The Whole of the Moon: The Music of the Waterboys & Mike Scott The Waterboys

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  • Release Date: 10/06/1998
  • Sales Rank: 23,333
  • Label: CAPITOL
  • UPC: 724349650527

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The Whole of the Moon: The Music of the Waterboys & Mike Scott

1LISTENThe Whole of the Moon 5:01
2LISTENGlastonbury Song 3:41
3LISTENMedicine Bow 2:44
4LISTENFisherman's Blues 4:25
5LISTENA Girl Called Johnny 4:14
6LISTENThe Pan Within 6:10
7LISTENShe Is So Beautiful 3:56
8LISTENRare, Precious and Gone 4:31
9LISTENStrange Boat 3:05
10LISTENRed Army Blues 8:04
11LISTENThis Is the Sea 6:29
12LISTENHigher in Time 3:07
13LISTENThe Return of Pan 4:19
14LISTENWhat Do You Want Me to Do? 3:01
15LISTENWhen Ye Go Away 4:37
16LISTENLove Anyway 6:41

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This is the first American compilation to select most of the Waterboys' most memorable tracks and the first compilation to combine Waterboys tracks with songs from Mike Scott's solo albums. Combining all of the group's British chart singles except "And a Bang on the Ear" as well as live tracks, B-sides not previously on an album, and even one previously unreleased studio track, "Higher in Time," from 1991, it is in effect a "the best and the rest" selection of the work of Mike Scott from 1982 to 1997. The sequencing pays no attention to chronology, instead moving back and forth between the Waterboys' early, ambitious rock creations, the effervescent neo-folk of the Fisherman's Blues era, and Scott's sometimes introspective solo work. Despite this, his impassioned singing holds things together better than might be expected, and the effect is not unlike a good Waterboys concert. Since the Waterboys were always more of a rumor than a real commercial threat in the U.S., there is always the chance for the band's music to be appreciated anew, and it didn't hurt that in the same season this album was released, "Fisherman's Blues" was used as the title music for the popular film Waking Ned Devine. The album makes an excellent sampler of Mike Scott's work so far. William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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