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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
What can I say about this album? Well, I LOVE IT for starters. There is not a duff track on it and I echo the previous sentiments about this release being criminally underappreciated. Right from the off, the upbeat The New Life, we have an album of superbly crafted New Age pop-rock songs. There is a very deep sense of an underlying spirituality, a place where Paganism and Christianity not only meet but happily co-exist. The lyrics themselves offer up glimpses of magical places and faraway lands. The guitar playing of Mr Scott is exemplary, being both electrifying and steeped in feeling. His vocals (though nasal in places) do the material justice. I can't imagine anyone else performing these numbers. The pomp and ceremony of The Return of Jimi Hendrix has to be heard to be believed, Jim Keltner's drumming launches itself into the stratosphere with Mike's guitar doodlings weaving in, around and through the proceedings perfectly. This is a great album. This is a magical album. This is Mike Scott at his creative best IMO. Buy it.
16 of 19 people found the following review helpful
By "chrishyams"
Format:Audio CD
Dream Harder was a distinct return to form following on from the patchy Waterboys outing of 1990, Room To Roam, which took the brilliant Fisherman's Blues sound to an unsettling extreme.
Gone are many of the Celtic influences and experiments, and in come elements of Eastern mysticism, New Age janglings and even a bit of Prog-Rock thrown in for good measure. Multimusician Anthony Thistlethwaite had jumped-ship after Room To Roam, leaving Mike Scott as the only founding member and a collection of session muso's.
There are some truly great moments here, especially on the mesmeric Return of Pan, the quirkiness of Glastonbury Song, Corn Circles and Spiritual City and the uplifting The New Life, the album opener.
If not for anything else, buy this album for the utterly brilliant Preparing To Fly, one of the greatest songs Scott and his ever-changing entourage have ever recorded.
Definately worth investigation and a criminally underrated classic.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Pete
Format:Audio CD
This is one of the most beautiful and positive albums I own. I've loved it since it came out and it holds such nice memories of long hot summers gone past. It's an album for awakenings and new beginnings. I just love it, and I hope you do too.
Thanks for the poetry and awesome music, Mike. (Any chance of a remaster or a delux edition? :)
Thanks for the poetry and awesome music, Mike. (Any chance of a remaster or a delux edition? :)
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I'd take it to a desert island...
I reckon it's not how much you like a CD when you buy it counts, it's how often you come back to it year after year. I bought this when it came out (1990? Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. R. Holden
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The Waterboys - Dream Harder
An excellant album from the early 1990's and in my opinion the waterboys best! It has a mixture of folk and rock music that will make you smile and a spirtual connection for those... Read more
Published 13 months ago by RIch76
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A Rockier Sound - and No Bad Thing
This album has taken some stick from Waterboys purists in the past, mainly on the grounds that it represented a significant shift from the old mythic Irish folk/rock to a more... Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2011 by Dash Riprock
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uplifting new age rock
Quite different from their earlier folky work, this album has a really uplifting rock energy. Lyrically there is much in the way of new age spiritual stuff. Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2010 by S. FREEMAN
4.0 out of 5 stars
Lighter, brighter, and packed with energy.
Dream Harder is a change for Mike Scott and The Waterboys, a move beyond their heavy celtic phase and into something sounding a little more like pop. Read more
Published on 27 Oct 1999 by A. C. Walter
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