Too Close to Heaven

Too Close to Heaven
Compilation album by The Waterboys
Released September 24, 2001
Recorded July 1986–February 2001
Genre Folk-Rock
Label BMG International U.K.
Razor And Tie Entertainment U.S.
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The Waterboys chronology
A Rock in the Weary Land
(2000)		 Too Close to Heaven
(2001)		 Universal Hall
(2003)

Too Close to Heaven is a collection of outtakes, alternative versions, and unreleased tracks from The Waterboys' Fisherman's Blues period, released September 2001. The album was released as Fisherman's Blues, Part 2 in the United States with five additional tracks in July of that year.

The title track of the album refers to the myth of Icarus. Dave Simpson writes in The Guardian, "Quite how Too Close to Heaven - a song that is easily worthy of either John Lennon or Van Morrison - languished in the vaults for 12 years is a matter for Scott's conscience (and his accountants)"[1]. The song has become a favourite at Waterboys concerts.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Mike Scott, except as noted.

  1. "On My Way to Heaven" (Traditional) – 4:01
  2. "Higher in Time" (Scott, Anthony Thistlethwaite) – 5:02
  3. "The Ladder" – 2:58
  4. "Too Close to Heaven" – 12:29
  5. "Good Man Gone" – 5:13
  6. "Blues for Your Baby" – 5:42
  7. "Custer's Blues" – 5:59
  8. "A Home in the Meadow" (Sammy Cahn, Alfred Newman) – 3:13
  9. "Tenderfootin'" (Trevor Hutchinson, Scott, Thistlethwaite, Steve Wickham, Kevin Wilkinson) – 5:15
  10. "Lonesome Old Wind" – 8:19

Fisherman's Blues, Part 2 track listing

  1. "On My Way to Heaven" (Traditional) – 4:01
  2. "Higher in Time" (Scott, Thistlethwaite) – 5:02
  3. "The Ladder" – 2:58
  4. "Too Close to Heaven" – 12:29
  5. "Good Man Gone" – 5:13
  6. "Blues for Your Baby" – 5:42
  7. "Custer's Blues" – 5:59
  8. "A Home in the Meadow" (Cahn, Newman) – 3:13
  9. "Tenderfootin'" (Hutchinson, Scott, Thistlethwaite, Wickham, Kevin Wilkinson) – 5:15
  10. "Lonesome Old Wind" – 8:19
  11. "Higher in Time" (Scott, Thistlethwaite) – 3:39
  12. "Ain't Leaving, I'm Gone" (Scott, Thistlethwaite) – 4:24
  13. "Lonesome and a Long Way From Home" (Scott, Thistlethwaite) – 3:20
  14. "The Good Ship Sirius" (Wickham) – 0:36
  15. "Too Close to Heaven" (Live) – 13:16

Notes and references

  1. ^ Dave Simpson (November 3, 2001). "The Waterboys Nottingham". The Guardian, Rock City (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,3604,586930,00.html. Retrieved October 25, 2005. 

External links

The Waterboys
Studio albums as "The Waterboys"
The Waterboys (1983) · A Pagan Place (1984) · This Is the Sea (1985) · Fisherman's Blues (1988) · Room to Roam (1990) · Dream Harder (1993) · A Rock in the Weary Land (2000) · Universal Hall (2003) · Book of Lightning (2007)) · An Appointment with Mr Yeats (2011)
Studio albums as Mike Scott
Live albums
Compilations
The Best of The Waterboys 81–90 (1991) · The Secret Life of the Waterboys 81–85 (1994, recorded 1981 to 1985) · The Whole of the Moon: the Music of Mike Scott and the Waterboys (1998) · Too Close to Heaven/Fisherman's Blues Part 2 (2001)
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