12-11-2018, 17:32
THE WATERBOYS - An Appointment with Mr Yeats
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An album inspired by the poetry of W B Yeats who Mike Scott cites as an a large influence. Not your typical Waterboys fare - the essence and words are mostly as Yeats intended I should imagine, but I'm sure there's Scott's own poetic licence along the way! It kinda fits in with the armstice anniversary, what with titles such as "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death", "Politics" and "Let the Earth Bear Witness". Yeats was very active around the time of WWI and held strong political views, but I do not know enough to comment on how those might have informed his work. It's good for me to listen to something that asks questions of me and gets me wondering. I think this is an esoteric, romantic and quite spiritual release, in a way.
Scott is paying homage to Yeats - he's an admirer, so the adaptations are done with respect and a little touch of magic.
Some tracks in different moods ...
"Song of Wandering Aengus" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYb-qOKKC0E
"Politics" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9txORqN5wM
and this gorgeous little interlude - less than two minutes long ... co vocals on the album by Katie Kim ...
![[Image: 220px-An_Appointment_with_Mr_Yeats.jpeg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a8/An_Appointment_with_Mr_Yeats.jpeg/220px-An_Appointment_with_Mr_Yeats.jpeg)
An album inspired by the poetry of W B Yeats who Mike Scott cites as an a large influence. Not your typical Waterboys fare - the essence and words are mostly as Yeats intended I should imagine, but I'm sure there's Scott's own poetic licence along the way! It kinda fits in with the armstice anniversary, what with titles such as "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death", "Politics" and "Let the Earth Bear Witness". Yeats was very active around the time of WWI and held strong political views, but I do not know enough to comment on how those might have informed his work. It's good for me to listen to something that asks questions of me and gets me wondering. I think this is an esoteric, romantic and quite spiritual release, in a way.
Scott is paying homage to Yeats - he's an admirer, so the adaptations are done with respect and a little touch of magic.
Some tracks in different moods ...
"Song of Wandering Aengus" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYb-qOKKC0E
"Politics" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9txORqN5wM
and this gorgeous little interlude - less than two minutes long ... co vocals on the album by Katie Kim ...
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." ~ Bill Watterson