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
Somebody Might Wave Back
#TheWaterboys (1994)
"Seven O'clock in the morning and I'm riding the overnight train
I've got ten tonnes of luggage but I left it behind when I came
I look at my watch, says September seventeen
We're riding past some place where I've never been
And I'm waving through the window as we go
Somebody says 'Well, hey, what are you waving at?'
Well what have I got to lose
Somebody might wave back
Seven O'clock in the morning and I'm carrying bags under my eyes
Been awake all night, counting the hours to sunrise
(Drawing patterns/Beating rhythms) on the tabletop
I lift my gaze and my mouth just dropped
Someone waving in the window at me
And I say 'Hey there, what are you waving at?'
When he says 'What do I have to lose,
Somebody might wave back'
What do I have to lose,
Somebody might wave back"
"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…
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
The Waterboys, Fisherman’s Blues, 1988 on Chrysalis / Ensign
The fourth studio LP from Mike Scott, Steve Wickham, Anthony Thistlehwaite, Trevor Hutchinson, Peter McKinney et al. Marked a bit of a shift toward Irish and Scottish music, but including covers of Van Morrison’s “Sweet Thing” and (briefly) “This Land is Your Land.”
My copy – a Carrollton Georgia US pressing from 1988 – via Vinyl Destination in Lowell. I’m pretty certain I had a copy of this in the 80s but who knows where it ended up – and maybe it was on cassette?
#1980s #1988 #AnthonyThistlewaite #Chrysalis #Ensign #LowellMA #MikeScott #PeterMcKinney #SteveWickham #TheWaterboys #TrevorHutchinson #vinyl #VinylDestination #vinylcollection #vinylfinds
The Waterboys, Out of All This Blue, 2017 on BMG
Mike Scott, the creative force behind The Waterboys, has continued to make interesting music and evolve their sound – here incorporating more contemporary pop sounds. It’s a double album, with a third record of “blue variations.” Some of the tracks have lots of instrumentation (strings, brass, overdubs) and some seem to be recorded on the fly with just guitar or piano and drum machine with Scott singing solo.
Among guests, there some fiddle via Steve Wickham (who played the violin on “Sunday Bloody Sunday”), brass and string arrangements by Trey Pollard, and bass from Patterson Hood’s dad David Hood.
It’s a big sprawling three record collection but I love it. Still so much talent!
My copy is the 3xLP Deluxe edition, via Crossroads Records in Portland OR.
#2010s #2017 #BMG #CrossroadsRecords #DavidHood #MikeScott #PortlandOR #SteveWickham #TheWaterboys #TreyPollard #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds
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