Ted Tocks Covers - Year 9 - Day 42

Fisherman’s Blues

Life is a journey by train and each song is like a station. Take time to explore. That’s where the magic happens.

“And on that fine and fateful day
I will take thee in my hands
I will ride on the train
I will be the fisherman
With light in my head
You in my arms”

#TheWaterboys #MikeScott #SteveWickham #WHAuden #TheWonderStuff #GreatAuntIda #EmiliaClarke #Dawes #JohnPrine #NikoStratis

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2026/05/23/fishermans-blues-tomorrow-i-will-be-loosened-from-bonds-that-hold-me-fast-musicislife-tedtockscovers-thewaterboys-nikostratis/

#WorldParty

"Well it's got nothing to do with anything that is real
You just believe in it and it's true
You can sooth like an angel or sigh like a saint
You can dream it and see it through
You will live to see a sea of lights
Sparking on the face of a pearl
Climb your own peak
Find a new streak

Get yourself along to the world party (party!)

Now you've been building for yourself a cool place in the sand
You're thinking that it's mighty fine
You've got dust in your eyeballs, you got mud in your mouth
But it's your head, it ain't mine
I've got a madman of my own to contend with
Cursing in the cave of my skull
Turn the other cheek
Find a new streak

Get yourself along to the world party (party!)

Well I heard a rumour of a golden age
Somewhere back along the line
Maybe I dreamed it in a whisper or
Heard it in a spell
It was something to do with the sign of the times
And the only thing that I remember
Is a summer like a pretty girl
Who shimmers and shines
Moving in time
Shaking to the beat of the heart of the world

Party (party! party! party! party! party! party! party! party! party!) "

- #TheWaterboys, 1988 (#MikeScott, #KarlWallinger )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqbytLQwMTE

#AnotherWorldIsPossible

Do you like green?

SONG OF THE WEEK: “Green On Red/Frontiers Of Love” (acoustic version)

https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/green-on-red-frontiers-of-love-acoustic-version

#Frontiers #love #acoustic #night #windy #landscape #Celtic #Scottish #Irish #12stringguitar #Yes #U2 #BigCountry #Waterboys #MikeScott #Moon #Homecoming #Winchester #Virginia #JohnnyJBlair #SingeratLarge #singersongwriter #recording #LeoKottke #opentuning

"Well it's got nothing to do with anything that is real you just believe and it's true
It can soothe like an angel or sigh like a saint you can dream it and make it true
But you're gonna have to put away your illusions burn all your beads and your pearls
Turn the other cheek, stay straight a few weeks and get yourself into the world party"

Original lyrics from #WorldParty by #TheWaterboys (#MikeScott, #KarlWallinger).

On Sundays she walks
On cut glass and rocks
On Monday she falls
From the sheerest of walls
On Tuesday she screams
Black words in her dreams
On Friday she lies
And a part of her dies

#thewaterboys #music #mikescott #thecrashofangelwings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EojRGEjR2xo&list=RDEojRGEjR2xo&start_radio=1

Look what turns 40 today …

... This Is The Sea from the British-Irish folk-rock band The Waterboys. Many call it the tops of the band's early "Big Music" sound, which features a mystical and epic style driven by frontman Mike Scott. The album is most famous for the hit single "The Whole of the Moon." Listen to This Is The Sea by The Waterboys on Amazon Music ... #thewaterboys #thisisthesea #mikescott #80smusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #80srock #rock #rockmusic…

http://robinbannks.com/2025/09/17/look-what-turns-40-today/

The Waterboys, This is the Sea, 1985 on Ensign / Chrysalis

This was the third studio album from The Waterboys, produced by Mike Scott and Karl Wallinger with John Brand and Mick Glossop. Includes one of my favorite Waterboys songs “The Whole of the Moon” but the entire album is wonderful.

It’s a bit hard to see in the photos but the Waterboys emblem / logo is imprinted on the cover as kind of glossy mask.

My copy is a 1986 reissue on Chrysalis labels – in the UK it came out on Ensign, which was sold to Chrysalis in 1984 – but it was also released in 1985 in the US on Island Records labels. Via Slipped Disc at a Mill No. 5 record fair.

#1980s #1985 #Chrysalis #Ensign #IslandRecords #KarlWallinger #LowellMA #MikeScott #MillNo5 #Reissue #SlippedDisc #TheWaterboys #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

@powerword 😂
All I see now is the parody of this of the guys with bannock. 😂

The video, by Mike Scott:

https://www.facebook.com/mikescott306/videos/10153443126233495

#IThumour #ghost #mikescott