Fisherman’s Blues

Listened to the non bonus version - thirteen tracks. Even so, a wee bit too much tweedle-dee-dum for me. I like the title track, but much of the rest doesn't stand out to me. A low three.

Not really my bag. The Irish elements feel very surface level and the album overall is just kinda saccharine.

this one is a really interesting one

The Good: a band which reminds us that we must stay hydrated!
The Bad: not a single song that tells us to drink water...
The Ugly: I was forced to drink whiskey with a massive hangover as a reward...

Earlier this year, on a randomly generated Playlist on the Spotify, I listened for the first time to the title song of this album and fell in live with it. Not being familiar with the band, I went to Wikipedia and that's where I found out about this 1001 album list as, thankfully, it was mentioned that this album is on it...

So, today, album 201, is the cause of my little adventure here...

I can listen to this album over and over, understanding that it isn't a masterpiece, yet, for me, it is very very special, and thus deserves all the praise I can give.

Here's to 5* bumping up the average score of this lovely album

I liked this rock and roll album. Wished they leaned more into the traditional irish stuff, but still quite enjoyable.

Well-crafted and produced music, in summary this album is cool folk rock! I love the Waterboys.

My only critic is the album is very long with little variation.

Favourite song: Fisherman’s blues is a great song
Least favourite: The stolen child.
Album artwork: Cool cover

Another most likely biased review due to this being a Scottish band, but I really enjoyed this based on disc1 alone. I don’t think disk 2 was in the orginal album so I’ll just ignore it and save my usual moan about it being too long. Love the upbeat vibe with this one, just a great feel good album. Added to my frequent rotation.

Been getting a lot of long ones in a row… Most of it was pretty good, didn’t care for the saxophone near the end of the thing

After two Waterboys albums, I feel pretty confident that I like but will never love them. And that's okay. There *is* some excellent stuff on here, though.

3.5/5

A bit of 1980s for the synth pop beat, jangly guitars, and big U2 sounding production and a lot of 1880s for the industrial era invention of tradition folk music. Alt country, but the country is Ireland.

Not good.

Open the Door, hear the sound and a pint for free to all guest with Irish father and a scotch Mother. Tolles Album das einen gedanklich auf die britischen Inseln bringt. Man hört Folk ind Rockklänge die gut aufeinander abgestimmt sind. Great Songs are „And A Bang On The Ear“ and „Fisherman’s Blues“, „When We Will Be married“ (Tip) and the 2005 Bonus Track „Meet me at the Station“. will come back.

Excellent! It would have been 4.5 I wish it was less darn long, but it was so good! Musicianship was great, and it made me happy to listen to such a happy bunch of songs. I liked how the drums sounded too.

This is a weird one. The Irish/Scottish influence is very obvious - but where the Pogues and Dubliners had voices that came straight out of the pub this guy’s voice felt too clean. I would have appreciated it more if he had a rougher voice and the music had a less sanitized sound.

This is never not interesting. Kind of Celtic folk-psyche in places, unfortunately U2-esque in others, utterly mediocre and boring in its quieter moments.
"It started up in Fife, it ended up in tears," are genius lyrics, "The Stolen Child" is awful and weird. Felt like it lasted forever.

A really enjoyable album and I'm glad I've finally heard it. About 4 years after the release of this album I became a fan of The Levellers, and their influences can definitely be said to be the Pogues, Waterboys and the Clash.

That's why this list works, I've now been much easier been able to pinpoint where my favourite bands got their sounds from.

jeez it was a slog getting through this album

Had no idea what to expect going in, so I just hit play and was immediately FLOORED by how good the first song was. Then the album continued on to be extremely good. This one is gonna spend some quality time in my ears.

Well this was much better than I was expecting based on the cover and title. I like the singer... those are some real nice vocals. He doesn't sound like he should be singing in this kind of band, more like he should be in a rock/indie band or something. I like the mix of fiddles alongside the kind of upbeat rocky numbers. Some nice mandolin in there too.

It turns way more traditional towards the end of the first half, which is quite a nice way to end I think. The songs are very nice. They're very tight musically and it's all solid.

I was going to say it was way too long, until I realised the original album is just the effective first half of the special edition. That makes it a much more appetising package I think and means it doesn't outstay its welcome.

Like a weird combo of U2, The Pogues, and Bob Dylan, but certainly better than the former two. It had a great, no, amazing thing going with the first part of the album, but let itself go into basic celtic rock with no interesting deviation as the album went on, with only hits of that great start the album had. I didn't outright dislike anything here, though, and the length of the album was hardly noticeable, which was unexpected. I'd say if one were to shave this albums rougher parts off you'd have something here that really is great. Instead, I can just say I'm glad I listened to this for those parts that did shine through.