Disco de The Waterboys: “Best Of”

I ordered this CD after having heard several cuts from "Fisherman's Blues," such as "Sweet Thing," "A Bang on the Ear," and the title track. I knew that the emsemble evolved through different styles in these ten years, but boy howdy, I didn't know just how much it evolved. The first several tracks are brash college-band tunes, albeit with Scott's more mature touches. I only enjoyed the more Celtic and folk flavored later tracks, and I therefore find myself skipping through the CD quite a bit. That being said, if you dig the early INXS sound, the earlier efforts are superb. The CD is absolutely an accurate representation of the group's music from '81 to '91, it just wasn't quite what I had hoped. The Waterboys just went through too many phases growing up. Caveat Emptor.

Nice collection of Waterboys tunes. I would have added some others and deleted some of those contained, but not a bad collectionm all in all.

This is one of those albums, that is so not what I normally listen to, and everytime I put it on, I love it even more. It's so refreshingly different from what's on the radio. I'm not sure where these guys are exactly from, but I can close my eyes and see them rocking some Irish/Scottish pub. The singers voice matches the music well, and it's all just a great mix of folk and rock, with traditional instruments. The song "Fishermans Blues" was in the opening scene of the movie "Waking Ned Devine", and fits well there and here. Another favorite is "And a Bang on the Ear". It's so good, as is the rest of the collection. "Whole Of The Moon" might be their biggest "hit". It's one I do hear on radio, though rarely. I don't agree with the oldest review here, that the early Waterboys are too noisy. But then again this isn't the Chieftains either. I suggest fishing for this cd, you might get hooked.