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October 23, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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In their heyday as one of Europe's premiere post-punk bands, there were three words associated with The Waterboys: "the big music." The Scottish-Irish-English band, led and anchored by singer/songwriter Mike Scott, hit it big on the other side of the Atlantic with emotionally resonant rock, awash in ringing guitars and evocative lyrics. Leave it to someone like Scott to break the mold with the band's fourth album, Fisherman's Blues - which is the subject of an exhaustive box set released

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: The Waterboys

October 22, 2013 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

monro rarities

Tears for Fears, The Hurting: Deluxe Edition (Mercury/UMe) The landmark debut album from the U.K. hitmakers celebrates its 30th anniversary with a new double-disc deluxe edition stocked with rare single-only material and a deluxe box set version with a bonus disc of John Peel sessions and the In My Mind's Eye live concert film on DVD. 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 3CD/1DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Van Morrison, Moondance: Expanded Edition (Warner Bros./Rhino) Though Van would rather you

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, DVD Tags: Laura Nyro, Matt Monro, Queen, Robin Trower, Spencer Davis Group, Tears for Fears, Ten Years After, The Waterboys, TLC, UFO, Van Morrison

May 17, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Queen, Queen / Queen II / Sheer Heart Attack / A Night at the Opera / A Day at the Races: Deluxe Editions (Hollywood) No, you're not seeing double. The first batch of 40th anniversary Queen expanded editions, available in the U.K. since March, make their stateside debuts. There's an Amazon-exclusive box with all of them included, too. Dear readers: any big box retailers carrying these? The only one I imagine that is would be Best Buy. (Official site) The Go-Go's, Beauty and the Beat: 30th

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, The Go-Go's, The Hollies, The Supremes, The Waterboys

March 17, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

in a special place the piano demos for this is the sea

Here's another something we can share that Slicing Up Eyeballs expertly bought to our attention: a collection of demos from Scottish rock group The Waterboys. Considered the early forbearers of the "Big Music" sound - a style that would become synonymous with the band's first three albums and would describe other bands like Big Country, The Alarm and Simple Minds - The Waterboys, led by Mike Scott, achieved some of their greatest success with This is the Sea in 1985. Bolstered by the popular

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