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Message: [QUOTE="storrsroars, post: 5098583, member: 2500"] Karl Wallinger made his name in the Waterboys, which is another band that was huge in Europe and elsewhere, but only had one hit over here and some sparse FM radio play. Wallinger contributed music and lyrics to two Waterboys albums, "This Is the Sea" (which was on many "best albums of 1985" lists), and "A Pagan Place", which preceded it. I strongly recommend a listen to "This Is the Sea" in its entirety and original album order to anyone interested in Wallinger's music. There's a reason many music critics at the time felt The Waterboys would be bigger than U2, and it's in this album. They were also a tremendous live act, one I've seen four times, both in New England/NYC and Pittsburgh. How this plays into this thread is that another band I loved in the 90s was Black 47, an Irish pub band that was very popular in NYC. They had two local/regional FM hits, "Funky Ceili" and "Maria's Wedding", but never broke nationally, a fate shared by many other bands mentioned here. I first saw them at the old Globe in Norwalk, then another four times, including three times in Pittsburgh, one of which was at an Irish music festival in what is now the Riverhounds stadium, where on the bill was another Irish band, the Hothouse Flowers (mentioned upthread). The reason I was familiar with the Hothouse Flowers was because of hearing the song "Thing of Beauty" which I heard on an indie station and thought it was a new Waterboys song as the lead singer's voice sounded the Waterboys singer, Mike Scott. And then I heard the Flowers whole set and became a fan of theirs. It was kinda like having my own personal live version of Pandora. [/QUOTE]

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