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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. A survey of album buyers ...
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
Scott, the Edinburgh-born son of a college lecturer, is the founder and only permanent member of the Waterboys. Having begun his career in teenage Ayr punk band White Heat [8] and its Edinburgh successor Another Pretty Face, [9] he moved to London and formed another short-lived band, The Red and the Black.
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The Waterboys is the debut studio album by the Waterboys, released by Ensign Records in July 1983. The album was recorded in several studio sessions between December 1981 and November 1982. [ 8 ] Allmusic describes the sound of the album as "part Van Morrison , part U2 ".
"December" is a song by British band the Waterboys, released on 14 October 1983 as the second and final single from their debut studio album The Waterboys. [1] The song was written and produced by Mike Scott, with additional production by Rupert Hine. A music video was filmed to promote the single. [2]
Scott began writing songs for This Is the Sea in the spring of 1984, beginning with the song "Trumpets". Scott recalls that in December 1984 "during the Waterboys' first American tour, [he] bought two huge hard-bound books... in which to assemble [his] new songs" [5] For the following two months Scott worked on the songs in his apartment, writing the lyrics, and working on guitar and piano ...
In a 2011 feature for The Guardian on his love of the Waterboys, British screenwriter, producer, and film director Richard Curtis picked "Glastonbury Song" in his Waterboys top 10 song list. He wrote, "Wonderful, energetic song about the endless search for spirituality.