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