40 Years Later: The Waterboys Rival U2 With Triumphant 'This Is The Sea' - Glide Magazine The early music of the Waterboys was (much) too similar to U2's until Mike Scott and company plumbed their Irish roots with 1988's Fisherman's Blues.

My revisitation of The Waterboys' 'This Is The Sea,' on its 40th anniversary, was published @GlideMagazine HERE:
glidemagazine.com/317315/40-ye...
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