Book Of Lightning

The Waterboys | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 22, 2011)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: W14
• ASIN: B000TITOT6
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #120,393 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Book Of Lightning by The Waterboys

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of Both Worlds, August 25, 2007

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jd103 (Yellowstone) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Book Of Lightning (Audio CD)

It's hard to know the reason for the connection I feel to the Waterboys music. I even somehow missed the Big Music days; it was Fisherman's Blues which first caught my attention. I loved it. Bought all the earlier music. Very different, but loved it also. Room to Roam was a bit of a letdown but I saw them on tour for the first time then and the fun was still there.

Then came the long slow decline with a release or two I hated, and a couple more where the description was enough to keep me from buying. The highpoints of those years for me were collections of odds and ends, and expanded versions of the original releases.

Now comes Book of Lightning. I won't describe the songs...you can hear the samples. But it's lively and fun again for me, taking me back to the reasons I first fell for this band. If you liked the first four Waterboys releases, regardless of what you think about what came later, I urge you to get this one because I think you'll like it too.

I'm hoping radio shows they're doing next week will be on the internet, and I'm definitely planning to see them on tour in November. You can check out their website for info on all that. For now, just start listening to this one.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Waterboys CD In Decades, August 27, 2007

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Bornintime (The East Coast) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Book Of Lightning (Audio CD)

I was completely surprised at how wonderful that this new cd is and almost equally surprised by the lack of attention it is getting, considering that it was released in Europe months ago. As a big fan of The Waterboys in the 80's I've since listened to Mike Scott's output of the past almost 20 years and didn't care for a lot of it. Rock In A Weary Land (2001?) is a muddy sounding mess with poor songwriting and is practically unlistenable. Book Of Lightning is the polar opposite. The songs are catchy and bear up after repeated listenings, plenty of good rockers but also some softer introspective material. "She Tried To Hold Me" is a masterpiece that marries incredible lyrics with an amazing vocal. The production is perfect for the material, very clean but not sanitized and overproduced. Mike's voice is wonderful here. It is rough at times (I want to say Dylanesque, but I know that would put some people off) and sounds absolutely wonderful with this material. What also hearkens back to the 80's is the album length - 45 minutes - 10 songs and not one of them makes me reach for the skip button. I don't see restraint like that much from my favorite artists. If you like anything else by The Waterboys I can't imagine you being disappointed with this.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Gem, April 5, 2007

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Richard Magee "Wish Ewe Were Hear" (Abingdon, Maryland USA) - See all my reviews
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E Book of Lightning gives us yet another gem by The Waterboys. The lyrics are crisp, intelligent, and they cut to the core. The melodies are more radio-friendly than "Universal Hall," but we've come to expect each album will have its own sound. You can hear traces of Mike Scott's influences (Dylan, Van Morrison, The Beatles), but he is no imitator. He synthesizes these and other influences to create his own great music.