The Waterboys Biography and Top 10 Songs

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One of my old work colleagues (Graig M) got me into The Waterboys because we used to travel around the UK repairing PC's and spent a lot of time driving and The Waterboys was one of his favourite CD's to play and then because I liked it we used to listen to it more often. When I got paid one month I went out to HMV and bought four The Waterboys CD's (I often spend most of my wages on CD's and music) and listen to them a lot. Craig is also responsible for some of the other music I am into.

The Waterboys were formed by Mike Scott in 1983 and Mike is the only member to have remained from then til now. There have been many members over the years, some being: Anthony Thistlethwaite, Roddy Lorimer, Martyn Swain, Kevin Wilkinson, Eddi Reader, Karl Wallinger and Chris Whitten. Their musical style is a mix of Celtic, Folk and Rock N' Roll. Some people have dubbed The Waterboys sound "The Big Music" which is named after a song off the A Pagan Place album. The same term has been used to describe some other bands such as World Party, The Alarm, Simple Minds, The Hothouse Flyers and Big Country, and a lot of their songs are centered around spirituality. The name The Waterboys is taken from Lou Reed's song The Kids.

The self titled debut album The Waterboys was released in 1983 and has one of their most famous songs on it, A Girl Called Johnny. The song is a tribute to Patti Smith who was a great inspiration to Mike Scott alongside the likes of Bob Dylan and David Bowie. The original track listing only had eight songs but the album was re-released in 2002 and has an additional seven songs on it.

When A Pagan Place was released in 1984 it is known that the recording for it started even before The Waterboys album was released. The recording was done in two separate sessions, one in 1982 and the second in 1983 with new band members joining for the second session. This album too was re-released in 2002 with additional songs from the first recording session. Following the release The Waterboys toured the UK, with them also supporting U2 and The Pretenders at Glastonbury Festival.

1985 saw the release of This Is The Sea and was much more successful than the previous two albums and boasts their biggest hit The Whole Of The Moon which reached #26 in the UK. The song could have had more promotion, but Mike Scott refused to perform on Top Of The Pops due to them insisting they must lip sync.

The second phase of The Waterboys style started just before the release of Fisherman's Blues in 1988 and saw them move from The Big Music into the Raggle Taggle Band style which was influenced by Mike Scott moving to Ireland and the folk music there. The album is their most successful album to date containing songs like Strange Boat, And A Bang On The Ear and Fisherman's Blues.

Room To Roam was released in 1990 and followed in the folk style of the previous album. The album is apparently named after a passage in a George MacDonald book, Phantastes. Some of the hits from the album are A Man Is In Love, The Raggle Taggle Gypsy, Further Up - Further In and Something That Is Gone.

My favourite of The Waterboys albums, Dream Harder was released in 1993 and is a return to the more Rock style of their earlier albums. The song The Return of Pan is about the Greek God also the song The Return Of Jimi Hendrix is one of my favourite tracks on the album. Some of the other hits from the album are Corn Circles, Glastonbury Song and Preparing to Fly.

A Rock In The Weary Land was released in 2000 and was the first for seven years due to Mike Scott pursuing his solo career. The album saw another shift in style inspired by Radiohead and Beck, and Mike Scott described the style as "Sonic Rock", another change happened in 2003 when they released Universal Hall which is mostly an acoustic album and a return to some of their earlier Celtic music.

In 2007 The Waterboys released a new album Book Of Lightning and contains some new hits like Love Will Shoot You Down, You In The Sky and The Man With The Wind At His Heels. The Waterboys played at the Return To Peace And Love Festival in Sweden on March 11th 2008.

My Top 10 The Waterboys Songs are:

01. Glastonbury Song
02. The Return Of Jimi Hendrix
03. The Whole Of The Moon
04. A Pagan Place
05. All The Things She Gave Me
06. We Are Jonah
07. Strange Boat
08. The Big Music
09. Winter Winter
10. Spiritual City

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Fleetwood Mac Biography and Top 10 Songs

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I probably started listening to Fleetwood Mac when I was about 10, 11 or something like that because I remember getting their Greatest Hits album and it had only just been released and at the time I didn't really know who they were. However, because I always listen to all sorts of music, people just used to buy me music instead of toys. When I listened to it I knew most of the tracks and I now think of it as one of my top 20 albums of all time.

Fleetwood Mac are an English/American cross breed who formed in 1967 in London. The group have gone through far too many changes in members to list them all but the most notable members are, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.

