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Mike Scotts vision of the Big Music was growing and as the track of the same name demonstrated was unlike anything else around at the time.
As a remaster this album was always going to get better and I can rest my old vinyl and poor quality CDs to rest. I remember buying this in 1984 and never forget the first feeling of the first song, A Church Not Made With Hands. How uplifting can a song br. You wont find better as this song charges along with the brass finding a higher plane in the background. Next up is All The Things She Gave Me now in its complete breathtaking entirety. Just listen to the astounding lyrics and be amazed. Other highlights are Rags which pounds the listener with its dark undertones. Side 2 is unstoppable with Red Army Blues and my favourite track, the title song with shimmering 12 string guitars and swooning brass. Never bettered in my book.
The additional tracks are good but might not have worked on the original album. Saying that other songwriters would kill for songs like this, such is the strength of Scotts songwriting.
You need to buy this!!
Aside from the first couple of years and the last year, I always thought that the 80's was one of the worst ever periods for music in general, but the Waterboys were one of the bands that kept my spirit up during this period. To me this album was the zenith of their recording career, and contains the best songs that they wrote.
The best way to open an album is to put a real show-stopper at the start, and that's exactly what 'Church Not Made With Hands' is. From then on it's a roller coaster ride from big brassy productions to more laid back tracks like 'The Thrill is Gone', in which the fiddle draws you in, or the melancholy saxophone of 'Red Army Blues', a narrative with an eminently listenable story based on true events.
Every song is a winner here, and unlike most expanded versions of CD's, the additional tracks are actually very good.
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