1985 (Standard Edition)
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About This Release
'1985' is a newly curated box set by The Waterboys' leader Mike Scott telling the story of the making of their landmark album This Is The Sea and the timeless single, The Whole of The Moon.The music is chronologically sequenced, taking the listener through 95 tracks over Six CDs, including 64 previously unreleased recordings of home recordings, early demos, alternate versions, outtakes, live recordings, and tv/radio sessions covering the recording process of the album along with the remastered version of the This Is The Sea album. The 56 page booklet contains recording details annotated by Mike Scott along with previously unseen photos. Format: 6CDs in Card Wallets, 52 perfect bound booklet, in a clamshell box.
Tracklist
1
Towers Open Fire: Trumpets (Session)
2
Be My Enemy (Prototype 3)
3
The Ways of Men (Session)
4
The Waves #1
5
Old England (Demo)
6
Towers Open Fire
7
Down Through the Town
8
Ribbon of Steel (Live)
9
Bury My Heart (Live)
10
The Three Day Man (Live)
11
Medicine Bow (Session)
12
This Is the Sea (Live)
13
A Door for My Soul Home (Demo)
14
Son of Rags
15
In My Bed
16
The Pan Within (Inst Demo)
17
Even the Trees Are Dancing (Full Length)
18
Theme
19
Fuzz Guitar Vamp
20
Death Is Not the End
21
The Black Book: Beverly Penn (Piano Demo)
22
Don't Bang the Drum (Piano Demo)
23
Be My Enemy (Piano Demo)
24
The Day I Ran Out of People
25
Winter Blows
26
The Mercenary and the Samaritan
27
Looking for Dickon
28
Spirit (Piano Demo)
29
All the Bright Horses
30
Custer's Blues (Piano Demo)
31
The Woman in Me
32
Paris in the Rain
33
The Song of Sitting Bull
34
Talk About Wings
35
The Whole of the Moon (Writing of)
36
The Pan Within (Piano Demo)
37
No Sun in the Sky
38
Winter in the Blood
39
We Belong to the World
40
The Whole of the Moon (Piano Demo)
41
A Sky Full of Crows: Medicine Jack
42
Medicine Jack Boogie-Woogie
43
The Sound of Snow
44
The Pan Within (Inst)
45
It Should Have Been You, Guitar Play
46
Old England (Early Take)
47
Old MacMichael Had a Band
48
Sweet Thing
49
Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town
50
Spirit (Full Length)
51
Then You Hold Me
52
Trumpets (Instr #1)
53
Rain Come Down
54
Son of Dirt
55
This Is the Sea (Drumatix Version)
56
The Ladder: Medicine Bow (Elemental Rough Mix)
57
Trumpets (Inst #2)
58
Be My Enemy (Rough Mix)
59
Sleek White Schooner
60
Sweetheart Like You
61
This Is the Sea (Fast with Mike Lead Guitar Demo)
62
Adrian and the Piano Storm
63
Beverly Penn (Synth Version)
64
This Is the Sea (Fast with Tom Verlaine Lead Guitar Version)
65
The Waves #2
66
The Ladder (Demo)
67
Beverly Penn
68
Don't Bang the Drum (Livingston Mix)
69
Ribbon of Steel Slide Guitar
70
Paisley Park
71
Mountaintop: The Whole of the Moon (Livingston Mix)
72
High Far Soon
73
This Is the Sea (Livingston Mix)
74
Medicine Bow (Full Length)
75
The Pan Within (Wickham's First Play)
76
Miracle
77
World Party (Demo)
78
I Am Not Here
79
Born to Be Together (Session)
80
Higher in Time (Session)
81
The Whole of the Moon (Video Version)
82
Meridian West
83
Don't Bang the Drum (Session)
84
Medicine Bow (Session)
85
Behold the Sea
86
Beverly Penn 2023
87
This Is the Sea (The Album) Don't Bang the Drum
88
The Whole of the Moon
89
Spirit
90
The Pan Within
91
Medicine Bow
92
Old England
93
Be My Enemy
94
Trumpets
95
This Is the Sea
