The Waterboys - This Is The Sea [2CD] 1985

Year: 16 September 1985 (CD 2004)
Label: EMI Records (UK), 7243 5 91451 2 9
Style: Alternative Rock, Post-Punk, Rock
Country: United Kingdom
Time: 42:31, 61:10
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 321, 422 Mb

This Is the Sea is the third studio album by the Waterboys, released on 16 September 1985 by Ensign Records. The last of their "Big Music" albums, it is considered by critics to be the finest album of the Waterboys' early rock-oriented sound, described as "epic" and "a defining moment". It peaked at number 37 in the UK Albums Chart. Steve Wickham makes his Waterboys recording debut playing violin on "The Pan Within" and subsequently joined the band. This Is the Sea is the last Waterboys album with contributions from Karl Wallinger, who left the group to form his own band, World Party.
The album was recorded between March and July 1985, and released that October. Mike Scott, the album's principal songwriter and leader of the Waterboys, describes This Is the Sea as "the record on which I achieved all my youthful musical ambitions", "the final, fully realised expression of the early Waterboys sound", influenced by The Velvet Underground, Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, and Steve Reich.
This Is the Sea contains the best-selling Waterboys single, "The Whole of the Moon". The album cover is a photograph taken by Lynn Goldsmith.
A remastered and expanded version was released in 2004. A complete box set of studio recording sessions, demos and live recordings was released as 1985 in 2024, documenting the making of This Is the Sea.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_the_Sea)

01. Don't Bang the Drum (06:46)
02. The Whole of the Moon (05:02)
03. Spirit (01:48)
04. The Pan Within (06:12)
05. Medicine Bow (02:45)
06. Old England (05:31)
07. Be My Enemy (04:17)
08. Trumpets (03:36)
09. This Is the Sea (06:29)

01. Beverly Penn (05:40)
02. Sleek White Schooner (03:44)
03. Medicine Bow [full length] (05:45)
04. Medicine Jack (04:12)
05. High Far Soon (02:06)
06. Even The Trees Are Dancing (04:29)
07. Towers Open Fire (04:35)
08. This Is The Sea [live] (05:55)
09. Then You Hold Me (04:56)
10. Spirit [full length] (04:12)
11. Miracle (01:16)
12. I Am Not Here (00:23)
13. Sweet Thing (07:14)
14. The Waves (06:38)

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