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The Best of The Waterboys 81–90 is made up of 12 tracks which were personally selected by the band's lead singer, musician and songwriter Mike Scott.The album, along with a re-issue of the single "The Whole of the Moon", was an attempt by Chrysalis Records to boost the band's record sales to match their reputation.
Title Album details Peak chart positions SCO [14]UK [9]UK Indie [15]The Live Adventures of: Released: August 1998; Label: New Millennium (#PILOT40); 66: 91: 10 Karma to Burn
The Best of The Waterboys 81–90 (1991) The Whole of the Moon: The Music of Mike Scott and the Waterboys (1998) This Is the Sea - special remastered 2CD edition (2004) Karma to Burn (live) (2005) "The Whole of the Moon" remains one of the Waterboys' most famous and most financially successful songs. [3]
The archetypal example, the song "The Big Music", gave the style its name, but the best-selling example was "The Whole of the Moon", the song that the early 1980s Waterboys are best known for and that demonstrates both Wallinger's synthpop keyboard effects and the effectiveness of the brass section of the band.
Songs from the two albums appeared on 1998's compilation album The Whole of the Moon: The Music of Mike Scott and the Waterboys along with songs from The Waterboys. Scott's solo albums were positively received by critics but sales were significantly down from Waterboys releases.
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The Waterboys began performing the song live as early as 2005 before recording it for Book of Lightning. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Speaking of the song, Scott told Terry Staunton of Record Collector in 2007: "Everybody Takes a Tumble" is pretty much a snapshot of what the music scene was like in Dublin when I went to live there.
"World Party" is a song by the Scottish-Irish folk rock band The Waterboys, released in 1988 as a track on their fourth studio album Fisherman's Blues. It was written by Mike Scott , Trevor Hutchinson and Karl Wallinger , and produced by Scott. [ 1 ]