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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.
The song reached number 3 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, [2] number 13 in Ireland and number 32 in the UK. [3] [4] The single was reissued in the UK on 27 May 1991 to promote the compilation album The Best of The Waterboys 81–90. [5] The reissue reached number 17 in Ireland and number 75 in the UK. [3] [4]
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.
"Glastonbury Song" is a song by British band the Waterboys, released in July 1993 by Geffen Records as the second single from their sixth studio album, Dream Harder (1993). It was written by Mike Scott and produced by Scott and Bill Price. The song reached number 29 on the UK Singles Chart and number 12 on the Irish Singles Chart.
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
Too Close to Heaven is a collection of outtakes, alternative versions, and unreleased tracks from The Waterboys' Fisherman's Blues period, released September 2001. The album was released as Fisherman's Blues, Part 2 in the United States with five additional tracks in July of that year.
"The Big Music" is a song by British band the Waterboys, released on 2 April 1984 as the lead single from their second studio album A Pagan Place. The song was written and produced by Mike Scott . The name "Big Music" was adopted by some commentators as a description of the early Waterboys' sound and is still used to refer to the musical style ...
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 ...