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Waterboys
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.6233
Waterboys Album Rankings
1
Mike Scotthad 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 ofFisherman's Blues.
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2
Expanding the epic, multi-layered sound ofA Pagan Place,This is the Seais a more ambitious yet a more successful record, since it findsMike Scottat his melodic peak.
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3
What separates The Waterboys' music from other bands of the same Celtic, folk-rock sound is the intricacies that lead singerMike Scottputs into his work.
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4
I'm starting to see the bigger picture," wrote Mike Scott on the last Waterboys album,Room to Roam."I'm beginning to color it in.
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5
The Waterboys' eponymous debut album findsMike Scottessaying his vision of "big music." PartVan Morrison, partU2, it was sweeping and romantic, with nearly every song stretched out to epic length.
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6
WithRoom to Roam,Mike Scottessentially expands the traditional folk ofFisherman's Bluesby relying heavily on his Celtic leanings, but the record isn't quite as successful, since the record lacks the m
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