Fleetwood Mac are probably one of the most hard working bands of all time and have released many albums (sometimes three or four in a year). 1968 saw the releases of Carousel Ballroom, Mr Wonderful and Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. In 1969 there were four albums, English Rose, Live In Amsterdam, The Pious Bird Of Good Omen and Then Play On.

Only one album was released in 1970 which was Kiln House, one in 1971, Future Games and one in 1972, Bare Tree. Mystery To Me and Penguin were released in 1973. Heroes are Hard to Find in 1974 and another two released in 1975, Fleetwood Mac which contained the hits Rhiannon, Say You Love Me and Landslide and In Chicago which again was a great album and a compilation. In 1977 they released the collaboration album Fleetwood Mac And Christine Perfect - Albatross which contained the massive hit Albatross and they also released another of their most successful albums the same year which was Rumors and is another of my favourite albums of all time and contains the songs You Can Go Your Own Way and You Make Loving Fun.

In 1979 Fleetwood Mac released Tusk and the song of the same name became another huge success along with the songs Sara and Think About Me and the album has sold over 4 million copies and they went on a tour of Australia, New Zealand, Japan, France, Belgium, Germany (where they toured with bob Marley), Netherlands, and the UK. During the tour they recorded the music for the Live album which was released in 1980.

Mirage was released in 1982 and contained the hits Wish You Were Here, Gypsy and Oh Diane. After this release they went on tour again and released the Boston Live album. 1987 was the release of Tango In The Night which went to #1 in the UK charts three times in one year and after this album Lindsey Buckingham left the group. In the following Decade they released several more albums (Greatest Hits, The Blues Collection, Behind The Mask, 25 Years - The Chain, Oh Well Live, The Blues Years, Time, Live At The BBC and The Dance (which saw the reunion of the old Fleetwood Mac).

In 1998 Fleetwood Mac were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and it is reported that they will be collaborating with Sheryl Crow in 2009 and there are plans for a new album and a supporting tour.

My Top 10 Fleetwood Mac Songs are:

01. Everywhere
02. Black magic woman
03. Rhiannon
04. Gypsy
05. Landslide
06. Go your own way
07. Little lies
08. Albatross
09. Seven Wonders
10. Buddy's Song

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Biography of Music Artist Bon Jovi

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The mind blowing American rock band, Bon Jovi is from Sayreville, New Jersey. It was formed in 1983 by the leading singer Jon Bon Jovi on the forefront. The other performers of the band include Richie Sambora as the guitarist, David Bryan as the keyboardist, Alec John Such as bassist and Tico Torres as the drummer. Alec John Such left the band in 1994 and he was replaced by Hugh Mc Donald. The rest of the band members had been the same since 26 years. The years 1984 and 1985 marked two moderately successful albums from the band. But the band scored much in 1986 with the release of Slippery When Wet. In 1988, with the release of New Jersey, Bon Jovi was raised into global super stardom.

The fame provided non stop touring to the band. In 1990, after the New Jersey trip, the band underwent an interruption. At that time Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora released successful solo albums. The album, Keep the Faith brought back the band in 1992. Since then success was with Bon Jovi through out 1990s and 2000s. The latest release from them is The Circle. It is expected to be in the limelight by November 10, 2009.

The successful career graph of the band includes ten studio albums, two compilation albums and a live album along with 120 million albums sold across the globe. They have toured over 50 countries and treated more than 34 million music lovers with their mesmerizing performance by 2600 concerts or more. In 2004, Bon Jovi was on the 14th position in Q Magazine's 50 All Time Greatest Bands. The band bagged the Award of Merit at the American Music Awards in 2004.The band was beneficed into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006. In June 2009, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora were inducted in to Songwriters Hall of Fame as songwriters and collaborators.

"When We Were Beautiful" is a documentary created by Phil Griffin depicts the ups and downs of Bon Jovi over the 25 years. It also follows the band on their latest Lost Highway Tour. This documentary mad its debut in Tribeca Film festival in April 2009.

In June 2009, Bon Jovi recorded a cover of the song "Stand by Me" with Iranian singer Andy Madadian. A portion of this song was sung in Farsi. This song was a token of solidarity for the Iranian victims of violence.

After the success of the Lost Highway Tour, the band started writing and recording a brand new material with the assistance of producer and writer John Shanks. This album is expected to be in the spotlight by November 10, 2009. The first single of the album," We Weren't Born to Follow" was released to the US radios in August 17 2009. This song is about the tough economic times. This song is for the Wii's upcoming game Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers. It is the foremost among the series that has been renowned for using J-pop. It is not sure if it will be used only on the promotional campaigns or in between the game. The title of the album is The Circle and it is confirmed by the good old friend and mixer Obie O'Brien.

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