The singing on the title track is so exuberant, so smilingly heartfelt, that it carries me away time and again. There are other good songs and performances on here (it's quite a solid album) but nothing else hits me in the same way.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 6 September 2010 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
We Will Not Be Lovers. Love the way that riff bounces around between instruments.
― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Monday, 6 September 2010 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Love the so-simple "When Ye Go Away" and "The Stolen Child," but, yeah, probably will vote for the title track. A great, single piece of work, this record.
― commonly referred to as Olde E ,Olde Executioner, Dat Ol' 8hundo and 8-Ba (Eazy), Monday, 6 September 2010 13:45 (thirteen years ago) link
title track, still sounds as great as the first time i heard it on a tape a schoolfriend had.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 6 September 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
bumping, with audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXoX7vbyGfc
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 9 September 2010 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^
love the intro to that song, the first 30 seconds or so, with the piano and the fiddle squeals and all.
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 9 September 2010 03:24 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ hell yeah
boring, but hard for me not to vote "fisherman's blues" here
― hobbes, Thursday, 9 September 2010 05:51 (thirteen years ago) link
fucking love this album. no idea.
― BAN BELOUIS SOME (jjjusten), Thursday, 9 September 2010 05:59 (thirteen years ago) link
title song made me go out and buy their greatest hitsgreatest hits sucked except for this song and whole of the moon
― buzza, Thursday, 9 September 2010 06:05 (thirteen years ago) link
dude, GIRL CALLED JOHNNY FFS
― hobbes, Thursday, 9 September 2010 06:07 (thirteen years ago) link
and "bang the drum".. well, nevermind
― hobbes, Thursday, 9 September 2010 06:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 9 September 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 10 September 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
yup. well.
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 11 September 2010 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm outing myself as a waterboys fan.
discus
― dell (del), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
The singing on the title track is so exuberant, so smilingly heartfelt,
the first time i heard this song there were a few moments in which i thought it was a lost dexys track. i love all that celtic soulful bullshit is i guess what i'm saying. got the blue-green dna eyes to match it, and so...
― dell (del), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
so basically if you are melantonically impaired and sing about destiny then i will stan for ya. heck there are surely worse crimes in life??
― dell (del), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
Red Army Blues
― Morning becomes apopleptic (Michael White), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
x-ie to meor melanin-so. i am only one man. still acquainting myself the roman alphabet even after all these yrs
― dell (del), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
Not one of my favourites, but I definitely prefer the album A Pagan Place to Fisherman's Blues.
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
^^^yes!
i heard girl called johnny on 6 music not long ago (lol dadrock) and it sounded great - such a good singer
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
Those are their two best records, and sort of hard for me to compare. They're really by two different bands. I go back to Fisherman's Blues more, but I'd like to hear Pagan Place again. (I don't think I actually own it in any form I can listen to anymore.)
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
Love the exuberant nature-worship stuff on that album (at least I've always read Church Not Made With Hands, All The Things and The Big Music that way), but also The Thrill Is Gone is one of the most perfect and heartbreaking things they ever did.
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
Mike Scott of The Waterboys revealed on Twitter this week that he’s at work compiling a 7-disc box set of material — “114 tracks and counting,” featuring multiple takes of about 88 different songs — recorded during the sessions for the band’s classic 1988 album Fisherman’s Blues that’s due for release later in this year.Full details of the project aren’t yet known, but Scott kicked off a series of Tweets about the set late Sunday by writing, “Great editing day on Waterboys FISHERMAN’S BOX. I worked on Saints & Angels, On My Way To Tara and BP’s Bathtub Boogie. Release later 2013.” In response to fans’ questions , Scott offered up more detail, explaining that he has, so far, dug up 114 tracks representing 88 different songs (“Some are different arrangements of the same song, recorded months apart… You’ll understand why I got burned out making it”), and that he is only editing material, not adding to or doing overdubs on the old songs. When asked by another fan how many studio tracks were recorded overall for the Fisherman’s Blues album, Scott quipped: “That is like asking how many fractals there are in a fractal. The material from the Fisherman’s Blues sessions is infinite.”
Full details of the project aren’t yet known, but Scott kicked off a series of Tweets about the set late Sunday by writing, “Great editing day on Waterboys FISHERMAN’S BOX. I worked on Saints & Angels, On My Way To Tara and BP’s Bathtub Boogie. Release later 2013.” In response to fans’ questions , Scott offered up more detail, explaining that he has, so far, dug up 114 tracks representing 88 different songs (“Some are different arrangements of the same song, recorded months apart… You’ll understand why I got burned out making it”), and that he is only editing material, not adding to or doing overdubs on the old songs. When asked by another fan how many studio tracks were recorded overall for the Fisherman’s Blues album, Scott quipped: “That is like asking how many fractals there are in a fractal. The material from the Fisherman’s Blues sessions is infinite.”
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
What happened to the 7th disc?
― StanM, Friday, 15 November 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
Just discovered this outtake this morning and am listening to it nonstop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBUsj47gAWI
― Eazy, Friday, 25 August 2017 15:07 (six years ago) link
Whoa, thanks for posting. How did that not make the album?
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 25 August 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
"we will not be lovers" was robbed
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 10 January 2019 00:10 (five years ago) link
Their recent triple album Out Of All This Blue is absolutely fantastic. It should become a cult classic.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 10 January 2019 00:13 (five years ago) link
re-listened to the album for first time in many years. still sounds great. can't remember if i voted in the poll but it would have been hard not to pick the title song. "we will not be lovers" a close second though
― that's not my post, Thursday, 7 December 2023 19:24 (four months ago) link
"we will not be lovers" was robbed― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, January 9, 2019 4:10 PM
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, January 9, 2019 4:10 PM
otm maybe my fav waterboys tune.
"bang on the ear" b-side is a really fun rendition of "raggle raggle gypsy"—
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUG8AW8bkYE
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Thursday, 7 December 2023 19:52 (four months ago) link