The Live Adventures of the Waterboys

Infobox Album | Name = The Live Adventures of the Waterboys
Type = Live album
Longtype =
Artist = The Waterboys


Released = August 1998
Recorded = 1986
Genre = Rock
Length = 106:12
Label = —
Producer = —
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:9ianqj4ioj0a link]
Last album = "Dream Harder"
(1993)
This album = "The Live Adventures of the Waterboys"
(1998)
Next album = "A Rock in the Weary Land"
(2000)

"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 Waterboysref|KTB. 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).ref|KTB 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 discographyref label|KTB|1|a.

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".

Track listing

"Tracks written by Mike Scott, unless otherwise noted."
# "Death Is Not the End" (Bob Dylan) – 4:07
# "The Earth Only Endures" (Traditional) – 1:42
# "Medicine Bow" – 2:52
# "Fisherman's Blues" (Scott, Steve Wickham) – 4:58
# "This Is the Sea" – 7:02
# "Meet Me at the Station" (Traditional) – 3:57
# "We Will Not Be Lovers" – 9:56
# "The Wayward Wind" (Lebowsky, Newman) – 3:51
# "A Girl Called Johnny" – 4:44
# "Purple Rain" (Prince) – 7:22
# "Be My Enemy" – 4:10
# "Old England" – 5:41
# "The Thrill Is Gone/And the Healing Has Begun" (Morrison) – 10:11
# "The Pan Within" – 8:36
# "The Whole of the Moon" (Scott, Smith, Springsteen) – 5:17
# "Spirit" – 7:03
# "Savage Earth Heart" – 9:15
# "Saints and Angels" (Scott, Wickham) – 5:44

Notes

# note label|KTB|1|a cite web | title=Mike Scott talks about Karma to Burn | work=Karma to Burn| url=http://www.mikescottwaterboys.com/mikescottwaterboys/karmatoburn/mikeonktb.htm | accessdate=November 13 | accessyear=2005
# cite web | title=Full list of albums by The Waterboys, including bootlegs & unauthorized material | url=http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/the_waterboys

External links

* [http://www.mikescottwaterboys.com/mikescottwaterboys/mainframes.asp?file=Lyrics/index.htm Lyrics at mikescottwaterboys.com]
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