dance....and she usually only does that for Bob Marley, so i reckon she is a good judge of music!
Love you work transparensea crew and can't wait to hear more of your epic music!

bunch of musicians get together record music around a campfire and share it with the world for free. Nice message. Good cause. No reason for anything other than a thankyou, in my book.

I looked at the song credits on the website link.

Rasta did not write the lyrics and had very little to do with it.

This entry is a classic piece of poor mis-informed modern journalism.

I have to quote Oscar Wilde here. 'There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.'

C'mon Stu,

All we are saying, is give peace a chance.

Ahh it all makes sense now!
If you are not into Bob you clearly have no musical taste and therefore are not able to recognise great music when you hear it.
Maybe you should stick to writing about the surf and leave the music reviews to someone more capable.

Yeah I suppose, but 'effing pumpkin. Yuck! That's another story.

See you at the next peas rally.

Amazing how lacking in humour some people are. So he doesn't like the music, so what? It's a story championig the Transparentsea cause (which Rasta is the figurehead)

This is for you fliss.

Enjoy.

That's more like it.

Cheers:)

You can listen to 'These 20 Miles' here.

http://transparentseavoyage.bandcamp.com/track/day-1-these-20-miles

Thanks for the exposure Stu, I think.

There'll be plenty more songs to come. So get used to it!

Good God...

So Atticus, what did you think that boring piece of shit would actually achieve? When people listened to it they would jump off their seats and sign your petition from all the excitement and passion? Nah, that would actually be an effective protest song... Instead, you just proved that you're all a bunch of bland, stuck up delusional white bread hippies...

If you want people to take this seriously, how about you get your heads out of your smug assholes, step off your pedestal and actually give us a substantial reason as to why anyone should be passionate about your cause.

Here is one reason.

http://www.independent.com/news/2010/dec/16/saving-what-remains-coast/

'These 20 Miles ' is only 1/25 the distance of The Proclaimers 'I Would Walk 500 Miles' but after listening to it it seems so much more.

Patty, fair dinkum, that's classic!!

gday all.

dondellion if ya surf you should'nt need songs to get "your head out of your smug assholes, step off your pedestal and actually give us [u] a substantial reason as to why anyone [u] should be passionate" about this cause.

stu - i dig the way you question all , but havin a dig at bob marley ... dunno bout that,

it is may experience that pumpkin and peas go together quite well, speacialy with a roast.

be well n stay wet

What have you done for the ocean lately stunet? Judging from your website not much other than judge others who are making things happen whilst you try to write to build your own persona as that of one who is all knowing of things surf related. So the song drags on,who cares it will stay in peoples heads thats for sure maybe prompting them to do something about it. As for your dislike of Bob Marley i think you have said more than enough about who you are & what your about. Keep the crap articles coming at least you know you will get some more attention

This piece of editorial journalism that might have been written over a bowl of cornflakes, with no thought, bears no merit.

I can safely say that because anyone who can attempt to write off Bob Marley clearly has no grounds to comment on music. period.

For the record, I can't stand reggae either. Bob Marley or otherwise.

OMFG will you lot lighten the f*ck up??

Can you not spot a joke and a light hearted piss take when you see one?

And for f*ck's sake can you not even read?!? You know, the part where he said he supports rasta!?

I mean come on, its possible to recognize that it's a great cause but a shit song.

Selah, brother Benski.

um as long as we're all hitting the surf rider link ...... doest'nt matter if you prefer the beat on or off.... so we've done that yea?

Huh!
Down on the street
Where the faces shine.
Floatin' around i'm
A real low mind.
See a pretty thing - ain't no wall.
See a pretty thing - ain't no wall.
No wall,
No wall,
No wall.
Uuh!
Yeah deep in the night
I'm lost in love.
Yeah deep in the night
I'm lost in love.
A thousand lights
Look at you.
A thousand lights
Look at you.
I'm lost, i'm lost, i'm lost - yeah.
Huh
Faces shine - real low mind.
Real low mind.
I'm a real low mind.
Real low mind

^^ Now THAT is a fucking great song.

Bob Marley is shit.

Good old rasta, billabong’s version of McDonalds ‘healthy choice’...good on him, spose there the kind of lyrics you come up with when your ‘living the dream’
Not that fond of marley myself, if it comes to ‘reggae' there’s a fair few others who could turn a tune and a lyric, see Linton Kwesi Johnson for one.

I get the feeling some anon posters are talking to themselves on this thing.

Kudos Phil Collins on a nice song and lyrics.

The musicians that are writing these songs for transparentsea are writing a song each day, everyday. I am sure to write a truly epic song, it might take longer than 24 hours and perhaps be recorded in a studio, with several weeks of rehearsals. These guys are making the song up on the spot by the sound of it and probably recording it with one take!

