The Waterboys
by The Waterboys
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The Waterboys bestography
The Waterboys is ranked 4th best out of 24 albums by The Waterboys on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Waterboys is This Is The Sea which is ranked number 881 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,963.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| 05/05/2026 19:37 |  Leonard | 6,590 | 70/100 | |
| 04/22/2026 11:39 | daCritic | 4,550 | 73/100 | |
| 10/13/2025 14:49 |  Tamthebam | 23,097 | 69/100 | |
| 02/16/2025 16:51 | Warnxxb | 79 | 87/100 | |
| 01/31/2025 11:24 | JamesMowbray | 5,508 | 69/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.0/100, a mean average of 74.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.1.
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This is not a "HINT" at greatness to come. This IS greatness already! Some artists hit the ground running.
I listened to this album ages ago and was quite good. After many years it's still good.
jhuik 02/25/2012 03:35 | #37376
This is very much a start out but you can sense an ambition for richness in songs like Girl Called Johnny. Savage Earth Heart seems to hint at Scott's later full blown pantheism.
Romanelli 03/17/2011 23:52 | #19255
The debut album by The Waterboys is actually a solo album by Mike Scott, the only permanent member of the band which has, over its history, comprised more than 30 members. Although the album features future members of the band, Scott plays most of the instruments, and several songs are solo recordings. "A Girl Called Johnny" was a near hit, but the album did not sell a lot. But The Waterboys were born.
This is a 2002 reissue, which contains the original 8 song album, 6 bonus tracks recorded at the same time (and chosen by Scott), and "Where Are You Now When I Need You?", which was left off of the original release. It's different stuff, and sounds not a lot like their famous Fishermans Blues album. The songs are very personal, and shows that there were a lot of good things to come.
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