The Live Adventures of the Waterboys
by
The Waterboys
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Release type:What's this?
live album
First released:
Jun 1998

Overview Edit

The Live Adventures of the Waterboys is a concert recording, released by The Waterboys in 1998. Mike Scott refers to this album as an "unofficial release" or bootleg recording, but praises the recording period as a "classic" period for the Waterboys. Most of the live songs on The Live Adventures... indeed already appeared on the bootlegs A Golden Day (1991) and Born To Be Together (1992). It is the only Waterboys album on which member Guy Chambers appears.

According to Scott, the album was put out by New Millennium Records (although Amazon.com credits it to "Msi", and Allmusic credits it to "Pilot" and "Griffin"). Scott claims that New Millennium stopped paying royalties to the band but continued to sell the album. The album is not listed on the band's own discography.

The Waterboys released another, entirely official, live album, Karma to Burn, through Scott's own record label, Puck records, in 2005.

"A Girl Called Johnny" was the first Waterboys single and was originally released on The Waterboys. "Fisherman's Blues" and "We Will Not Be Lovers" were originally released on the album, Fisherman's Blues. "Medicine Bow", "The Pan Within", "Spirit", "This Is the Sea", "Old England" and "The Whole of the Moon" were originally released on This Is the Sea.

The album features several covers and interpolations of songs by other artists including "Because the Night" by Patti Smith which opens The Pan Within.

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Release dates:
  • Jun 1998 in United Kingdom
  • Aug 25 1998 in United States
  • Feb 23 1999

Genres

Alternative Rock, Celtic,
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What do Amazon.com customers think?

5 stars Apocryphal eighties white soul
Only by distance can we see what pop music is truly lasting and worthy. This disc highlights Mike Scott's 1986 version of the Waterboys and it reveals a band - loose and soulful - that is able to stand among the best bands of that or any other day. Scott (whose writing is as mature and universal as Van Morrison's early work) finds his true musical partner here in Steve Wickham, the frenzied fiddler of the Irish band In Tua Nua, and Wickham lights a traditional fire under the band and reveals the…
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2 stars THEY GAVE ME THE BLUES
I anticipated buying this release on Amazon , especially after reading 5 star reviewa. I was disaappointed .Two songs , i think they are titled Death Is Not the End , and This is the Sea , are great , but much of the album ,and it is a double C D , ( and especially the fiddle , ) sounds the same , with virtually none of the sounds I love on a live alvum , to wit the crowd.
Written by BRIAN F MAHONEY

Track listing Edit

  • CD 1 : The Live Adventures of the Waterboys (2cds)

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    number name artist hh:mm:ss
    1
    Death Is Not the End - The Waterboys, Dylan, Bob
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    2
    The Earth Only Endures - The Waterboys, Traditional
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    3
    Medicine Bow - The Waterboys, Scott, Mike [1]
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    4
    Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys, Scott, Mike [1]
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    5
    This Is the Sea - The Waterboys, Scott, Mike [Waterb
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    6
    Meet Me at the Station - The Waterboys, Traditional
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    7
    We Will Not Be Lovers - The Waterboys, Scott, Mike [Waterb
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    8
    The Wayward Wind - The Waterboys, Lebowsky, Stanley
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    9
    A Girl Called Johnny - The Waterboys, Scott, Mike [Waterb
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    10
    Purple Rain - The Waterboys, Prince [1]
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  • unknown format 2 : The Live Adventures of the Waterboys (2cds)

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    number name artist hh:mm:ss
    1
    Be My Enemy - The Waterboys, Scott, Mike [Waterb
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    2
    Old England - The Waterboys, Scott, Mike [Waterb
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    3
    The Thrill Is Gone/And the Healing Has Begun - The Waterboys, Morrison, Van
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    4
    The Pan Within - The Waterboys, Scott, Mike [Waterb
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    5
    The Whole of the Moon - The Waterboys, Scott, Mike [1]
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    6
    Spirit - The Waterboys, Scott, Mike [1]
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    7
    Savage Earth Heart - The Waterboys, Scott, Mike [Waterb
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    8
    Saints and Angels - The Waterboys, Scott, Mike [Waterb
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