I am looking at the transparentsea website each day and enjoying their music, for what it is.

Bob Marley. I know you guys are taking the piss. The guy is a legend and he did greater things in his life than you will ever do, so get over yourself and have ruspect!

Given the time it wouldn’t be too difficult to argue that iggy has done a lot more for the ocean than rasta will ever do....
An aside remember the bruce move...
What an inspired choice who ever
Oh baby, what a place to be
In the service of the bourgeoisie
Where can my believers be
I wanna jump into the endless sea

Oh, oh the endless sea
Oh, oh the endless sea
I wanna jump into the endless sea
Let it wash all over me

Above us is a dirty sky
Full of youths and liquors
A little girl, a little guy
This air can't get much thicker

Oh, oh the endless sea
Oh, oh the endless sea
Oh, oh the endless sea
Let it wash all over me

And when you're tight for the rent
You think you're gonna break
But you know it's no damn good
Just one more phony on the take

You better go home, buddy
I really think,
You better go home, buddy
You better go home, buddy

The endless sea

Noel Gallagher wrote Wonderwall in 5 minutes. Don't think it counts as a good song though

on par with john cages 4'33 , and he had all sorts excited

Reckon a truly epic song needs to be 24hours in length, maybe ziggy marley, wycleaf jean, nickleback/pearl jam and rasta could get together,maybe use the ancient mariner as a base but then give it a more contemporary political flavour.

You put a song out there you've got to expect some people won't like it. Art doesn't bring us closer when we eschew our real feelings for sentimental falsities, it unites us when we engage and debate its merits truthfully.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Music is here for all. And there is a wide veriaty for each of us to choose to connect with. Luckily we can decide what we like to listen to or what we don't. If your behind the cause thats great write about it, but why bother us with your personal taste in music? Leave that to the listener to decide!

Oh No, another Stew.Vent article has been written again. Quite amusing but essentially hollow.

Without actually watching it, I'm sure the film clip to this song engages the audience and evokes a sense of compassion, so perhaps it wasn't about the lyrics? Video killed the radio star.

Tracy chapman 'Talkin about a revolution'. Not too much in the lyric department going on there, but a whole lotta' feeling is conveyed. Go figure.

Stunet, we are like two peas in a peace pod. Nothing makes me feel more distant from the cause than a lullaby, a vigil, a sit-in and the like. I strongly support sustainable forestry practices, but when I see someone with a terrible haircut chain themselves to a log truck I can't help but roll my eyes, and laugh when I see them smoking and drinking away their lives when they make bail - it's a common sight in Tassie. I ride my bike around town instead of driving, but when Critical Mass rolls into town I tend to walk instead. And there is nothing more important to me than clean oceans, and I do all manner of things to help the cause. But sing-a-longs and lullabies make me cringe. What these people do is great, I really mean that, but truly the best way to influence people is to show them that doing these important things doesn't require you to change your life drastically, or to have dreadlocks and live in a tree. Sometimes I think people lose sight of that and their efforts come off as self serving and merely raising awareness amongst people who already know. Which is necessarily a bad thing. By the way, Bob Marley sucks.

A word about activists. The greatest convenience that any government has is the perception that all activists are dreadlocked hippies holding candlelight vigils while sharing their partners with all and sundry. It is this stereotipical premise that puts any person conveying uncoventional thought into a veil of negative credibility. dandandan, I hope that you are not under the impression that anyone with free thought must drive a combi and live in Nimbin. I would be sufficiently offended/dissappointed if it were so. I would like to think that we all have the ability to digest the information that we are given, and formulate our own opinions.

Slogans, chants, sing-alongs, whatever. Sitting back in my complaceny, i will still add that we Australians are the most complacent people on earth. Fuck, a while ago our Prime Minister got replaced overnight without a whimper. I'm not here to state my actual political stance, but from living in South East Asia for a number of years, if anything like that happened over there, the streets would burn. The cities would burn. There would be anarchy. The mentality of 'I don't want to make a fuss otherwise I will be judged as a hippie' is keeping our society numbed. Perhaps comfortably so.

"Somethin' smells like fish baby,
somethin' from out of a can,
I can tell by the smell baby, ...

@ camboboog.

Spot on. You said what I was trying to say in a much better way. Being an activist is not these things, it just the most public way it takes place. I maintain that the most effective way to influence change in people, at least at a local level, is to make those changes seem easy, normal and common-sense. In especially divisive issues I get the feeling that the actions of the stereotype activists put off those people who sit on the fence from participating. I summed it up not long ago when I said to an intoxicated cretin at an anti-pulp mill rally -'just because I don't want a pulp mill doesn't mean I want to be your friend.'

