I just got the 2-disc reissue of the Waterboys 'This is the Sea'.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

Ask me shit.

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. When did you stop eating babies?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. That's a foul rumour.

I still eat kids.

[enigmatic]

2. Mike Scott's da man...

I was just playing "Old England" this morning..

[NashVegas]

6. I Fell in Love With Mike Scott

.. and Steve Wickham at the Orpheum, October 1989. Gawd, what a show that was (1st night).

http://www-tech.mit.edu/V109/N45/water.45a.html

In Search Of A Rose
Strange Boat
Girl From The North Country *
My Morag (The Exile's Dream) *
When Ye Go Away
The Raggle Taggle Gypsy *
Old England
Has Anybody Here Seen Hank ?
And A Bang On The Ear
Mr Customs Man
Jimmy Hickey's Waltz
The Whole Of The Moon
We Will Not Be Lovers
Sweet Thing *
Natural Bridge Blues *
When Will We Be Married? *
Higherbound
Fisherman's Blues
________
Buckets Of Rain *
Song For The Life *
A Pagan Place / Reels
The Wayward Wind *
(further encores unknown)

http://home.wanadoo.nl/thegreenvalley/0/waterboy/wb%20setlists%2019892.html

[enigmatic]

18. "Fisherman's Blues" is probably my favorite album by The Waterboys..

"When Ye Go Away" and "A Bang On The Ear" were on mix tapes of mine for years..

[NashVegas]

24. It's My Fave Studio Album from Them

But "Live Adventures" takes me back to that incredible live show, so it wins by default - even though it was 1986 and had almost entirely different material.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

7. Cool. You have damn fine taste, enigmatic.

[enigmatic]

14. Ever hear of a band called The Sound?

Came from the same time and place as The Bunnymen and The Waterboys; their record "From The Lions' Mouth" is one of the great lost masterpieces from the 80's..

[fudge stripe cookays]

16. I think my ex had one of their albums....

Name some.

From the Lion's Mouth doesn't sound like the name of the one he had. Can't remember if I liked it or not.

[enigmatic]

22. A couple other albums..

"All Fall Down", which has the song "Monument" which is an absolute classic;"Jeopardy", which was their first record. Probably their best known song in the states was "1000 Reasons", which was a minor MTV hit..

[fudge stripe cookays]

31. Nope. You know what?

It wasn't The Sound. I remembered when you posted the album cover.

He had a copy of an album by The Truth. Don't remember anything about them.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

19. There's a lot of great lost 80's discs.

Not familiar with that one, though. Were they like the Comsat Angels, that whole scene?

[enigmatic]

25. Actually, they got compared to The Bunnymen and Joy Division..

They were kind of a cross between the two; not quite as dark as JD, and not quite as noisy as The Bunnymen. The mastermind behind The Sound (Adrian Boreland) had a voice like Ian McCulloch, which made the band get lost in the shuffle in the early 80's, though they still have a cult following in Britain...

[enigmatic]

29. One of my Desert Island Discs..

[fudge stripe cookays]

30. OK-- I remember the cover now!

Ex record store employee-- tOO MUcH TRiVia...JaMmED INto BRAIn....aaaaahhhhhh....

[enigmatic]

33. LOL! Me too; I had to pay for my Rickenbacker somehow! n/m

[fudge stripe cookays]

35. Ha!

My ex's best friend had a Rickenbacker. You didn't used to live in Bruce Hall in Denton, TX did you?

[dolo amber]

4. I wish *I* was a fisherman...

*sigh*

[Screaming Lord Byron]

8. Well, you're not.

Get over it.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

10. Wrong bloody album, anyhow.

PC-hating dumpy midget.

[dolo amber]

17. Really now...

deep down, aren't we ALL dumpy midgets?

Kum-bay-ya....:grouphug:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

20. Not me. I'm a lanky ungrateful midget.

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. Yes. That would go a long way toward explaining the smell.

:spank: Bad Hedges! :spank: Bad Hedges! :spank:

[NashVegas]

5. What's On It That's Great

That wasn't there before?

ie, is there any reason that, between the original and Live Adventures of ... I should not already be perfectly content?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. I don't know, I haven't actually listened to it yet.

Disc: 2
1. Beverly Penn
2. Sleek White Schooner
3. Medicine Bow
4. Medicine Jack
5. High Far Soon
6. Even the Trees Are Dancing
7. Towers Open Fire
8. This Is the Sea
9. Then You Hold Me
10. Spirit
11. Miracle
12. I Am Not Here
13. Sweet Thing
14. Waves

[Wickerman]

11. Do you have Too Close to Heaven?

Univeral Hall?

I've been thinking about those two, but might change my mind for an expanded This is the Sea...

[Screaming Lord Byron]

12. I'd go with Too Close to Heaven, that sounds good.

I like Mike's spirtual side, but I think Universal Hall is a little too explicitly Findhorn Community Christian for my tastes.

[Wickerman]

15. Yeah, and I imagine it suffers from over-production, too

like Rock in Weary Land...

[Screaming Lord Byron]

21. Which is a pity, because the songs on 'Rock' are great.

[Wickerman]

34. I've heard some of those live

and they kicked. They were, as you said, excellent songs. I'm a sucker, but I miss the early day, Red Army Blues, Girl in the Swing, anything from Fisherman's Blues.

[NashVegas]

23. The Saddest Thing About Waterboys / Scott

Is how downhill the albums went after he traded his muse in for a god.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

26. It happens after Fisherman's Blues.

The first three records are fantastic metaphysical rock records. Fisherman's Blues is a decent folk-rock record. Room to Roam is a mediocre folk-rock record. Dream Harder is lousy. Bring 'em all in is bad christian music. Still Burning is good christian music. A Rock in this Weary Land is great metaphysical spiritual rock, if over-produced. I think it may be Mike's last hurrah.

[enigmatic]

27. Although "Fisherman's Blues" was my favorite record..

The Waterboys were never the same after Karl Wallinger left the band..

[NashVegas]

28. Yeah - Room to Roam

Listening to that for the first time was once of my biggest musical disappointments, ever. Dream Harder just appalled me. Rock in a Weary Land was an improvement on that stuff (I dug "We Are Jonah").

[fudge stripe cookays]

32. I liked the one single on Dream Harder,

but kind of quit caring after that.

I need to pull out "This is the Sea" again. It's been awhile since I listened.

reprehensor has threatened me with bodily injury if I replace my copy of Fisherman's Blues. Too many drunken pub listens have dampened its appeal for him.