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This Is the Sea was released in 1985.

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This Is the Sea has 9 tracks, with a runtime of 43 minutes.

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This Is the Sea is catalogued under Rock, Folk Rock.

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This Is the Sea runs at a median tempo of 135 BPM across its tracks, most often in A minor, measured from audio analysis.

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Listeners of This Is the Sea also rate Goodbye Jumbo by World Party, Bang! by World Party, Private Revolution by World Party.

Album · 1985

This Is the Sea

by The Waterboys

This Is the Sea is a 1985 rock album by The Waterboys. It runs 9 tracks across 43 minutes. Riffiter listeners rate it 3.0/5 from 1 rating.

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5 critics: 9
Tracks: 43 min
Runtime: 135 bpm
Tempo: A minor
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"This Is the Sea", released in September 1985, is the third The Waterboys album, and the last of their "Big Music" albums. Considered by critics to be the finest album of their early rock-oriented sound,described as "epic" and "a defining moment", it was the first Waterboys album to enter the United Kingdom charts, peaking at number thirty-seven. Steve Wickham makes his Waterboys recording debut playing violin on 'The Pan Within' and subsequently joined the band, appearing on the video of "The Whole Of The Moon". This Is the Sea is the last album with contributions from Karl Wallinger, who left the group to form his own band, World Party.

Mike Scott, the album's principal songwriter and leader of The Waterboys, describes This Is the Sea as "the record on which I achieved all my youthful musical ambitions","the final, fully realised expression of the early Waterboys sound", influenced by The Velvet Underground, Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, and Steve Reich. The album was recorded between March and July 1985, and released that October (see 1985 in music). A remastered and expanded version was released in 2004. This Is the Sea contains the best-selling Waterboys single, the song "The Whole of the Moon".

In brief

Is This Is the Sea good?: Riffiter listeners rate This Is the Sea 3.0/5 from 1 rating.
When was This Is the Sea released?: This Is the Sea was released in 1985.
How many tracks are on This Is the Sea?: This Is the Sea has 9 tracks, with a runtime of 43 minutes.
What genre is This Is the Sea?: This Is the Sea is catalogued under Rock, Folk Rock.
What BPM is This Is the Sea?: This Is the Sea runs at a median tempo of 135 BPM across its tracks, most often in A minor, measured from audio analysis.
What albums are similar to This Is the Sea?: Listeners of This Is the Sea also rate Goodbye Jumbo by World Party, Bang! by World Party, Private Revolution by World Party.

This Is the Sea at a glance

Labels: Island Records, Chrysalis Records
Produced by: Mike Scott

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