As for complacency, I couldn't agree more. I always thought it was because we have it so good here. The situations in Indonesia that sparked of riots in 1998 (I was in Solo at the time) just aren't imaginable here. But not long ago I was in France just after Sarkozy proposed to raise the age of eligibility for the pension. People were going nuts, old and young alike. I couldn't imagine Australians being arsed to do such a thing under a similar change. Maybe it's because we know that our governments will back down come election time. But I think it is mostly a case of 'this is hardly going to affect me, so I am not going to get involved.'

Rasta is a capitalist pig. Just like every other human that has ever existed.

Humans will not save anything.

And you all should know this by now. If you had gone to school.

There are millions of years of proof. When we did nothing.

We humans are but a brief vapor in time.

Fuck you and all that you love.

Define garbage.

Bones vs. Skin?

The battle of the Environmentalist is ultimately a capitalist endeavour.

Or Marxist.

Or Whateverest.

It's humanist.

And what are we?

Bit players in a billion year old cycle.

Dandan, well said, you touched on the problem, and Stunet nailed the word. Apathy. Ol' Kurty regailed the words before he splattered his grey matter 'teenage angst has paid off well'. Currently, adult apathy has paid off even better. Unethical policy makers are quite smug at most global communtites' general indifference to social issues that directly impact our environment.

Apparently Hacktivism is the new Buddhism, just forgive me if I don't grab a Guy Fawkes mask. Look out!! A modern stereotype has emerged.

right with you stu all the way till you bagged bobby m. im no rasta/reggae type and have only in the last year or two learnt to appreciate the dude.

the bloke wrote some great tunes. and most importantly put a smile on many a humans face with many an otherwise taboo subject.

i took the time to ad my opinion as i was arguing about this a day ago.

and with you on your last comment too.

i make surfboards and while i love them at the same time i get down knowing(or likely only half knowing) how wasteful, polluting and useless i am as a human.

what do we do?

the key word is 'we' as individuals we are nothing.

do we accept the supposed, inevitable, 'collective evolution' theory to stay sane?

thats as far as ive got after more then a little pondering..

well that a a good dose of preaching..

http://transparentseavoyage.bandcamp.com/track/wailing-winds-day-5

Enjoying these guys 'song a day'.
This link is to their latest track, Day 5.
They sound like they are having fun, raising money for charity through their daily jams.

^^ They also sound like they have smug shooting out of their ass holes like a rocket combustion chamber.

I'm with you on that one Nope. Give me Marley compared to that Auto-tune saturated, Hippity-hop rubbish anyday.

"professional free surfer" dudes, ay ?
there is a great song "money for nothing and chicks for free".
they should sing that one
what band was it ? can't remember
"roll that stone" ?

I like a wide range of music and I have listened to these tunes a few times before I gave my opinion on it. I think it is absolute rubbish, some may like it and that's their opinion but I think it's terrible and surely Angus Stone should be embarrassed about putting his name to this crap? (not the cause, just the music). It's woeful.

Right back 'atcha Stu-dawg!

You're right, Stu. The trouble with things these days is there's too much apathy.
But I don't care.

Don't forget ignorance and complacency rushy.

But the fact that I don't know I happily take for granted.

@ Stunet

I have read the afforementioned text, a great read indeed. Sure Australia is lucky, a high school drop-out can now go to the mines and earn more than a post-graduate engineer. Read 'The limits to growth' by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows and Jørgen Randers (1972). Perhaps a little sensationalist, but it describes a political, social and environmental scenario that will only be affected by monumental changes to resource management and lifestyle in general.

Shallow & draining, but not like Teahupo'o when its maxing out at 20 something foot.

Haters, hate this >

Lovers, love this >

"Everyday the bucket a go a well, one day the bottom will drop out" >

<3 ONE LOVE <3

I just endured the 6 minutes of this song and I conclude we'll just put this one down to some good bud. U know those jam sessions where it all just comes together...unfortunately though,listening to it the next day it doesn't quite sound the same and you gotta accept that the drugs were probably better than your (my) musical skills. I always find it somewhat amusing when these surfer/musicians produce so many airy fairy tunes. Why is that? I know noise pollution ain't cool but lets crank up the distortion and the double kicker and maybe sell some albums to support the cause..or atleast mix down that "percussion" a tad. All in all though i'm sure James Blunt's still around to put it in perspective...kind of makes it sound not half bad.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of bands that've been heavily promoted via surfing channels have usually done so because they couldn't get any traction through the usual avenues.

It's also been interesting to see the surfwear companies try and occupy this space in recent years. Took them all a while before they realised that music is a whole different ball game to boardshorts and bikinis.

I am impressed they can write a new song everyday!

http://transparentseavoyage.bandcamp.com/track/movin-on-day-6

^^ I can take a dump everyday but you don't see me spamming surf websites.

