This Is the Sea [ENHANCED]

The Waterboys

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 1, 2004)
• Original Release Date: April 20, 2004
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B0001KZM4I
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #32,007 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Product Description
This expanded version of the undisputed classic Waterboys album includes a bonus disc of extra material chosen by Mike Scott from his own archives. Including seven previously unreleased tracks, one b-side never before available on CD and Scott's ansaphone message from 1985. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Prepare to be astounded ........., July 4, 2005

By	Andrew J. Buckland "Music muse ....." (San Diego via the U.K.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you are reading this review, it may well be that you know the original album and want to know about the additional CD. If this is not the case, you need to know only that "This is the Sea" is one of the finest albums of the decade (the 80's) in which it was made.
So to the additional CD ......... well, if you chose to buy this prepare to be astounded. The opening track "Beverly Penn" will leave your jaw on the floor, wondering how this beautiful song (lyrically and musically) possibly remained unreleased, even on the original album. Elsewhere you get full length versions of Spirit and Medicine Bow that more than enhance the original releases.
Add to the smorgasbord a number of terrific studio recorded instrumentals, some of which form the basis of completed songs that made the final released album. There's also a live version of the title track recorded before the studio version and a number of other songs that in most cases were inexplicably left off the final running order.
After a week with this, I've come to the conclusion that the extra CD beats the pants off the original...... and anyone who has lived with "This is the Sea" for two decades will find that hard to believe. But then so would I have done until last week .....

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent job on the remaster!, April 5, 2006

By	John Kroesche (Murrieta, CA) - See all my reviews

This was a great album released in 1985. It is now even better. It is the only Waterboys ablum I have ever owned. (and I have heard them all) For some reason this album has an alluring quality to it that beckons the listener to absorb it completely. I was thrilled when it was finally given the treatment it deserved. The remaster is glorious. There are instruments that I never heard on the orginial CD pressing. The packaging is great too. Extensive liner notes make this a great read about how the album was put together. The bonus CD mirrors the quality of the cuts that made the album. The full version of "Spirit" is fantastic and should have been the cut on the actual album. There are a few insrumentals on the bonus CD that could have easily replaced "Be my enemy" which made the cut and should have been omitted in favor of any of the gems on the bside bonus CD. I was very impressed with the overall value and package of this landmark 1985 recording. Buy it...you won't be sorry.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great bonus cd, May 3, 2004

By	northbayer (north bay, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

I didn't think it possible for a re-release of an album that the bonus cd of previously unreleased material would be better than the original material. A heck of an album and it does not sound dated. What do the waterboys sound like, difficult to say, but when I am listening to the cd I feel and hear U2 or Springsteen on many of the tracks.Listened to both cds three times in a row as I was that intrigued.