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- 180 gram vinyl
Review
“Mike Scott had been pursuing his grandiose "big music” since he founded
the Waterboys, so it came as a shock when he scaled back the group's sound for
the Irish and English folk of Fisherman's Blues. Although the arena-rock
influences have been toned down, Scott's vision is no less sweeping or
romantic, making even the simplest songs on Fisherman's Blues feel like epics.
Nevertheless, the album is the Waterboys' warmest and most rewarding record,
boasting a handful of fine songs (“And a Bang on the Ear,” the ominous “We
Will Not Be Lovers,” “Has Anybody Here Seen Hank?,” and the title track),
as well as a surprisingly successful cover of Van Morrison's breathtaking
“Sweet Thing.” [Fisherman's Blues was reissued in 2006 with a bonus disc
containing fourteen outtakes, alternate versions and late-night studio jams. The
re-mastered original included extended versions of “And a Bang on the Ear”
and “World Party.”]" S T Erlewine – Allmusic.com