The act of surfing in it's very essence is selfish.

The sharing of ideas and concepts through music and art less so [although i recognise a valid argument for both]

I don't see how selling boards shorts is any different to selling tracks [by the very nature of marketing and advertising involved]

There are a bunch of mob such as get up etc attempting to encourage social change for the better

Swell net has a large readership many of whom have strong beliefs and opinions, and many of whom seem to want to help the environment.

Stu n ben perhaps you could instigate in your blogs more articles that direct your readers to appropriate means for helping people and the environment.

or organise events

eg a swell net food bus for the homeless, a swell net environment day choose beach to clean up etc help shake the apathy.

i'll come along.

cheers n peace
"cheese n peas"

The T/Sea Voyagers have got a new song out, it's a bit more "dynamic" and it only goes for 1:50. You may even like it Stew. Enjoy.

http://transparentseavoyage.bandcamp.com/

Still sounds like shit to me.

Why don't you fuck off and spam a vegan forum or something? I'm sure your smug hippy jams will be more appreciated there.

Sorry Atticus, that song is bollocks. Not sure what your definition of 'dynamics' is, but it's obviously a lot different to mine.

Please don't make me cut n' paste the lyrics either.

^^ Don't worry mate I'll grab em for ya.

You are loved
Today and every day
Shine your your light La La
Blessed in every way

Happy lap of the Sun
Happy lap of the Sun

You are loved
Today and every day
Today is your birthday
Blessed in every way

Happy lap of the Sun
Happy lap of the Sun
Love to your Mother
Love to Your Father
Happy lap of the Sun

Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday

Personally, I'm struggling with the fact that these guys are mature grown men with fully functioning testicles.

They desperately need to deputise Tom Wait or Ted Nugent for the next batch of lyrics.

I'm sure they could get Tom in some floaties if he can't swim.

WH Auden wrote,

'Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood
They never forgot'

Maybe if the ice broke, we should 'chuck' them some floaties?

For mine, the best song with "beach" in its title isn't even about the ocean.

Would make a good protest anthem, too, come to think about it.

Passes the time/relevance test with flying colours.

Come on everyone, sing along with me now;

"Kumbaya my lord, kumbaya,

oh lord, kumbaya."

Repeat 10,000 times

Oh man, I think you are entitled to murder anyone who starts that one up.

No jury of my peers would convict me.

http://transparentseavoyage.bandcamp.com/track/day-7-here-now

If you cannot listen to them having a good time and you have a problem with that, maybe look at the man in the mirror and make a change.

@batfink

If when I lay down to sleep tonight I'm still humming that little ditty you so kindly put in my mind, I may well act on my entitlement. I know where you live....

@fliss

just who is that man in the mirror???

And what does redrum mean???

^^ Mate if I wanted to listen to men having a good time then I'd go to The Laird in Melbourne for karaoke night.

... Yet listening to your music would STILL be the gayer option.

I've been a musician for over twenty years, played in countless bands, and also have a degree in audio production. This crap is an insult to my ears. In fact me and a friend of mine couldn't stop laughing at how bad it is. The singing is flat on most songs and some of the percussion is that out of time its hilarious.
Acoustic fairy floss laced with opium. God put some feel into your cause people. As human beings, although not politically correct these days, you are allowed show some emotion bordering on anger. Your obviously pissed off about what's going on over there so show it, otherwise it just looks like you're a bunch of over privileged wankers relying on fame to promote your shit music. That's my rant ha ha.

Art and critics be damned. Here's another arm of the T/Sea Voyagers - bringing much needed exposure to wildlife centers: http://transparentseavoyage.com/post/love-these-crew-the-mmcc

And to Dondellion, as the waiter said to Matt Johnson in Big Wednesday, "Peace, brother."

I'm starting to think you hippies are closet masochists, subtly getting off on the non stop verbal abuse you receive on the internet.

Do you guys wear full black leather suits and red rubber balls placed in your mouths while you record?

@Atticus

Remember what Matt Johnson said back to the waiter?

...."I'm not your brother and turn off that crappy music"

Haha! You serious? I'm gonna have to chase down a transcript just to satisfy my curiosity.

Well there ya go.

http://www.eclipseboards.com/customsurfboards/2011/09/18/big-wednesday-f...

Hey Stu, Why don't you give Rasta a call and put this to him? This article - and the one with Mark Visser too, frankly - would be much more interesting with his input.
I know both blokes would be happy to talk to you. Go on - I dare ya.

Stick your head under water and make whale mating sounds?

I agree, i think that is their strongest track yet.

This 'song a day' thing is what it is.

If anyone out there is actually into music, Al Hicks is a great drummer and is currently working on a documentary about the great Clark Terry (who is now 91 years old.)